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HOTS 7 Editorial Director: Scott Kearnan GET Senior Managing Editor: Jacqueline Houton ...this or that 9 Design Manager: Janice Checchio ...seen 10 Staff Writer: Miles Howard ...close 12 Food Editor-at-Large: Louisa Kasdon Contributing Writers: Kara Baskin, Marissa Berenson, Renata Certo- ...cultured 14 Ware, Cheryl Fenton, Jeannie Greeley, Meghan Kavanaugh, ...pretty 16 Heather Bouzan McHugh, MC Slim JB, Luke O’Neil, Erin Souza ...out 18 Contributing Photographers: Natalia Boltukhova, Lara Callahan, Kelly Davidson, Michael Diskin, Kim Gray, Tim Gray, STYLE 20 Eric Levin, Melissa Ostrow, Chris Padgett, Joel Veak GOOD STUFF 22 Party Photographers: Derek Kouyoumjian, Erica Magliaro, Natasha Moustache, Michael Young Intern: Emanuelle Honnorat FEATURE Getaway plans 24 Vice President, Sales and Business Development: David Garland Vice President, Print Media Sales: Marc Shepard General Sales Manager: Sean Weymouth Senior Account Executive: Luba Gorelik FEED Account Executives: Nathaniel Andrews, Chris Gibbs, Laura Rodriguez food coma 39 Advertising Operations Manager: Kevin Lawrence 5 courses 40 Traffic Coordinators: Jonathan Caruso, Colleen McCarthy stuff it 41 Director of Marketing and Promotions: Brian Appel liquid 42 Interactive Marketing Manager: Lindsey Mathison 24 RESIDE 44 SEX 46 Director of Creative Operations: Travis Ritch Rates start at $229/night for a staycation at our Escape photo-shoot locale, the Revere Hotel Boston Common (200 Advertising Arts Manager: Angelina Berardi Stuart Street, Boston), a luxury hotel opening in April. It’s not a Bali sunset, but the Boston skyline looks swell from FLASH 47 Production Artist: Kelly Wight the private balcony adjoining each of the 356 rooms — especially after a cocktail in the first floor’s Emerald Lounge. jackson cannon’S STUFF 50 For out-of-town options, see “Getaway Plans” on page 24. Photo: Conor Doherty. Model: Carissa G of Maggie Inc. Online Content Coordinator: Maddy Myers Contortionist (cover): Tracy McAskill of the Boston Circus Guild. Senior Web Developer: Gavin Storey

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<4> 3.27.12 3.27.12 <5> HOT TO TROT Running a marathon is not for the vain. By the time you finish — soaked in sweat, wrapped in a foil cape like a baked potato, and with questionable control over certain bodily functions — you’re not going to be looking your freshest. But it might help if you’re sporting the Limited Edition Boston 890v2 ($110), a new ultra-lightweight running shoe from New Balance. Wearing kicks like this, you sure as hell won’t get lost in traffic: with their bright blue exterior and radiant red and yellow detailing, you could see these coming 26.2 miles away. Even the insides are hotsuper-styled, with cushioned soles adorned by images of Boston icons, from the Zakim Bridge to Heartbreak Hill. Starting on April 1, you can grab a pair at select retailers like Marathon Sports (671 Boylston Street, Boston, 617.267.4774), right by the finish line. Or check out the soon-to-open Back Bay outpost of New Balance (583 Boylston Street, Boston).

If you’d rather enjoy marathon-related P merchandising as a spectator, keep an eye out for Sam Adams’s Boston HOT ASS 26.2 Brew. The Boston- The Davis Square space that once housed the based beer brand’s limited- restaurant Gargoyles on the Square has awoken edition libation is light- from a long slumber — or rather, siesta. The spot bodied, low-alcohol, and on just became the new home of The Painted Burro tap at select city bars. (219 Elm Street, Somerville, 617.776.0005), a colorful Mexican joint filled with bright, bold, Día de los Muertos–inspired murals by local artist Raul Gonzalez. The 94-seat setting is “farm chic,” and the menu, designed by chefs Joe Cassinelli and Dante Bua, focuses largely on the country’s southwestern Oaxaca region. The entrée offerings sound fairly refined: think fish cooked in banana leaves, chicken liver with sesame mole, and rabbit tamales. But we also love the fact that Burro boasts a late-night taco menu, a 100-bottle-strong tequila selection, and — get this! — 22-ounce and 40-ounce beers served in paper bags. Color us tickled.

HOT 100 On April 20, Fenway Park celebrates its 100th birthday. (Quick, someone get Willard Scott on speed dial.) And aside from the state of the bathrooms during the seventh-inning stretch, the old place is still looking as pretty as a glossy Boston postcard. So we’re happy to see it immortalized in print with this month’s release of Fenway: A Fascinating First Century. The team from Sports Illustrated compiled the commemorative hardcover book, which captures the ballpark’s storied history, from World Series games to Rolling Stones concerts. And while we don’t normally think it appropriate to read over supper, we’ll forgive Sox fans for drooling over the photos — and their dinners — during a special weekend series at Church (69 Kilmarnock Street, Boston, 617.236.7600). Fridays through Sundays in April, chef Jon Gilman will divide Fenway history into distinct eras and prepare a period-appropriate menu for each. It kicks off on April 5–7 with “1912–1927: Fenway Opens the Door,” an installment featuring food inspired by the Boston Cooking School and the Fannie Farmer cookbook. (Next up: “1934–1947: The Green Monster Rises,” which will see a meal inspired by the comfort-food revolution brought on by wartime rationing.) We almost wish it came with a birthday cake for dessert, but that many candles would probably violate the fire code.

HOT WET NOT-AMERICAN SUMMER Norway isn’t a country we’d expect to produce especially cute bathing suits. (Why do they need them? For that one day a year when the Barents Sea is above freezing?) But Scandinavian stereotypes be damned: it seems Oslo-based brand Helly Hansen has come up with some especially adorable swim trunks for its spring/ summer collection, which recently arrived at North River Outfitter (124–126 Charles Street, Boston, 617.742.0089). The men’s Sola Swimshort features dapper poplin with a classic check pattern. But we really love the women’s W Hydro Power Trunk, which has a sorta-’70s, summer-camp-ready feel. Available in bright pink, light blue, and navy, it’s a thigh-grazing short with a snap-button band. Pair it with a bikini top, and the sailing-oriented brand will have you looking like a Camelot-era Kennedy — or, you know, a Knudsen. painted burro photo by melissa ostrow 3.27.12 <7> SEEN Close cultured SATURDAY BRUNCH FIESTA $7.95 SUNDAY BRUNCH GET INCLUDES TWO COURSES & COFFEE 9AM - 3PM 10AM - 3PM $7.95 FIESTA MENU OFFERED 9 TO 11:30 GETthis... Between its free-spirited name and its location in the far corner of our keyboards, the Escape key seems ready to make a break for it. So perhaps it’s not surprising that designer Lauren Anabela Beaudoin decided to liberate it. An alum of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Beaudoin founded her own jewelry line, Creative Dexterity, in 2007. And by putting her metalwork know-how to use, she created a series of earrings ($65) and other accessories made from Mac keys and sterling silver. The Escape key was the first she ever used in her creations, which she hoped would remind wearers to “take a break and escape from reality.” But the series has since grown to encompass pretty much all of QWERTY, from A to Z. Find her designs at MassArt Made (625 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Highlights from 617.879.7407). the Menu bRUNCh fIEStA MENU MAIN COURSES

FIRST COURSE Stuffed Mexican Omelet with Chili Roasted Spring Vegetables Caramelized Plantain Empanada & Monterey Jack Cheese Mexican Cinnamon Cream Cheese Santa Fe Style Eggs Benedict Atop Southwestern Biscuits Granola With Milk or Yogurt Avocado, Green Chile Hollandaise & Southwest Home Fries Fresh Seasonal Fruits Masa Style BBQ Mac & Cheese with Smoked Gouda, Roasted Peppers, Chorizo, Onions and Garlic MAIN COURSE Nut Crusted Texas Toast Stuffed with Caramelized Bananas Creamy Scrambled Eggs with Chorizo and Mexican Farmer’s Cheese & Dulce de Leche Syrup Southwest Home Fries and Multi Grain Toast Tequila Cilantro Cured Salmon Atop Cream Cheese & Huevos Rancheros with Queso Cotija and Salsa Ranchero Roasted Poblano Quesadilla Crisp Tortillas and Black Beans Topped with Crema* or that... Masa’s Buttermilk Pancakes (choice of chocolate chips, bananas, Back before computers and the advent of the all-knowing oracle Google, researchers rifled Santa Fe Style Eggs Benedict atop Southwestern Biscuits or blueberries) Mango Butter and Vermont Maple Syrup through those dusty drawers known as card catalogs. (Unfortunately, there was not a special Avocado, Green Chile Hollandaise and Southwest Home Fries* section devoted to “Ex-boyfriends who got fat.”) Then digital records revolutionized the The Ultimate Breakfast Burrito with Masa Black Beans and Rice library biz, leaving those wooden chests to languish as obsolete relics. But Emma McElfresh, Jalisco Chocolate Chip Pancakes Soft Flour Tortilla stuffed with Scrambled Eggs, Chile Roasted a local librarian and the founder of Sovereign Sea Designs, couldn’t let their contents go to Mango Butter and Vermont Maple Syrup Vegetables,Monterey Jack Cheese, Chorizo and Southwest Home Fries waste. Instead, she developed her Written Nerd series, using vintage catalog cards to create earrings ($28.50) and necklaces ($18–$42). Each piece’s unique Dewey Decimal sequence nods to a specific text — and makes for a statement accessory worthy of your favorite 439 TREMONT ST, BOSTON • 617.338.8884 350 CaMBRidgE Rd, WOBuRN • 781-938-8886 bibliophile. Look for them on the shelves at Magpie (416 Highland Avenue, Somerville, 617.623.3330). WWW.MaSaRESTauRaNT.COM — Meghan Kavanaugh

top photo by janice checchio 3.27.12 <9> GETSEEN …at Reiss for a Spring/Summer 2012 Collection Preview

