Boston food-tour feeding frenzy

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Are there too many cooks in the food tour kitchen? Within the past year and half, culinary tourism has been booming in Boston: Yummy Walks Food Tour launched in March; Ready to Nosh’s Boston Food Truck Tour and Bites of Boston Food Tour last October; Boston Foodie Tours and City Wine Tours in early 2011; Beer and Chocolate Tour of Beacon Hill Back Bay, along with a trio of chocolate tours in 2009 — Boston Chocolate Tour, Boston Walking Chocolate Tour and the Original Boston Chocolate Tour (part of the Old Town Trolley group). “It’s not an accident,” said Patrick B. Moscaritolo, president Continue reading >>>

From Fenway with Love

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I have already tweeted all about it, but now that I have had a couple days to think, I wanted to put a few words down on my experience at Fenway Park last week and what I believe the future holds for Liverpool F.C.. Fenway Park, became Anfield West for the day. I have lived in the United States for 20 years now and have never been to a baseball game, even though I spent a summer in Chicago just a block from Wrigley Field. And so, last week I entered a ball park for the first time, though “ball park” Continue reading >>>

Kernels of Wisdom: Week in review

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Sunday's Yankees/Red Sox tilt featured a 10th-inning go-ahead single by Pedro Ciriaco. There's been only one other go-ahead hit by a Bostonian, in extra innings, in the Bronx, over the past eight years: Jacoby Ellsbury's 14th-inning homer on Sept. 25.And it was the first non-home run version of such a hit since April 22, 2001, when Jason Varitek singled off Mariano Rivera in the 10th, driving in Trot Nixon from second. Continue reading >>>

Boston HIV Vaccine Trial Looks For A Few Good Men — And Women

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As the latest effort in their ongoing mission to prevent the spread of HIV, Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) is now recruiting HIV-negative transgender women, women and men who have sex with men (MSM) into their paid, clinical HIV vaccine trials. "There is no possibility of contracting HIV from these vaccine studies," said Nakia Weaver, community education coordinator for the HIV Vaccine Clinical Trials in the Division of Infectious Disease at BWH. "The risks from the vaccine in our studies are the same risks that would come about from any vaccine: soreness at the site of injection Continue reading >>>

Annie, the Face of Bodega

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Annie Springer, Bodega's plein air painter. (Kent Porter / PD) By ANDREA GRANAHAN / West County Correspondent Annie Murphy Springer is not a typical Bostonian, although that is where she was born and she still tends to call a car a “cah.” With blonde braids and bright purple clothing, she wasn’t a typical fire chief, nor was she your typical management consultant, although that was her career for years. (A bank executive once told her, “They look at you funny when you come in, Annie, but not when you go out.”) At 77, you would Continue reading >>>

Needham supermarket selling Aly Raisman cakes, cookies

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Needham grocery store Sudbury Farms has caught Aly Raisman fever. It’s now selling specially designed “Aly Raisman” cakes and 12-inch cookies. There’s a front-lobby table with cakes that read “Go Aly!” as well as Aly Raisman-themed cookies with her face in the middle. The store also plans to update its window painting of Aly Raisman to reflect her recent gold-medal finish in the women’s team final on Tuesday. “I’m from Rhode Island, but I know there was a rally and I saw the big billboard of Aly Raisman,” said baker manager Tom Young, who said he noticed a recent issue Continue reading >>>

Lessons in boldness

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One day last month, a dozen high school students stood before Karina Contreras, M.L.A. ’14, as she gestured to several wires hanging vertically inside the Graduate School of Design (GSD). Contreras explained that the students would use tinfoil, construction paper, spaghetti, and the wires to improvise a freestyle design. “Your design will be inspired by the music I’m going to play,” Contreras said. “The music will influence the design, which will change based on each new track. Make sense?” The out-of-the-box exercise was part of Project Link, a four-week program that immerses 10th- Continue reading >>>

Outlying Submarkets Dragging Behind Boston, Cambridge

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Friday, August 3, 2012, 11:25am The Route 2 West and Interstate 495 South markets are expected to experience a slight decrease in rents from now through January, according to a report from Lincoln Property Co. While Greater Boston's average asking rate for office space has increased to $26.93 per square foot, marking another period of year-over-year growth, those two markets are being held back according Continue reading >>>