Fenway/Kenmore

Summer Events Schedule

 

 

 

 

Fenway/Kenmore: The what

 August 29 & September 26
Winesdays in Bravo
Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Ave.
5:30–7:30 p.m.
Celebrate the middle of the work week with a special wine tasting from two featured wineries. Don’t just drink the wine; learn to taste it, too. An expert will be on hand to guide you through the delicate tasting process.
Tickets $25, includes hors d’oeuvres and an unlimited tasting of wines. 21+
www.mfa.org


September 20-June 26, 2008
Gardner After Hours
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
280 The Fenway
5-9 p.m.
Spend the third Thursday of every month enjoying live music, art, cocktails and, of course, the scenery. The museum’s new “night out” offers a different experience each month, ranging from gallery viewings and discussions to concerts.
Free for museum members, $12 for adults, $5 for college students.
www.gardnermuseum.org

September 22
ALS Foundation for Life 2007
Bowl-for-Life
Lucky Strike Lanes, Jillian’s Boston
145 Ipswich St.
Noon–5 p.m.
Join the ALS Foundation for Life for a day of bowling and fundraising for those who are battling ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, the debilitating disease resulting in increased muscle weakness and motor ability. Unite and join the fight while channeling your inner bowler.
Tickets $25, registration required.
www.alsfoundation.org

September 25-December 1
Sensacional! Mexican Street Graphics
Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art
621 Huntington Ave.
Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
This colorful exhibit celebrates the vernacular design of comic books, flyers, posters and signs commonly found lining the streets of Mexico. The artists assert a vivid graphic design presence in seemingly mundane designs. They create hand-made, original works and serve as pseudo-ad agencies for auto-body shops, native wrestling arenas and sex shops. This is an exhibit not to be missed.
Free
www.massart.edu


EVENTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

Fenway/Kenmore: The where

Fenway Park
Home to Boston’s beloved Red Sox, Fenway is the oldest, and most historic, of all operating Major League Baseball stadiums. Opened in 1912, Fenway is celebrating its 95th birthday this year and has seen the likes of Babe Ruth, Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski, three of baseball’s greatest players of all-time, play on its field. Fenway is home to the legendary “Green Monster” wall in left field, “Pesky’s Pole,” the right field foul line pole named for Sox legend Johnny Pesky’s home runs hit around the pole, and the red seat in the right field bleachers (Section 42, Row 37, Seat 21) that signifies the spot where “Teddy Ballgame” Williams hit the longest measurable home run in Fenway Park at 502 feet. To the delight of long-time fans and baseball purists, much of Fenway remains unchanged and the current ownership intends to keep it that way. The park is home to the 2004 World Champion Red Sox, the first team in 86 years to accomplish the feat. Enough said.
4 Yawkey Way
www.redsox.com

The Fens
The neighborhood is aptly named for this large parkland and urban wild, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted as one of the last components in Boston’s Emerald Necklace park system. Built on wetlands, the Fens was originally designed by Olmsted to be flushed by the tides twice daily, but the damming of the Charles River in 1910 produced a freshwater marsh that rendered many of his plantings unsupportable. Today, only two of the early bridges, the park’s general boundaries and some trees remain of Olmsted’s design. The space is home to the Rose Garden, whose spectacular roses are in full bloom in June, playing fields and courts, and the Fenway Victory Gardens, 7 acres which represent our nation’s last remaining original victory gardens created during World War II.
Located between The Fenway, Park Drive and Boylston Street.

Lansdowne Street
Adjacent to Fenway Park, this street has a surprisingly storied history in Boston’s music and comedy scenes. Many of its clubs have been around, in one form or another, since the 1940s. The revitalization of Fenway Park and its surrounding areas have brought new, and notable, venues to Lansdowne, including Ken Oringer’s taqueria, La Verdad (1 Lansdowne St.), which stays open ‘til 2 a.m., and Game On! (82 Lansdowne St.), where you can catch a Sox game on one of the 90 TVs, and enter their Monster Seat giveaway during every away game. 
www.bostonnightclubnews.com/lansdownestreet/

Fenway/Kenmore: The skinny

• On Jan. 4, 1998, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino deemed Huntington Avenue the “Avenue of the Arts.”
• One of the neighborhood’s most famous landmarks is the LED CITGO sign in Kenmore Square. Erected in 1965 to replace an existing CITGO advertisement, the sign has held a place deep in the hearts of Bostonians and has become a well-known feature in the Boston skyline. The state turned it off in 1979 to great protest and when CITGO attempted to take the sign down in 1983, the residents of Boston came to its rescue. The sign was refurbished and re-lit later that year.
• In a bit of self-promotion, Metro Boston produces the only official free Red Sox publication to be distributed in and around Fenway Park during all home games. GameDay features a K card, scorecard, player profiles and fresh editorial content.