Register To ParticipateDevlin’s dessert battles breast cancer
Brighton’s own Devlin’s is among more than 100 Boston restaurants participating in Boston Bakes for Breast Cancer during the week leading up to Mother’s Day, May 5-11. Restaurants will make unique desserts during this week and one hundred percent of sales from the special dessert will benefit breast cancer research and care at Dana-Farber Institute. [...]
Tea with a twist of Irish
The senior citizen outreach program at the Irish Pastoral Centre is starting a new group at the veronica B. Smith Senior Center (20 Chestnut Hill Ave., Brighton). It’s called “Cara,” which is Irish for friend. Join them Mondays from 1:30-3 p.m. for:
- afternoon tea, freshly-baked goodies
- newspapers and news from home
- guest speakers and musicians [...]
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Do you know your Brighton trivia?
Prove it at Brighton Trivia night, Thursday, March 27!
Brighton Main Streets and the Green Briar Restaurant & Pub will host Brighton Trivia Night at 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 27, at the Green Briar Restaurant & Pub, 304 Washington St., Brighton. The Stump Trivia team will be on hand to challenge attendees’ knowledge of local [...]
Walk for hunger!
Project Bread is asking local towns to increase their fundraising efforts as it prepares for this year’s special 40th Walk for Hunger, on Sunday, May 4. In 2007, Walkers from Allston–Brighton raised $90,000 of the total $3.4 million to help hungry families throughout Massachusetts, according to organizers. For more information, call 617-723-5000 or visit [...]
Woodpeckers!
I heard woodpeckers this morning in Brighton! I am very accustomed to hearing woodpeckers in my parents’ backyard in New Hampshire, where I grew up. For the first time, however, I heard woodpeckers in front of my house in Brighton this morning. Has anyone else heard these creatures around lately? It was around 7:15am and [...]
Bashing Bush in Brighton
So I’m standing waiting for the 86 bus to Harvard Square yesterday at Chestnut Hill Ave. and Comm Ave. A guy in a red car slows down, rolls down his window and yells at me, “Death to Bush!” Then he drives away. I know President Bush’s approval rating is real, real low, but… was this [...]
Irishman offers Japanese food
In some ways a Japanese restaurant is the last thing one would have expected from Irishman Jerry Quinn, but that’s just what he’s opened — right next door to the Kells. I’m intrigued and can’t wait to try it myself. Read about Privus, here.
Four student limit for housing approved
The Zoning Commission has approved a proposal by city councilor Michael Ross to limit the number of undergraduates living together in a housing unit to four. The Zoning approval was the last hurdle for the proposal before it becomes law.
Read the Globe story.
Capuano holds office hours
Rep. Mike Capuano’s staff will conduct office hours Thursday, March 13, 10-11 a.m. at the Veronica Smith Senior Center, 20 Chestnut Hill Ave., Brighton. Constituents are encouraged to stop by with questions or concerns.
St. E’s in trouble?
St. E’s should become a community hospital with a teaching role and abandon its mission as an academic medical center, states a report by the Attorney General. That’s according to this Boston Globe article.
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When Allston was a “country experience”
It’s hard to believe that was once possible, but that’s the subject of this week’s “Remembering Old Allston-Brighton” column by local historian Bill Marchione. Check back wickedlocal.com/allston on Friday to read more.
Allston-Brighton Community Day, March 15
Allston-Brighton Community Day will be celebrated Saturday, March 15, at the International Community Church. Presented by the Allston/Brighton Neighborhood Assembly, the event features family-friendly activities, entertainment, community building and education.
Starting at noon, there will be homemade carnival-style kids games, music, neighborhood trivia, face painting, food from local restaurants, theater and speakers from local grassroots organizations. [...]
Thoughts on Charlesview?
The Allston-Brighton North Neighbors Forum invites residents to a March 4 meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the Gardner School, 30 Athol St., to offer their opinions.
There seems to be a good bit of opposition to the proposal at the moment, as the Allston Brighton Community Blog and the Globe point out.
The Boston Redevelopment Authority will [...]