Jeff Lahens, men’s style curator at Eva Carnevale, stylist at Salon Acote Steven Kareem, fashion stylist and Helena Martin, fashion blogger at DressCode Boston She wore J Brand jeans from event director at Urban Fresh The Honey Flower Girl The man who styled the evening’s Second Time Around, a top from Any man who can pull off a kilt, a Helena caught our eye with a male models could have walked the Buffalo Exchange, platform Mary military jacket, and a shoulder-slung vintage red blazer, J Brand jeans, a runway himself. He wore a Reiss two- Janes from Bakers, and suspenders gas mask with ease is someone we Topshop polka-dot blouse, Au Bottier button suit and coral scarf with pieces from Urban Outfitters, topped off want to know. shoes from her native Brazil, and a from his own closet, including a Misura with bubble-gum-pink nails. Steven wore a kilt by Sport Kilt, a turban from a New York City boutique. shirt of his own design, Allen Edmonds Her look is always evolving, she 1952 German bomber coat from the This fashion blogger draws boots, and his favorite vintage glasses. says, but high heels are a constant. army-navy store, and combat boots. inspiration from the 1960s and Jeff has a true appreciation for the “My style is different every day. I He calls his look a statement 1970s and counts Diane von classics: “I always admired the way my hate repeating outfits.” about the uncertainty of what’s Fürstenberg and Carolina Herrera dad and my uncles dressed.” This boy-meets-girl look belies happening in the world today and among her style icons: “Her His style in a handful of words? the 50-plus dresses in her closet, a nod to his father’s and uncles’ [Herrera’s] signature white blouse is Personal, functional, effortless, though she considers her J Brand styles. so chic; she stands out.” uplifting, trend-proof, and dress- jeans a wardrobe staple. Through their company, Urban If Helena had to choose one item code-appropriate. She shops most often at Fresh, he and his business to wear forever, she’d pick a sheer This designer and stylist’s list of thrift stores, LF’s sales, and her partner aim to connect the inner maxi dress. spring staples includes reliable roommates’ closets. city with high fashion. His personal In the six years she’s been in V-neck tees, pastel linen scarves, fashion goal? “I want to see younger Boston, she’s become a regular at layering pieces like cardigans, and generations dressing like me.” the city’s thrift stores. Tretorn shoes.

STUFFY: Luxe Redux We’ve appreciated the appeal of historical reenactments ever since that school trip to see the Battle of Lexington: 1992 Edition. But when it comes to commemorating disasters, there’s a fine line between memorial and morbidity. Sailing right on that line is the Titanic Anniversary Cruise. When it set out on its maiden voyage in April 1912, the RMS Titanic was a floating tribute to the unabashed opulence of a glamorous age. Its first-class manifest read like a Who’s Who of the era’s well-heeled — think names like Astor and Guggenheim, who eagerly booked passage on the state-of-the-art “unsinkable ship.” We all know how that turned out. But the tragedy’s scale hasn’t stopped Britain’s Miles Morgan Travel from planning two centennial itineraries. The first, which approximates the original route and departs from Southampton, England, is already sold out. But stateside travelers can take advantage of a modified (and, perhaps, less fate-tempting) version: an eight-night expedition aboard the hulking ship Journey. It departs NYC on April 10 and heads to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where many Titanic passengers are buried. Then it visits the precise coordinates of Titanic’s resting place for a memorial service at 2:20 a.m., the hour of the ship’s sinking, before returning to New York. Throughout the trip, cruisers can eat and drink selections that were served on board Titanic, enjoy era-appropriate entertainment, and take in history lectures. All-inclusive packages ($999–$3,190) are available at titanicmemorialcruise.co.uk. Of course, if you’re looking for a less expensive tribute, April also sees the 3D theatrical re-release of James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster. But that requires you to sit through a Celine Dion power ballad. Now who has bad taste? — Miles Howard

<10> 3.27.12 GET SEEN PHOTOS BY melissa ostrow; text by erin souza GETclose ...with viggo mortensen

Viggo Mortensen has played a shaggy-haired king, a paraplegic gangster, a father living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, and a tattooed Russian who stars in one of the most badass nude fight scenes in the history of cinema. His willingness to take risks has earned him critical kudos and, in March, the 2012 Coolidge Award from Brookline’s Coolidge Corner Theatre. Past recipients include esteemed actors like Meryl Streep and Jonathan Demme — but Mortensen can say he’s the only winner who moonlights as an artist, poet, and musician (one who has frequently collaborated with a guy named Buckethead). In conjunction with the ninth-annual award ceremony, the Coolidge screened many of Mortensen’s films, including Eastern Promises, The Road (an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel), and, of course, the extended version of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Before an audience of fans dressed as wizards and elves, a jokey Mortensen introduced the series with some geek-friendly trivia. (He even sang Aragorn’s coronation song.) The actor is currently in pre-production for a new movie called Everyone Has a Plan, about a man who assumes the identity of his deceased twin in Argentina. But we caught up with Mortensen at the Coolidge while he was in town to accept his award. How does this award reflect your entire body of work, especially the days when you were playing character roles? Getting an honor like this forces you to think about this kind of thing. I like to play characters where it’s like, “Whoah, how am I going to do that?” When I look back at those roles, they were full of obstacles. I also know from experience the more I believe that I’m that character, the more chance there is that you’re going to believe it. That’s the game. You’ve worked repeatedly with a couple of directors, like Peter Jackson [The Lord of the Rings] and most recently David Cronenberg [Eastern Promises, A Dangerous Method]. Do you prefer to work with the same director on multiple projects? Not with all directors, but certainly with Cronenberg because I know he’s going to be ready and he loves what he I wouldn’t have worked with Cronenberg, and I coming out of retirement and shocking everyone, does, and that’s contagious. Sometimes on wouldn’t be in this theater right now. I thought I’d probably have to direct it or something. I like the set, people are yelling because someone about this last night when I was on the stage. good stories — it doesn’t matter the setting. is unprepared. With Cronenberg, there is a There was more to it than just “I love Legolas!” Do you plan on directing? I might want to try guaranteed quality, and each movie is going to There is something very thought-provoking it at some point. I like everything that goes into be worth watching. I can’t say that about many about those stories. They could use some movie making. I like actors, which is a plus. I directors. editing, but so does the Bible. don’t know of many directors who like actors Are you more passionate about your music Is there anything you enjoy doing while in and see them as more than just tools. or your acting? They are branches of the same Boston? I enjoy going to museums and walking How would you like to see your career go tree, so to speak. These artistic activities have around. I like Boston; I know it’s a big sports from this award forward? I’ll see what happens to do with paying attention and filtering what town, and I like sports. I’ve never been to tomorrow. I never really had a set plan. I’ve never you do and then trying to express what you think Fenway, and I’d like to go sometime. I like teams thought if I do this, that, and the other, maybe I’ll you saw. That’s my way of paying attention and that people in Boston don’t like. get a Coolidge Award. Whether it’s photography, communicating with the world I’m in. I know you’re a soccer fan. Would you editing books, writing poems, acting in plays — I How did the blockbuster success of The Lord consider making a sports-related movie? I’d just like stories. of the Rings affect you? For me it was great. be game. Unless it’s some story about a guy — Melissa Pocek

<12> 3.27.12 Photo by David Fox GETCULTURED The eric carle museum of picture book art The museum of bad art

The edward gorey house

The Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast Museum

The plumbing museum Curating Curios Thanks to world-class museums like the MFA and the ICA, culture vultures find plenty to crow about in Boston. But if you’re ever itching to broaden your horizons and fly the coop — or at least hit the open road — know there are quite a few, ahem, eccentric but edifying attractions in the suburbs. We’ve rounded up a few Massachusetts museums that are so cool and curious, we’ll actually figure out how to use the commuter rail. — Miles Howard

The Museum of Bad Art (580 High Street, Dedham, 781.444.6757). Bad art décor straight from Victorian America — and maybe some guests from back is sometimes endearing. Remember that Father’s Day when your gift was then, too. The reputedly haunted spot is open to paranormal enthusiasts for a watercolor portrait that made Dad look like a gouty President Garfield? investigation by day and sleeping (ha!) by night. Each Borden family member’s He proudly slapped that monstrosity on the refrigerator door. And since room has been unnervingly preserved, and newly installed Ghost Cams 1994, MOBA has displayed equally atrocious art that simultaneously invites are available to record any “disturbances” after dark. Tours are $12.50, and snickering and celebration. Its collection boasts some 600 appallingly tacky overnight rates start at $150. For a virtual visit, go to lizzie-borden.com. pieces showcased on a rotating basis in three locations, including spots in Somerville and Brookline. But the Dedham location is the original destination The Edward Gorey House (8 Strawberry Lane, Yarmouth Port, for gawking at work that’s “too bad to be ignored.” How bad? Consider In 508.362.3909). The Cape’s white beaches and whispering reeds feel like a the Cat’s Mouth, a puke-orange painting that portrays a human face inside backdrop for designer turtleneck commercials. So it’s funny such squeaky- a feline maw. Unsurprisingly, admission is free. For a virtual visit, go to clean scenery was also home to Edward Gorey, one of America’s most museumofbadart.org. enigmatic and macabre-minded illustrators. He garnered many fans with his grim, obscenely witty works, like The Gashlycrumb Tinies, a darkly comic The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (125 West Bay Road, alphabet primer. Now his former home is a museum that offers a candid Amherst, 413.658.1100). George W. Bush was in his 20s when The Very glimpse into the reclusive artist’s life. You’ll find scores of Gorey’s sketches Hungry Caterpillar was published, but that didn’t stop him from declaring and possessions, plus more than a few snoozing cats. (The animal lover’s it his favorite childhood book. While we hope we can claim greater reading home was famously overrun with felines.) Admission is $5. For a virtual visit, comprehension (we’re at least up to Clifford the Big Red Dog level), we do go to edwardgoreyhouse.org. share Dubya’s affection for the warmth and color of Eric Carle’s timeless illustrations. His namesake museum’s 40,000-square-foot space houses The Plumbing Museum (80 Rosedale Road, Watertown, 617.926.2111). original artwork from Carle and many other contemporary picture-book After one ill-fated camping trip involving a bad can of beans and an intimate artists; it also hosts hands-on workshops, performances, and lectures. encounter with poison sumac, we decided to never take the value of indoor Admission is $9 (milk and cookies not included). For a virtual visit, go to plumbing for granted. So pay homage to the porcelain gods at this sanitation carlemuseum.org. shrine, which originally opened in Worcester in 1979 and moved to Watertown in 2007. There’s an era-spanning collection of antique toilets, bathtubs, and The Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast Museum (230 2nd Street, Fall River, piping, made from a host of materials and often taking on shapes that seem 508.675.7333). Long before O.J., Lizzie Borden was the original celebrity bizarre by modern standards. Demos provide hands-on plumbing tutorials, suspect: a wealthy woman accused of offing her prominent parents in a bloody helpful for those times when jiggling the handle just won’t cut it. It’s open by hatchet murder. (To be fair, she was only convicted in the court of public appointment only, because — well, you might want some privacy. For a virtual opinion.) Her home, the crime scene, is now a bed and breakfast boasting visit, go to theplumbingmuseum.org.

