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Ü >Ì Ì ` U Ü iÀi Ì } U Ü >Ì Ì Ãii October 4–17, 2010 Boston Nightlife Guide VÌ>Ã] Ì Ûi ÕÃV] Ì i iÃÌ -«ÀÌÃ >ÀÃ >` Ài PLUS: Rock of Ages >Ì Ì i > / i>ÌÀi i}> -i> `Ã "ÞÃÌiÀ iÃÌÛ> ÃÌ iÃÌÛ> «iÞ -µÕ>Ài Visit bostonguide.com now with enhanced, day-by-day events calendar! contents COVER STORY 9 The Nighttime is the Right Time Boston’s best bets for living it up after dark DEPARTMENTS I’M OLD FASHIONED: Retro-inspired cocktails like the 6 hubbub Harvey Wallbanger variation Rock of Ages at the Colonial (pictured) populate the menu at Theatre, Legal Sea Foods Back Bay Social Club. Oyster Festival and the Boston PHOTOBY DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN Book Festival 14 around the hub 14 CURRENT EVENTS 21 ON EXHIBIT 24 SHOPPING 30 CAMBRIDGE 37 MAPS 43 NEIGHBORHOODS 54 SIGHTSEEING 62 FREEDOM TRAIL 64 RESTAURANTS oyster perpetual 75 NIGHTLIFE gmt-master ii on the cover: The Gin Somethin—a refreshing blend of gin, St. Germain, grapefruit bitters, grapefruit juice, simple syrup and soda water with muddled lime and cucumbers—is one of the signature cocktails at new nightspot/eatery Back Bay Social Club (867 Boylston St., OFFICIAL ROLEX JEWELER 617-247-3200). ROLEX OYSTER PERPETUAL AND GMT-MASTER II ARE TRADEMARKS. Photo: Derek Kouyoumjian ___ BOSTONGUIDE.COM 3 The Official Guide to BOSTON www.bostonguide.com October 4–17, 2010 Volume 60 • Number 10 Tim Montgomery • PRESIDENT/PUBLISHER Josh B. Wardrop • EDITOR Scott Roberto • ART DIRECTOR John Herron Gendreau • ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR Della Huff, Derek Kouyoumjian • CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Courtney Breen, Laurel Leake • EDITORIAL INTERNS Jacolyn Ann Firestone • VICE PRESIDENT, ADVERTISING Rita A. Fucillo • VICE PRESIDENT, PUBLISHING Joe Shannon • SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Paul Hurst • NATIONAL ADVERTISING SALES HURST & ASSOCIATES, INC. 800-397-8908 • [email protected] Tyler J. Montgomery • VICE PRESIDENT, OPERATIONS Melissa J. O’Reilly • BUSINESS MANAGER Mike Hipps • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGER Jerome Rosenfeld • CHAIRMAN EMERITUS PANORAMA is published bi-weekly by New Venture Media Group LLC. Editorial and advertising offices at 332 Congress St., Boston, MA 02210. Telephone (617) 423-3400. Printed in the U.S.A. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reprinted or otherwise reproduced without written permission of the publisher. PANORAMA is a member of the Massachusetts Lodging Association, The Back Bay Association, The Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, The Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau, Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Boston Concierge Association, the Harvard Square Business Association, the Newbury Street League, the South End Business Alliance, the North End Chamber of Commerce LUX BOND & GREEN and the Downtown Crossing Association. *%7%,29 7!4#(%3 ')&43 s 3).#% a magazine affiliate www.LBGreen.com 416 Boylston Street BOSTON 617.266.4747 46 LaSalle Road WEST HARTFORD, CT 860.521.3015 1.800.524.7336 ___ 4 PANORAMA HUBBUB WHAT BOSTON’S BUZZING ABOUT RIGHT NOW THEATER… READ ALL ABOUT IT TURNED UP TO 11 BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL ROCK OF AGES Various locations around Copley Square The Colonial Theatre October 16 October 6–17 Bostonians read a lot of books (a.k.a., If you can remember a time when those hardbound, rectangular things with there was nothing more romantic than actual pages that you used to see all the a guy wearing enough hairspray to time before Kindle and the iPad were single-handedly destroy the ozone invented), and they always have—ever layer singing a guitar-drenched love since the days that scribes like Louisa song like “Every Rose Has Its Thorn,” May Alcott and Emily Dickinson were “Keep on Lovin’ You” or “Waiting for a representing the Bay State to the Girl Like You,” then get ready to fall in literary world. On October 16, join a love all over again at Rock of Ages, stellar collection of Pulitzer Prize winners, poets, Nobel laureates and authors intimately the acclaimed, Tony-nominated familiar with The New York Times bestseller list for the second annual Boston Book Festival. Broadway musical smash that arrives at Boston’s Colonial Theatre this month. Set on the L.A. Bookworms can come see their favorite authors—including Dennis Lehane, Tom Perrotta, Sunset Strip in 1987, Rock stars “American Idol” finalist Constantine Maroulis as Drew, a bus- Tyler Florence, A.M. Homes, Bill Bryson, Marianne Leone and dozens more—and attend boy and aspiring rock musician who falls in love with Sherrie, an All-American girl from Kansas, events like panel discussions, readings, antique book appraisals and workshops at locations to a soundtrack of classic hair-metal and rock ballads by acts like Journey, Bon Jovi, Styx, REO including the Boston Public Library, Old South Church and Trinity Church. Fancy duds aren’t Speedwagon and others. For those of you who long for a time when Reagan was in office, needed to attend this party—just throw on your best reading glasses and head to Copley “grunge” was something you scraped off your shoe and rockers weren’t afraid to wear a little Square! Refer to listing, page 18. —Courtney Breen (or a lot) of eyeliner, Ages is sure to rock your world. Refer to listing, page 20.