Boston -- Classic or Dirty Water?

(xpost: Stewart, I think you should investigate Chez Henri on Shepard St. in Cambridge. IIRC they don't cost a mint and it's a cool place.)

Pomodoro near Coolidge Corner, in Brookline. Our new fave.

oh, and is there any really good sushi to be had in boston?

am i going to have problems finding good vegetarian food? i kind of feel spoiled because in london a lot of the 'fancy' restaurants have started adding veg menus as options, so i'm not only faced with health food places.

we'll probably do at least one nice/fancy dinner, but will probably be eating out at less expensive and less fancy places quite a bit as well. oh, and the ice cream!

xpost-- we are such dorks both posting to the same threads on our laptops

Uni, as I mentioned above, is probably your best bet in terms of invention. Otherwise, I don't know, but I don't think it's really a Boston strength.

as for non-fancy places, I would be sure to eat at Durgin-Park. both East Coast Grill and Jasper White's Summer Shack have fancy and non-fancy (and pricey and non-pricey, the latter especially cheap) food in non-fancy but fun settings.

COFFEE AT ALGIERS

PLENTY OF VEG PLACES-TRY THE GRASSHOPPER OR BUDDHAS DELIGHT

But I'll probably just end up going up there around the time you do Gabbneb, which has been an annual event for the past six years. You need to work your sources for Green Monster seats for me.

is this a boston franchise?!? 'cause i've seen them in NYC and philadelphia. and it seems like a down-market version of dunkin donuts (which i always thought was a boston franchise).

I will be in your area Nov. 7-10, and in Cambridge during the day on the 7th. Let's meet-up!

Sincerely,
Youn

Some amazing Venezuelan food to be found in Boston.

So... are there exciting festivals etc in Boston in the summer (July-September)? So far I have discovered the jazz festival in late September, and the Tanglewood classical festival which appears to be really quite far from Boston. Surely there must be some pop/rock/electronic stuff?

you can take a bus to/from Tanglewood

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But the answer's basically no, afaik. You want folk/roots music-type stuff, there's a decent amount of that nearby, but no Glasto-type events. Most of your big festivals exist in places where there are fewer big cities - everyone comes here anyway - and to the extent you find them on the East Coast, they're usually gonna be more central, i.e. between NY and DC.

if you're just looking for (semi-)outdoor concerts, and maybe this is obv, there's the Tweeter Center in Mansfield, plus the South Shore Music Circus and Cape Cod Melody Tent

There's definitely a growing electronic scene if you are into house/techno/nu-rave stuff. I think there was a small indie-pop festival last year too.

Thanks for the info - I didn't expect that there would be anything much, but then I hadn't known about Pitchfork/Lollapalooza before moving to Chicago, so you never know...

Electronic - I am definitely into my mnml etc. Are there particular places/websites/whatever to find out about stuff going on?

Not necessarily the type of festival you're talking about, but there's the Boston Early Music Festival:

http://www.bemf.org/

There's also the Boston Folk Festival:

http://www.bostonfolkfestival.org/

T - I don't know about festivals (were actually contemplating going to Chicago for Lollapalooza but then realized how $ it would be) really but there are a lot of good shows coming up. We have tickets for six shows in may already.

Unfortunately I don't think there's a single Boston gig website. I usually just check the websites of realiable venues.

www.mideastclub.com
www.thedise.com
http://www.ttthebears.com/

I also use livenation.com pretty often.

Hope that helps some.

electronic stuff -

http://basstown.blogspot.com/
http://www.squar3.com/
http://www.soulclap.us

should give you enough links/info to start

the little light bulbs in the shapes of "8"s from which you can make any number.

These are called 7-segment displays. Not as cool as Nixie tubes or Numitrons, but still cool.

Thanks for all the links - v helpful!

Other good resources:

WMBR concert calendar: http://wmbr.org/www/cr
Lemmingtrail events listings: http://www.lemmingtrail.com/events/

<a href-"http://www.lemmingtrail.com/events/";>Lemmingtrail events</a> needs the backslash fwiw

Not quite as much your parents' Newport Folk this year

boston: now 40% more insufferable!

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