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Big Papi’s Bittersweet Goodbye Involved Students, Possible New State Funding Raise Kennedy Academy’s Profile BY ALISON PULTINAS ment about the passes: “Bus passes allow high little-known resource in our school students to participate in professional

PHOTO: KEITH ALLISON KEITH PHOTO: neighborhoods—the Edward M. and academic opportunities such as physical Kennedy Academy for Health education, field trips, internships, and dual Careers (EMK)—is a small, enrollment courses across the City. We believe dual-campus Horace Mann charter high that all Public School students should A have access to the rich resources that our City school founded in 1995 in partnership with ’s Center for offers. We are extremely interested in partici- Community Health Education Research and pating in a focus group to discuss the issue of Service (CCHERS) program. Elmer Freeman, M7 Bus Passes for all BPS students.” executive director of CCHERS, chairs the As an in-district charter school, EMK is school’s board of trustees. something of a hybrid; the state has oversight (Horace Mann charter schools differ from authority, but the local collective bargaining Commonwealth charters in that they are created with the approval of the local school committee and, in most instances, the teachers’ union.) Public recognition of EMK is on the upswing following the September appointment of EMK ju- nior Keondre McClay as After 14 seasons with the , David Ortiz retired last month. Big Papi the student representative went out with a bang, leading the club to first place in the East to the Boston School Com- while hitting 38 homers, batting in 127 runs, and boasting a healthy .315 batting mittee for the 2016-2017 On October 11 Mayor joined Gabrielle Farrell, average. The 40-year-old slugger had cemented himself in Fenway lore as a key school year. Originally BPS deputy chief of staff for communications, visited the member of the 2004 team that scraped its way to an unlikely title, from Baton Rouge, Loui- 9th and 10th grade EMK Fenwood campus. Members of breaking the , a championship drought that had stood since siana, McClay moved to the student council gave him a guided tour, and he held 1918. Ortiz also holds several Red Sox records, including the single-season home Boston in the summer of a Q&A session after greeting students in classes and the run record (54, in 2006); first player to hit 40+ home runs in three consecutive 2014 and has become an cafeteria. years (’04-’06); and the most seasons in extremely active member Boston history of 30+ homers and 100+ RBIs. of the community. In September, he appeared unit—the Boston Teacher’s Union—is a party The Red Sox announced that the team would on stage at the American Repertory Theater to the governing agreements for the school. retire Ortiz’s number, 34, next year. As if that in Cambridge as a participant in a panel dis- Admission is by lottery, with applications due weren’t enough, Governor , House cussion for Anna Deavere Smith’s production in February. Since 2012, 9th and 10th grades PHOTO: RUTH KHOWAIS Speaker Robert DeLeo, and Mayor Marty Walsh Notes from the Field. McClay also serves have been housed at the former David Farragut announced a new name for the Brookline Ave. on the School Committee’s Opportunity and Elementary School in Brigham Circle, and the bridge across the Mass Pike, just behind left Achievement Gaps Task Force and is presi- upper grades use Northeastern’s Cahners Hall, field: “Big Papi” David Ortiz Bridge. dent of the Boston Student Advisory Council 110 The Fenway, built in 1957 as the Cardinal (BSAC) Working Group, a citywide coalition Cushing Guidance Center for Boys. Dr. Caren of elected student leaders representing most Walker Gregory has been headmaster since BPS high schools. 2008. Michael O’Neill, chair of the School BSAC is responsible for the creation Committee calls her “one of our fabulous last year of a smart phone app that informs leaders in BPS.” BPS students and families about student EMK’s applied for state Career rights related to school discipline. BSAC Vocational and Technical Education funding members helped write the district’s code of for a health-assisting program. If approved, conduct (updated in 2014), which promotes the funding would increase state contributions This year Mas- Voters will restorative-justice practices. A current concern to the school’s budget, helping recoup some EARLY VOTING sachusetts joins QUESTIONS 1-4 decide four of the group and the EMK Student Council is of the recent losses that all BPS schools have 36 other states with early voting. statewide ballot initiatives. Those equitable access for M7 bus passes for high faced. According to Gregory, if the School Already begun, voting runs through questions—not to mention the school students. Committee and the state agree, EMK will Nov. 4. You don’t vote at your nor- intense presidential race—could McClay and fellow students Spartacus become the first charter school to receive mal polling station under early vot- mean longer-than-usual wait times Jean (EMK Board of Trustees) and Sandra vocational funds. ing. Instead, choose any of multiple on Election Day; early voting could Joseph (Mayor’s Youth Council) issued a state- Alison Pultinas lives in Mission Hill. locations open during the period, help you avoid that. including nine available on Saturday, • Question 1 would allow the state Oct. 29. You’ll find a full list of loca- to issue a second slots-parlor TEMPORARY DORM PLAN GETS AN AIRING tion at www.boston.gov/early-vot- license (only one is allowed under ing, but here are some sites easily current law). reached from our readership area: • Question 2 would loosen state FRI, 10/28 limits on charter schools, • Boston Arts Academy, 2-8pm allowing more of them to open • Boston City Hall, 9am-8pm more quickly. SAT, 10/29 • Question 3 would require • Boston Public Library (Copley “humane” conditions for farm Square), 12-6pm animals (pigs, veal calves, and • Bruce Bolling Municipal Building laying hens) in order for products (Dudley Square), 12-6pm like meat and eggs to be sold in MON, 10/31 . • Franklin Institute (South End), • Question 4 would legalize the 2-8pm recreational use of marijuana. A public meeting at Morville House on Oct. 17 addressed Emerson College’s plan • City Hall, 9am-8pm Boston voters to use 12 Hemenway St. as temporary student housing while the school renovates TUE, 11/1 QUESTION 5 will face a its Little Building dorm on Boylston Street downtown. Emerson would house • City Hall, 9am-5pm fifth question, whether to create a 115 students at 12 Hemenway—now a hostel—from fall 2017 to spring 2019 and WED, 11/2 & THU, 11/3 small surtax under the Community requires an amendment to the school’s institutional master plan (IMP). Opponents • City Hall, 9am-8pm Preservation Act that would fund expressed concerns about potential student misbehavior; the impotence of RAs FRI, 11/4 affordable housing, parks/open or security guards to control students outside the building; the possibility that • Tobin Municipal Bldg (Mission Hill), spaces, and historic preservation. the precedent the deal sets for the building’s owners; and the integrity of the 11am-5pm Note that this question will appear IMP process. Supporters argued that the students wouldn’t displace renters, • Back of the Hill Apartments on the back of your ballot; be praised Emerson’s security plan (via those same RAs and guards), and noted the (Mission Hill), 11am-5pm careful not to overloook it. proposal’s limited lifespan. Public comments are due by Friday, Nov. 4, to BPDA project Michael Rooney at [email protected]. ELKUS MANFREDI RENDERING

