Crumbs Bake Shop Opening Its First Store In Boston

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NEW YORK, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Crumbs (CRMB), the largest cupcake specialty store in the U.S., announced today its intention to open its first Boston store at 176 Federal Street near South Station on Monday, March 12th. Known for its award-winning flavors and enormous Signature size cupcakes, Crumbs offers cookies, breakfast pastries and beverages in addition to 75 different cupcakes. To celebrate opening, Crumbs Bake Shop is giving away a free coffee with any baked goods purchase through March 30th.“Boston is a very important market for us and we are excited to become a part of this Continue reading >>>

Peyton Manning Is Leaving the Colts, and Patriots Fans Must Tip Their Caps

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Between Jason Varitek’s retirement announcement and Peyton Manning’s press conference yesterday, we’ve been sharing a lot of tears here on howiGit—for that I apologize. But just as Bostonian’s owed Varitek a moment of reflection, a thank you, I think that Patriots fans owe Peyton a tip of the cap for his 14 years spent as quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts.Everybody knows that Peyton and Tom Brady will go down in history as the best quarterbacks of their generation. They’ve been rivals throughout their careers, and they have undoubtedly pushed each other to be better. Continue reading >>>

Boston-Area Students Clubs Unite to Host Social Event

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—On Sat., Feb. 23, more than 90 Armenian youth from all over the Northeast flocked to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for an evening of dancing and socializing at an event organized by students groups from five prominent colleges and universities in Greater Boston. Students came from as far away as Columbia in New York, Yale in New Haven, Conn., Brown in Providence, R.I., and the University of Massachusetts Amherst to attend the event, which also drew local college students from Boston College (BC), Boston University (BU), Harvard, Lesley, the Continue reading >>>

Should drive time trump all else?

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So where do we rank?Top honors for the most miserable commute goes to Maryland, where it takes the average commuter 31.8 minutes each day to get to work. Commuters in New York, Illinois (Chicago) and New Jersey also all have it worse, but that's it. By contrast, in the fine state of North Dakota the median commute is just over 16 minutes - though where folks are commuting to out there beats me. That's the best in the country. If you don't want to spend 10 hours or more on the road each week then you need to find those commuter sweet spots scattered across Greater Boston. (I define GB as from I-495 Continue reading >>>

Mass. House Speaker readies proposal to slow health care cost growth to 3.7 … – News

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The Massachusetts House Speaker believes the state should try to halve the growth of health care costs, but he offered few details on how to do it.Boston Globe: DeLeo Says House Bill Will Try To Cut Health Cost In HalfLong-awaited state legislation to control health care costs will aim to cut annual increases in half, to about 3.7 percent, House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo said Tuesday in a speech to business leaders in which he provided few other details. Currently, the cost of health care in the state is climbing 6.7 percent to 8 percent a year, when taking into account both the prices paid Continue reading >>>

Bridge Nine Records to release Dropkick Murphys 7"

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Press Release: Bridge Nine Records and the Dropkick Murphys are excited to finally announce a collaboration between the two Bostonian companies - a limited edition picture disc 7 inch available exclusively through the band and B9Store.com. As announced today, this special 7 inch will be limited to 1,000 copies and will feature two tracks recorded live from DKM's sold out Fenway Park shows from September of 2011. Side A will contain "Sunday Hardcore Matinee," live, from their Going Out In Style album, while Side B will boast the live track "Broken Hymns." Bridge Nine Continue reading >>>

Kennedy Greenway may become home to year-round market

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The non-profit Boston Public Market Association has proposed to operate a food market along the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway. Michelle Kwock/DFP StaffFarmers in the Boston area have an abundance of produce but no place to sell it year-round, said Mimi Hall, the operations manager at the Boston Public Market Association.While there are many seasonal farmers markets in Boston, she said, no farmers markets operate during every season. In a move they say will revitalize Bostonian’s relationships with food, the BPMA recently submitted an official proposal to the city to install a permanent marketplace Continue reading >>>

Shpilkes Klezmer Band to Rock Munroe Saturday Nights Stage

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The following press release was provided by the Munroe Center for the Arts. The energy, joy and celebration that is Klezmer music will be featured at the next Munroe Saturday Nights presentation, on Saturday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. The Shpilkes Klezmer Band, well known in the greater Boston area for their joyful sounds and their slogan, Don’t Sit Still, will take to the stage at Munroe, presenting an evening of traditional and contemporary Klezmer music. The concert, which will be presented at the Munroe Center for the Arts in Lexington, is part of a Munroe Saturday Nights season that has featured Continue reading >>>

MBTA Service Cuts Would Hurt Boston Economy, Says Report

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Service cuts on the MBTA will put a major dent in the Boston economy, impede workers from getting to their jobs, stifle real estate development throughout the region, damage important cultural institutions and make sporting events more expensive, according to a report issued by A Better City, formerly known as the Artery Buisness Committee. In a position paper about the two proposed scenarios for service cuts and fare hikes on the MBTA, which have been the subject of raucous public hearings over the past weeks, including one in Somerville, the organization argued "the Massachusetts economy cannot Continue reading >>>