<14> 3.27.12 GETpretty GOT TRAVEL maniQ PLANS?? Nails •Waxing•Tanning Don’t wax... Two Locations in Dorchester Get rid of the hair For GOOD!! The Beauty of the Tropics ½ OFF No man is an island. But every man (and woman) would love to escape to one now and then. Sadly, work and wallet don’t always allow LASER HAIR REMOVAL for an impromptu getaway to a land of tropical breezes, sun-warmed sand, and lapping waves. But there are still ways to enjoy the R&R-related beauty benefits of a Caribbean vacation right here at home. Here are a few DIY tips and spa-treatment suggestions that UNDERARM AND serve up island-inspired luxury without the air travel. BIKINI LINE PACKAGE — Cheryl Fenton with feet and toes FREE Fruity Beauty Spa Staycations If you can’t swing a spa trip, head to the supermarket. Need some help with your escape plans? Check out these Lower Leg PERMANENT Pineapple has long been used as a medicinal agent in tropical tropical treats from local spas. Laser Hair Removal traditions, and the golden fruit’s skin-smoothing properties can Adara Spa (115 Lewis Wharf, Boston, 617.227.5499) offers a 1 year package ONLY $999 give you a golden glow. divine Coconut Manicure ($30) and Pedicure ($60). Treatments Visit Our Newest Salon “Pineapple contains natural fruit enzymes and acids begin with an über-hydrating coconut-milk soak. Then hands and that brighten skin,” says Jennifer Menzer, health and lifestyle feet are softened with a sugarcane scrub infused with exotic dilo, Across From Ashmont Station. counselor at Boston’s Saldare Body Therapy & Wellness Studio. sekeci, macadamia, and coconut oils. For full-body TLC, try the At home, try massaging mashed pineapple onto your face; let Coconut Body Butter Wrap ($70). It’s a hydrating treatment that Free Consultation…CALL TODAY! the sticky pulp dry for 10 minutes and then rinse. The non- repairs damage with a coconut-crème scrub, coconut massage 1913 Dorchester Ave 11 Granite Ave irritating but hard-working enzymes will loosen dead skin cells oil, frangipani body butter, and a warmed coconut-oil scalp Dorchester, MA 02124 Dorchester, MA 02124 Other services: Botox and Facial Fillers, Skin Care, for a soft complexion. “Additionally, they [pineapples] contain treatment. (617) 288-8887 (617) 288-8889 Vein Removal, PhotoFacial, ELECTROLYSIS and more vitamins B complex and C, which are great skin rejuvenators,” Pyara Spa and Salon (104 Mount Auburn Street, says Menzer. Cambridge, 617.497.9300) brings the Caribbean to Cambridge 1018 Beacon St. #101 2 HAVEN ST. #304 Of course, we’d be nuts to ignore the white meat of another with its multi-part Caribbean Therapy Body Treatment ($180). (At the St Mary’s T Stop) READING • produce-aisle favorite. Whether it’s milked or pressed into oil, It starts with a foot scrub of passion fruit, coconut and avocado Brookline • 617.738.1613 781.942.1613 coconut is ripe with beauty benefits. “Coconuts are a natural oils, cane sugar, sea salt, and ginger. After a dry exfoliation, For Popular Packages & Monthly Specials visit us at source of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids,” says Amelia you’re enveloped in a detoxifying warm seaweed mask and body Finau, co-owner of Adara Spa in Boston. “They assist healing, wrap. An overhead Vichy rinse mimics the sensation of lounging www.maniqsalon.com lasercarecenters.com help correct dry and sunburned skin, and prolong skin cell life.” on the beach during a sun shower. And the massage that follows Try sipping coconut waters like Vita Coco for skin-saving is more relaxing than a mai tai. benefits. “It contains vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, amino G2O Spa & Salon (278 Newbury Street, Boston, acids, and enzymes that aid in vibrant, youthful skin,” Finau 617.262.2220) offers a glimpse of paradise in its Experience continues. “Vitamin C stimulates collagen production, and Room, which features herbal-infused steam, a refreshing ice B-complex vitamins boost circulation to give skin a healthy glow. fog, and a tropical shower. The ceiling even receives a night-sky Zinc also controls the production of oil in the skin, which may sparkle courtesy of Swarovski crystals. It’s a truly transporting help to control acne.” setting for the Bali Paradise Experience, a body treatment But you can also try a topical tropical approach: mix that combines a custom blend of oils with a rich mineral cream coconut water into hydrating facial masks, or use it as a toner, packed with fruit extracts. The price is $75 for a solo trip and lightly spritzing your face to keep skin dewy-soft. “Coconut water $65 per person for groups of two to eight. After all, a vacation contains cytokinins, plant hormones shown to have an anti-aging is better when you bring someone along — even if you’re just effect on human cells and tissues,” Menzer adds. taking a trip to Newbury Street.

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But in the hands uncomfortable attempts to fresh roster of emerging players, the two: where can you get a good those towering trees and placid of UK producer-turned-performer reconnect with his long-lost son. Second City is hitting the road for its goat-cheese salad round these waters seem like the perfect SBTRKT, it’s guaranteed to get your And the cult hit Manborg dives to Laugh Out Loud tour, which will stop parts? If you’re still feeling clueless backdrop for the enchanting fist pumping and your body jumping. even more deranged depths as its at the Wilbur Theatre (246 Tremont about the food scene in Southie, sounds of First Aid Kit, Johanna Wielding his exceptionally bass-heavy titular robot soldier wages bloody Street, Boston, 617.248.9700) for a plan to check out the 10th annual and Klara Söderberg’s sonic sister beats as weapons of mass eardrum war against demonic hordes. For 7:30 p.m. show. Find tickets ($25) at Taste of South Boston. More than act. The siblings were raised destruction, SBTRKT delivers odd, tickets and the full festival lineup, ticketmaster.com. 20 of the neighborhood’s most south of Stockholm, and today otherworldly sounds that range visit brattlefilm.org. savory dining spots (like Salvatore’s, their golden voices deliver dreamy from traditional trance trills to acid- FRIDAY, MARCH 30 Local 149, and Sam’s at Louis) will backwoods tunes (some of which tinged melodies that seem like the FRIDAY, MARCH 30 We can thank DJ Shadow for offer unlimited cuisine samples at have been showcased in music product of an undersea didgeridoo. We’ll admit to stumbling across introducing us to one of the most the Seaport World Trade Center videos filmed in an actual Swedish When sequenced alongside hip- quite a few snicker-worthy Internet bizarrely titled ditties in music (200 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, forest). They got their big break hop drums and vocals from guests memes, but it still takes more than history: “More Than Seven Dwarfs 617.385.5000) from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. when their YouTube cover of “Tiger like Little Dragon’s Yukimi Nagano, a shaky camera and a “Shit [insert in Penis-Land,” a ’70s curiosity tracks like “Midnight in a Perfect Between bites, you can bid for Mountain Peasant Song” prompted they’re pure sonic thunder. (For hyper-specific demographic here] that features anatomically correct World” and “Organ Donor” are prizes in a silent auction and wet Fleet Foxes to invite them on stage aural evidence, listen to “Wildfire” first aid kit Say” video to become a comedy sound effects. The song was the stuff of sonic legend, boasting your whistle with a wine and beer at a Netherlands show. Since then, and “Trials of the Past” or his past superstar. The best comedians one of dozens Shadow mined unrecognizable sounds borrowed tasting. Best of all, proceeds benefit they’ve released two acclaimed remixes of acts like Radiohead.) His THURSDAY, MARCH 29 – SUNDAY, It’s harder to find opportunities to study their craft and practice it in for Endtroducing, his critically from the likes of Bjork, James the South Boston Neighborhood albums, including their recent The visceral live performances — which APRIL 1 celebrate scraggier films with smaller top-notch troupes, and The Second acclaimed debut album made Brown, and even comic-book king Development Corporation, which Lion’s Roar, full of folksy six-string have the musician wearing cool, If your main requirements for a movie budgets but, frequently, more heart City is a training ground responsible entirely from sampled elements. Stan Lee. Now promoting his latest works to provide struggling families numbers like “Emmylou” and contemporized tribal masks — only are expensive explosions, big- and art. So we’re excited that the for launching way more careers It revealed him to be the musical album, The Less You Know, the and veterans with affordable “Blue.” This spring they’re bound add to the head trip. See for yourself name actors, and an accompanying Brattle Theatre (40 Brattle Street, than YouTube. Established in 1959 equivalent of a Las Vegas priest: Better, Shadow will swoop down housing. Get tickets ($40) at for Coachella, but first they’ll hit at his 8 p.m. show at the Paradise soundtrack sure to yield a Top 10 Cambridge, 617.876.6838), Harvard in Chicago, the Second City first an artist who excels at marrying on House of Blues (15 Lansdowne tasteofsouthboston.com. Brighton Music Hall (158 Brighton Rock Club (967 Commonwealth radio hit (and future wedding staple), Square’s cineaste haven, will host won over crowds with sketch shows unlikely couples with little in Street, Boston, 888.693.2583) for a Avenue, Allston, 617.779.0140) for Avenue, Boston, 617.562.8800). 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PARTY ON Start summer on the Boston waterfront with the ICA’s annual PARTY ON THE HARBOR—an unforgettable evening of art and THE HARBOR celebration at the city’s most exciting museum. Breathtaking views of Boston Harbor, festive cocktails, and music by one of the country’s premiere DJs will keep you dancing all night long.

at the Institute of TICKETS VIP: ICA members $175, nonmembers $200 Contemporary Art/Boston Includes an exclusive, pre-party reception.

Party: ICA members $100, nonmembers $125 Friday, May 4, 2012 To purchase tickets go to icaboston.org, call 617-478-3103, 9:00 pm – 1:00 am or visit the ICA’s Holly McGrath Visitor Center.