2 | FENWAY NEWS | NOVEMBER 2016 Revised Plan Covers Pike, Pays For It With New Height BY BARBARA BROOKS SIMONS and Steve Samuels (Samuels & Associates) to Prudential Financial and date back to the t’s been nearly two years since presented the updated plans, still undergoing development of the Prudential Center in the the Citizens Advisory Committee revison, for the two parcels. David Manfredi late 1950s. (CAC) for the Turnpike air rights of Elkus Manfredi Architectss and Peter Weiner Ventures brought Prudential into parcels at Boylston St. and Mass. Ave. Sougarides (also from the Samuels group) also the project and with it, access to the missing recommended development teams for Parcels made presentations. air rights. That allows the new development— I The plans for Parcel 15 are farther now called 1000 Boylston—to cover the entire 12 and 15. Since then, the developers have been working to further refine their plans and along and have undergone the more dramatic hole at that corner of Boylston and Dalton address some of the criticisms and suggestions changes. Parcel 15 is bounded by Boylston streets and run the building along the full offered by the CAC in response to their initial (across from Dillon’s), Dalton Street (along stretch of Boylston Street (which the earlier plans. the Hynes Convention Center), and Cambria version of the plan could not do). At a meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 25—run Street, the sloping ramp where trucks In place of the hotel originally envisioned by the newly renamed Boston Planning & unloading for the Hynes often park. The parcel for that site, Weiner proposes two buildings Development Agency—CAC members and does not include the entire “hole” through sitting atop a common base with two retail the public got their first look at the revised which pedestrians can see the Turnpike, levels and four of parking. The shorter proposals. Adam Weiner (Weiner Ventures) because a slice of the air rights there belong building, closer to the Hynes, will contain

A view toward the 595-foot tower on GE’s Mobile Science Lab Gives Students a Taste of STEM Careers Parcel 15 along Mass. Ave. The shorter building at left is the new Berklee dorm. BY KELSEY BRUUN experience the Career Lab prior to their school’s using the n a partnership with General Electric, Boston Public Schools physical product. 160 apartments; the taller one, with an has recently introduced The Brilliant Career Lab, a mobile When schools are able to book time in the Lab, facilitator unusual “twisted and sliced” profile, will science lab that increases access to science, technology, Andrea Fields says, the crew members “open up by explaining have 182 condos and reach 595 feet in height. engineering and technology (STEM) skills training through what the job entails. Then they show students the facts about The Weiner team said that a steady rise in hands-on experiences, mentoring, and an interactive daily tasks, discuss the salary and education requirements, and construction costs forced an increase in both website.I show them how to identify a simple circuit, notice if something massing and height. The program, launched Oct. 6, is designed to prepare is wrong and discuss how to fix it.” Parcel 12, on the west side of Mass. high school students, including those from the Fenway, for At the beginning of the lessons, “there is always a little Ave., is bounded by Upper Newbury, Mass. innovative industrial jobs by focusing on computer science, pushback,” explains Fields. But students eventually start to ask Ave, Boylston, and Ipswich Street along St. STEM, and college readiness. more questions and make connections. Clement’s Shrine. The plan itself only uses a “We want to empower students to be leaders in this new For one of the five jobs explored in the Career Lab, portion of the air rights behind the bus shelter world of technology,” explained Eva Mitchell, director of the airplane mechanic, “we would take the example of airplane and rests the bulk of construction on the small General Electric Partnership. motors,” explains Fields. “We have them play with pre-made, parking lot around the corner on Boylston. The lab is a centerpiece of the GE Foundation's $25 million magnetized circuits and try to make the motor move. From The Samuels plan calls for two stories of retail investment to support Boston students and educators. there, we’ll go to the paper handout and then give them an LED along Mass. Ave. with a green roof space that “Schools are booking the time with the Lab right now as light and a battery, asking them to make the light work. If it could be accessible to the public. Because the we speak,” said Mitchell. doesn’t work, then it’s backwards. So, they have to wrap their Boylston building doesn’t require construction A school’s time in the Career Lab begins with a minds around how to know if something is working.” of a costly platform over the Pike (while it combination of in-class and online lessons. Students then Fields then discusses with students why the circuit is not continues operating) it would only be 12 to 15 learn and explore specifics of a STEM-related career. The pilot working. After the lesson, Fields will ask students if they found stories, with either office space or residences program includes five careers. So far the Lab has conducted the particular career interesting and encourage them to go to above it. lessons on two of them. “The careers are based on a workforce the website and explore further. Both developers expect to file formal analysis of the growing jobs in Boston,” explained Mitchell. “For each one of the career lessons, the students get to proposals this winter, starting the City’s In addition to the careers students can explore in the see what the pathway [to that particular career] looks like,” Article 80 review process, which will review Career Lab, there are more jobs to explore on the website. All explained Mitchell, the director of the GE partnership. “We affordable housing, shadows, wind, and Boston Public School students have access to this website, create and bring to life a physical model of each career.” impacts on groundwater, among other issues. which will eventually appear as an app, and they can virtually Kelsey Bruun lives on Mission Hill. Barbara Brooks Simons lives in the East Fens.

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DCR PLAN WOULD LINK CHARLESGATE TO IN CASE YOU MISSED IT A LOT HAPPENED IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS THE ESPLANADE; COMMENTS DUE NOV. 7 SINCE THE LAST ISSUE, INCLUDING... BY ALISON PULTINAS the Muddy River had to be studied again to The Massachusetts Public Health Council gave Boston Children’s Hospital he proposed Charlesgate Greenway evaluate its potential as a park. The money for project, also known as the Charles- the multi-use path would come from MassDOT, the green light for its contentious billion-dollar expansion, but this story gate Connector, is a pedestrian and and the project is considered “shovel ready.” Fund- has had more twists than bagful of pretzels and won’t likely end soon. For bicycle multi-use path between the ing received in 2012 from the Lawrence and Lillian one thing, the group fighting to save the Prouty Healing Esplanade and the Emerald Necklace. Phase 1 Solomon Foundation initiated the Greenway proj- Garden, which Children’s would replace with a 71-bed T ect, and the foundation will also fund sculptural of construction is slated for 2017-2018, pend- ing full funding, and will run from the Beacon seating created by Boston craftsman Mitch Ryer- facility, had already filed suit against the hospital, and Street/Charlesgate intersection to the Mass. son for a future overlook near an allée of linden IC MI a spokesperson for the group hinted strongly that it Ave. Bridge. The deadline for commenting on trees. would appeal the Health Council decision. Stay tuned The nearly-two-hour meeting also included the project draws near—public comments are related topics: a progress report on the Bowker a Developer John Rosenthal told the newly renamed due Nov. 7 to