Tag: Copley Square
Spotlight on Copley Square and the Pru
Lately we have written a lot about the growing waterfront and that renewed Faneuil Hall marketplace area but the truth is Boston has quite a few “hubs” of entertainment and shopping areas. I grew up in the South End of Boston and one of my favorite things was to walk up Dartmouth St to Copley […]
Boston Favorite Dennis Lehane Presents at Boston Book Festival
If you are a fan of Boston, odds are you know who Dennis Lehane is. This Boston author born in Dorchester will be one of the many presenters thrilling book and movie fans tomorrow at the 2012 Boston Book Festival. We have covered the Boston Book Festival before and now find ourselves in year 4 of […]
Boston Book Festival Set to Impress in Year 2
After an impressive turnout last year the Boston Book Festival is back with a day jam packed with events and an impressive list of authors and presenters. Following the great success of the first year of having a major Book Festival in Boston organizers expect twice the number of attendees at this free event than […]
Boston Public Library Hosts Impressive List of Authors for Fall
The Boston Public Library has announced it’s fall list of authors for 2010. This series starts tonight with author Michael Cunningham who just released his book By Nightfall. He is more widely known for his Pulitzer Prize Winning book The Hours which was also made into a movie starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne […]
John Hancock Tower To Be Owned by Boston Properties
Boston Properties has agreed to purchase the famous John Hancock Tower in the Copley Square area. This appears to be good news since this would seem a longer term commitment to the property than the current partnership of Normandy Real Estate Partners and Five Mile Capital Partners intended. They bought the property in foreclosure last […]
Boston Bikers Rejoice: We Don’t Ride in New York!
In all my years of riding bikes, I have never once been body-checked to the ground by a police officer. For this, I am thankful, not only because of the resultant dearth of injuries, but also because it shows a level of respect toward bikers from the Boston police force that, unfortunately, is not true […]
Boston Branch Libraries Worth Saving
Today the Globe did a write up on Boston’s Local Branch libraries and how some of them could be closed due to budget issues. I had already been planning to do a post on this because as someone who grew up in the South End of Boston I can attest to the difference a local […]
Boston Book Festival Literally Awesome
Bookworms and word-nerds had plenty of reasons to rejoice yesterday as the Boston Book Festival presented a jam-packed day of forums, signings, and, of course, book sales in Copley Square. The festival, three years in the making according to organizers, brought together a disparate group of authors to talk about writing across virtually every genre. […]
The Boston Public Library: Our City’s Best Free Resource
Remember spending days on end in the local public library as a child? When reading books, playing games, or fumbling around on the ancient computers was considered a good time? You know, the time when video games strictly consisted of shooting an orange gun at flying poultry on the television screen? Heading to the local library […]
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