—Josh B. Wardrop A BIVALVE BONANZA LEGAL SEA FOODS OYSTER FESTIVAL Various Legal Sea Foods locations Through October 17 Of all the things we associate with the coming of fall—pump- kins, leaves changing colors, football—none warm the “cock- les” of a seafood lover’s heart quite like the arrival of peak sea- son for everybody’s favorite mol- lusk, the oyster. That’s why Boston’s first name in deep-sea delicacies—Legal Sea Foods—celebrates these brilliant bivalves with its annual Oyster Festival, running through October 17. Local Legals are aug- menting their already impressive menu with delicious dishes like oyster stew, oyster po’ boys and Oysters Legal (baked with spinach, cheese and bread crumbs), and select locations are October 6 - 17 • Boston’s Colonial Theatre hosting special oyster-themed events on October 9, like the Shellfish Soiree (Chestnut Hill lo- 800.982.2787 • BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com/Boston cation, 43 Boylston St.), which serves up three small plates paired with oyster-friendly wines for Box Office Sales: Colonial Theatre (Mon-Sat 10am-6pm) • Groups 15+: 866.633.0194 $30, and the Bivalve “Brew”haha (Copley Place location, 100 Huntington Ave.), where oyster fans can enjoy a four-course oyster and craft beer tasting followed by a tutorial in shucking 2XUEJCVG WJUX CXWJRUK]GF CIGQWV RQO\ #FFKWKRQCO HGGV PC\ CSSO\ these succulent treats. Refer to listing, page 72. —Josh B. Wardrop #OO VCOGV QCO QR G[EJCQIGV RU UGHXQFV 2UKEGV VJRZV FCWGV ___ VEJGFXOGV CQF CUWKVWV CUG VXDMGEW WR EJCQIG ___ 6 PANORAMA TOPPHOTOBY JOAN MARCUS BOSTONGUIDE.COM 7 The is the Right Time Boston’s best bets for living it up after dark by Josh B. Wardrop JOIN THE CLUB old-school exclusionary tactics, of course— Anyone addicted to the 1960s-set television that local nightlife/culinary impresarios drama “Mad Men” knows that America used The Lyons Group were shooting for with to be a place of three-martini lunches, rag- the brand-new Back Bay Social Club ing chauvinism, and, above all, lots and (867 Boylston St., 617-247-3200). The red lots of cigarette smoking. While most of us leather booths, dark have managed to make do just fine without mahogany bars and MULTI-TASKING: Kings in the these particular trappings of post-war pressed tin ceilings Back Bay (above) is not only a bowling alley and pool hall, but it American culture, one thing the America of create a feel of tradi- doubles as a nightclub, boasting 50 years ago had that we wouldn’t mind tional Americana, karaoke, live music and more. seeing more of these days is the nearly while the menu of cre- forgotten social club. These hotbeds of ative and delicious American cuisine camaraderie were popular spots for con- (served ‘til 1:30 a.m.) and updates of clas- versation and cocktails (if you fulfilled the sic cocktails (like the Harvey Wallbanger proper qualifications to join, that is) and Variation and the Club High Ball) ensure offered a little respite away from the rest that “membership” in this Club clearly has of the world. That’s the vibe—minus those its privileges for fans of Boston nightlife. ___ BOSTONGUIDE.COM 9 ROYALE WITHOUT CHEESE ing in a flick at the local cinema doesn’t seem heart-stopping horror and snarky laughs There’s nothing worse than being stuck in a very exciting or memorable—after all, you of Wes Craven’s slasher smash Scream bad dance club—the rude ’tude from the can check out the latest Saw sequel any- (October 1 & 2) and, for true fans of the bouncers, the floors sticky with beer, the where, right? Absolutely—so skip the tradi- kind of legendarily bad films that midnight never-ending techno that seems to have been tional megaplex and take advantage of some screenings were made for, actor/director mathematically constructed to crush the very of the area’s very cool independent theaters Tommy Wiseau’s cult classic, The Room will from your soul. Luckily, when the venera- and the special screenings and repertory se- (October 16). Refer to listings, pages 14 & 16. ble Roxy club complex metamorphosed into ries they offer.The Museum of Fine Arts Royale earlier this year, the new owners demonstrates that it’s not just about paint- PIANO MEN kept the Tremont Street venue’s biggest as- ings and sculptures, but also celluloid mas- The nationwide success of Boston’s newest sets—a cool, old building with classy striking terpieces, screening classic works like Funny piano bar, Howl at the Moon (refer to list- their last night of free- LET THE GAMES BEGIN: Game On! at Fenway Park—a architectural features like a grand stair- Face starring Audrey Hepburn (October 5 & ing, page 78), seems to be based on a clear dom and even family re- favorite sports bar during the case—and subtracted the unimaginative 9) and Antonioni’s Blow-Up (October 12 & 15) mathematical principle: if x is good (in the unions (if this doesn’t baseball season—also attracts nightlife lovers 365 days a year.

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