the Department of Conservation Overpass and security concerns for the area un- Boston Planning & Development Agency board and Recreation (DCR). derneath the bridge at the Charlesgate Park. The thatY he has committed financing for the long-delayed Fenway Center On Oct. 18, DCR’s chief civil engineer Boston Department of Neighborhood Develop- and James Kersten of the ment’s Jim Greene, director of Boston’s Emergency complex just west of Kenmore Square. The project will start with two Massachusetts Department of Transportation Shelter Commission, described the City’s outreach residential buildings, sited on terra firma, before moving into the more (MassDOT) jointly presented refined efforts to the unsheltered homeless people who complicated second job of construction above the Mass Turnpike. Curbed gather under the Bowk- a MassArt’s iconic er and near the Fens Boston reported that work will begin next spring. Gatehouse. State Police Treehouse dorm on Huntington Avenue won the “People’s Choice Award” Captain Ball from at the AIA New England Design Awards in Portland. a Speaking of iconic, Troop H attended as comments at a meeting of the Boston Landmarks Commission made it well (the area is under his jurisdiction). Their clear that the Citgo sign in Kenmore Square will get ICYMI on page 4 > shared goal is to con- nect these unsheltered homeless people with city services. According to A rendering of the future path shows the view toward Allston. Kersten, the Bowker Kaji Aso Studio repairs are nearly com- conceptual plans for the Connector to a full plete, and equipment there will be demobilized by “A Spot of Beauty” room at the Wheelock Campus Center. the end of November. Hef Fisher of the Friends of Rob Adams of Halvorson Design, the Charlesgate and Jeff McDonald, a Bay State Rd. Fourteenth Annual Art Exhibition firm responsible for the landscape design, resident, both questioned why painting the under- showed three potential ways to connect side of the bridge was not prioritized despite its November 3–19, 2016 Beacon St. to the Esplanade’s Dr. Paul Dudley being in the contract. State Rep. White Bike Path at Massachusetts Avenue. said there were two levels of cleanup to be accom- Free and open to the public One sends pedestrians and bikers underneath plished, complicated by the involvement of two dif- Prudential Center, Newbury Arcade the Mass Ave. underpass alongside Storrow ferent agencies. Residents mentioned Northeastern (CORRIDOR THAT CONNECTS LORD & TAYLOR TO THE Professor Peter Furth’s proposal to eliminate the PRUDENTIAL CENTER NEAR BOYLSTON STREET ENTRANCE) Drive; other options have them crossing Mass Bowker Bridge, still a future possibility. Saturday, November 5, from 3:00 to 5:00pm Ave. itself. Crossing the bridge above Storrow Alison Pultinas lives in Mission Hill. The Opening Reception: Drive with a new traffic signal seems to be presentation can be found online at www.mass. Evening of Music: Friday, November 11, from 7:30 to 9:00pm the preferred choice, despite the high costs gov/eea/docs/dcr/news/public-meetings/materials/ Japanese Calligraphy: Saturday, November 12, from 1:00 to 6:00pm associated with installation of the signals. projects/2016-10-18-charlesgate-presentation. State Senator led a pdf, and comments can be sent electronically to SPECIAL THANKS TO www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/dcr/public-outreach/ MISSION HILL FENWAY NEIGHBORHOOD TRUST Q&A after the presentation, and comments WHOLE FOODS MARKET | SYMPHONY SUSHI | JAPONAISE BAKERY primarily focused on the lack of renovations submit-public-comments/. A meeting will be scheduled early in 2017 for public review of the for Charlesgate Park under the Bowker Over- Find out more at 617-247-1719 | [email protected] | www.KajiAsoStudio.com pass. Orrall explained that the hydrology of 90% design documents. 4 | FENWAY NEWS | NOVEMBER 2016

Serving the Fenway, Kenmore Square, Audubon Circle, upper Back Bay, lower Roxbury, Prudential, Mission Hill, and Officials Explain Why They Back Question 4, Legalizing Marijuana Longwood since 1974 (2) Question 4’s taxed and regulated system is modeled after the e urge a Yes vote on Question 4, which would legalize FENWAY NEWS ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS adult use of marijuana and regulate and tax it like State’s system for alcohol regulation. It replicates a system that Kelsey Bruun • Steve Chase • Helen Cox alcohol. is already working well in the State. The proposed system would Ruth Khowais • Alison Pultinas There are just too many ways for people to get be controlled, transparent and accountable. Barbara Brooks Simons • Steve Wolf inW trouble with the criminal justice system. We should be looking for (3) Question 4 allows people to grow a limited number of EDITOR: Duke Harten ways to lighten the burden that the system places on people, especially marijuana plants in his or her home under lock and key for WEB TEAM: Stephen Brophy, Kelsey Bruun in communities of poverty and color. Even after decriminalization of personal use. Sale of homegrown marijuana is still illegal. DESIGNER: Steve Wolf marijuana possession (4) Replacing the current marijuana policy in Massachusetts with in Massachusetts, arrest a regulated and taxed system allows limited legal possession to WRITERS: Alison Barnet, Stephen Brophy, Guest Opinion Will Brownsberger, Kelsey Bruun, Helen Cox, rates for marijuana persons 21 and over. Tracey Cusick, John Engstrom, Stan Everett, offenses are roughly three times higher for black people than for white (5) Legalization would prohibit marketing and branding toward Lisa Fay, Marie Fukuda, Elizabeth Gillis, people. Question 4 is a good step in the right direction. children, as with alcohol and tobacco. Katherine Greenough, Steve Harnish, Rosie We recognize that marijuana is an intoxicant. Marijuana smoke Overall, Question 4 is a responsible proposal to build a new Kamal, Sajed Kamal, Mandy Kapica, Steven includes a host of chemicals that may have bad health effects. It can regulatory system. Undoubtedly, there will be problems and the state Kapica, Ruth Khowais, Shirley Kressel, Kristen have long-term effects on cognition. legislature and cities and towns will need to work together to iron those Lauerman, Joanne McKenna, Mike Mennonno, Letta Neely, Michael Prentky, Alison Pultinas, But those concerns do not mean that it should be an illegal problems out. But we are very prepared to undertake that effort. Barbara Brooks Simons, Matti Kniva Spencer, substance for adults who are capable of making their own decisions. Our primary motive in supporting legalization is to extinguish Jamie Thomson, Anne M. Tobin, Chris Viveiros, Marijuana is not a dangerous drug in the way that, for example, heroin the very vibrant illegal market in marijuana that already exists and Steve Wolf is. People do not die from smoking too much marijuana. There is no eliminate criminal involvement in marijuana sales. For that to happen, PHOTOGRAPHERS: Steve Chase, Lois Johnston, lethal dose. the regulations on legalized adult use must balance public health Patrick O’Connor, Valarie Seabrook, Matti We should be hard on behaviors by marijuana users that endanger safeguards with economic realities. Edibles should be clearly labeled, Kniva Spencer, Steve Wolf others—driving while intoxicated, smoking in crowded spaces, and sale to minors must be prevented. However, if marijuana sales are CALENDAR: Stephen Brophy, Ruth Khowais, recruiting minors to use. But, as to adults acquiring and using their too heavily taxed, or the regulations on time, place and manner of sale Barbara Brooks Simons, Steve Wolf own marijuana in private, we should minimize regulatory involvement. are too onerous, illicit sales may continue. We commit to continued PROOFREADERS: Steve Chase, Ruth Khowais, In August, State Representative Jon Hecht, working with Tufts monitoring of the law