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11 05, 2016

Cinco de Mayo in South Boston

2016-05-11T15:30:42-04:00May 11th, 2016|Categories: Business, Happenings|Tags: |Comments Off on Cinco de Mayo in South Boston

At 634 East Broadway, Wears + Wares is a fairly recent addition to South Boston’s Broadway scene (there’s a kind of friendly rivalry as to whether East or West Broadway becomes “Big” Broadway in the future. May the “Best” Broadway win). Nikole Roome and Clodagh Fitzharris put on a Cinco de Mayo evening last Thursday at Wears + Wares, complete with margaritas and guacamole, to kick off the weekend leading up to Mother’s Day. This was a joint event with Nurture, The Sun Tan Van and Lashes by Clo. Has a new South Boston tradition started? -Rick Winterson

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5 05, 2016

Proposed South Boston Starbucks rejected

2016-05-05T17:39:17-04:00May 5th, 2016|Categories: Business, Happenings|Comments Off on Proposed South Boston Starbucks rejected

South Boston will not soon have another Starbucks Coffee. The city's licensing board unanimously rejected the license for a Starbucks proposed for the corner of L Street and East Broadway on Thursday morning. Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh "was also opposed due to the lack of neighborhood support," wrote a spokesperson for the mayor in an email Thursday. The proposed Starbucks was for a property at 749 East Broadway. Michael Norton owns the property. According to numerous articles, there was much opposition this week to the proposed Starbucks. Last week, community members gathered at the location, South Boston Online reported: "In general, those gathered were firmly against opening a Starbucks there, due to potential traffic problems, a lack of neighborhood notification, and no perceived need for yet [...]

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27 04, 2016

Artists for Humanity announces expansion

2016-04-27T14:12:54-04:00April 27th, 2016|Categories: Business, Happenings|Tags: |Comments Off on Artists for Humanity announces expansion

By RICK WINTERSON The Artists for Humanity’s EpiCenter will expand by more than twice its current size in less than two years, the South Boston center, city officials and private business leaders announced Monday morning. The reception to announce the expanded EpiCenter Building on A and Second Streets was a joyful celebration. Susan Rodgerson, the founder and executive/artistic director of Artists for Humanity, was the hostess. The expansion is expected to start with groundbreaking this fall; completion is slated for the end of 2017. The South Boston organization “is a national leader in youth arts enterprise whose mission is to bridge economic, racial, and social divisions by providing under-resourced urban youth with the keys to self-sufficiency through paid employment in art and design,” a press [...]

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27 04, 2016

Dew Luxe opens on West Broadway

2016-04-27T14:10:00-04:00April 27th, 2016|Categories: Business|Tags: |Comments Off on Dew Luxe opens on West Broadway

Michaela Bavis welcomes you to Dew Luxe’s new location at 376 West Broadway, which she opened last weekend. The Best-of-Boston Dew Luxe is situated between E and F Street, next to the Lith Club on the left and the new Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation on the right. West Broadway has come alive again! The offerings at Dew Luxe are quite eclectic, so there really are two excellent reasons to make it a destination shop of your own: First, to get a good, general look at all that the newly spacious Dew Luxe offers; second (and more specifically) to go leather – shoes, handbags, and even elegant pet accessories. -Rick Winterson

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20 04, 2016

With some community support, Murphy’s Jewelry relocates

2016-04-21T10:42:53-04:00April 20th, 2016|Categories: Business, Featured, Happenings|Tags: |Comments Off on With some community support, Murphy’s Jewelry relocates

By SUSAN DOUCET For decades, Billy Cosetta has been helping members of the community. If a set of rosary beads needs repair, Cosetta, the owner of Murphy’s Jewelry, fixes them at no charge. This winter, when Cosetta found out he was being evicted from the East Broadway storefront where Murphy’s has long been located, the community rallied around the small business owner who has shown generosity. His daughters set up an online fundraising campaign to help finance his relocation. More than $15,000 was raised in two months. “I wouldn’t have been able to move without it,” Cosetta said of the community’s fundraising efforts. Murphy’s Jewelry is now in a new building on West First Street. The development – condos with commercial space on the ground [...]