Proceeds from the event support the ICA’s exhibitions, Media sponsor for Support provided in part performing arts, and Party on the Harbor is by Gilt City educational programs. Stuff Magazine

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Cross- C. Country Teams Some travel for work, some for pleasure — and others for D. philanthropy. In fact, while B. there are plenty of altruistic organizations doing important work right here in Boston, we also found a number of Hub- based nonprofits that focus on causes in specific foreign countries. Read on to learn how you can get involved, whether by jumping on a plane or behind a microphone. — Miles Howard

A. Partners in Health physical disabilities in Ghana. The with a bag of those beads — and the can sponsor one or more children In 1983, then-Harvard Medical School nonprofit was founded in 2011 by two idea for Project Have Hope. Now in — or, for a more (literally) active role, student Paul Farmer and 18-year- former BU roommates, Bridget Koha its seventh year, the project brings hit the streets and run a fundraising old Ophelia Dahl established a and Marisa Galeota, and BC alum Acholi jewelry to new markets, using marathon with TeamAIDAsha. Learn community-based healthcare project Obiageli Ukadike; all three women the proceeds to benefit education more at ashanet.org/mit. in an impoverished area of Haiti. are bound by common concern for initiatives and finance business Years later, those efforts evolved into the Ghanaian youth they encountered opportunities for Acholi women. PHH E. Friends of Maiti Nepal the Boston-based nonprofit Partners during past travels. In the West will help you plan a jewelry party to Nepal is one of the world’s poorest in Health, which now employs more African nation, people with physical show off the goods and hopefully countries, and its women are Trim: 8.375x10.875 Trim: Bleed: 8.875x11.375 Live: 7.875x10.25 than 11,000 healthcare workers and disabilities are often shunned raise some funds. Or you can grab especially vulnerable to exploitation. boasts 49 clinics in a dozen nations. and excluded from schooling your passport and apply by May 5 An estimated 20,000 Nepalese girls Haiti remains a top priority: PIH opportunities due to entrenched to join the project’s July volunteer were trafficked into brothels last combats HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, stigmas. The WaWa Project’s planned trip to Uganda. For more info, visit year; many were kidnapped, some and cholera, among other regional facility would provide inclusive projecthavehope.org. sold into sexual slavery by family afflictions, and proved especially education for youth and jobs for members. Maiti Nepal is a nonprofit

instrumental in relief efforts after local teachers, and they’re seeking D. Asha for Education Boston/MIT fighting the war against sex trafficking Closing Date: 3/19/12 QC: CS Pub:Stuff

2010’s devastating earthquake. Today skilled writers, graphic designers, Taking its name from the Hindi word in Central Asia, and Friends of Maiti it’s completing construction on the and educators to donate their time for “hope,” Asha for Education is an Nepal is its official US representative. 180,000-square-foot Mirebalais and talent to make it a reality. Visit all-volunteer nonprofit that aims to Bostonians Brigitte Cazalis-Collins

National Teaching Hospital, a public wawaproject.org to learn more. create socio-economic change by and Joseph H. Collins, who’ve flagship facility 30 miles north of Port- improving educational opportunities spent 20 years living intermittently au-Prince. Learn more about the state C. Project Have Hope for underprivileged kids across in Nepal, founded FOMN in 2001. of affairs by reading Farmer’s latest In 2005, Bostonian Karen Sparacio India. Since its 1991 founding, it has Since then, it has funded numerous

book, Haiti After the Earthquake, and traveled to the Acholi Quarter of disbursed $17 million to nearly 400 — and often dangerous — rescue Ad Name: ItsAChalice Item #: PSA201110281 Order #:238456 then visit pih.org to find out how to Kampala, Uganda, and witnessed grassroots projects in 24 Indian states. missions. How can you help? plan your own advocacy event. the scars of war firsthand. Many of The Boston/MIT chapter was founded FOMN will help you screen the sex- the women were traumatized by the in 1995, and its coalition of local trafficking documentary The Day B. The WaWa Project region’s two decades of civil strife, students and working professionals My God Died as a fundraiser; more Named after a Ghanaian symbol of without access to education, and has raised funds and lent hands- intrepid types can plan a trek across perseverance, the WaWa Project is struggling to support themselves on support to establish schools, Nepal and distribute information spearheading the construction of a by crafting colorful beads from summer camps, transit homes, and about recent trafficker tactics. Visit secondary school for children with recycled paper. Sparacio returned educational programs. To help, you friendsofmaitinepal.org to learn more.

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Summer is coming, and an itch to escape the urban sprawl is growing by the day. But too often, we busy worker bees commit venial vacation sins, allowing earned days off to expire unused or hastily booking ill-planned getaways. So the STUFF team looked ahead on the calendar for a few seasons and selected top getaway spots that represent some of New England’s best destinations. While a tropical trip might be tempting, there’s a case to be made for enjoying all that’s more immediately available — and, probably, more affordable — whether on Cape beaches, in the mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire, or among the postcard-pretty landscapes of Maine. Instead of blowing your budget on a single vacation, choose a spot per season, fire up the Zipcar account, and give yourself a few well- deserved regional respites.

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Hidden Pond and yellowfin tuna tartare with quail Kenne bunk port, M E egg. Also on our list is Kennebunkport classic Nunan’s Lobster Hut. STAY HERE : “Silent Pine,” Offering hot, cracked crustaceans “Stargazer,” and “Sweet Fern” sound since 1953, it’s a pillar of seaside Portland Regency Hotel & Spa Sushi lovers should roll over to Miyake, and like Neil Young B-sides. But at H idden living. Portland, ME for a simple but sophisticated meal, grab a Pond, such backwoods vernacular sandwich from Duckfat. (For more options, refers to the lodgings themselves. DO THIS: There’s far more to STAY HERE: This seaport is a sunny check out Liquid on page 42.) Composed of 16 cottages and Kennebunkport than its visiting summer destination, with plenty of shopping, 20 new bungalows, this luxurious presidents. Begin your day by renting a funky arts scene, and a crystalline DO THIS: The arts district is home to Kennebunkport hideaway is housed a kayak and hitting the open water, waterfront for boaters. Celebrating its 25th countless contemporary galleries, so grab within the jade majesty of the M aine or enjoy the sea air on a lobster-boat year in 2012, the Portland Regency Hotel & a cup from a coffeehouse and amble the beach woods. Each cottage and tour. (Feeling like a blue blood yet?) Spa inhabits a storied space that has been length of Congress Street. Or visit the bungalow includes a river-stone Once you’ve sunned yourself like a used as an armory, an auditorium, and even Portland Museum of Art to cover three aine’s only wooden fireplace, colorful bedding, and fat cat, brave M a bath house over the last century. Now it’s a centuries of ground. (It has substantial untown an outdoor shower. But you can rollercoaster, Excalibur, at F perfect spot to be pampered, the only hotel holdings by Winslow Homer, the American , located in nearby Saco. C ome also immerse yourself in the great USA in downtown Portland with its own day spa. landscapist who lived his final days — and outdoors by visiting the fantastically sundown, tuck into a Blue Fin Stout But if you require a lullaby of lapping waves, created some of his finest work — in nearby at Federal Jack’s R estaurant & situated Tree Spa. Built into the forest check out the Inn by the Sea by the beaches Prouts Neck.) But for a kitschy-cool night Brew Pub, take in a free Shakespeare canopy and connected by catwalks, of ritzy Cape Elizabeth, just 15 minutes away. out, we can’t resist the light-up dance floor performance at Lafayette Park, or its three treatment rooms offer The high-end hotel is highly lauded and at Bubba’s Sulky Lounge, a knickknack- simply stroll the sands of Goose muscle-melting massages, facials, has picturesque views of the Cape, home strewn hangout that channels a ’70s rec Rocks Beach under the stars. and body treatments. N ightly prices to Portland Head Light — one of the most room. start at $425 ( Kennebunk is the pride photographed lighthouses in North America. DON’T MISS: The annual of the preppy vacationer, after all), DON’T MISS: The annual Festival of Kennebunkport Festival (June so if you’re on a budget, the nearby EAT HERE: Pray for an open table at Grace, Nations (July 29) is Maine’s largest multi- 5–9) kick-starts summer with Captain Fairfield Inn offers opulence a cavernous restaurant housed inside the cultural event, with music, performing arts, seaside cocktails, art receptions, at a lower cost. former Chestnut Street Church. The pulpit is and food representing dozens of ethnic and intimate dinners from M aine’s now a host stand, old pews serve as seating, backgrounds. But come fall, it’s the love of most accomplished chefs. Winter EAT THERE : If you’re homesick for and sunlight streams through stained-glass good food and drink that unites hundreds travelers: check out the C hristmas Boston chef Ken Oringer’s cooking, windows. Having taken over the altar space, at Harvest on the Harbor (October 25–27), Prelude (November 29–December take heart. H e now has his own the open kitchen preaches the gospel of fine, a weekend of wine tastings, chef demos, , on 9), complete with a lobster-trap Kennebunkport operation, Earth locally sourced food that’s found a strong foodie vendors, and restaurant-related Christmas tree, chowder suppers, and the Hidden Pond grounds. There you’ll following in Portland (recognized by Bon events. the epically bizarre “ Hat Parade.” encounter paella with local seafood Appétit as America’s “Foodiest Small Town”). continued on p28