and its impacts on neighborhoods and residents. Barbara Brooks Simons University’s Tisch College of Civic Life, and Healthy Democracy, It will take some years to work out the kinks in the new system. BUSINESS MANAGER: Janet Malone convened a group of citizens using a scientific sample of the electorate We accept that legislative challenge. But we can’t get started until the DISTRIBUTION: Della Gelzer, Aqilla Manna, to serve as unbiased examiners of the question. Their unique process voters say yes to Question 4 and end prohibition for marijuana. We Lauren Dewey Platt, Reggie Wynn yielded the following five findings, which we quote verbatim: urge a Yes vote on Question 4. (1) Question 4 provides significant control to city and town STATE SENATOR WILL BROWNSBERGER; The Fenway News is published monthly authorities by allowing safeguards on the operations of REPRESENTATIVE ; by the Fenway News Association, Inc., marijuana establishments. It protects business and landlord REPRESENTATIVE JAY LIVINGSTONE; CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT a community-owned corporation dedicated rights and it prohibits marijuana consumption in public areas. MICHELLE WU; CITY COUNCILOR TITO JACKSON to community journalism. 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He aims to assemble a global network of researchers to disproportionately by gun violence. identify early biomarkers of heart disease. a The owners of Davis Square “It is well established that sexual “Comforting the afflicted and and gender minorities report substantially Irish pub The Burren will cross the river to open a jazz club in the Boylston higher rates of suicide attempts than the Street storefront that housed Pad Thai Cafe. The Bebop will offer music afflicting the comfortable.” The founders of The Fenway News adopted general population in both adolescence and seven days a week, and food-industry websites say it will also compete this motto to express their mission of adulthood,” according to the brief. “Between for the commuter-breakfast dollar with an 8am opening and coffee and exposing and opposing the dangers the 10 and 20 percent of sexual minority adults tea. (ICYMI salutes any new Boston eatery that is neither Irish pub nor neighborhood faced in the early 1970s— report having attempted suicide at least rampant arson, predatory landlords, Dunkin’ Donuts.) a Pillar Technologies, a startup launched at Wentworth once in their lives, while up to 40 percent and a destructive urban renewal plan. If of transgender adults have. Both rates are Institute of Technology, won a competition at the Forbes Under 30 Summit, the original motto no longer fits today’s snagging $200K in venture-capital investment and an equal amount of Fenway, we remain committed to its spirit substantially higher than the 4.6 percent of identifying problems and making our lifetime suicide-attempt rate for the overall US free advertising in Forbes. Pillar makes sensors for monitoring construction neighborhood a better and safer place to live. population. sites. a A doctoral candidate at Harvard’s Chan School of Public Health “LGBT people are also more likely to released the first Greater Boston Noise Report, which measured noise be the targets of hate crimes than any other > FREQUENCY < group in the United States,” according to and gathered other data to grade communities on ambient noise levels The Fenway News reaches the stands every the document. Citing these statistics as well are. Unsurprisingly, the Fenway/LMA got a D–. View the fabulously wonky 4-5 weeks, usually on the first as incidents like the June massacre at Pulse results at http://boston.noiseandthecity.org/#home. or last Friday of the month. Our next issue will appear on Friday, DECEMBER 2. nightclub in Orlando, the brief suggests a four- > DEADLINE < point gun-control agenda: The deadline for letters, news items, and ads • reinstatement of the federal ban on assault is Friday, NOVEMBER 25. weapons, which ended in 2004; > ADVERTISING < • state and federal bans on the purchase of Contact our business manager at guns by people who have been convicted of Dashboard [email protected] domestic abuse or hate crimes or who are  STREET CLEANING included on the No Fly list maintained by The City cleans Fenway streets • SECOND FRIDAY the Transportation Security Administration; between 12 and 4pm on the first and 8 to 54 The Fenway (includes inside • background checks on those purchasing third Wednesdays of each month (odd- lane) and Charlesgate Extension, 12:00– firearms at gun shows or online; and When you’re numbered side) and the second and 3:00pm • promotion of safer gun design and storage. fourth Wednesdays (even-numbered To read the full policy brief, visit http:// • THIRD TUESDAY side). 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Chow It’s a Tasty Job, And Someone Down! Has to Do It: Tracking a Bumper Crop of New Fenway Restaurants STORY AND PHOTOS BY RUTH KHOWAIS Saloniki The Fenway has been inundated with a plethora of new restaurants. This ext door to Sweetgreen reporter was happy to check them out for you. sits Saloniki, a casual NGreek restaurant under Blaze Pizza the direction of celebrated chef ot your hole-in-the wall Jody Adams. The fare here is pizza parlor, the West primarily pita sandwiches with NCoast-based pizzeria, now fresh, flavorful ingredients. As lodged at the corner of Boylston you walk in you can see workers and Jersey streets, serves pizza making the pita bread. The Niko in a new and different way, more combines lemon-oregano chicken like a salad bar. In an amazingly with traditional tzatziki sauce, efficient operation, customers tomatoes, onions, and Greek fries. get to view every step of their The Despena features zucchini- pizza’s creation and pick all the feta fritters with garlic yoghurt ingredients. Blaze’s motto is and an herb salad. Another offering has spicy lamb meatballs. All the sandwiches “exceptional quality at crazy are intensely flavorful and, even though stuffed with fries, are not greasy. You speed” and this turns out to be can also get a salad topped with ingredients from the sandwich menu. Keep true. An assembly line of workers them in mind for your next party—they cater, too. speeds up the process, and the hot oven bakes your pizza in 180 seconds. Tapestry The crust is light and very crisp. The topping choices are numerous. t 69 Kilmarnock St. is Signature pizzas at $7.95 include the Art Lover with artichokes, ricotta, and Tapestry, in the space that garlic and the Green Stripe with pesto drizzled over chicken, red peppers, formerly housed Church. arugula, and garlic. Best of all, as you travel down the line, you can add toppings A Unlike the four establishments for no extra charge. On a recent visit I ordered the Art Lover and added spinach above, Tapestry is primarily a sit- and pesto. And the price did not go up. down restaurant. Tapestry has two dining rooms that are quite M & J Teriyaki different. In the Expo Kitchen, dine &J, at 130 Jersey St. (which on oysters, Neapolitan pizzas, or replaced Toscano, which savory bites—unique small plates Mreplaced a Brazilian that include roasted asparagus restaurant) is a welcome addition with dill and mustard or chicken specializing in fast, hearty, and liver mousse. (More adventurous inexpensive Asian entrees. For diners might spring for such about $9 you can get a pile of novelties as fried duck tongue.) Décor is plain, industrial style, with blaring beef, chicken, lamb, eel, or salmon music. In contrast, The Club Room (closed on Sunday and Monday) is an elegant teriyaki (they offer vegetarian and relaxing setting with stuffed, curved armchairs, soft lighting, a modern options, too) over a bed of white, central fireplace, and a beautiful carved ceiling. Entrees are small or sharing brown, or fried rice with a side of plates that represent a modern American menu. The menu changes