Summer In The Parks

This Thursday at 8PM, film "The Princess Bride" will be showing at
Devotion School in Coolidge Corner as part of the Summer In The Parks
series.

There are other films and locations left for this series. Checkout: www.coolidge.org/park

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Starbucks Closing Stores in MA

Starbucks announced recently their plans to close up to 600 of their stores in the US. The list of stores closing has been made available, which includes 7 stores in MA. None in Boston, but one each in the towns of Burlington, Dartmouth, Newton, North Attleboro, Sharon, Stoughton, and Worcester.

The loss of jobs at Starbucks is obviously unfortunate, but their closure of stores really was inevitable after years of over-expansion in the US with new stores cannibalizing sales from existing ones. The weak economy clearly has not helped matters either.

All of this brings to mind an article from The Onion a few years back titled, 'New Starbucks Opens in Rest Room of Existing Starbucks'.

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Midnight Bike Tour of Boston

For those of you who are interested in Boston architecture or have always wanted to be part of a biker gang, the Midnight Bike Tour of Boston is fast approaching.

This Tour started back in 1989 and is an opportunity to bike around Boston at night viewing historic and architectural sites around the city. The ride is usually around 30 miles or so (and from our understanding is at a rather leisurely pace and occurs rain or shine). In recent years the Tour has started with anywhere from 130 to 170 bikers.

This year it will be starting the night of August 9th and ending the morning of August 10th.

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Arrgh - Hate Fox Sports

An amazing Major League Baseball All-Star game tonight at Yankee Stadium. Low-scoring, clutch hits, great defense (besides Dan Uggla), the drama of another potential tie, and an incredibly close finish.

A 4:50 minute game over 15 innings. It was worth seeing every minute of it. But now at 1:40 stinking AM, before announcing the MVP of the game, Fox Sports has taken two full commercial breaks.

Finally, for the love of all that is holy, they tell us. The MVP is JD Drew (although he really should be DJ Drew) of the Boston Red Sox. Well deserved for his 2-run tying HR and getting the key walk that moved the eventual winning run to third base with less than two outs.

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Downtown Food Update

The Z-Square in the Park , the Park being Post Office Square Park, is now officially open.

In other news, it looks like the finishing touches are being put on the latest incarnation of The Littlest Bar. The new The Littlest Bar is located on the corner of Broad and Franklin streets (next to The Times and across the street from JA Stats) and appears to be quite a bit bigger than the old one. The old one was located on Province Street in Downtown Crossing but was torn down to make way for a condo project (45 Province).

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WhereTheHellIsMatt.com

Every now and then we come across something that isn't entirely Boston related, but is cool nevertheless. Matt Harding has been traveling the globe sharing his dance moves and pure unadulterated joy. He was in Boston at ROFLCon at the end of April, but no indication where he chose to get his dance-on. Enjoy the video and the music (music is Garry Schyman's Praan).


Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

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