Last night I touched down in Massachusetts, where I will remain for the next 27 days. As I wrote in my post about Christmas in Sihanoukville last year, I’m not a Christmas person. After aging out of childhood, Christmas, to me, has been more about stress and greed and going broke than about joy and [...]
I’m a big advocate of traveling in the off-season and reaping the benefits: lower prices, fewer crowds, a more local experience. But as I sit here in Turkey, I’m disappointed at my decision to come here for three weeks in late November. Istanbul was great if a bit cold, Cappadocia was freezing cold and creepily [...]
Spending time on Cape Cod is a rite of passage for Massachusetts residents. If families in Massachusetts aren’t booking flights to Orlando, chances are they’re booking a week at a house down the Cape. That wasn’t the case for my Massachusetts-bred family. Rather than spending our summers vacationing in our home state, we always went [...]
I love Boston movies — and I love that there are so many of them lately! That’s because Massachusetts began offering tax credits to film studios in 2005. Since then, movie after movie has been shot in the Boston area. Coincidentally, a wave of gritty Boston crime movies began around that time — first, Mystic River, [...]
Every city has a moment when it’s set on fire. In Boston, it’s that moment on a hot summer evening when the sun’s mostly down, but every color intensifies brilliantly. I used to call this time twilight, before that godawful franchise came along and started teaching teenage girls that abusive relationships are okay if he [...]
It’s time to pay tribute to my beloved hometown: Boston, Massachusetts. Since a picture can convey much more than words, here are my favorite 26 things of Boston, shown in photos, A-Z! Architecture. I.M. Pei knew what he was doing when he juxtaposed the Hancock Tower with Trinity Church! Brunch cocktails. Try a blood orange [...]
Image: kahala Almost a year ago, I was mugged for the first and (I hope) only time in my life. At the time, I was living in Boston, across the street from Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory. It’s a very nice neighborhood, home to students and musicians. I had recently joined a gym, [...]
Image: Grand Velas Resort I’ve found the best massage in Boston: Boston Massage Associates in Copley Square. I can’t recommend this business enough! I know a lot of you come to this site for Boston tips. Let me tell you something: I’ve had lots of massages in Boston, but after going to Boston Massage Associates, [...]
Rockport, Massachusetts, lies at the tip of Cape Ann in Massachusetts’s northeast corner. Surrounded by water on three sides, it’s no surprise Rockport became one of New England’s quintessential fishing towns. Today, Rockport is still home to fishermen, but you’ll also find a number of artists. Galleries, shops and restaurants fill storybook-like areas like Bearskin [...]
Autumn in the Fens, across the street from my apartment. When I was twelve years old, I was accepted to Boston Conservatory for classical piano performance. Every week, my mom and I made the trek to the Conservatory from the suburbs, riding the T until we burst onto the sidewalk at Hynes Convention Center Station. [...]