frequently, sautéed vegetables and pineapple. but some recent choices were a tangy salad of wood oven-roasted cauliflower, M & J also has an array of traditional Asian appetizers, such as Peking ravioli and yoghurt, and mint; linguini made with nasturtiums served with clams and spring rolls as well as bubble tea drinks. pecorino cheese; grilled octopus; and braised short ribs with charred cabbage and sour cream. Check the menu before you go on their website, www.tapestry. Sweetgreen restaurant. n the corner of Brookline The Fenway is fortunate to have so many new and old restaurant choices. Ave. and Kilmarnock St., Ruth Khowais lives in the West Fens. OSweetgreen specializes in fresh, ingredients from local farms. There is no menu because you travel down the line selecting hot or cold items for your salad. You can pick your own or try one of their intriguing combinations. The end is near Bowls range from $6 to $12 and ROXBURY CROSSING T STATION (ORANGE LINE) for 2016 farmer’s begin with a green leafy base, markets. As the Tuesday & Friday (ends 11/18) 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. such as romaine or kale. The OMG season Farmer’swinds down, COPLEY SQUARE Markets Omega features avocado, tomato, look for apples, cucumber, baby spinach, and Tuesday & Friday (ends 11/22) 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. pears, salad greens, steelhead trout. Pesto Portabello combines these two with other tasty items. pumpkins, and root MISSION HILL: VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK (HUNTINGTON/FRANCIS ) Ingredients that can be added include hummus, chickpeas, and sweet potatoes. vegetables. Thursday (ends 11/17) 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Flavorful homemade dressings, such as sesame ginger, top off the veggies. The salads are very fresh and hearty and make for great takeout meals. 6 | FENWAY NEWS | NOVEMBER 2016

MFA Show Pulls American Impressionist Chase Out of the Shadows BY BARBARA BROOKS SIMONS countries, including Holland. By the time women, especially, capture the self-confidence subject, a Mrs. , was perhaps the origin ds have called him “the most famous he returned to New York in 1878, Chase had and independence of the “new woman.” But of the “Gibson Girl,” the iconic beautiful American artist you’ve never heard matured into a cosmopolitan painter with a he was also a family man. His wife and three woman of the time. of,” but visitors to the current exhibit distinctive American style that still showed daughters appear in many paintings, especially The extensive show at the MFA is divided at the Museum of Fine Arts may find European influences. those from his seaside home in Shinnecock on by both period and subject matter. It begins Athat the paintings of and ends “In the Studio.” Rather than a spare William Merritt Chase garret, Chase decorated his early studio as an (1849–1916) seem very exotic stage set, filled with copper pots, hang- PHOTOS: MFA PHOTOS: Left, Chase’s self-portrait, painted familiar. His paintings in 1883; below, “Spring Flowers ing brass lamps, soft sofas, and colorful plush fit comfortably (Peonies)” from 1889. hangings. In his own words: “A wall should with the more be treated as familiar American a canvas is. Impressionists Real objects who were his take the place contemporaries—Mary of colors.” Cassatt, John Singer The studio Sargent, and James provided the A.M. Whistler. (In fact, setting for Chase was something many paint- of a “frenemy” of ings as well Whistler, as his slightly as artists’ satirical portrait of the gatherings. other artist shows.) The It was in the MFA show displays 80 Tenth Street of Chase’s paintings, Studio Build- which include ing, on Tenth landscapes, family Street in scenes, interiors, Greenwich colorful characters, Village, near formal portraits, and Washington a few still lifes, drawn Square. from public and private To sup- collections. port his fam- Like other ily, Chase had Impressionists, both to teach, but French and American, Chase was a master at His favorite subjects were far-ranging. did it with showing the effects of light, both indoors and Like other expatriate artists, he painted the enthusiasm. out, and in both oil and pastel. He adapted and buildings and landscapes of Europe. But Long Island, where he also had a studio. He led student trips to Europe and clearly in- used those techniques in his own idiosyncratic at home he used the same Impressionist One room of the MFA show focuses fluenced many later American painters. A list way. Chase was a Midwesterner, born in techniques to show the changing America on posed portraits of women who appear of his students reads like a catalogue of major Indiana. In 1872, like many American artists of the late 1800s, especially the wide lawns supremely poised and self-confident. They artists of the 1920s and 1930s. They included of the time, he went to Europe to study. Unlike and paths of new urban parks in New York typified those who would work for the vote Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keefe, Rockwell most, however, he chose Munich over Paris, and Brooklyn (including the new Olmsted- and other women’s rights. (Many were his Kent, Charles Sheeler, and Charles Demuth. though he also traveled and painted in other designed Central Park). His portraits of students, who became painters in their own (As a footnote, take a look at his “Boy Smok- rights.) “Lady with a White Shawl”, also called ing” [“The Apprentice”], from 1875, and see if “Portrait of Mrs. C,” was Chase’s favorite, as you also see a hint of Norman Rockwell.) he called it his “greatest picture.” And in fact Barbara Brooks Simons lives in the East EVEN 400 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH, it did win a gold medal in Paris in 1900. Its Fens. SHAKESPEARE STILL FASCINATES US BY RUTH KHOWAIS f you love rare books and are fond of the Bard, this Shakespeare ‘Beyond Words’ Captures Big Tech Shift That exhibit is for you. Four hundred years after Shakespeare’s death in 1616, the Boston Public library has amassed an exhibition of early and Remade the 15th-Century World: Printing rare editions of his works from the 19th-century collection of Thomas BY BARBARA BROOKS SIMONS and gold on parchment. Some maps and Pennant Barton. Barton, who was from Philadelphia and Boston, re printed books (and scientific works are simpler, just pen and ink scouredI auction houses and book shops to build his collection of early newspapers) going out of on paper. editions. His personal library contained 12,000 volumes. The BPL purchased style? Will we soon be Renaissance scholars looked back to the collection from Barton’s widow in 1873. reading everything on the classics, and many books in the display There has always been a fierce debate over what Shakespeare actually screens large and small? are the works of Roman writers such as Ovid wrote. This “Shakespeare Unauthorized” exhibition attempts to show that “Beyond Words,” the and Juvenal. Others, though, are the great adaptation, collaboration, and deception ongoing exhibit at the writers of the day, such as Petrarch, Dante, and were prevalent during Shakespeare’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Boccaccio. Another group includes religious lifetime. According to notes from the Museum, displays books from another books—huge volumes of music that a small BPL, Shakespeare lived during a time revolutionary period in the history of book- chorus could share, and tiny “books of hours” when artistic collaboration and theatrical making—Renaissance Italy in the 1400s. It for individual worshippers. adaptation were the norm. Even his spans the transition from handwritten, hand- With the shift to printing, the beautiful most famous works were constantly decorated manuscripts to beautifully printed colored artwork disappeared. For a time, being revised and edited, adapted, books. In