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20 04, 2016

Springtime shoppers stroll along Broadway

2016-04-20T14:42:49-04:00April 20th, 2016|Categories: Business|Tags: |Comments Off on Springtime shoppers stroll along Broadway

By RICK WINTERSON The Spring Stroll has become another South Boston tradition. It is centered upon the merchants, enterprises and purveyors of refreshments along Broadway. But as you’ll recall, South Boston Online focused the lead article in our April 7 issue on residential developments along West Broadway. Well, the rapid development of shops and businesses along West Broadway is equally astonishing, so we are focusing on that in this issue. New businesses range from the South Boston Arts Association’s (the SBAA’s) charming new “Around the Corner” Gallery to a major opening last Thursday: the Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation.  Check out their “core values” prominently displayed just inside their door. The SBAA Gallery is just around the corner from Neatly Nested, a design and furnishings shop [...]

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13 04, 2016

‘In the Eye of the Beholder:’ Creative fashions at Midway Studios

2016-04-13T14:31:13-04:00April 13th, 2016|Categories: Business|Tags: |Comments Off on ‘In the Eye of the Beholder:’ Creative fashions at Midway Studios

By RICK WINTERSON It is an eclectic exhibition entitled “In the Eye of the Beholder” that opened at Midway Studios (15 Channel Center in South Boston’s Fort Point neighborhood) last week. There are colorful abstracts, collages and wall installations, all of them worth a more-than-passing glance. But the most striking part of the overall displays is the uniquely designed fashions – both practical and, well, a bit impractical (to select a word). These wearable fashions – true works of art ¬– reminded one of the larger and heavily advertised (but no more striking) exhibition of fashion, “#techstyle,” now being shown at the Museum of Fine Arts. (The MFA’s exhibit opened last month and runs through mid-July.) The message here is for you to take a pleasant [...]

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6 04, 2016

South Boston resident opens Castle Island Brewing Company

2016-04-06T15:36:14-04:00April 6th, 2016|Categories: Business, Featured|Tags: |Comments Off on South Boston resident opens Castle Island Brewing Company

By SUSAN DOUCET In 2009, Adam Romanow was brewing small batches of beer on top of his kitchen stove in South Boston. Now, he has 20,000 square feet where he can brew thousands of gallons of beer a day. Castle Island Brewing Company, born in South Boston, opened in Norwood this winter under Romanow, the founder and president, and a staff that is half South Boston residents or former residents. “It’s been a whirlwind, honestly,” he said Thursday afternoon, holding a sample of Jetty, a dry hop sour ale that had just been released that day. The brewery began brewing beer around Thanksgiving, opened Dec. 11, and started shipping beer the first week in January. The brewing company has large quantities of two beers – [...]

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6 04, 2016

Gourmands gather for the 14th annual Taste of South Boston

2016-04-06T15:22:53-04:00April 6th, 2016|Categories: Business|Comments Off on Gourmands gather for the 14th annual Taste of South Boston

By RICK WINTERSON Perhaps as many as 400 honored guests – all of them gourmands – showed up at Sunday’s 14th Annual Taste of South Boston, which benefits the South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation. Taste was held, as usual, in the Plaza Ballroom at the Seaport Hotel. Advance ticket sales amounted to more than 260; a number more showed up at the door to buy more tickets. The festivities lasted from 6 to 9 p.m. Twenty-nine restaurants and vendors provided food and drink galore. It bordered on the impossible to make one’s way to every establishment’s table and consume the generous samples of their wares.  Perhaps special mention should be made of Lucky’s Lounge, who came up with musical entertainment by pianist Ron Poster and his [...]

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6 04, 2016

Youth Ambassadors fundraise for trip to Detroit

2016-04-06T15:14:22-04:00April 6th, 2016|Categories: Business, Happenings|Tags: |Comments Off on Youth Ambassadors fundraise for trip to Detroit

Did you know that South Boston’s Youth Ambassadors give up their spring break to assist other parts of America in their recovery from natural disasters? They have been to Mississippi, New Orleans and New York. This month, they are going to Detroit. The photo shows a few of the guests at the Youth Ambassadors’ final fundraiser at Lincoln, which completed their efforts to raise money for their hard-working, goodwill trip in a couple of weeks. –Rick Winterson

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