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Winter Day Out in Boston
January 22, 2008, 5:22 pm
BOSTON is a city of ghosts, but on the coldest of days, don’t expect them to come to you. Instead, visit Forest Hills Cemetery, a rambling Victorian-era burial ground about four miles from downtown and a splendidly quiet place to roam. Winding paths crisscross its 275 acres, and if you pick up a... » View Article
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Boston art museum makes works mobile
September 12, 2007, 5:40 pm
Masterpieces are going mobile at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. The MFA said Wednesday it will sell downloads of works by artists such as Claude Monet and Edward Hopper for cell phones and other mobile devices. Users also will get to see Japanese postcards and other works not often displayed in... » View Article
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An island retreat from Boston's heat
July 30, 2007, 2:02 pm
In Boston Harbor, Spectacle Island's grasses, walking paths and beach belie its history as a trash dump. It was late July, and the Boston air was as thick with haze, humidity and heat as it was with history. Walking tours meant damp clothes, swollen feet -- and finding that the most compelling... » View Article
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Nature soothes in Boston airport
April 30, 2007, 1:57 pm
Glass art and sounds help travellers destressKaren Finkelman tilted her head to one side to listen to the relaxing sounds of crickets chirping, frogs croaking and a fog horn blowing in the distance. She could have been in the woods of New Hampshire or on the shore of Cape Cod. But there wasn't a... » View Article
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Boston with Kids
April 5, 2007, 9:07 pm
Boston is a city just made for kids and family vacations. Rich in history, full of parks, walking trails, sports venues and other distractions, Boston provides everything necessary for the perfect urban getaway. For day trips there are beaches and mountains nearby, with fishing, skiing, hiking and... » View Article
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Jazz Week 2007: April 21-29: Organized by JazzBoston and Officially Proclaimed by Mayor Thomas Menino
March 19, 2007, 2:56 pm
Boston, MA--Jazz Week will be celebrated April 21 through April 29 with more than 100 events in over 50 venues in various locations throughout the Boston metro area. Featured will be Ellis Marsalis, Frank Morgan, Lyambiko, Phil Wilson, Ben Monder, Jerry Bergonzi, Yoron Israel, Grace Kelly, Avishai... » View Article
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Boston heist a work of art
March 19, 2007, 2:51 pm
Ripped from headlines? It was the headline in '90 Daring art heists are nothing new. But when robbers disguised as policemen entered Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum the morning after St. Patrick's Day in 1990 and walked out with blue-chip works, the nation was stunned at their bravado... » View Article
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Boston's Arts Revival
March 12, 2007, 4:02 pm
Construction At Three Of The City's Venerable Museums Signals The Beginning Of A Cultural Boom Peering at the tugboats that slice through Boston Harbor and the skyline of the city across the bay, I almost forget I'm in an art museum. Aside from the New England Aquarium and the Rowes Wharf docks,... » View Article
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A museum where art competes with a water view
March 5, 2007, 7:18 pm
You can spend a lot of time in small, darkened rooms at Boston's new Institute of Contemporary Art, and wish, on the whole, you were looking at the water. Open since December, the building faces Boston Harbor, and thrusts like half of a U-shaped magnet into the bracing air. Liberal use has been... » View Article
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Kennedy, the Adamses and One More in Boston
January 29, 2007, 12:09 pm
At least since Abraham Lincoln’s log cabin, Americans have looked for significance in the beginnings — humble or patrician — of their presidents. In the Bostonarea, opportunities for this kind of insight are unusually rich. Within about a dozen miles, it’s possible to see the birthplaces of all... » View Article
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