Boston -- Classic or Dirty Water?

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well i hope you know enough to stay away from sports bars. (landsdowne street UGH)

MOFA is easy to get to. just watch it on the orange line, tough neighborhoods just one stop over. are you going to see the DECO show ?

oh and if you pull into Greyhound/trainn Depot and its dark outside , take a cab to the hotel.

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Neiumun Marcus (sp) in Copley Square maybe? you like an extra 20%

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link

you like an extra 20%

WTF, i can type, honest

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll arrive at Greyhound during the day, but will leave at night, after the concert. Is it really that dangerous? I suppose I could take a cab from the Orpheum?

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

If you get out of the concert before 1 AM, I'd just take the T two stops from Park Street to South Station; it will cost you $1.25 and will be better than trying to flag down a cab and then explain that you only want to drive 10 blocks.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link

will she need to switch lines? park is green and s. station is red, no?

crime shot up over the summer in the chinatown area. so, if you are not looking to score drugs, and walk confidently you should be good.

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Park is green AND red.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link

we should become tour guides

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Can I walk from the concert to the depot? Would I want to?

The Art Deco exhibit looks interesting, but is it really $21?!

How is the Peabody Museum?

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link

we should become tour guides

TOTALLY!

Can I walk from the concert to the depot? Would I want to?

You can. You don't want to (you will have to walk through moderately confusing streets at night in a town you are unfamiliar with, plus some of the streets you'd have to walk down could charitably be described as "sketchy").

The Art Deco exhibit looks interesting, but is it really $21?!

Probably. The MFA likes to ream people.

How is the Peabody Museum?

THE PEABODY IS GODLY. It's also sort of hidden; you have to walk through Harvard Yard towards the Science Center, then walk down Kirkland to Divinity Street and turn left down that to get to it. BUT IT'S WORTH IT.

It's also worth checking out the glass flower exhibit at the Museum of Natural History next door and taking a quick spin through Busch-Reisinger, which is on Kirkland.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

you could walk, the green line is much much easier.

$21? sheesh, i get into the museum for free.

you should check out the Isabella Stewart Museum if you get the chance

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― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link

i'd offer to walk you from the show to the greyhound station but i don't know who i am going to the show with.

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I was going to mention the Gardner but wasn't sure if you were looking for a fine arts museum.

I wish I was still ushering at The Orpheum; I'd see this show for free.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 20:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I should prob take the subway, er T, anyway, as my Ctown bus departs at 11.30. Good thing Morrissey likes to get an early night's rest. If he is feeling particularly feisty, there is also a bus at 2.

Kephm, which night are you going to and where are your seats? My seats are somewhere in the orchestra, not really close, but not really far away, either.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

you know, i am not even sure yet. a friend bought the tickets and we've been phone tagging. i will revive when i find out

― kephm (kephm), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Boston was cool in HIGH SCHOOL

― Fuck You, Yamantaka Eye (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link

so were the boredoms

― kephm (kephm), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link

but you were in 5th grade, so you missed out

― kephm (kephm), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link

you also missed Vanilla Ice, poor you

― kephm (kephm), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link

The Gardener Musuem is excellent

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes it is very much so.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes. Make sure you check out the big Sargent under the stairs to the left of the arboretum... El Jaleo, I think it's called. Properly it's 'magesterial' but effectively it's 'cool as shit.'

― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Also there is an 80s/electro-funk/etc night at Great Scott's in Allston on Thursday. If you can resist the allure of going to see SUPERGRASS.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link

gardener suggestion thirded (or is that fourthed?)

i worked right around the corner from there

boston is cool. i just don't like bu students, in general. i lived in an apartment building with far too many of them.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link

TS: BU students vs BC students

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link

i was picked up at a show by a cute BC student, so they have the edge. however i don't really know what they're like in general.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link

A DOOM GLOOMY PLACE.

what i love about BC is that it has the best college radio station in the country but NONE of the students ever listen

― kephm, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link

the girl who picked me up was a deejay, in fact

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link

no way. too cool for school.

― kephm, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

BC, definately.

― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

but MIT chix0rs are tops

― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

"what i love about BC is that it has the best college radio station in the country but NONE of the students ever listen"

Better than Emerson radio? Admittedly I haven't heard BC radio.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 18:53 (nineteen years ago) link

oy yeah, easily. 90.3 the Z

emersons station is good too though.

― kephm, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes. Emerson is good too

― kephm, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link

kephm almost OTM; I'd say Emerson and BC are equivalent but they're both WAY BETTER than any other game in town.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link

i beg to differ. ive been listening to wzbc for 20 years. Emerson doesnt have nearly as much variety.

― kephm, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not talking variety, I'm talking about how much I enjoy listening to both.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link

ERS has the same shows on daily (weekdays). that's a bit meh

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really? you must listen to much more a cappella , bluegrass and gospel

― kephm, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Dan is the acapella king of ILM Boston.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Boston sucks ass!! Taste NYC's capitalism bitches!!!
-- Ally-zay (sor...), October 17th, 2003.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 30 September 2004 03:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Boston needs a capitalism bitch or two to liven things up.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 September 2004 10:15 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/svp/st_org/heightsmen/images/ahana_ball/paul_money_on_the_dance_floor.jpg

― moneyonthedancefloor (kephm), Thursday, 30 September 2004 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I liked WZBC too, but I found frustrating how the djs would play 10 songs in a row and then forget to say what they all were in the breaks between songs. Emerson's studios are very nice on the inside - I wouldn't have minded doing shows there. (I am totally biased about boston college radio)

― marianna, Thursday, 30 September 2004 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Kephm, if you are in the orchestra, look out for me, and say hello. I will be the one trying to not to subtlely scam my way toward the front. Have you seen any NYC FAP pictures? Well, I don't look like that anymore. I now have a short, boy's haircut.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 3 October 2004 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link

BC v. BU students...BC students for playing chicken on Comm. Ave. less often, BU students for cars one will likely forever envy and never own. Ultimately a wash though (i.e. neither are big on redeeming qualities [as generalizations go, which undergrads do...?]).

ZBC v. ERS - ERS is a hair more listenable than ZBC can be at times. Although, on average, ZBC sponsors better shows.

Up Beacon Street (over the bridge on your right) from Buckminster is Audubon Circle which has great, cheap eats, the best bathrooms in Boston and decor to match.

― nader (nader), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link

somerville vs. cambridge?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Monday, 4 October 2004 02:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Jamaica Plain vs Allston vs Mission Hill

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

how recognisable are the places where the public executions are described in A Handmaid's Tale?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 4 October 2004 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Boston, why do you wear baseball caps, muscle tees, and shorts to concerts?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link

thats the official uniform of concertgoers in massachusetts.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link

because all the clubs are near Fenway

― Professor Challenger (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link

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