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what to do • where to go • what to see June 1–14, 2009 The OOfficialfficial Guide to BBOSTON OSTON PLUS: The Scooper Boston Bowl at City Hall Plaza Loves The Color Purple at the ICE Wang Theatre Boston Pride CREAM! Festival panoramamagazine.com now iPhone and Windows® smartphone compatible! oyster perpetual gmt-master ii OFFICIALROLEXJEWELER ROLEX OYSTER PERPETUAL AND GMT-MASTER II ARE TRADEMARKS. contents COVER STORY CONES, NOT BONES: Catfish the Boston terrier can’t EuropeanChess Collection get enough of the vanilla ice 10 Boston Loves Ice Cream! cream at J.P. Licks. PHOTOBY The inside scoop on a dozen J O N AT H A N D AISY delightful spots for fabulous and flavorful ice cream DEPARTMENTS 8 hubbub The Scooper Bowl 12 calendar of events 14 exploring boston on the cover: Teryn of Model Club Inc. 14 SIGHTSEEING enjoys a black raspberry 20 FREEDOM TRAIL ice cream in a waffle 22 NEIGHBORHOODS cone at J.P. Licks’ Furnishings, Murano Glass, Sculptures, Paintings, 37 MAPS outdoor patio in Jamaica Tuscan Leather, Chess Sets, Capodimonte Porcelain Plain (659 Centre St., 44 around the hub 617-524-6740. 44 CURRENT EVENTS Photo: Jonathan Daisy 52 ON EXHIBIT 57 SHOPPING H:K:CIN C>C: C:L7JGN HIG::I s 7DHIDC B6HH68=JH:IIH 62 NIGHTLIFE telephone s LLL <6AA:G>6;ADG:CI>6 8DB 63 DINING ___ PANORAMAMAGAZINE.COM 5 The Official Guide to BOSTON www.panoramamagazine.com June 1–14, 2009 A FREE arts and music festival Volume 59 • Number 1 along the Charles River between Tim Montgomery • PRESIDENT/PUBLISHER 4HE SHOPPING 4HE DINING Harvard and Central Square. Josh B. 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DESTINATION EXTRAORDINARY a magazine affiliate "ACK"AY\3(/0025\WWWPRUDENTIALCENTERCOM Media Sponsor ___ "OSTON $UCK 4OURS \ (ARU \ 6INEYARD 6INES \ 3EPHORA \ ,EGAL 3EA &OODS 6 PANORAMAMAGAZINE.COM HUB BUBby Josh B. Wardrop GET YOUR LICKS IN Still haven’t had enough of the cold stuff? Here’s some more area scoop shops worth risking ice cream headaches for: • FRIENDLY’S, visit www.friendlys.com for loca- tions. This New England origi- nal has been a household name since 1935. On June 6 from noon–5 p.m., the chain hosts Free Ice Cream Day, where any- one can get a free cone filled with one of 26 yummy flavors. • BOSTON ICE CREAM FACTORY, 777 Morrissey Blvd., Dorchester, 617-436-2189. Frozen Fun for All Founder Steve Cirame serves homemade ice cream, includ- s one great philosopher wisely said: I scream, you ing unique flavors like durian, Ascream, we all scream for ice cream. And when that ice Guinness cream and coconut cream is all-you-can-eat, featuring some of the most insane- almond chip. ly delicious flavors by the region’s top ice cream makers— • TOSCANINI’S, 899 Main St., well, now you’re really talking about something to inspire Cambridge, 617-491-5877. A screams of delirious delight. local institution since 1986, this Those with a yen for sweet, creamy frozen treats can find MIT-area fave has made more themselves deep in the heavenly hash at the annual than 400 flavors since its Scooper Bowl, taking place June 9–11 at City Hall Plaza. inception. Among the core 60, The event allows you to indulge your sweet tooth by sam- which rotate in and out, are pling as much delicious ice cream as you can handle from delights like burnt caramel, delectable dessertmakers like Baskin-Robbins, Ben & Jerry’s orange chocolate and bourbon (pictured above), Brigham’s, Haagen-Dazs and many more for black pepper. just $8 ($4 for children ages 3–9). And if one visit to the • CHILL, 354 Chestnut Hill Ave., Scooper Bowl just isn’t enough for you, a $15 Festival Pass Brighton, 617-232-2445; BOYO, allows you to come back for seconds (or thirds)—go ahead, 175 Cambridge St., 617-227- we won’t tell. 2696; BERRYLINE, 1 Arrow St., Ice cream lovers have been flocking to the Scooper Bowl Cambridge, 617-868-3500. You for 27 years, and the