Boston Municipal Election on Tuesday

Tuesday, November 3 is election day in Boston.

On the ballot are positions for Mayor, City Councilors-at-Large and District City Councilors. Here is a list of candidates on the ballot.

The race that has garnered the most attention is for Mayor between 4-term Mayor Thomas Menino and City Councilor-at-Large Michael Flaherty. Based on the four way primary that whittled the candidates down to two, Menino should win this pretty easily. If, however, Flaherty gets the combined non-Menino votes from the primary then this election could be incredibly exciting.

Having the Boston municipal elections in an "off year" (no national or state-wide elections) allows these races to be the sole focus for voters, which is good. Historically though there has been low turnout that likely benefits incumbents, which could be bad. In any case, vote on Tuesday and have your say!

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Boston Mayoral Primary - Tuesday

This Tuesday in Boston there will be a primary election for mayor, reducing the number of candidates from four to two before November's mayoral election.

The candidates are:
Michael Flaherty
Kevin McCrea
Tom Menino
Sam Yoon



To see if you are registered to vote, please visit this
city website.

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Pressed Sandwiches - free sandwich - downtown

Pick up a labeled artichoke right now at Liberty Square in Downtown Boston, and redeem it for a free sandwich from Pressed Sandwiches.

Liberty Sq is around Batterymarch St and Water St.

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Crazy Hotel Deal from Copley Square Hotel

This falls into the gimmicky bucket, but a good deal is a good deal. The Copley Square Hotel is celebrating its 118 birthday and is offering rooms from $18 to $118 per night through the fall. This is how it works:


On July 14th, starting at 1:18 pm and lasting 118 minutes (until 3:16 pm) you can try and reserve a room at this boutique hotel for a stay between July 14 and September 24. There's 5 rooms at each of those rates for each of those nights, so beef up your internet bandwidth and mouse clicking skills between now and the 14th and try to reserve one.

For more information visit their birthday website: http://www.copleysquarehotel.com/birthday/

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New ways to get in touch with us -via Google Voice!

All of us at Boston On The Go would love to hear from you folks! You might notice that we have added a new feature on the right hand side bar, "please leave us a voice mail!". By using this widget, you can leave us a voice mail! Give us some feedback and/or any type of event/place news that you think is worth putting on our blog. Hope to hear from you soon.

To read more about how to leave us a voice mail using the Google Voice widget on the right side bar, please click on the below link.


So, you want to leave us a voice mail?! Here is the step by step procedures:

1. Click on the Google Voice icon ("Call Me" icon) on the right side bar under "Please leave us a voice mail!"

2. Enter your name and phone number (if you don't want us to know your phone number then check the "keep number private")

3. Click on "connect" button

4. Whichever phone number you entered above will ring

5. Answer the phone. It will be ringing for a bit then it will go to Boston On The Go's voice mail. Follow the instructions to leave a voice mail for us!

If you leave us a voice mail regarding a specific events and/or place, we will try to post them on the blog!

We hope to hear from you soon!

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The Federal is now Open

The Federal, located on Cambridge St in Beacon Hill, is now open. While we haven't had a chance to eat there yet, we did swing by and pick up a menu (see below).


The Federal is at 204 Cambridge St (the former Venice Cafe location) and bills itself as 'Gourmet Sandwiches and Pizza'. From looking at their menu their sandwich options do look quite tasty (with Boar's Head meat). While the hours (Sun-Wed 11am to 12am; Thu-Sat 11am to 2am) are not quite as conducive to the post drinking crowd as Venice Cafe's old hours, it is great to have another dining option added to the Beacon Hill mix (other late late night options currently include: Shangri La, Felcaro's Pizzeria, and 7-11).

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And Another New Sushi Place

The sushi options downtown just increased by one with the opening of Exotic Sushi and Tapas. Signs for this restaurant covered windows at the downtown location and at a location next to the Lowes Boston Common theater for many months.


Exotic Sushi and Tapas is located at 184 High St and just recently opened (so the usual disclaimers about trying a new restaurant in its first couple of weeks still apply here).

I have not had a chance to walk by the Boston Common location to see if that one has opened. If anyone has information about that location, please let us know through comments!

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List of Places to Drink Outside - Downtown Boston

On beautiful days like today, there's always a desire to grab some adult beverages outdoors after work. With Puma City having left town, it's time to return to the old favorites.

Hopefully there's enough options in downtown Boston that I won't be fighting you guys off in the future for that last outside table. If you have your own favorite spots, please let us know through comments!!

Click on the 'read more' link for the list ... see you out painting the town red.


In order of this blogger's favorite to least favorite places:
The Living Room
The Intercontinental Hotel
Houstons
Bond (at the Langham, patio is brand NEW, opens on Tuesday May 26!)
Brandy Pete's
The Times
Faneuil Hall places (Ames Plow, McCormick & Schmick's, Salty Dog)
The Kinsale
The Landing
Tias

Note: Some of these places require the purchase of food to be seated outside

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