The North End
MBTA: Green or orange line to Haymarket
The North End is rich in both history and cuisine. Surrounded by water on three sides, the North End was an early hub of commercialism and was the site of the first settlements in the new city of Boston. Over the years, the North End has been home to many ethnic groups, and today is best known for its strong Italian heritage. The North End is also the home to more than 80 different restaurants. Sites to visit include: Paul Revere’s house, the Old North Church, St. Stephen’s Church and Christopher Columbus Park. For more information, visit: www.northendboston.com
Faneuil Hall
MBTA: Take Green line to Government Center or Orange line to Haymarket
Open: Monday –Saturday 10 am-9pm; Sunday 12pm-6pm
Faneuil Hall has been a marketplace and meeting spot for over 250 years. Bordered by the waterfront, Government Center, Haymarket and the North End, the neighborhood is known for its huge shopping area, sidewalk performances during the summer, and a well-traveled part of Boston's "Freedom Trail." For more information, visit: www.faneuilhallmarketplace.com
Isabella Gardner Museum
280 The Fenway, Boston, MA
MBTA: Take Green E line to the MFA stop
Open: Tuesday-Sunday 11 am-5 pm
Adults: $12; College Students: $5 with current I.D.
Built to evoke a 15th-century Venetian palace, the Museum itself provides an atmospheric setting for Isabella Stewart Gardner’s collection. The collection is comprised of more than 2,500 objects - paintings, sculpture, furniture, textiles, drawings, silver, ceramics, illuminated manuscripts, rare books, photographs and letters - from ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, Asia, the Islamic world and 19th-century France and America. For more information, visit : http://isabellastewartgardner.com/isabellas.asp
Institute of Contemporary Art
100 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA
MBTA : Take the Red Line to South Station and transfer to the Silver Line Waterfront. The ICA is short walk from either World Trade Center or Courthouse station.
Open: Thursday and Friday 10 am-9 pm; Saturday and Sunday 10 am-5 pm
Adults: $12; College Students: $10 with current I.D.
The 65,000-square-foot building features a dramatic folding ribbon form and a cantilever that extends to the water's edge. The design weaves together interior and exterior space, producing shifting perspectives of the waterfront throughout the museum's galleries and public spaces. The ICA showcases 20th- and 21st-century art in every imaginable medium, including film and video, music, literature, and dance. For more information, visit: www.icaboston.org
Harvard’s Natural History Museum
26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
MBTA: Redline to Harvard Square
Open: 9 am to 5 pm, seven days a week
Adults: $9.00; Non-Harvard Students with I.D.: $7.00
Shares admission with Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
These fascinating museums house the university's collections of items and artifacts related to the natural world. Just about everyone finds something interesting here, be it a 42-foot-long dinosaur skeleton, the largest turtle shell in the world, a hunk of meteorite, an exploration of climate science, a Native American artifact, or the world-famous Glass Flowers. For more information, visit: www.hmnh.harvard.edu
Harvard’s Houghton Library
Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
MBTA: Redline to Harvard Square
Public tours of Houghton Library are offered every Friday at 2:00 pm.
The collections of the Houghton Library encompass wonderfully diverse holdings such as ostraca, daguerreotypes, and the working papers of living novelists and poets. Houghton Library regularly exhibits highlights from its collections in the Edison and Newman Room. These often include the personal effects, notes, books, and other objects of interest from authors such as Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Dante, Tennessee Williams, Goethe, Cervantes, and Lewis Carroll. For more information, visit: //hcl.harvard.edu/Houghton/
Boston Symphony Orhestra : Ravel, Liszt and Dvořák at the Boston Symphony
301 Mass Ave, Boston, MA
MBTA: Green E line to Symphony Hall
Saturday, February 28, 8pm
Tickets begin at $30
Montreal-born conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin makes his Boston Symphony Orchestra debut with a BSO audience favorite, the stylish French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, performing Franz Liszt's sparkling Piano Concerto No. 2. Dvořák's Symphony No. 6, is one of the finest of Romantic scores but seriously neglected among his symphonies. Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales opens the concert on a colorful note. For more information, visit: www.bso.org
Coro Allegro Concert at the Church of the Covenant: “Boston’s acclaimed chorus for members and friends of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities.”
67 Newbury St. (between Clarendon and Berkley)
MBTA: Any Green line to Copley or any green line except E to Hynes convention
This concert will feature two works that seek human grace in the face of terror and conflict, James MacMillan's Cantos Sagrados and Gustav Holst's The Hymn of Jesus. In Cantos Sagrados Macmillan juxtaposes religious text with spiritual and secular poetry to explore themes of persecution and liberation in South America. The Hymn of Jesus represents Holst's artistic response to the horrors of World War I.
For more information, please visit: www.coroallegro.org
Time: Sunday, March 1, 3pm
Fee: $18-$38