Italy, the development of printing printers turned out hybrids, leaving empty and rewritten. And this process did went hand in hand with the rise of humanism spaces on printed pages for artists to fill in not end with his death. “Shakespeare and the resulting spread in literacy. Noble with color later. Soon, though, they adapted to Unauthorized” explores and exposes this families such as the Medici, the d’Estes, and making books with detailed black-and-white process. the Sforzas were important patrons for writers illustrations. (Look for the one in which clever Featured are over 50 works, and artists. While Florence was an early center Venetian printer Aldus Manutius introduced The exhibit includes a copy of including a book of Shakespeare’s of the Renaissance, the advent of printing italic type!) the First Folio, printed in 1623, poems from 1640, a first edition of A in Italy in the 1460s shifted its center to the The Gardner is not the only venue to ex- one of the most valuable books Midsummer’s Night Dream, a 1623 edition printing houses of Venice. plore these treasures from Boston collections. in the world. of The Most Excellent and Lamentable “Beyond Words” begins in the small As part of “Beyond Words 2016,” two other lo- Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet, 1603 and “studiolo” of a Renaissance humanist, filled cal museums are showing manuscripts dating 1604 editions of Hamlet, and books by Shakespeare’s contemporaries, such with objects from classical Greece and Rome. from the ninth to seventeenth centuries. They as Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson. Also highlighted in this exhibit is a Walking into the main room, you get the come from the collections of some 18 Boston- First Folio from 1623, a volume of the collected plays of Shakespeare that is impression of being in a great library of the area institutions. According to Harvard pro- one of the most valuable books in the world. time—actually the Biblioteca Laurenziana, fessor Jeffrey Hamburger, this is the largest The Hamlet editions were at the heart of a literary scandal. In 1823, a which Michelangelo designed for the Medici group of medieval and Renaissance works in previously unknown edition of Hamlet printed in 1603 was discovered. The family. It had church-like pews, where the North America that are little known to both text of this edition, printed in 1603, was shorter with cruder and more stilted books were chained into place. To read a researchers and the public. language. Some characters had different names and even the famous “To different book, you had to move to its spot in The Gardner exhibit continues to January be or not to be” soliloquy was different. This long-lost first edition suggests the library. 16, 2017. Harvard’s Houghton Library has that Hamlet once existed in multiple forms. Both editions are on view in this The exhibit focuses on different aspects “Manuscripts for Church and Cloister” exhibit. of this period, from the great collections (Sept.12–Dec. 10, 2016). The McMullen “Shakespeare Unauthorized” runs through March 31 at the McKim sponsored by noble patrons up to the printed Museum of Art at Boston College is showing Exhibition Hall at the Copley Square branch of the Boston Public Library. books. Many early handmade books are “Manuscripts for Pleasure and Piety” Ruth Khowais lives in the West Fens. breathtakingly beautiful, their gilt-edged (Sept.12–Dec. 11, 2016). pages a feast of rich illustrations and elaborate Barbara Brooks Simons lives ins the East initial letters. Most are painted with tempera Fens. FENWAY NEWS | NOVEMBER 2016 | 7

JAPANESE TELEVISION TURNS ITS EYE ON BERKLEE PROFESSOR HUNTINGTON OPENS BACK-STAGE DOORS ONE LAST TIME PHOTOS: PULTINAS ALISON As part of the Fenway Alliance’s Opening Our Doors event on Oct. 10, the Huntington Theatre literally did that with detailed tours and stage talks from Michael Maso, managing director, and Kat Herzig, master

PHOTO: ANNE BRAITHWAITEPHOTO: electrician. The event ended with duets by Nick Sulfaro and Morgan Kirner from the cast of Sunday in the Park with George. In honor of the musical’s signature song, visitors decorated hats to take home (below). Maso said a major capital campaign is underway for facility renovations ($60 million to $80 million is the figure most recently mentioned). The Huntington must relocate its scene, paint, and prop shops (right) because the two buildings adjacent to the theater will

Filming began on Oct. 23 for a special edition of Gutto Chikyubin (Global Delivery, a popular Japanese television show) focusing on internationally acclaimed Boston- be redeveloped by investors who bought the property from based pianist, composer and Boston University earlier this year. The terms of the sale allow Berklee professor Yoko Miwa. The the Huntington to maintain control over the historic theater show, on the Yomiuri TV network, itself. The theater has great character and good bones, but will follow Miwa and her husband deferred maintenance has taken a toll on the structure in during their day-to-day activities, recent decades. The new site for production facilities has not including her classes at Berklee been determined yet, although a location in Everett was one and concerts at a jazz brunch and possibility mentioned at the Oct. 10 event. Cambridge’s Thelonious Monkfish. —ALISON PULTINAS

Amid Gothic Splendor, ASP Delivers a Fierce and Memorable ‘Hamlet’ BY JOHN ENGSTROM Writes Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, edition of 1604-1605 and the First Folio of makes do with eight performers. What the play ucky Bostonians who love “With Hamlet…Shakespeare finally found a 1623 (see box on facing page). then lacks in population it gains in expressive Shakespeare and love to see the plays dramatically compelling way to internalize With a show that clocks in at two intensity and cinematic focus. done intelligently and well can be contesting forces: the essaylike soliloquy hours and forty minutes with intermission, The only ASP actors on hand who grateful that we currently have in the proved to be the perfect vehicle for Hamlet’s you expect some shrinkage and editing of aren’t doing double and triple duty are city two proficient and durable Shakespeare efforts to confront issues that…defied easy the original script (or scripts). Fortunately, Robinson’s Hamlet, Macdonald as Claudius, L resolution.” Lockwood’s cutting and manipulation of and Poornima Kirby’s sensitive Ophelia. troupes to choose from. Commonwealth Shakespeare Company puts on a Shakespeare Churches often make exciting settings the text is as judicious as his touch with the Marianna Bassham’s doubling of Queen every summer on Boston Common (this for plays and operas because they combine players. The dramatic arc and motor force Gertrude (in stiff, voluminous skirts) and the year it was Love’s Labor’s Lost). And the spatial flexibility with spiritual atmosphere. of Shakespeare’s narrative remain in place Gravedigger (in a work hat and apron) was Back Bay’s Gothic gem and Hamlet despite a diminished cast of characters: such a highlight. Bassham nailed Paulina in the turn out to be a perfect match: lesser lights as Reynaldo, the two ambassadors recent ASP Winter’s Tale but here she goes Shakespeare’s searching spirituality to Norway, the three soldiers who witness the beyond herself, with explosive acting and and Renaissance metaphysics rhyme Ghost before Hamlet does, and miscellaneous husky mezzo vocalizing. Richard Snee is very PHOTO: NILE SCOTT NILE PHOTO: nicely with the soaring vaults, other parts end up on the cutting room floor. funny as a fussy, pedantic Polonius (who gets imposing pulpit, majestic platforms Osric remains as a supporting character, shot by Hamlet with a pistol in an open space and stone columns that make up played by the plurally gifted Rory Boyd, who instead of being stabbed