result has been more than $2 million won’t find Pinkberry in Boston raised for the renowned Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s just yet, but this delicious trio Jimmy Fund to continue its groundbreaking work research- of recent arrivals is represent- ing and treating children’s cancer. Refer to listing, page 50, ing for frozen yogurt on the and check out more ice cream coverage on page 10. Hub ice cream scene. ___ ___ 8 PANORAMAMAGAZINE.COM ABOVEPHOTOBY J O N AT H A N D AISY PANORAMAMAGAZINE.COM 9 The InsideA dozen delightful spots for fabulous and flavorful ice Scoop cream by Josh B. Wardrop LOCAL LEGENDS set that loves ice cream. Adults can get In spring and summer (and fall and winter, their ice cream fix with a more mature to be honest), New Englanders love their ice twist at Picco (513 Tremont St., 617- cream—so it’s no surprise the region has 927-0066), sipping a delightful adult ice produced so many popular and enduring cream soda, which features sweet Belgium local and national chains serving up frozen lambic ale poured over vanilla ice cream favorites. Born in Vermont, Ben & (pictured opposite, middle left). Or sample Jerry’s (refer to listing, page 64)—home ice cream flavors with an extra kick at to chilly creations like the massive 20-scoop Lizzy’s (29 Church St., Cambridge, 617- Vermonster sundae—is known the world 354-2911), which boasts—in addition to its over. Other local favorites include J.P. full range of traditional, kid-friendly vari- Licks (refer to listing, page 65), which eties—alcohol-infused flavors like Bailey’s boasts more than two dozen flavors, includ- and a sinful rum raisin (pictured opposite, ing Cake Batter Oreo and Cherry Ortiz, bottom right). named for Red Sox slugger David Ortiz; Emack & Bolio’s, a “rock ’n’ roll” FANCY FROZEN FUN ice creamery (290 Newbury St., 617-536-7127 Think ice cream can only be enjoyed from and various locations) famed for custom a take-out window or some beachfront cones adorned with everything from Fruity stand surrounded by seagulls? Think Pebbles to s’mores (pictured opposite, middle again: in ice cream-mad Massachusetts, right); and Herrell’s (15 Dunster St., even high-end eateries get in on the action. Cambridge, 617-497-2179; 155 Brighton Ave., The Beacon Hill Bistro (25 Allston, 617-782-9599), a chain of ice cream Charles St., 617-723-1133) earns acclaim shops/cafes famed for sweet treats like the for its housemade ice cream, in flavors like cupcake sundae (pictured opposite, top right). caramel, banana rum (pictured opposite, Not a chain, meanwhile, but certainly top left) and cassis sorbet. An evening of not to be forgotten is the one-and-only fine dining in the Italian-centric North Cabot’s (743 Washington St., End isn’t complete without a palate-pleas- Newtonville, 617-964-9200), which has ing scoop of gelato at Caffe served outrageous sundaes like the Straw- Vittoria (refer to listing, page 74) or Anna (pictured opposite, bottom left)—a Gigi Gelateria (272 Hanover St., blend of ripe banana wheels, vanilla ice 617-720-4343). Om (92 Winthrop St., cream, strawberry topping, and whipped Cambridge, 617-576-2800) is surely the cream—for four delectable decades. only place in the area to get beet ice cream—an accompaniment to its chocolate ICE CREAM FOR GROWN-UPS beet tarte—and Sonsie (refer to listing, A sweet and frosty treat may bring out the page 65) accents its chocolate truffle tart kid in all of us, but it isn’t just the junior with sweet cherry torrone ice cream. ___ ___ OPPOSITETOPLEFT, TOPRIGHTANDMIDDLELEFTPHOTOSBY 10 PANORAMAMAGAZINE.COM T IMOTHY R ENZI ; REMAININGPHOTOSBY J O N AT H A N D AISY PANORAMAMAGAZINE.COM 11 calendarofevents:JUNE 1–28 SATURDAY, JUNE 6 SATURDAY, JUNE 13 The Brattle Theatre screens The Museum of Fine Arts the classic Bill Murray- hosts a truly arty party with Dan Aykroyd comedy its fourth annual Summer Ghostbusters in celebra- Party.