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13 12, 2017

Beautifully Festive Scenes on 2017 Laboure House Tours

2017-12-13T18:46:59-05:00December 13th, 2017|Categories: Happenings, Lifestyle, News|Comments Off on Beautifully Festive Scenes on 2017 Laboure House Tours

By Rick Winterson The 27th Annual Laboure House Tours have come and gone once again. In South Boston, these much-anticipated events have always foreshadowed Advent and a joyous Christmas Season. The Tours in the Year of Our Lord 2017 were no different. In fact, they might have been better – person after person who went on this year’s tour commented how elegant and cheerful the homes looked. Add to this the variety of beautiful things available in the Shoppe at Laboure, along with the refreshing pause after the Tours, and it was a great way to begin the Season. South Boston Online can’t fit a lengthy description of all five homes on the House tours into this article, but we can give a few high [...]

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13 12, 2017

West Broadway Development Gets Community Review

2018-11-27T13:06:35-05:00December 13th, 2017|Categories: Happenings, News|Comments Off on West Broadway Development Gets Community Review

by Richard Campbell Monday night two meetings were held by the Boston Planning and Development Agency BPDA concerning new housing developments on West Broadway. First was the Impact Advisory Group Meeting at the Laboure Center, and the second was a public meeting for citizen stakeholders at the Condon School. Both meetings were to review a major demolition and rebuilding project on 457-469A West Broadway. The enterprise desiring to build the new housing (44 housing units, 50 garage spaces), 463 LLC, is in the review process with the BPDA. The BPDA Project Manager, John Campbell, and representatives for the project were all in attendance at both meetings. In truth, the two meetings were very similar, with the first meeting being more coherent and dedicated to real [...]

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17 11, 2017

Kick It Studio Pops Up at Via Seaport Residences

2018-11-27T13:06:35-05:00November 17th, 2017|Categories: Happenings, Lifestyle|Comments Off on Kick It Studio Pops Up at Via Seaport Residences

By Richard Campbell In advance to gaining any weight during the holidays, South Boston Online started thinking about new exercise experiences in South Boston. The Kick It Studio opened its pop-up studio into the Via Seaport residences this past week, and I got a chance to interview its founder, fitness instructor Eliza Shirazi. The new studio is in a compact space that looks out onto the skyline of the Seaport District, conveniently located near District Hall. SBO: So, describe some of your services and the program in general. Eliza: Kick it is a thirteen-round fitness method, that is kick boxing inspired but music driven- there are elements of boxing, but the whole thing is based on the music.  It’s high intensity and with all the [...]

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14 11, 2017

Kings Opens in the Seaport: Sweet Entertainment

2017-11-21T17:46:25-05:00November 14th, 2017|Categories: Happenings, Lifestyle, News|Comments Off on Kings Opens in the Seaport: Sweet Entertainment

By Richard Campbell You’ve got to hand it to them, Kings knows how to throw a party.  Their latest installment opened this past Monday night, in the Seaport District, with all the glitz and glowing fun their bowling game palace usually offers, and then some. I actually like the layout of this one better than the one in Back Bay, there is something more moving up front, and spectacular about the graphics, design and gaming sections. This is a well-trained hospitality staff. They know the objective: help you have fun.  The opening night patrons early on were those smart ones who logged themselves in for the free bowling promotion. I loved the fact that some people were real amateurs on the lanes, and for quite [...]

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18 10, 2017

Condon “Friendship” Fundraiser at PubliCo NOV. 1

2017-10-18T14:50:35-04:00October 18th, 2017|Categories: Featured, Happenings, News|Comments Off on Condon “Friendship” Fundraiser at PubliCo NOV. 1

by Rick Winterson Would you please reserve just a few evening hours about two weeks from now? On Wednesday evening, November 1, from 5 to 8 p.m.? The EVENT: “The Condon “Friendship” Fundraiser – a crucial fundraiser to support new and enlarged programs at the Condon Community Center. The LOCATION: PubliCo on the corner of Dorchester and West First Streets - #11 Dorchester Street, to be exact. A word or few about PubliCo: It’s a bistro with the full name of “Public & Company Street Bistro & Garden”. But it’s more than that, especially inside. There is a garden space in the middle of PubliCo’s interior. It has been carved out with an interior design that’s intelligent, innovative, and creative. How else would it be [...]

