Posts Tagged ‘Boston’

Tickled With Tico

 
Tico
 

Every once in a while even a creature of habit needs to shake things up. So when a friend and I were trying to choose a place for dinner last night, I suggested Tico. Gasp! I was leaving the South End! Newly opened, with lots of Facebook love – I wanted to give it a try. Surely they wouldn’t make me drink tequila. (For those of you not from Boston or living under a rock, a recent spate of tequila bars/South-of-someone’s-border style restaurants have flooded the Boston restaurant scene. The latest offering from demigod Michael Schlow, Tico comes with the best pedigree IMHO.)

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Posted on 03/03/11
 

Impressions of a Neighborhood

 
Flock to Fairyland
 

Lately I’ve been working on a project. After experimenting with the iPhone app Hipstamatic, which I blogged about here, I decided to begin a photographic adventure of chronicling impressions of my neighborhood, Boston’s South End.

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Posted on 10/08/10
 

Save A Park; Save Your Brain

 
Central Park Restoration
 

A posting today from The New York Times‘ City Room blog tells the story of how a devastating storm that brought down hundreds of trees in Central Park last year has actually become a blessing in disguise. Parkgoers and park employees alike were horror struck at the initial devastation. But now, with cleanup efforts complete and plans to replant in the works, New York’s park commission and the Central Park Conservancy, the nonprofit agency that runs the park, are seeing the opportunity they now have to restore an overgrown park to the original vision of its creators, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.

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Posted on 08/17/10
 

Best. Pedicure. EVER.

 
Exhale Boston
 

So, I’m about to get very gushingly girly. For those of whom this offends your sensibilities, I apologize in advance. But I just can’t help myself. The last few days have been particularly chaotic in this little cloud of mine and I needed a bit of stress release. The tootsies were also looking a little tired, so I decided a pedicure was in order. Stat.

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Posted on 06/23/10
 

Bar Snacks

 
 

These are gougeres from my last visit to Drink. I just think the bowl is pretty. It’s like a Tibetan singing bowl. Of course it’s singing – it’s filled with gougeres!

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Posted on 01/26/10