Mitzi Gaynor still has ‘Razzle Dazzle!’

Song and dance legend Mitzi Gaynor made her name in the movies — starring in 17 feature films including 1958’s “South Pacific,” for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination — but her lasting success has come in television and from her decades as a celebrated nightclub headliner. “I loved being a movie star, but I’m not sure I was all that good. The camera always got in my way. I was never as comfortable making a film as I am on television or on stage in front of a live audience,” explained Gaynor by telephone recently from her home in Beverly Hills. Gaynor was a fixture Continue reading >>>

Mitzi Gaynor still has ‘Razzle Dazzle!’

Song and dance legend Mitzi Gaynor made her name in the movies — starring in 17 feature films including 1958’s “South Pacific,” for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination — but her lasting success has come in television and from her decades as a celebrated nightclub headliner. “I loved being a movie star, but I’m not sure I was all that good. The camera always got in my way. I was never as comfortable making a film as I am on television or on stage in front of a live audience,” explained Gaynor by telephone recently from her home in Beverly Hills. Gaynor was a fixture Continue reading >>>

RSA Media donates billboard space to the Greater Boston Food Bank

By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff Boston-based RSA Media Inc. said it will donate $2 million worth of billboard space to the Greater Boston Food Bank. According to RSA Media, the signs that will support the food bank’s hunger relief efforts include some of the most desirable billboards in the company’s inventory. Those billboards are visible from such major thoroughfares as Interstate 93 in Braintree, the Southeast Expresway in Dorchester, and the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway in Boston. Another billboard is located about a mile from Gillette Stadium. The Greater Boston Continue reading >>>

Greater Boston Industrial Real Estate Market Posts Gains

Friday, April 20, 2012, 11:05am   The Greater Boston industrial property market had a positive start to 2012, with many properties seeing occupancy gains over the prior period, as conditions continued to improve for industrial tenants.The findings were released in "indSTATus - Spring 2012," Richards Barry Joyce Partners' quarterly research publication highlighting Greater Boston's industrial market. The Continue reading >>>

New Zen Center Starts in Boston

It is hard to believe how much has happened within our Boundless Way Zen project since we first began what would become this community of practice about a dozen years ago.We can now announce the beginning of the Greater Boston Zen Center, our first group with a dedicated space in the Boston area.The grand opening will be on Tuesday evening, May the 15th, 2012.My senior student Josh Bartok is the guiding teacher, and will in due course be installed as abbot. It combines the efforts of two preexisting sitting groups, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Zen sangha Spring Hill Zen. Also connected, but, I understand, Continue reading >>>

Frustrated buyers have their say

The post she was responding to - Buyers aren't chumps! - took on the insulting attitude toward buyers some display on the comment board of this blog. Melissa has been house hunting in Newton for the last six months and is taken aback by the idea she is being manipulated into buying by happy talking Realtors. I don't view my purchase of a home as an investment with an expected annual yield. I'm buying it, as Karl Case advocates, as a durable good in which I will raise my family and use local public services such as schools and parks. Well said. Now here's more from meliss173. True, owning a Continue reading >>>

Mitzi Gaynor still has ‘Razzle Dazzle!’

Song and dance legend Mitzi Gaynor made her name in the movies — starring in 17 feature films including 1958’s “South Pacific,” for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination — but her lasting success has come in television and from her decades as a celebrated nightclub headliner. “I loved being a movie star, but I’m not sure I was all that good. The camera always got in my way. I was never as comfortable making a film as I am on television or on stage in front of a live audience,” explained Gaynor by telephone recently from her home in Beverly Hills. Gaynor, who brings her Continue reading >>>

Forget the ‘burbs! Find your dream home in one of Boston’s repurposed buildings

Baker Chocolate Factory Apartments (1200 Adams St., Dorchester). These apartments might be your closest shot at realizing your childhood Willy Wonka fantasies. Sure, there’s no brigade of Oompa Loompas to cater to your every whim and likely no means to transform spoiled children into giant blueberries, but this Dorchester apartment complex does have a rich, chocolatey history. The three buildings that today house studios and one- and two-bedroom residences were originally the country’s first chocolate mill, in operation from 1765 to 1969, when Baker’s Chocolate relocated their headquarters Continue reading >>>