Looking for something different to do? How about going out to a concert and an art exhibit at the same time?
The New Gallery Concert Series has been running simultaneous concerts and art exhibits for the last 10 years out of the Community Music Center of Boston at 34 Warren Street in the South End. And [...]
What do artists put on their walls?
You can find out by visiting the Laconia Art Gallery in the South End’s SOWA district.
“Artist as Collector” is running through March 6 and displays artwork collected by several local artists, including Derek Brain, Danielle Krcmar, John Guthrie, James Hull, Donna Veverka, Joe Wardwell, Katie Fitch, Douglas Weathersby, [...]
For years the city had been talking of transforming the moribund Seaport District in South Boston into a 24-hour neighborhood resplendent with shops, offices, entertainment, green space, and waterfront residences. And indeed, it was easy to imagine such a glam neighborhood during the go-go 90s, when every crappy little corner of Boston was getting fixed up [...]
Where do you go for a full top-to-bottom meal — appetizers, beer, wine and entree included — for less than $20 a pop?
Head over to the bustling Le’s Restaurant in Allston Village (there’s also one in Harvard Square and Chestnut Hill) and you’ll find your palate pleased, your stomach sated, and your wallet not much [...]
In the mood for Turkish? You’re in luck. Because the Saray Restaurant, located at 1098 Commonwealth Avenue in Brighton, is getting more and more attention among fans of Turkish cuisine. Robert Nadeau of The Boston Phoenix says the restaurant boasts “some remarkable and reasonably-priced food.”
More importantly, Elif, a Turkish friend of ours, has visited [...]
Last week the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum — nestled in the Fenway just a stone’s throw from the Museum of Fine Arts — unveiled a design for an ambitious $118 million expansion. The new addition, created by Italian architect Renzo Piano, is an impressive glass and copper-clad affair that will be completed in early 2012, [...]
Slump or no slump, seems like Boston is destined to remain pretty darn expensive when it comes to housing. The average cost of a Back Bay condo in 2009 was $1,027,000. In the South End, it took close to a million dollars ($793,000) to snap up your average condo. Other city neighborhoods, like Beacon Hill and [...]
With the recession raging, fewer and fewer of us are opting to move. In fact, last year, the nation’s mobility rate fell to its lowest point since World War II. Reasons, according to the analysts, include fewer jobs to move to, along with long-term demographic changes — like an aging population and more dual-career couples.
We at MondoBoston can’t help [...]
Are you a Sri Lankan living and working in Boston? Do you kind of miss home? Well you’re in luck. You can meet other Sri Lankans (as well as Moroccans, Italians, Brazilians, Japanese, French, Germans, etc.) who are also living and working in Boston simply by joining the new online networking community called InterNations. Billing itself as [...]
Happy New Year’s Eve! Whew, we’ve reached the conclusion of another long, drawn out year. And here’s to celebrating a happier, healthier, wealthier new year to come in 2010.
So what are your plans?
For those of us who don’t have a lot of money to spend, there’s always First Night . Festivities begin with the FedEx [...]