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Harbor Hotel Provincetown seating, so you can people-watch by The place To be: Provincetown, MA busy Commercial Street. If you’d rather go for cloistered and cozy, hunker down · Only a two hour drive from Boston STAY HERE: P-Town is loud (and, for in Jimmy’s Hideaway, all low ceilings, · Discover a luxury hotel in a former villa built in 1893 and completely renovated for 21st century comfort the thriving gay community, proud) exposed beams, and hearty American during the peak summer months. Save fare. And then there’s Ten Tables, pennies for partying by checking into the P-Town outpost of the JP and the reasonably priced Harbor Hotel Cambridge favorite. (Check out our chat Provincetown in the East End. Its past with the owner in 5 Courses on page 40.) The place To relax: incarnations as the Cape Inn and a · Wheatleigh is known for its elegance, its history, and most important, its food and service Holiday Inn have faded from memory DO THIS: Provincetown is America’s thanks to recent renovations. Now it oldest art colony, and the Provincetown · Wheatleigh is a distinguished country house hotel of 19 rooms and suites that stands amid tranquil parkland captures a colorful, retro “motel chic” Art Association and Museum is a just down the road from Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony vibe that looks straight out of a post- must-see between smaller stops during millennial sequel to Beach Blanket the Friday-night Gallery Stroll. Be sure · Sexy and sophisticated with sublime sensations Bingo. For a more luxurious retreat, to check out one of the colorful cabaret · 19 Suites and Guest rooms exquisitely unite Antique and Custom Design we love the Land’s End Inn. It sits acts in town (the Crown & Anchor hotel on a quiet hilltop in the West End, a and entertainment complex boasts short stroll from the bustling main several venues), or cap your night with thoroughfare of restaurants, shops, some dancing — maybe at the A-House, and art galleries. Entering each subtly P-Town’s only year-round nightclub. The place To dine: themed guestroom is like stepping inside a lush, elaborately staged DON’T MISS: If you can handle the · Wheatleigh’s Dining Room having continuously been awarded five diamond by AAA is one of the finest on the each coast diorama; we’re partial to the Moroccan hubbub, the annual Carnival (August · The Library – A sophisticated lounge offers guests an everyday alternative to our Dining Room Tower, a hexagonal suite with high 12–18) epitomizes Provincetown’s domed ceilings and wide windows party-ready vibe. (Imagine a less overlooking the curve of the Cape. restrained Mardi Gras.) But the off- season offers slashed rates and 11 Hawthorne Road | Lenox, MA 01240 EAT THERE: There’s no shortage of Lower Cape serenity. Grab a room in T: 413-637-0610 | F: 413-637-4507 fine and casual dining options in town, December during Holly Folly, a festive but we love Dalla Cucina, an upscale weekend of yuletide events. www.facebook.com/wheatleigh.hotel spot offering delicious Italian and lawn continued on p30 [email protected] <28> 3.27.12 feature continued FROM p28

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The charming 14-room guest DO THIS: Take a boat ride over Lake Champlain and and an indoor salt-water pool, and you have a stroll through shops and art galleries, discover house boasts Lake Champlain views and English gardens see if you can spot “Champ” (aka America’s Loch hotel that’s worlds away from the Budget I the local symphony, or take in a movie at the and is just steps from downtown. But foodies should Ness Monster). Browse the regular farmers’ market in we often associate with the ’burbs. tiny two-screen theater. By night, play pool, consider opting for The Essex, a “culinary resort and Burlington’s City Hall Park, or tramp over cobblestones gets love from locals, pound brews, or check out live music at Waxy THERE : Lexx spa” in neighboring Essex. The hotel attracts an upper- in Church Street Marketplace, a nexus of bohemian EAT ’Connor’s Irish pub. merican cuisine (think roasted Statler O crust clientele to its unique Cook Academy, which offers clothing boutiques, familiar favorites (including an outpost serving A oroccan : Lexington turns 300 years old in intimate à la carte classes daily. (Names like “Fabulous of Boston-based consignment shop Second Time Around), chicken and an autumn-appropriate pumpkin DON’T MISS Flatbread” and “Mad About Maple!” suggest the variety.) ravioli) with ethnic flourishes: the prioritizes M and random retailers stocking books, records, comics, and 2013, and a nine-month event on September series launches 21. The other important menu belongs to the soothing spa, more. The state’s largest city is also home to the University stew is worth the trip. Nourish with an Anniversary Ball offering 10 treatment rooms for facials, body wraps, and of Vermont, so if you can brave the throngs of students, organic, responsibly sourced ingredients on its Live Visit lexington300.us for the full lineup. other rejuvenating options. And on-site activities include jump into the vital live-music scene at venues like Higher menus, which tend to provide options for strict golf, tennis, hot-air ballooning, and Saturday bonfires for Ground or hit the dance floor at Club Metronome. vegans and unabashed carnivores alike. ( marshmallow roasting. DON’T MISS: Cineastes, note that Burlington hosts the EAT THERE: Amuse at the Essex will satisfy sophisticated annual Vermont International Film Fest (October 19–28). palates, but there are plenty of more moderate options And beer geeks, mark down the Vermont Brewers Adventure Suites in Burlington proper. The Vermont Pub & Brewery, the Festival (July 20–21), which had more than 40 vendors North Conway, NH oldest craft brewery in Vermont, complements quality pub strutting their suds on the scenic waterfront last year. STAY HERE: Why settle for a log cabin when you could snuggle between the jaws of a giant oyster? Or soak in a stone hot tub with its own waterfall, jungle foliage, and starry sky? You’ll encounter these amenities at Adventure Suites, a hotel featuring 17 themed-to-the- extreme lodgings on the edge of North Conway (the shopping mecca of The Porches Inn northern New Hampshire). Priced from $109 to $499 a night, the suites North Adams, MA don’t exactly come cheap, and frugal folk can opt for the cozy Swiss Chalets Village Inn just up the road. But would-be Harrison Fords, STAY HERE: We can’t imagine a more garlic beurre blanc. New in town is España, consider this: you won’t find another cave in the Granite State with a auspicious way to enjoy the artsy side of a top-notch tapas option. PS2 and no bat guano to speak of. Western Massachusetts than shacking up at Porches, an industrial-chic inn inspired by DO THIS: The largest contemporary-art EAT THERE: NoCo’s Moat Mountain Smokehouse and Brewing MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum museum in the States, MASS MoCA is a Co. is a must-stop for gourmets and lumberjacks alike. Nosh the night of Contemporary Art). Set in downtown hotbed of high culture in the Berkshires, away with pecan-smoked beef brisket, organic butternut squash, and North Adams, mere minutes from the with constant rotations of cutting-edge a pint of foamy, fresh-brewed Bohemian pilsner, all amid the trappings museum, Porches’ six Victorian row houses gallery shows, film, dance, and theater. Live of a Victorian house. (If you eat yourself into a food coma, book a bed in feature resplendently retro rooms and concerts are often held at the museum as one of the five inn rooms upstairs.) There’s also the acclaimed 1785 Inn suites with colorful midcentury furnishings, well. (Performing vets include Grace Potter & Restaurant and its talk-of-the-town venison, glazed with rosemary, paint-by-number artwork, and nods to and Wilco.) If the sun is out, take an afternoon wild cherries, and bourbon. And no meal in NoCo is complete without a the region’s bygone mills. There’s also an stroll through Western Gateway Heritage stop at Zeb’s General Store for some penny-candy shopping. outdoor heated pool and hot tub (open State Park, a former railroad yard where you 24 hours!), a fire pit, a woodland gazebo, can enjoy some history, not to mention fresh DO THIS: Glen Ellis Falls, Diana’s Baths, and other natural wonders and an extensive DVD library. For more brews from the on-site Freight Yard Pub. of the White Mountains are a brief car ride away. Alternatively, you can traditional trappings, the Blackinton Manor take a rumbling trip through the wild on the Conway Scenic Railroad. Bed & Breakfast lies a short distance up DON’T MISS: Every year, the folks behind Or simply stroll down Main Street for farm-made treats like pine the Hoosic River. DownStreet Art transform downtown candles and maple-cured bacon. North Adams into a metropolitan gallery EAT THERE: Toe-curling French and New of painted cars, Godzilla-size sculptures, DON’T MISS: Autumn visitors can throw axes, admire prize-winning American cuisine awaits Porches patrons and other original works from around the cattle, and enjoy old-fashioned horse-and-harness races at the nearby right across the river at Gramercy Bistro. region. This year’s display will run from June Fryeburg Fair (September 30–October 7). If you can brave a White Chef Alexander Smith offers sumptuous 28 through October 25, and entries are still Mountains winter, don your long-johns for February’s Ice Fest, where fare like rare sesame tuna and escargots in being accepted. Boston artists: how about a you’ll meet international ice-climbing pros, watch stomach-twisting a puff-pastry shell with spinach and lemon- working vacation? films of their exploits, and even give it a try yourself at a clinic. continued on p32

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The Hawthorne Hotel upscale trattoria-style menu. A nother Salem, MA option is 43 Church, a sleek steakhouse located in Lyceum Hall, the historic dams THE STAY HERE : It might seem like a New building where great minds like A England cliché, but it’s worth a quick and Emerson lectured throughout the lexander Graham Bell jaunt on the commuter rail (or, on a fair- 1800s and where A Constitution Inn weather weekend, the Salem Ferry) to gave his first public demonstration of the near the Historic Boston Waterfront check out the “ Witch City” in its bustling telephone. But please: don’t prove you autumn glory. The H awthorne Hotel is can text during dinner. named for native author N athaniel, and The eabody Essex Museum the “House of the Seven Gables” that DO THIS: P inspired his novel is only a few blocks is a North Shore gem with an especially away. So are the brick-laid streets of impressive of collection of maritime art. downtown, full of shops (both kitschy But also be sure to check out Yin Yu and cool), paranormal walking tours, Tang, an actual ancestral home from and occult boutiques serving Salem’s China’s Qing Dynasty that has been re- t night, hit Wicca community. The Hawthorne erected inside the museum. A , the sexy little sister to Boston’s itself is a classic Federal-style building Red Lulu with its own casual tavern, an upscale Lolita Cocina & Tequila Bar, or the dance , a boisterous pub in restaurant, and a purportedly paranormal floor at Rockafellas past: the rumored haunt was featured a former bank. on the TV show Ghost Hunters . More : Check out Haunted modern is the Salem Waterfront Hotel, DON’T MISS (hauntedhappenings.org) a contemporary marina-side option steps Happenings from Pickering Wharf’s restaurants and for the annual October lineup of citywide storefronts. parties, parades, and frightening festivals. They’re campy fun, but if it reeks too much EAT THERE: Chef Antonio Bettencourt of commercialism, check out the Festival t’s 150 Third Avenue, Boston MA 02129 trained under A manda Lydon at of the Dead (festivalofthedead.com). I Cambridge’s UpStairs on the Square; an edgier series concocted by a local hristian Day, and includes a now he’s number one at his own 62 warlock, C 617-241-8400 Restaurant & Wine Bar , serving up an gothic-glam Vampires’ Masquerade ball. http://www.constitutioninn.org/

