If I didn’t have landmarks around the city, I would spend most of my time wandering around lost—even with the assistance of Google Maps.
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Lantern Festival Shines a Light on Chinese Culture
This past Saturday, visitors flocked to the Chinatown Park to visit the third annual Lantern Festival and learn more about Chinese culture.
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Bottega Fiorentina Newton Offers Students a Delicious Home Away From Home
With comforting dishes and specials like $4.99 pastas on Wednesdays and Sundays, Bottega Fiorentina’s Newton location in sure to become the next Boston College staple.
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Tunnel Vision: Watching the People Waltz By
Tunnel vision is a common ailment on a college campus, but consider this potential antidote: people watching.
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At Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, a Rare Look at Early Books
Visitors to the exhibit will have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to examine the stunning books and manuscripts closely, but with great care.
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Parklets: It’s Time to Share Your Space
And just as forgetting a foreign language occurs almost immediately once you stop speaking it, forgetting how to compromise with people you live with (but aren’t related to) happens all too quickly. Or, at least, it’s something that I forget.
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Let Them Eat Cake: Lady M Brings Elegance to Newbury Street
Made famous by their hand-crafted mille crepe cakes, Lady M Cakes opened their first Boston location on Newbury Street early last June.
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Experimental Pop-up Plaza Springs Up In Downtown Crossing
From 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., temporary planters and fencing extended the sidewalk, allowing city officials to fill the new space with tables, chairs, and umbrellas available to any passerby.
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Finding Spring in the City: The Blooming of the Pom-pom Tree
Some big and others rather small, the pom-poms were all the colors of the rainbow and then some. Each one of them stood out vividly against the dull Boston sky, creating pops of color and contrast within the still bare and stick-like branches of the tree.
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Within Boston Limits, Escape to The Isabella Gardner Museum
Vastly different from the formal structure of traditional museums, Gardner created a stunning building inspired by 15th-century Venetian architecture in which she arranged and displayed her art.
