New Year's
New Year's fireworks
By adamg - 1/1/11 - 11:05 amMatt Conti posts some video of the New Year's fireworks over Boston Harbor.
First Night to expand to Symphony Hall, college venues
By adamg - 10/28/10 - 3:49 pmHubArts has the scoop on new performance locations this Dec. 31.
L Street Brownies go for a dip in Dorchester Bay
By adamg - 1/1/08 - 5:39 pmAnd Jpic1 is there this morning to take photos.
First Hubbaby of the year
By adamg - 1/1/08 - 4:14 pm
Jake Hirsch, with parents Danna and Michael Hirsch of Cambridge, was born at 12:10 a.m. today at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. 6 pounds, 10 ounces; 18 3/4 inches long. Photo via Beth Israel, natch.
Last night, First Night
By adamg - 1/1/08 - 1:29 pmMchgtr videoed the Grand Procession down Boylston Street:
Video of the Common fireworks finale. Video of the fireworks over Boston Harbor.
Happy New Year!
By adamg - 12/31/07 - 10:35 pm
Above: One of the Seven Dwarves at Copley Square during First Night (although every single kid who saw the sculpture went "Look! Santa!"). Below: This bride at the Four Seasons stood in the window, watching the crowds below at the end of the Grand Procession. As they stopped, noticed her and waved, she waved back, slowly, like royalty (who knows, maybe she was?):
The "family" fireworks over the Common:
Stop the madness
By adamg - 12/30/07 - 6:13 pmStephen Baldwin grows weary of starting from scratch:
I've recently received some extremely depressing news: at the chime of Monday's midnight bell we have to go all the way back to bloody January again and do it over. Then February, March, and so on.
I seem to recall that this happened last year as well, and the year before that too. Why can't we just keep going forward for heaven's sake? If you ask me, it's a plain, downright failure of imagination that's responsible for such regressive scheduling. ...