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Bedford Village Inn EAT THERE: Manchester’s Hanover Street Bedford, NH Chophouse is a local legend, a gentlemanly setting of dark woods and leather booths STAY HERE: The Bedford Village Inn that serves up savory steaks and refined stands on the former site of a working farm, flourish. (A crab cocktail served in a martini its grand entrance framed by two original glass? Yes, please.) And we’ve nothing but silos. The main house holds 14 luxury suites, love for the more modern XO on Elm, a funky and there are eight elegantly appointed and veggie-friendly spot that offers coconut- rooms in a nearby cottage. But BVI really crusted tofu alongside cognac-almond winter shines with its three on-site restaurants. meatballs. And the famed Red Arrow Diner Cliffside Inn and-cauliflower masala or oxtail-and-short- Hell’s Kitchen alum Benjamin Knack, formerly is a regular stop for politicos campaigning in Newport, RI rib Bolognese, amid sultry lighting and funky of Boston’s Sel de la Terre, commands the the New Hampshire primaries. art. We’re also fond of The Fifth Element, culinary team of the Four Diamond–rated STAY HERE: Newport is exciting in the which comes complete with live music, Dining Room, filled with fireplaces and locally DO THIS: Check out northern New England summer, but a wintry seaside retreat can oaky Argentinian malbecs, and a mirrored sourced cuisine. The more rustic BVI Tavern nightlife at spots like Grand, a dance club be pure romance — especially if you and a waterfall behind the bar. offers burgers, pizza, and a “Chocolate Bag” that, curiously enough, also offers exercise- special someone are seated high above the of mousses and Chambord sponge cake. related extracurricular activities: it has a shore in a marble whirlpool at the Cliffside DO THIS: Yeah, it’s touristy, but if you’ve A more citified vibe flows at Corks Wine regulation racquetball court, and weekly Inn. Steps away from Newport’s scenic Cliff never explored their opulent interiors, be Bar, whose 8,000-bottle cellar has gotten Zumba classes help attendees prep for the Walk, this B&B offers Victorian-style suites sure to drool your way through the Newport props from Wine Spectator. (It’s overseen dance floor. For a predominantly gay nightlife with killer views, spa-worthy bathrooms, and Mansions. The International Tennis Hall by Jon Carnevale, the state’s only certified scene, hit up Club 313 for dancing, drag Delaware-sized beds with imported linens. of Fame is required viewing for French Open sommelier.) This classic country inn is a good shows, and karaoke. Spice up your stay with in-room massages, fanatics. And for a touch of romance, take selection if you have separation anxiety from artisanal fruits and cheeses, or even a bottle in original contemporary ballet productions the city: it’s right outside Manchester, the DON’T MISS: If you are a music geek (or just of hand-picked wine from the Cliffside’s from the Island Moving Company. largest New England city north of Boston like to gawk), Manchester is home to the annual own well-stocked cellar. If you’re looking (though it’s comparatively quaint with just New England Parrot Head Convention for a more frugal way to reignite the flames, DON’T MISS: Each February, thousands over 100,000 people). Plenty of hotel chains (February 28–March 3) and New England check out the cozy Spring Street Inn near bundle up for the Newport Winter Festival in town, like Radisson and Hilton, offer Elvis Festival (August 31–September 2). We downtown Newport’s historic district. (February 15–24), a seasonal celebration affordable rates. won’t judge. Well, maybe a little. that has featured chili cook-offs, vineyard EAT THERE: We’re loving the Salvation tours via helicopter, ice skating, and our Café, where you can feast on Generation Y– favorite, the “Seal Safari.” (It’s a watch, not appropriate American cuisine, like chickpea- a hunt.)

Trapp Family Lodge pineapple salad. On the spiffier side of Stowe, VT the grill, we’re also fond of Hen of the Blantyre Nudel serves up creative concoctions like fried- Wood, located in nearby Waterbury. One Lenox, MA jalapeño and veal-chorizo tacos. For dessert, STAY HERE: After the von Trapp family spoonful of its winter squash soup with head to the Chocolate Springs Café for (of The Sound of Music fame) fled roasted parsnips, pancetta, and cider STAY HERE: Nestled by the picturesque handmade box chocolates, cocoa nibs, pastries, Nazi-occupied Austria for the States, brown butter, and you’ll never pick up a Berkshire Mountains, Blantyre is the kind and the hot-chocolate equivalent of nitro. they opened a small skiers’ lodge in can opener again. of impressive, English-style estate where mountainous Stowe. Since then, it’s Bruce Wayne would spend a ski weekend. DO THIS: By winter, the Berkshires are ballooned into the Trapp Family Lodge, DO THIS: With access to many miles of While there’s no Batcave among its amenities, cozy grounds for a getaway, with plenty of a swanky slope-side resort for alpinists of skiing and snowboarding trails, Stowe is Blantyre boasts guest rooms within its main snowshoeing and cross-country ski trails all breeds. Its 96 lodge rooms, 100 guest- well-equipped for anyone looking to roar house, carriage house, and surrounding to keep cabin fever at bay. At other times of house chalets, and luxe villas are vamped down a mountainside attached to one cottages that are outfitted with handsome year, you can live like a blue blood and take out with plush duvets, ornate wooden or more planks. And the village center, imported furniture. Plus, it has tennis courts a guided horseback ride through the foliage headboards, and fresh flowers. And when especially Main Street, is equipped for that are flooded in winter to form an ice rink, with the Aspinwall Adult Equestrian Center. you’re not tearing down the ski paths, you everyone’s inner shopper. Don’t forget a cozy “Warming Hut” for hermetic R&R, and Afterwards, treat yourself to a free tour and can recuperate with a lavender salt scrub to swing by the old-fashioned Stowe a special Snow Concierge to help visitors stock tasting at the Furnace Brook Winery. or a peppermint foot revitalization at the Mercantile for organic fudge, handmade coordinate wintertime activities (though we’d And culture vultures will love the year-round fitness center’s spa. The unique Euro- scarves, and Vermont-made bath products. be happy just getting a deep-tissue massage productions from the nearby Barrington Stage mountain charm is worth the 10-minute in the house spa). Unabashedly opulent, Company. drive to the heart of town, but if you’d rather DON’T MISS: In January, the Stowe Blantyre has earned the top spot on Condé stay on Main Street, the Green Mountain Winter Carnival offers sugary treats, Nast Traveler’s list of the best small hotels in DON’T MISS: Tanglewood, the summer home Inn offers comparably lush lodgings. ice carving, and snow golf and volleyball America. But if you’re more of a down-home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, provides tournaments. But October’s Foliage Arts dweller, the nearby Birchwood Inn offers a great chance to enjoy the orchestra in a EAT THERE: Break the winter chill with Festival is another big annual draw, uniting affordable accommodations in a sprawling, totally different (read: rural) scene. And Mikhail a blast of heat at Lagniappe at Ten thousands of leaf-peepers and craft- spruced-up country house. Baryshnikov is among the fans of Jacob’s Acres Lodge, where you’ll find Cajun fare lovers. Peek around to find original works Pillow, Lenox’s world-renowned dance festival, like fiery shrimp jambalaya with sweet from visiting artists under the giant tents. EAT THERE: Toasted by the New York Times held this year from June 16 to August 26. upon its opening, Lenox’s seasonally inspired continued on p36

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Omni Mount Washington Resort 44 on the ski region’s summit. You can eat, Bretton Woods, NH drink, and be awe-inspired while staring out at the White Mountains. STAY HERE: The regal, rambling Omni Mount Washington Resort is situated in DO THIS: If the resort activities and New Hampshire’s largest ski area. But the countless hiking trails can’t keep you 110-year-old spot, originally constructed occupied, earn one of those “This car by a railroad tycoon (ooh la la!), also climbed…” bumper stickers by bravely offers opportunities for dog sledding, (and very, very slowly) driving up the Mt. snowmobiling, and zip-line zigzagging. (In Washington Auto Road. (Just don’t look the summer, go for a round of golf — or at out the window at the guardrail-less road’s least peek at the old locker of Babe Ruth, edge, inches away.) Or check out Six Gun one of the hotel’s many famous guests of City, a cheese-tastic cowboy-themed yore.) Of course, this is assuming you can amusement park. And about a 30-minute tear yourself away from the impressive drive away is the Northern Nights Drive- interior, with its roaring fireplaces, swanky In in Lancaster, New Hampshire. The retro spa, and multiple restaurants, which include outdoor theater will debut a campground the Four Diamond–rated Dining Room. And when it reopens for the season this spring, you can curl up in The Cave, a stone-walled so you can catch the stars on the screen speakeasy where you can down drinks and and then sleep under those in the sky. soak up live entertainment. DON’T MISS: Bretton Woods is a favorite EAT THERE: Grab casual fare and house- haunt of the WFNX SnoRiders, so keep smoked specialties from Fabyans Station, an eye on the schedule at wfnx.com for located a mile from the resort in what used a chance to catch music, giveaways, and to be a bustling railroad station. (Now, only contests on the slopes each winter. Bretton a model train runs through the dining room.) Woods also hosts an annual Beach Party Or for dinner with a (really awesome) view, (this year on March 31) with an island theme hop on the high-speed quad to Latitude and BBQ.

