The Red Sox - Never made it to Fenway Park, but still enjoyed the two World Series wins

Back Bay - Brownstone houses, great gift shops, book stores(Trident) and rstaurants

Newberry Street - All the beautiful people live and meet here

Boston University - The Fine Art shows 

North End - Everything Italian and of course great food

Charles River - Walk along it, float on it, or just watch it roll by

O'Kellys Seafood - Quick, good and inexpensive

Newberry Comics - Best collection of new and used CDs

463 Beacon Street Guest House - Quaint and nice

Faneuil Hall Market - Great place to shop for all things fresh

Charestown- Narrow streets and no parking but quaint

Pizzerina Regina - Best pizza in Boston

Mike's Pastry - Worth the wait in the long lines on Sunday

Revere Beach - Not the best beach but minutes from Boston

The Coop - Best book store at Harvard Square

Squantum - Coolest place south of Boston and I could live there

Rockport - Resort town on the Atlantic an hour north of Boston

HD Radio Ressurection: WHFS Comes Back to Life as 94.7 HD2

Washington, D.C. is getting back something long gone: WHFS - a legendary rock-formatted radio station. But, this time it's on HD Radio.

Beginning June 10, 2009, "94.7 HD2" sparked back to life at 12 noon with a special inaugural debut featuring D.J. Cerphe, an original member of WHFS from the late 1970s.

94.7 HD2 will feature a mix of current and retro alternative music, archival material, live studio performances, artist interviews, and other programming.

In a few weeks the station will also be available online and via mobile streaming at www.hfs2.com.

Listeners with a new HD Radio receiver can find the station by first tuning to 94.7, then tune up one notch to 94.7-2. (An HD radio receiver is required.)

A Growing Buzz Surrounds the Increasing Number of Capital Beekeepers

Washington Post

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Something unusual is happening on Washington rooftops, a new addition to the satellite dishes, HVAC units and snipers that are the usual fixtures atop the city's buildings.

Urban beekeepers, who prowl their rooftops in full beekeeper regalia, are becoming chic in the nation's capital, and their semi-secret society is less so, given the growing popularity of their peculiar and ancient hobby.

The White House recently added a hive to the South Lawn, and the Fairmont Hotel in the West End started two hives on its rooftop, where the chefs-turned-beekeepers tend their hives and wax poetic about the District honey they will drizzle on cheese and incorporate into their white chocolate mousse dish.

There are several dozen known beekeepers in the city. For years, they have tried to stay beneath the radar, uncertain about whether their neighbors would be pleased knowing several thousand stinging insects are next door.

"You know, there are lots of people in this community who think I'm crazy for talking to you," said Toni Burnham, 45, who is in her fifth summer of beekeeping and has emerged as one of the city's most prominent and vocal beekeepers.

Burnham keeps two hives atop her Washington townhouse. She tends to them on weekdays, when her neighbors are at work, slowly climbing the spiral staircase to her roof in her "bee costume," looking left and right to make sure no one is out gardening or sunbathing when she pries open the hive to check on her "girls."

She wants to keep the location of her home a secret, though she isn't breaking any laws.

Nothing specifically prohibits beekeeping in the District. But that was also the case in New York City, where a city health code banning animals that are "wild, ferocious, fierce, dangerous or naturally inclined to do harm" was applied to beekeepers.

Some apiarists are romantics who enrolled in beekeeping classes after reading "The Secret Life of Bees" and fantasizing about amber jars of honey. ...read article here... ...see movie here...