Over the years, Anthony Bourdain has taken us on extraordinary culinary adventures across the world. But this Sunday, November 9, the chef and TV personality will bring us right back home to the Bay State. Bourdain’s CNN Original Series “Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown” will explore Massachusetts, “where it all started,” states the show's preview. According to the Improper Bostonian, Bourdain spent the beginning of his career working in seafood restaurants in Provincetown, Mass. during his years at Vassar College. Catch a sneak peek of this Sunday’s upcoming episode, below: Besides Continue reading >>>

“Take care of the people.”That was Tom Menino’s advice to his successor in their final conversation before the late mayor’s death last week, Mayor Marty Walsh said at Menino’s funeral Mass yesterday. Proof that Menino followed his own advice to the letter was visible from City Hall to Grove Hall to Hyde Park, in the faces of grateful Bostonians who lined the streets to bid him farewell after two decades of service — two decades in which he took care of them.Because after all that’s really what it means to be an “urban mechanic” — fixing potholes and getting the streets plowed Continue reading >>>

For The Atlantic, Corby Kummer eulogizes former Boston mayor Tom Menino through the lens of food. "Mayor Thomas Menino loved food almost as much as he loved Bostonians," Kummer begins. "He loved eating it, talking about it, and arguing about it." (Menino fell on the Modern Pastry side of the Great Bostonian Cannoli Debate.) While he was certainly well-known throughout the restaurant industry (just take a look at the social media channels of almost any Boston chef over the past few days, and you're sure to see a photo or a remembrance), he cared about food in other ways, too, like working towards Continue reading >>>

A letter to posterity written more than 100 years ago and found in a time capsule hidden inside the Old State House golden lion statue made a few accurate predictions — and some very wrong ones.An archivist for the Bostonian Society, Elizabeth Roscio, opened one of the letters on Tuesday that was found in the 113-year-old time capsule, from George A. Litchfield, the business manager of the Boston Traveler. Litchfield’s 1901 letter describes an era of what he considered advanced technology, and some visions of the future that included adventures in flight, exploration, Continue reading >>>

A letter to posterity written more than 100 years ago and found in a time capsule hidden inside the Old State House golden lion statue made a few accurate predictions — and some very wrong ones.An archivist for the Bostonian Society, Elizabeth Roscio, opened one of the letters on Tuesday that was found in the 113-year-old time capsule, from George A. Litchfield, the business manager of the Boston Traveler. Litchfield’s 1901 letter describes an era of what he considered advanced technology, and some visions of the future that included adventures in flight, exploration, Continue reading >>>

Each week we bring you a recap of Top Chef: Boston, where our hometown heroes, Gregory Gourdet and Doug Adams, are facing off against 14 other challengers from around the country. (Click here for a quick primer) This week’s Sudden Death Quick-Fire challenge is another Bostonian history lesson: The Boston Tea Party. Each cheftestant is tasked with highlighting tea in a dish for Top Chef’s Padma Lakshmi and Guest judge Ming Tsai, superstar of culinary TV. Our boy Gregory wins the quick-fire with a dish of tuna crudo, strawberry white tea, and coconut. “Beautiful food,” says Continue reading >>>

Bostonian neo-grunge outfit Sneeze have announced plans to head out on tour this fall. Featuring direct support from Raw Blow, another rising Boston act, the trek will stretch throughout the East Coast and Midwest for the majority of November. For those who haven’t had the pleasure of listening to Sneeze, their recently released Glory Kid Records full-length, Wilt, can be streamed in its entirety on Bandcamp.     Tour dates 11/07 – New Haven, CT @ Panty Haus 11/08 – Philadelphia, PA @ Rock Bottom 11/09 – Richmond, VA @ Church of Abraham 11/10 – Asheville, NC @ The Odditorium 11/11 Continue reading >>>

Laurie Metcalf talks roles on gay-inclusive sitcoms. By Chris Azzopardi There’s no question that Roseanne, a show centered on the Conner family, was one of the most influential sitcoms of all time. Just look: Gay marriage is now as trendy as Jackie Harris’ hipster-desired mom couture. Two decades later, meet The McCarthys, CBS’ primetime comedy about a zany sports-crazed Bostonian family. One of the sons, Ronny, is gay, and the clan’s matriarch is Laurie Metcalf, who played Jackie on Roseanne (and, in case you forgot, was outed during the show’s finale in 1997). Metcalf recently chatted Continue reading >>>

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HE ONCE WROTE THE BOSTONIANS HAVE NO SOUL. AND THE BOSTONIANS ARE WELL BRED, AS VERY DULL PERSONS, VERY GENERALLY ARE. HARSH, MAN. YET TODAY THAT AUTHOR, EDGAR ALLAN POE, IS ONE OF THE FEW WRITERS TO BE HONORED BY A STATUE IN BOSTON. TED REINSTEIN TELLS THE TALE OF LOVE AND HATE AND THE MAN WHO PUT THE CHILL INTO AMERICAN LITERATURE. THEY'RE THE STUFF THAT'S DEAD, WHO STOOD AND LIED BEFORE THEE ARE AGAIN. IN DEATH. AROUND THEE. THE DARK SINISTER WORDS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE, HAUNTED BY SPIRITS, PREOCCUPIED BY DEATH. THE BOSTON BORN WRITER IS FAMOUS FOR WORKS LIKE THE TELL TALE Continue reading >>>