Summit Lodge made with the house ginger beer. Killington, VT If actual beer is more your thing, a short ride down Route 4 will STAY HERE: From the cherry-red take you to Long Trail Brewing Old World doors to its resident Company, where you can take a pack of cuddly Saint Bernards, the tour and pair a pint of Hibernator Summit Lodge reminds us of the with smoked bratwurst. Swiss childhood we never had. Located in the heart of the Green DO THIS: Rocket and ricochet your Mountains with easy access to way down Killington’s ski trails, or 3 DAY - 2 NIGHT GETAWAYS FROM $99/NT* Killington Peak and its plummeting take it all in at a quieter pace — ski trails, the lodge offers cozy and maybe spot a snow hare or accommodations for alpine two — via snowshoe. Certain lifts Mountain Edge Resort & Spa at Sunapee athletes and midsummer trampers remain open after dark, but you’ll is an exclusive 4 Season Vacation Destination. Modern Adirondack design featuring all the alike. And with economy rooms find us jiving to live reggae music amenities you expect - surrounded by the beauty and recreational opportunities of the Sunapee ranging from $70 to $159, a trip to at the Pickle Barrel Nightclub the slopes won’t break your back downtown. Region’s mountains and lakes. So close to home, yet far away from the hustle and bustle. . . . sorry, bank this time. Should • Nestled between Mount Sunapee State Park and Lake Sunapee • Family Friendly Mountain Spirits Tavern the mighty Killington itself be your DON’T MISS: Get to Killington by destination, consider the closer March 30 to dance the waning days • A traffic free 90 minute drive from Boston • Full Service Award Winning Spa Killington Grand Resort Hotel, of winter away at the three-night • One and Two Bedroom post and beam luxury Suites featuring • New This Summer Canopy Tour and Zip Lines with access to the highest express SnowMont Music Festival. (The fireplaces, balconies, kitchen and Rosewood furnishings at Mount Sunapee Resort (Planned opening late gondola lift in Vermont. annual mountain rave’s 2012 lineup • Air Conditioning, Free WiFi and Long Distance June 2012) features Snoop Dogg, Chromeo, • Indoor Family Pool, Lap Pool, Hot Tub and Sauna • 3 Minute walk to Lake Sunapee Beach EAT THERE: Unwind after a day and Kaskade.) For a more folksy of shredding at On the Rocs, a experience, head to nearby • Outdoor Heated Pool, Hot Tub and BBQ Grills • Membership opportunities available sleek lounge serving sharable fare Stockbridge for August’s Tweed like Kobe sliders and crab-stuffed River Music Festival, where Please call 877.468.3343 or visit mountainedgeresort.com calamari. We suggest washing bluegrass is — and always has them down with a Dark and Stormy, been — the new black. Please mention coupon code “Sunapee Getaway” *Price reflects special introductory rate. Restrictions apply. Limited availability. Subject to change. Offer valid 4/1/12 through 7/31/12. Must book by 4/30/12.

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We Keep Your Gown Flawless Before, foodcoma during & after your wedding. Joint Sampler at Suya Joint The Boston restaurant scene is rich in the cuisines of the Americas, Europe, it into an indented disk, and use it as an edible spoon for savory stews and Asia, but anemic when it comes to Africa. We enjoy a smattering of augmented with beef or chicken. This bland staple makes a filling foil for Before: Fittings & Alterations fare from the North (Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt) and East (Ethiopia, gorgeous dishes like taushe ($10.50), a creamy stew of ground peanuts, During: On-site Pressing & Bridal Preparation Eritrea, Somalia), but most of the continent gets short shrift. We’re finally spinach, and a dollop of tomato/sweet-pepper coulis. Braver souls may try improving on the western front: to Cape Verdeans Laura and Cesaria and ogbono ($12.50), a stew flavored with smoked fish, but the gluey texture After: Cleaning & Preservation the Senegalese venue Teranga, we can now add Suya Joint (25 Poplar added by ground African mango seeds is not for everyone. Street, Roslindale, 617.327.8810), a new spot serving traditional Nigerian Few customers will find Suya Joint’s namesake dish challenging or cuisine. Food nerds won’t need encouragement to flock here, but the less anything but delicious. Suya ($6.75–$6.95) is skewers of char-grilled, thin- For more info visit DependableCleaners.com intrepid need not fear — even its unfamiliar dishes are mostly accessible pounded kebabs of chicken breast or eye-round beef with a delightful or Call 617.471.1900 and appealing. coating of ground peanuts, thyme, ginger, and (if you request it “spicy”) Goat pepper stew ($8.50) may remind you of Jamaican cooking: fiery chili. This is classic street food: universally appealing. As part of a Joint with capsicum chilies, its broth rich with the flavor of long-cooked bones Sampler ($10.50), they’re accompanied by meat pies (fine savory turnovers and a citrusy undercurrent, it’s a bowl to warm you to the core on a brisk of minced chicken or beef) and akara (mild black-eyed-pea fritters). The evening. Joloff rice ($9.50) is a fine casserole of rice, tomatoes, thyme, crisp Kenyan lager Tusker ($5) makes a fine accompaniment, as do modest and dried chilies, rounded out with fried plantains and perfectly stewed South African wines like Fleur du Cap ($7/glass). And the warm, casual beef or chicken drumsticks. Less recognizable is moi moi ($3), a steamed storefront atmosphere is abetted by super-friendly servers, who are happy preparation of hulled, puréed black-eyed peas that falls somewhere to educate neophytes but won’t look askance if you opt to eat your fufu with 16 Locations: Back Bay, Boston, Milton, S Quincy, Braintree, W Quincy, Brookline, Scituate, Cohasset, between a tamale and a savory custard; it’s punchier in the version flecked a fork. With that winning combination, Suya Joint seems bound to draw Watertown, Dorchester, N. Weymouth, Hanover, Weymouth, Hingham, N. Quincy Scan for10% Off with corned beef. A classic Nigerian square meal must include polenta-like a host of converts to the alternately familiar and novel pleasures of West Gown Alterations fufu, a starchy preparation of grains (rice, oats, or corn) or tubers (cassava African cooking. or yams). Pull a chunk off this steaming softball with your fingers, shape — MC Slim JB

PHOTO BY joel veak 3.27.12 <39> feed feed STUFFIT COURSES with: The ink is barely dry on the menus primeval breed of chicken. Also served at First Printer (15 Dunster Street, in the swamp bowl are wild lettuce Krista Kranyak of Ten Cambridge, 617.497.0900). The Harvard and steamed mudbugs, which is just Square restaurant opened just last an especially redneck-y way of saying Tables and Grass Fed month, over two years after owner “crawdads” — juicy, succulent shellfish. Jeffrey Stanett closed his Herrell’s Ice A caperberry-sabi dipping sauce adds Cream, a local institution that had stood a nice twang of tang. But if you’d rather there for more than 25 years. But the play it safe, we recommend inhaling an “A5 lot of people mistake me for a chef name of his new affordable American order of Lobster Pups ($7), house-made because I own four restaurants,” says Ten joint nods to more storied history: the hushpuppies that are sweet, creamy, and Tables owner Krista Kranyak. “But at this restaurant inhabits a site that’s said to full of fresh lobster meat on the inside, point in my career, I’m a restaurateur.” have housed the country’s first printing fried to a golden crisp on the outside. She certainly is. It’s been almost 10 years press, a fact that sort of makes the spot The Southern-inspired selections since Kranyak opened her first Ten Tables Graceland for Cambridge literati. offer enough panache to push certain location in JP, quickly winning fans with So come, pilgrims, and settle in for palates toward the border of their a fresh-and-local ethos. Next came a chef Kurt Vogel’s North Shore meets comfort zones, while other options — Cambridge location and then, nearly Deep South menu, which mixes local like the burgers in beef ($9), buffalo ($9), one year ago, a Provincetown outpost. fare with some downhome specialties and veggie-black-bean ($7) incarnations Should the pesky permitting gods rarely seen in this neck of the woods. — are pure comfort food. Located just cooperate, she’ll add another restaurant You may ask yourself “Did I die and go steps from the T, the handsome new to her portfolio by March’s end: Grass to Florida?” after spying the Swamp spot seems likely to attract an eclectic Fed (605 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain), a Bowl ($12), whose centerpiece is a bunch, becoming a place where priests burger-focused spot boasting an “adult generous heap of smoked pork-belly from the Harvard Divinity School can milkshake” menu. Though she’s more drawn to the front of the house than chips, deep-fried frog legs, and alligator. munch on gator bites ($9) alongside the kitchen, Kranyak still collaborates with her chefs on menus and has Yes, alligator. But if you’re nervous hipsters in neon jeans while tunes always been surrounded by food: she got her first job on a Connecticut about biting into a reptile that could from Cut Copy pump from the sound farm at age 12 and was toiling in her first restaurant role by 15. We talked have crawled out of the Everglades and system. It’s a blend of funky, folksy, and to her about balancing three — soon four! — bustling businesses. onto your plate, fear not: the gator meat familiar that’s bound to leave a lasting Who taught you to cook? My mom loves to cook. She was always (which comes from the feet or “wings”) impression. pushing herself in the kitchen, creating new recipes and family dishes to sort of tastes like a dark, delicious, — Miles Howard serve my brother and me. I learned a lot from my mom, but I also learned PHOTO BY joel veak from the restaurants I worked in. And I taught myself by constantly reading about food. Cookbooks were my life for a long time. It was all I ever read. Now Is there any one meal that changed your life? I was in Paris eating Dumpling Café ServiNg at a bustling bistro called Chez Denise. It was full of locals. The food • Cupcakes Beer aNd was delicious. The place was so alive and full of good energy. It was like walking in on one of the most delicious, fun dinner parties. We were • Custom cakes for all occasions wiNe treated like part of the family right away. It was in that moment that I realized I wanted to own a restaurant that felt just this way, not only for • Take home treats guests but for employees, too — a simple, affordable, consistent, and tasty bistro. What’s one good reason that Ten Tables in P-Town is a perfect spring escape for a Boston foodie? There are so many reasons to visit Provincetown in general. It’s absolutely stunning and in my mind the most beautiful part of the Cape. Spring is great because it’s still a bit quiet before the summer rush. There’s great shopping and great restaurants. A lot of customers from my JP and Cambridge locations frequent The Boston Phoenix gives us 4 stars! Provincetown, so it is really lovely to have a location there. Customers tell me they like to be able to experience their local restaurant while on their We are the new DUMPLING Café weekend getaway. What else should readers do in Provincetown in the spring? The in Boston’s Chinatown. beaches are beautiful. There is a great, diverse community there: so many Come try our signature mini juicy buns (XLB), artists and fun people. You can really feel transported. Spend half a day pork leek dumplings, and mango shrimp. strolling through the many fantastic art galleries — Provincetown Museum is a must-stop. Then spend the other half with a little picnic on the beach or in the dunes. 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magazine and host of the city’s Food Coma TV. “If I was going to have anyone Portland Ho! make me a drink, I’d prefer it would be him.” Travel too far beyond Boston in search of a drink, and the bar landscape You can now tell us starts to look bleak. It’s like some horrific science-fiction scenario where • Local 188 (685 Congress Street, 207.761.7909). You should definitely comb they’ve installed time portals at city limits, warping us back to a tragic past through this tapas spot’s 200-bottle-deep wine list (focused on France, what Club’s Bartender’s should be In our Next Ad! of flavored vodkas and trendy espresso martinis. But as in any dystopian Spain, and Italy), which got the Best Wine List award in last year’s Portland Log onto nightmare, strongholds of resistance endure. Why, we’ve heard rumors of a Phoenix readers’ poll. But it’s also worth stopping by for a quality Corpse settlement called “Portland,” about two hours north of here, where the locals Reviver or Aviation. Or, if you’re homesick for the Hub already (cry baby), try a StuffBoston.com/Bartenders and tell us who you’d like have apparently fashioned a primitive drinking culture. Dropkick Murphy: Jameson and root beer with a Murphy’s stout float. to see from the Fenway: Okay, maybe our northern neighbors aren’t as different from us as my - Cask n’ Flagon lazy stereotype suggests. In fact, considering all the national kudos Portland • Novare Res Bier Café (4 Canal Plaza, 207.761.2437). Portland has - Church gets for its food scene, it’s likely that state laws — not the drinking public’s traditionally been a beer-focused city, where breweries like Allagash and - Jerry Remy’s palates — account for the fact that the beverage world hasn’t quite caught Maine Beer Company (with its varieties like Mean Old Tom stout and the - The Lansdowne Pub up. In Massachusetts, it’s relatively easy for a distributor to bring a spirit to super-hoppy amber ale Zoe) rule the roost. This is one sudsy standout, sort of - Sweet Caroline’s market, but Maine requires all spirit brands to go through the state itself for an old-style German beer hall with more than 500 bottles and 25 taps. “They licensing approval. Distributors aren’t necessarily going to go through the don’t pour any generic crap,” says Ricchio. “Nothing run-of-the-mill. They time and expense of bringing more interesting (but harder-to-sell) spirits to stick to their guns and have one of the best beer programs in the Northeast.” Maine’s market. So the proverbial pantry is a little lean. They also have a small, well-curated selection of fine Scotches and tequilas. But if you make it to the hinterlands on a weekend or a vacation, lured by Absolut’s Raspberry the promise of the food, here are a few spots to swing through to slake your • The Salt Exchange (245 Commercial Street, 207.347.5687). Owned by a The Absolut thirst — whether it be for tequila, bourbon, wine, beer, or just, um, drunk. husband-and-wife team and helmed by a Boston-born exec chef, this small- Delight — Luke O’Neil plate restaurant boasts Portland’s largest bourbon selection, which is great. Vintage Got an idea for Liquid? Email [email protected]. It also offers a promo called “Bourbon Bingo,” which can earn you free food 1 oz Absolut Citron or booze. That’s greater. 1 oz Absolut Citron 1/2 oz Raspberry Liqueur • The Armory Lounge (20 Milk Street, 207.774.4200). Located in the Portland 1/2 oz Sour Apple schnapps Add Sour Mix Regency Hotel, this lobby lounge is a place where old-timers mix up proper • Zapoteca (505 Fore Street, 207.772.8242). It’s tequila-focused. (Duh.) Add Lemon Lime Cola Add a Splash of Cran Manhattans for a restaurant-industry scene. And if you have one (or two, They generally add one or two new tequilas each month, and the current Garnish with a Lime Wedge Garnish with a Maraschino Cherry or 10) too many, there are 95 beds right upstairs. But try not to embarrass count stands at around 100, according to co-owner Tom Bard. He’s a yourself too much: it’s a swank hotel in the historic Old Port area of town, one former Bostonian who says good things about the smaller city he now calls that’s celebrating its 25th year in 2012. home. “I think Portland is getting there,” says Bard of the bar culture. “I used to live in Boston, where it’s got much more of the demographic, as • The Corner Room (110 Exchange Street, 207.879.4747). Behind the bar far as people to spend the money.” But his restaurant does sophisticated Congratulations to Josh Jamison our Absolut Top Bartender for February! you’ll find John Myers, widely regarded as the godfather of Portland’s classic- stuff with its handcrafted margaritas, imported Mexican beers, and high- Try his Absolut Power tonight in the Back Bay! cocktail scene. He’s long been singing the praises of Negronis, Sazeracs, and end 100-percent-agave tequilas. While you’re here, try the watermelon- the like throughout the city, and he’s something of a character — a big dude habanero margarita, which just competed in the Signature Event, an So who will be the Best Bartender from the Theater District? You decide! who’s been known to sport ZZ Top–worthy facial hair. He’s also a big deal. opening-night cocktail competition for Maine Restaurant Week. 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A. This chef reaps what he sows. Literally. The mason jars on the counter Spring 2012 hold just a small sampling of the output from McClelland’s farm: heirloom At Home with tomato sauce, pickled hot peppers, maple syrup, and honey. But his harvests aren’t just for enjoying at home. McClelland’s farm supplies produce to Frank McClelland his own L’Espalier and Sel de la Terre locations, about a dozen other area restaurants, and the 75 subscribers of Apple Street Farm’s CSA program.

