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By adamg - 8/20/20 - 10:33 pm

Who doesn't love Slow Jams?

Dorchester's Chez-Vous Roller Skating Rink, which dates to the 1930s, has launched a GoFundMe page to help it pay bills while it remains closed due to Covid-19. Read more.

By adamg - 2/22/19 - 11:38 am

The Boston Licensing Board ruled yesterday that Chez-Vous, 11 Rhoades St. in Mattapan, was not to blame for a November incident in which the intersection of Blue Hill Avenue and Morton Street got blocked by up to 250 kids, four of whom were arrested for refusing police orders to disperse. Read more.

By adamg - 2/19/19 - 1:53 pm
Talk It Out

On Nov. 8, the Chez-Vous skating rink - right behind the B-3 police station - opened its doors for a police-sponsored teen event that started with police officers rapping with teens about relations between the two and concluded with some free roller skating. Read more.

By adamg - 4/12/16 - 3:23 pm

An angry city licensing head today ordered the Chez Vous roller rink to work with police on a new security plan, after hearing details of a Feb. 12 incident in which a group of 14- and 15-year-old girls coming out of the rink threw bleach at another 14-year old girl during a melee on Blue Hill Avenue that left her with bleach in her eye. Read more.

By adamg - 3/22/16 - 11:58 am

When two women who'd gotten into a physical fight 20 years ago in Framingham spotted each other across the Chez Vous skating rink in Mattapan one night in January, they took up where they'd left off - and never mind both were guests at a birthday party or that they were now in their 40s. Read more.

By adamg - 4/15/09 - 12:01 am

Chris Farone details the near closure of the Chez Vous rink thanks to an Atlanta rapper who took all its money in advance, then refused to give it back because Dorchester was too scary for him or something:

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