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18 10, 2017

The Crown Princess Docks

2017-10-18T14:04:35-04:00October 18th, 2017|Categories: Happenings|Comments Off on The Crown Princess Docks

by Rick Winterson The Grand-cruise class ship, the Crown Princess, which is just over 900 feet long and can transport more than 3,000 passengers along with a crew of 1,200, docked at the Reserved Channel’s Black Falcon Terminal in Flynn Marine Park last weekend (OCT 14-15). This view of the Crown Princess is from the small, unnamed park area across the Reserved Channel from the Black Falcon, and next to the Summer Street Bridge. This follows upon the prior weekend (OCT 07-08), when three cruise ships were docked at the Terminal. As evidence of the Boston area’s popularity, were you aware that there have been times during October when absolutely no (yes, NONE!) rental cars were available around here? Part of the reason was the [...]

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13 09, 2017

The Punk & Poet Opens

2018-11-27T13:06:35-05:00September 13th, 2017|Categories: Happenings|Comments Off on The Punk & Poet Opens

By Richard Campbell The soft opening for The Punk & Poet was just in time for the Patriots season opener. Despite how that went, the crowds showed up to usher in the renewal of the former Playwright with a more eclectic starter menu, and traditional vs. edgy interior design, featuring Punk graphics with Poet Portraits. The staff on hand adjusted early on to the demands of the crowd, and South Boston Online noted that the party stayed pretty lively until close, despite the Patriots loss. Stay tuned for a full restaurant review in the near future.      

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13 09, 2017

Vietnam Memorial Rededicated

2017-09-13T15:23:18-04:00September 13th, 2017|Categories: Happenings, News|Comments Off on Vietnam Memorial Rededicated

Medal of Honor recipient Ryan Pitts, US Army ( center) 25 year US Navy veteran Ed Flynn and former Mayor Of Boston and U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Ray Flynn. by Rick Winterson OnSunday, September10, the 36th remembrance of the 25 South Boston veterans who gave their lives in Vietnam took place. A Memorial Mass was celebrated in St. Brigid Church at 10:30 that morning. The colors and the participants in the rededication of the Vietnam Memorial (the first in the nation) marched to the Memorial in MedalofHonorPark, arrivingatmid-day. Approximately200peoplehadgathered there to take part. It was fair and sunny. SpecialguestsincludedMedalofHonor recipientsRyanPittsandThomasKelley. John McDermott rendered the National Anthem. Fr. Robert Casey, Pastor of St. Brigid Church, spoke the Invocation, during which he also asked for prayers [...]

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6 09, 2017

Countdown to Kindergarten #18

2017-09-06T17:41:53-04:00September 6th, 2017|Categories: Happenings, News|Comments Off on Countdown to Kindergarten #18

by Rick Winterson To say the least, it was a festive and crowded occasion. Called “Countdown to Kindergarten”, it was the 18th Annual celebration of Boston’s young children, who were about to embark on their school years by entering kindergarten. And it was held at South Boston’s Children’s Museum on Tuesday, August 29. Perhaps as many as 1,200 kindergarten kids showed up, along with their families. It was quite a crowd. The exhibits inside the Museum were mobbed. The shows and activities put on by the Staff at Children’s Museum were non-stop and excellent. Best of all, they were informative, so that the kids could get a feel for their upcoming kindergarten adventure in a low-key, fun-filled way. Mayor Walsh was the guest of honor. [...]

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6 09, 2017

Gypsy: Big Time Nostalgia at the Lyric

2017-09-06T19:08:36-04:00September 6th, 2017|Categories: Happenings, Lifestyle|Comments Off on Gypsy: Big Time Nostalgia at the Lyric

By Richard Campbell In the history of musical theatre, Arthur Laurent’s book for Gypsy looms large over every writer in the genre, not merely because of Stephen Sondheim’s excellent pairing with time tested tunes by Jule Styne, but for the show’s multifaceted cast of characters and its tricky switch from fabulous farce to light pathos. Based in part on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the show originally premiered in 1959, a pretty different time in musical theater. Gypsy looked back upon the Vaudeville and Burlesque past from the post war vantage point, for audiences then were only a few generations removed from the nineteen twenties and thirties. The appreciation for innocent campiness that made it a cathartic release then, works almost as well to [...]

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