The chef shares the bounty and B. McClelland celebrates the organic — and not just in the fields. “I prefer beauty of his farmhouse kitchen kitchens to have a natural, organic feel, as though you’re eating outside,” says the chef. So the more natural the materials, the better. These wide- Chef Frank McClelland is “always chasing perfection” in his city kitchens, and plank wood floors are original to the house, but McClelland had their that chase led him to life in rural Essex. Built in the 1600s, his home sits on stain lifted so the gorgeous grain could shine through. The countertops are 14 acres of what was once an equestrian farm. But when McClelland moved gleaming soapstone, and hanging over the sink is a massive cutting board there four years ago, he revitalized the land into what is now his own Apple carved from black walnut wood. Street Farm. Since its first harvest in 2009, it’s come to boast more than 40 C. Glass-front cabinets add an airy quality to a kitchen. But nothing’s worse types of produce, plus chickens, turkeys, and even honeybees. Raising his than a window to messiness, so only attempt this approach if you can keep own food allows McClelland to enjoy a unique level of oversight and quality the contents neat, organized, and aesthetically arranged. Luckily, that’s no control. Of course, he appreciated a “farm to table” ethos long before it problem for McClelland, for whom chef habits die hard — even at home. “I was fashionable, having grown up on his grandparents’ working farm in the can’t sleep unless the kitchen is clean and everything is perfectly in place,” White Mountains of New Hampshire. We caught up with McClelland on Apple he confesses. Street’s 2012 opening day and took a tour of his big, beautiful kitchen. Twitter/RevereBoston — Scott Kearnan D. Not only did McClelland grow up on his grandfather’s farm, but his great- grandmother was a catering chef. She passed along many recipes to her daughter. Now McClelland uses them, referencing his grandmother’s D. E. handwritten cookbook. Entries include “Good Friday Cookies” and “Grandma Nancy’s Lemon Cake — An 1850 Recipe.” And McClelland still cooks with some of his grandparents’ kitchen tools, some of which are 70 to 100 years old.

E. The big brick fireplace, which displays the sign from L’Espalier’s previous Gloucester Street location, looks great and casts plenty of heat. But it’s also a useful cooking platform. McClelland uses the wood-fired oven about once a week to make pizza and roast meats (pork shoulder was recently on the menu), and he might grill a rib-eye steak over the hearth. All the open-flame cooking is good practice for McClelland’s latest venture, La Brasa, an open- pit “cowboy barbecue” spot opening this spring in East Somerville.

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“I don’t have a lot of downtime,” admits Jackson Cannon, laughing. It’s hard So you actually encourage the pinching of your own cocktail menus? to imagine that he would. Cannon juggles demanding duties at a Kenmore Well, I have a little bit, one on one. It’s not as overt as at one of my favorite Square trifecta: he’s bar director at Eastern Standard (which has made the bars in the world, Trailer Happiness in London. In the Trailer Happiness best-bar lists of both Esquire and GQ) and Island Creek Oyster Bar, and menu, there’s a little paragraph that says, “Steal this menu. Everyone he’s an owner at his latest venture, the Hawthorne, which serves innovative deserves a little happiness.” cocktails and small plates in a loungy living-room-like space. But when he You once worked at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, booking bands. does get a break in his busy schedule, Cannon enjoys hitting the road to That’s when you first started bartending, right? That’s the first menu experience new cultures and cocktails. His passion for travel was instilled I wrote, and I believe I have that in my menu collection. [He shuffles for by his father, who saw the world as a renowned journalist, and fostered by a moment, searching.] This little laminated menu with five cocktails — I Cannon’s time as a touring musician. (A onetime Berklee College of Music basically themed them all for different artists who played at the bar. There student, he slapped the bass with several bands and spread sweet music from was a martini and a sour that was kind of margarita-like. And I even had a Iowa to Ireland for nearly two decades.) During more recent journeys, the rock- mocktail, which I’m very proud of, in ’98 or whenever that was. star mixologist has amassed a collection of 300-plus cocktail menus. We What are some of the far-flung locales featured in your collection? asked Cannon to sound off about his impressive stash of souvenirs. I’ve got a great little menu from Oslo, Norway, which I refer to for a few How did you start collecting menus? First and foremost, it’s the traveling different reasons. It’s really a long-form example, and they have an element that’s really important here. When we were musicians, we used unbelievable Scotch menu, in addition to this encyclopedic cocktail to say it would “feed our heads.” In the restaurant business, you really get approach. My London menus are really important to me. They’re probably locked into location. And that’s great. There’s a ton of experience you gain the ones that are dearest to me, and I keep them together. The furthest in your own place, and Boston’s a city where there are a lot of other good one away I have is probably from Auckland, New Zealand. That one is a places to go to be inspired. But there’s really nothing like stripping that menu that somebody saw, thought of me, and brought back. And I’ve got away and getting down to another city. . . . About seven and a half years some favorites, too. From Seattle, I’ve got a Zig Zag menu from a long ago, before Eastern Standard opened, I took a trip to New York City, where time ago that I still refer to that [famed bartender] Murray Stenson wrote. I had a three- or four-day agenda of 20 places to visit. And I got kind of How do you use your collection? I have it organized into a few good at pinching menus. This is a little bit of a dirty little secret that goes on different realms: there’s the “remember the experience” use of the menu. [in the industry]. And for me, it’s been really funny over the years to watch There’s the purpose of looking at the physicality of them, from a design someone go and swipe menus at Eastern Standard. They’ll pull the paper perspective. And then there’s looking at them for cold-hard content. out of the jacket, and I’ll tell them to take it in the plastic. And they’re like, Within one read, you never see all the things that are poking around in a what? Look, the plastic costs $1.50. In the back of my mind, I know that that well-done menu. So that’s kind of why I have it, how it started, and how menu, protected, will live on in a collection or on a coffee table or a desk. it grew. And it’s kind of great advertising. — Adam Tokarz

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