behind the arras in the sanctified space. Actor-director also serves as a musician, the Player King, Gertrude’s bedroom) and manages to be scary Doug Lockwood—who gave a and the priest at Ophelia’s funeral. The last as a stalking, declaiming Ghost. sensitive, subtle performance as words of this version, spoken by Horatio as He’s helped in the latter endeavor Richard the Second in a recent Hamlet expires in his arms, are the famous by sound designer Arshan Gallus, who ASP endeavor—orchestrates both the intimacy and immensity of the “found” setting to powerful effect. He places actors onstage to sit and watch the action when they are not performing, a touch that lends a Marianna Bassham as Queen Gertrude welcome sense of informality and nomadic Actors Shakespeare Project is now improvisation to the show. With inspiring installed in Back Bay’s deluxe Church of the acoustics, everyone has the luxury of Covenant where, through Nov. 6, the company trumpeting at full volume or scaling down is delivering a bang-up Hamlet to packed their delivery to the merest whisper. audiences. Deb Sullivan’s mercurial and varied God knows how many ambitious, lighting design sensitively mirrors the play’s trailblazing theater ensembles over the shifting moods and ambiences. Speeches and years have done Shakespeare in low-budget encounters are performed in the aisles, on productions in churches and other alternative the stage, and all around the space, engulfing spaces throughout the English-speaking the audience. Hamlet plays one of his early world. In an astute program note, ASP artistic “mad scenes” in the pulpit; in the final scene, chief Allyn Burrows points out that the very the poisoned Gertrude dies behind it. The building used for Hamlet—more a cathedral Danish prince himself—played with aplomb than a church, a full-blown Gothic edifice with and charisma, though with less melancholy Hamlet (Omar Robinson) and Laertes supplies atmospherics that draw on the 1890s Tiffany decor and luminous stained than one might hope for, by Omar Robinson— (Alexander Platt) duel in the Actors church environment to good effect and glass windows—in 1973 housed the famous gets an actual “o’er-hanging firmament” and Shakespeare Project production of keep the audience uncertain as to whether Al Pacino Richard the Third, featuring the “majestical roof” to illustrate his famous ‘Hamlet,” playing through November 6. it’s witnessing a dramatic entertainment or historic Theater Company of Boston under the “What a piece of work is a man” speech a religious rite. Many scenes start with an late David Wheeler’s legendary direction. (familiar to many of us as the lyric of a song in “Good night, sweet prince, and flights of organ flourish, and the play ends with the I didn’t see Pacino’s Richard in the the rock musical Hair). And in a bold stroke of angels sing thee to thy rest.” But there’s no deep knocking of church bells. Costume church but I did see it when the production theater, Ross Macdonald’s well-spoken King Fortinbras to come in at the end and proclaim designer Jessica Pribble created shimmering moved to the Loeb Drama Center in Claudius—usurper of the throne of Denmark a new order. (Many other Hamlet productions Velasquez doublets and farthingales for the Cambridge later on in 1973. Or rather, I saw and in Hamlet’s disillusioned view a “smiling, over the years have dispensed with Fortinbras, cast that remind us of the play’s Renaissance the first half of it; I escaped at intermission. damned villain”—includes, addresses and including Peter Brook’s in Paris.) origins and, together with the rigors of Pacino’s “White Trash” usurper of the English implicates the present-day audience in his In the radical reshaping of the script, not Lockwood’s staging, establish that despite its crown, seeming to have wandered onstage tortured, penitent prayer. everything is clear right away. Initially there’s scale and complexity, Hamlet is an intimate from a Martin Scorsese gangster movie, made Probably written in 1600-1601, Hamlet some confusion when the two actors playing chamber play with a hothouse-courtly setting. the play excruciating. Pacino turned the text is not unique in the Shakespeare canon but Horatio and Laertes (Peter G. Andersen and Drastically paring down the cast of characters into mashed-up alphabet soup. This was not a unusual in that it exists in several different Alexander Platt) turn up a few moments and streamlining the text concentrates the negligible failure since the monologues in that printed versions. One of them, the First later as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, but drama and heightens the immediacy of the play represent some of Shakespeare’s earliest Quarto, is likely a pirate version pieced mostly such muddle is kept to a minimum. abundant, layered script that Shakespeare left attempts at bravura soliloquy—a dramatic together from memory by one of the original Shakespeare asked for two dozen speaking us. This production is a local highlight of the form he would develop further in Richard the actors. It is not widely used. The two longest, parts plus extras to be in Hamlet, but ASP, a Shakespeare quater-centenary year. Second and master to perfection in Hamlet. and they are very long, are the Second Quarto group with a genius for creative down-sizing, John Engstrom lives in the West Fens. 8 | FENWAY NEWS | NOVEMBER 2016

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Wed, 11/2, 11/9, 11/16 PICK OF THE MONTH arts+ENTERTAINMENT Concert Focuses on Syrian Medical Relief Every fall Harvard grad students present November The last few months have brought “SCIENCE IN THE NEWS,” a program of free multiple benefit events linked  Through Sat, 11/5 and accessible seminars on scientific topics to the world’s refugee crises, making headlines. Learn about suicide THE ACTOR’S NIGHTMARE, a comedy by including an October concert at risk (Nov 2); the uses of “big data” (Nov Christopher Durang, features Fenway Berklee led by Emmylou Harris 9); and what we know about controlling actress Jennifer Jones. Dinner seating 6:30- and Steve Earle. On Saturday, mosquito-borne viruses like Zika and Ebola 7pm, Thu-Sat. Tickets are $32 and include a Nov. 12, Old South Church hosts (Nov 16). Armenise Auditorium, Harvard two-course meal. At Dot to Dot Café, 1739 Songs for Syria, a humanitarian Medical School, 200 Longwood Ave (on the Dorchester Ave., Dorchester. For tickets and concert in support of medical quad), 7-9pm. More info at menus, go to www.avenuestage.org. sitn.hms. missions organized by the Syrian + harvard.edu/seminar-series/. FREE  Through Sun, 11/20 American Medical Society. Klezperanto and Layaali Arabic Music Ensemble Fri, 11/4 will perform, and WBUR’s Carey Goldberg will emcee. Old South Church, 645 AKEELAH AND THE BEE continues at CHORUS PRO MUSICA, with soloists and Boylston Street, 3-5pm. Free, but donations will be requested. Details at Wheelock Family Theatre. 200 the www.oldsouth.org/events/songs-syria, or visit www.eventbrite.org (search Riverway. Fri 7:30pm; Sat-Sun 3pm. full orchestra, presents Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, one of the grandest choral works for “Songs for Syria”) to reserve a ticket. Tickets $20-38. Info and tickets at www. of all time. Premiered at the same time as WheelockFamilyTheatre.org. the Ninth Symphony, it has been described Through Sun, 12/4 la nuit”) by Henri Dutilleux and works by 1497 Tremont St. For more information, or  as a five-movement choral symphony. 8pm, Rameau and Poulenc. 7:30 pm, Jordan to participate, contact missionhillartists@ In her exhibit DEAD TREEZ, artist Ebony Jordan Hall at NEC. Tickets $27, 42, 57. + Hall at NEC. FREE. gmail.com. Patterson uses an exhilarating mix of media www.choruspromusica.org. Fri, 11/11  Thu, 11/17 Sat, 11/19 to explore the gender coding, race and class Thu, 11/3  Sat, 11/19 To promote its entry into the Boston THE BOSTON PHILHARMONIC, with conduc- of Jamaican dancehall culture. 808 Gallery ANNUAL KAJI ASO at BU, 808 Comm. Ave. Tue-Sun, 12- “A Spot of Beauty,” the market, a Richmond, VA gallery has tor Benjamin Zander and cellist Zuill Bai- ART SHOW, ONE-WEEK POP-UP GALLERY + 5pm; Thu 12-8pm. FREE. features work by local artists. organized a ley, comes to Jordan Hall with a program Opening free reception with the artists, Sat., on Newbury Street, Fri-Thu, 11am-6pm; of French and English music. The French Sat, 10/29 Nov. 5, 3-5pm. New location: The Newbury Opening party Fri, 6-9pm. 91 works are by Debussy (the familiar Prelude Northeastern University hosts the 39th Arcade, the corridor that connects Lord & + Newbury Street. FREE. to an Afternoon of a Faun) and Henri Dutil- annual JOHN COLTRANE MEMORIAL CONCERT. + Taylor with the Prudential Center Fri, 11/11  Sun, 11/20 leux. The English program features William “An Evening of Ballads and Blues” features shops on the Boylston St. side. FREE. Walton’s Scapino Overture and Edward El- an all-star band that includes Bill Pierce, The MFA holds nine screenings of films gar’s much-loved Enigma Variations. 8 pm, Fri, 11/4 BOSTON JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL, Stan Strickland, Billy Buss, and Avery in the 28th tickets $25-$105 at www.bostonphil.org. Buenos Aires TANGO SPECIALISTS ESTAMPAS mostly drams and documentaries. Varied Sharpe. Blackmun Auditorium, 360 PORTEÑAS Sun, 11/20 Huntington Ave., 7:30pm. Tickets $30-40 presents Deseos…Stores of times Fri-Sun, Nov 11-13; Wed, Nov 16; Sun, Longing and Desire Told Through Argentine general/$25 students, seniors. More at www. Nov 20. Tickets $14/16, members/nonmem- Boston Conservatory at Berklee presents Tango and Music, with 12 dancers and live “STRING FEST,” friendsofCMC.org. bers, except for the festival’s closing-night featuring violist Carol music. Berklee Performance Center, 136 film,Who’s Gonna Love Me Now, at $28/30 Rodland in collaboration with students and Sat, 10/29 Mass. Ave., 8pm. Tickets $30-58. More at (Sun, Nov 20, 7pm). Schedule and previews faculty in works by Beethoven, Brahms, The NEW ENGLAND PHILHARMONIC presents www.WorldMusic.org. at www.mfa.org/programs/film. and Augusta Read Thomas. Seully Hall, 8 “Finding the Key,” five orchestral works Mon, 11/7 Sat, 11/12  Wed, 12/23 The Fenway, 8pm. Tickets $15 general/$10 that include a world premiere (Andy Vores’s senior, WGBH/free for students. More at FIRST MONDAY KAJI ASO’S ARTISTS MARKETPLACE, Fanfare), along with works by BartÓk, at Jordan Hall chamber At local www.BostonConservatory.Berklee.Edu. Wyner, and young composers Andrew music series continues with a program of artists and craftspeople will sell their work. Sun, 11/20 Norman and Geoffrey Burleson. BU’s Tsai French music, celebrating several 100-year Opening party with the artists, 7-9pm, Nov. SEN. Performance Center, 685 Comm. Ave., 8pm anniversaries. One highlight will be Claude 12 at Kaji Aso Studio, 40 St. Stephen St. Feeling less musical and more political? BERNIE SANDERS (doors open at 7:30). Tickets $40/25/10 Debussy’s Trio for flute, viola, and harp, Mon, 11/14 brings his prescription which was first performed in Jordan Hall (general/senior/student). More at www. for economic, social and racial justice to exactly 100 years before this concert’s date. NEC students and faculty take you NEPhilharmonic.org. Berklee Performance Center in support of (A pre-concert talk at 6:30 will discuss how someplace surprising for a classical his new book, Our Revolution. This event this new edition was created.) The program conservatory: Nashville. “YOU DONE ME may sell out, so plan ahead. Tickets $33. will also include a string quartet (“Ainsi WRONG: THE MUSIC OF GEORGE JONES” 8pm, 136 Mass. Ave. Info at www.berklee. COMMUNITY interprets and explores the work of Jones edu/BPC. and iconic colleagues like Johnny Cash, Sun, 11/27 and Weds, 11/30 meetings Loretta Lynn, and Williams. Jordan • SYMPHONY NEIGHBORHOOD TASK FORCE Hall, 7:30pm. More info at www. The Regal Fenway 13 shows the 1961 com- ALL MONTH: The Fenway Community + BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S. meets, 6 pm. 320 Huntington Ave., 2nd necmusic.edu. FREE. edy Known for Center at 1282 Boylston offers great floor. Contact Nick Carter at 617-635- Wed, 11/16 Audrey Hepburn’s iconic role as Holly Go- programming all month. Check lightly, the film also featured a deeply racist 4225 or [email protected] “DINING OUT IN BOSTON: out their full calendar at www. Hungry? Check out rendering of her Japanese neighbor, Mr. with questions. A CULINARY HISTORY” Fenwaycommunitycenter.org/calendar/ • EAST FENS POLICE/COMMUNITY MEETING, at the Boston Public Yunioshi (played by Mickey Rooney!). 50 Library. Urban planner/historian James 6pm, Morville House, 100 Norway St. years later, Paramount felt abashed enough WED, NOV 2 & 16 Fenway Fair Foods C. O’Connell surveys Boston restaurants to include a critical documentary on its WED, NOV 16 West Fens Police/Community distributes high-quality, low-cost produce at of yesterday and today with his collection blu-ray release of the film, Mr. Yunioshi: An meeting, 6pm, Fenway Community Center, $2 bag. At Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, of menus, photos, and memories. 6–7:30 Asian Perspective doesn’t screen with these 1282 Boylston. 165 Park Drive, 3-5pm. Contact Kris pm, Commonwealth Salon, Central showings, but watch it beforehand at www. + Library, Copley Square. FREE Anderson at [email protected] for TUE, NOV. 22: . youtube.com/watch?v=ZAafI9w7CY8. more information. • AUDUBON CIRCLE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSN. Thu, 11/17  Fri, 11/18 Sun., 2pm, 7pm; Weds, 7pm. Tickets $15 board meets at 7pm. All are welcome. at the box office or atwww.fathomevents. 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Details at www.berklee.edu/BPC. between 100 and 108 Jersey St. (Walk you have a concern but can’t come. To verify date or for info, contact Grace FRI, NOV 11 Thu, 11/17  Sun, 11/20 down the alley and look left.) For more City Councilor Josh Zakim holds Holley at 617-267-4637 x16 or email information, call 617-536-7154. office hours, 8-9:30am, at Trident Cafe, 338 [email protected]. Boston Conservatory at Berklee presents Newbury St. Contact josh.zakim@boston. MON, NOV 28: The LMA Forum for HANDEL’S ALCINA, an opera seria that sounds RECURRING gov if you have a concern but can’t come; community review of development projects an awful lot like a Shakespearean comedy, TUESDAYS visit www.joshzakim.com for full office what with magic spells, mistaken identities, meets when necessary at 6:30pm, location • 9:30am—Coffee hour hours schedule. to be determined. Contact Taylor at and obsessive love—all set on an enchanted • 11am—Exercise with Mahmoud TUE, NOV 15: [email protected] for details island. Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway • 11am—Trivia! • PLANNED PARENTHOOD WORKSHOP 6:30- and to be added to the notification list. Street. Thu-Sat 8pm; Sun 2pm. Tickets $30 premium/$25 regular; discounts for seniors, • noon—Hot lunch and movie 8:30pm Fensgate Community Room (side FRI, DEC 2: City Councilor Josh Zakim holds students, and WGBH members. More at WEDNESDAYS entrance) 73 Hemenway St. Contact Kris office hours, 8-9:30am, at Mike’s Donuts, www.BostonConservatory.Berklee.Edu. • 9:30am—Coffee hour Anderson at [email protected] 1524 Tremont St. Contact josh.zakim@ for more information. boston.gov if you have a concern but can’t Sat, 11/19  Jan 2017 • 10am—Blood pressure screening come; visit www.joshzakim.com for full MISSION HILL ARTISTS COLLECTIVE’S ANNUAL THURSDAYS office hours schedule. SHOW: “Unity + Diversity+ Inclusion.” • 9:30am—Coffee hour Reception with the Artists: Thu., Dec.1, • 11am—Music with Berklee students 5:30pm. At the Parker Hill Branch Library, • All day—Book swap