KitchenWares by Blackstones is hosting a holiday “Cash Mob” on Saturday, December 3 from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. in their Back Bay store located at 215 Newbury Street. The cash mobs are part of Constant Contact’s and KitchenWares by Blackstone’s larger efforts to encourage local holiday shoppers to “buy it in your own backyard,” while raising awareness and donations for the Boston-based nonprofit Community Servings.
As a great way to bridge the online and offline experience, cash mobs bring communities and local businesses together, inspiring customers to shop locally. Holiday shoppers are encouraged to visit KitchenWares by Blackstones and participate in their cash mob by bringing a donation for Community Servings while also taking advantage of the prizes, premium giveaways, and store gift cards that will be awarded during the event.
“Cash mobs are a fun way to bring the Back Bay community together while supporting a great cause,” said Co-Owner Jennifer Hill. “While the event is only scheduled for a few hours, we’ll be carrying the spirit of it long after the holiday season as we are committed to supporting other small businesses and the Boston community at large.”
Join Hampshire House for an evening of Broadway and Hollywood musicals that take on great novels with songs, drinks and a three-course dinner prepared by Chef Markus Ripperger. Dine to songs from Show Boat, The King & I, Pal Joey, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Roberta Gypsy and more with singers including Jean Danton, Michelle Deluise, Davron Monroe, Benjamin Sears, and with pianist Bradford Conner.
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The Associates of the Boston Public Library is pleased to invite you to the 29th Annual Literary Lights awards dinner.
Join the BPL on Sunday, April 23, 2017, at the Boston Park Plaza for a spectacular black tie (optional) evening honoring distinguished authors from the Northeast for their contributions to literature and the written word. The evening begins with a reception at 6:00 PM, followed by dinner and the awards program at 7:00 PM.
The Associates of the Boston Public Library are honored to recognize the following authors as their 2017 Literary Lights:
Presented by: Hentry Louis Gates, Jr.
Appiah is a philosopher, novelist, professor and cultural theorist. He grew up in Ghana and earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Cambridge University in London. Professor Appiah has lectured around the world and taught at Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Duke and Harvard Universities before moving to New York University where he now teaches in the Department of Philosophy. In 2009 Forbes Magazine named him one of the world’s most powerful thinkers, in 2010 he was on the list of Foreign Policy Magazine’s top global thinkers, and he was awarded the National Humanitarian Medal at a White House ceremony in 2012. Appiah, the author of numerous books and articles, has traveled around the world giving lectures on multiculturalism, global citizenship, courage, identity, and religion. One of his early books, In My Father’s House, which explores the role of African American intellectuals in shaping contemporary African life, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Herskovits Award for the most important scholarly work on African studies published in English. Appiah is well known for his columns and podcasts as the Ethicist for the New York Times.
Presented by: Christopher Lydon
Faludi is a journalist and author who has written extensively on gender issues. In 1991 she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for a piece on the leverage buyout of Safeway Stores, focusing on the “human cost of high finance.” After graduating from Harvard University, where she wrote for The Harvard Crimson, she was a contributor to the New Yorker, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Nation, as well as many other publications. In the 1980s Faludi wrote several pieces on the feminist movement and the resistance to it, resulting in her 1991 book, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. She went on to write Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man, The Terror Dream, and, most recently, The Darkroom, which was inspired by her father’s transsexuality. She was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies in the 2008-2009 academic year and a 2013-2014 Tallman Scholar in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at Bowdoin College.
Presented by: Andre Dubus III
Lamb is the best-selling author of She’s Come Undone, I know This Much is True, The Hour I First Believed, and Wishin’ and Hopin’. His first two books were selected for Oprah’s Book Club, were New York Times best-sellers, New York Times Notable Books of the Year and, between them, have been translated into 18 languages. His latest novel is We Are Water. Lamb has also edited two volumes of essays: Couldn’t Keep it to Myself and I’ll Fly Away, written by students in his writing workshops at a women’s prison in Connecticut. He has taught creative writing in the English department at the University of Connecticut, was founder and director of the Writing Center at Norwich Free Academy, has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Connecticut Commission for the Arts, and was honored with the Connecticut Center for the Book’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Presented by: Gregory Maguire
Selznick graduated from RISD where he studied illustration and, while there, took classes in set design at Brown University. After graduation, he worked at a children’s book store in New York City while writing his debut book, The Houdini Box. In 2008 he won the Caldecott Medal from the American Library Association, for The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the first such award for a book this long; 533 pages with 284 illustrations. The book was adapted into a 2011 film, Hugo, directed by Martin Scorsese. He has also been awarded a 2002 Caldecott Honor for his illustrations of Barbara Kerley’s The Dinosaurs of Waterhorse Hawkins. In addition, Mr. Selznick has received the Texas Bluebonnet Award, the Rhode Island Children’s Book Award and the Christopher Award, given to media which “affirm the highest values of the human spirit.”
Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall (Keynote Speaker)
Presented by: David Leonard
Marshall was born in South Africa where, as a student, she led the National Union of South African Students, working to end oppressive minority rule and achieve equality for all South Africans. Marshall first came to the US as a high school exchange student in Wilmington, DL in 1962, as the civil rights battles were beginning to boil over, and later returned to the US for graduate school, where she became involved with the anti-war and the women’s movements. After Yale Law School, she entered private practice, became President of the Boston Bar Association, Vice President & General Counsel for Harvard University, and then went on to the State’s Supreme Court, where she became the first female Chief Justice of the oldest continuously serving appellate court in the Western Hemisphere. Though she has had many accomplishments, Justice Marshall is most renowned for her 2003 opinion which led Massachusetts to become the first state in the nation to outlaw the ban on same-sex marriage. Although she loved her time on the bench, Justice Marshall stepped down in 2010. She now mentors young lawyers at her former law firm, Choate Hall & Stewart, and teaches at Harvard University.
In addition to celebrating the accomplishments of these outstanding writers, proceeds from Literary Lights support the David McCullough Conservation Fund, William O. Taylor Art Preservation Fund, Associates Endowment Fund, and the Associates of the Boston Public Library’s operations. The Associates created the McCullough Fund in 2001 to provide a consistent source of funding for the conservation and preservation of books, manuscripts, works of art and historic documents in the BPL’s Special Collections.
If you would prefer to receive a mailed invitation or for more information about sponsorship opportunities, please contact the Associates office at associates@bpl.org or (617) 536-3886. Thank you.
Chef de cuisine Raphael Lambert
Sommelier Alexandre Sojfer
& Nathan Derri
Menu
Chesnut velouté, truffle oil & parmesan shaving
Pinot gris Grand cru Spiegel 2013 Schlumberger
Pan seared Sea Scallops over a creamy artichokes truffle risotto
Esprit du Chevalier Blanc 2013 Péssac Léognan
Grilled Venison, butternut squash mousseline,
Chanterelles mushrooms, Black truffles, fresh figs, jus naturel
Madiran, 2011 Ch Montus
Brie de Meaux, truffled Mascarpone
Banyuls 2015 Chapoutier
or
Chocolate tart filled in Cappucino creme brûlée
Champagne Grand Cru Blanc de Blanc NV Mesnil
Rory Caviness Craft Digest Cocktail
4 courses dinner menu $75 per person.
Add wine pairing $39.
For the whole table only.
Chef de cuisine Raphael Lambert
Sommelier Alexandre Sojfer
& Nathan Derri
Menu
Chesnut velouté, truffle oil & parmesan shaving
Pinot gris Grand cru Spiegel 2013 Schlumberger
Pan seared Sea Scallops over a creamy artichokes truffle risotto
Esprit du Chevalier Blanc 2013 Péssac Léognan
Grilled Venison, butternut squash mousseline,
Chanterelles mushrooms, Black truffles, fresh figs, jus naturel
Madiran, 2011 Ch Montus
Brie de Meaux, truffled Mascarpone
Banyuls 2015 Chapoutier
or
Chocolate tart filled in Cappucino creme brûlée
Champagne Grand Cru Blanc de Blanc NV Mesnil
Rory Caviness Craft Digest Cocktail
4 courses dinner menu $75 per person.
Add wine pairing $39.
For the whole table only.
Chef de cuisine Raphael Lambert
Sommelier Alexandre Sojfer
& Nathan Derri
Menu
Chesnut velouté, truffle oil & parmesan shaving
Pinot gris Grand cru Spiegel 2013 Schlumberger
Pan seared Sea Scallops over a creamy artichokes truffle risotto
Esprit du Chevalier Blanc 2013 Péssac Léognan
Grilled Venison, butternut squash mousseline,
Chanterelles mushrooms, Black truffles, fresh figs, jus naturel
Madiran, 2011 Ch Montus
Brie de Meaux, truffled Mascarpone
Banyuls 2015 Chapoutier
or
Chocolate tart filled in Cappucino creme brûlée
Champagne Grand Cru Blanc de Blanc NV Mesnil
Rory Caviness Craft Digest Cocktail
4 courses dinner menu $75 per person.
Add wine pairing $39.
For the whole table only.
Shop Vince and Raise Funds for Breast Cancer Research
Vince at 71 Newbury Street invites you to join them in raising funds for breast cancer research with Lion Heart. Twenty percent of all sales on November 18 will be donated to Lion Heart’s breast cancer research fundraising team.
Lion Heart is committed to finding a cure for breast cancer. Founded and led by Kathleen van Rijn, Lion Heart supports Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven and the Yale Cancer Center by endowing breast cancer research grants. 100% of all money raised is donated to Breast Cancer Research.
To learn more about Lion Heart, please click here.
To learn more about Vince, please click here.
Help Celebrate Faherty’s 1-Year Anniversary on Newbury Street
Faherty will be hosting a party on Saturday, April 28 from 3:00-6:00 P.M. to celebrate their one year anniversary in Boston. There will be food/drinks and music. Founders/Designers Mike and Alex Faherty will also be in the store to celebrate the anniversary!
For more information about the Faherty brand, please click here.
Special guests of Century Bank are collaborating to offer a fun and unique event to Realtors, their clients and local residents. Award winning Interior Designer; Dane Giamichael/Dane Austin Design – Architect; Steve Reilly of SLR Architecture and the talented Aga Orlowska, Art Curator – The Gallery Event will be amongst the panel of experts available. The day will be interactive, fun and exciting with local artwork, gift certificate drawings, light refreshments available. Free 15-minute consultations will be available based on schedule availability. A fun and free way to decide, should we move? Build/extend? Redesign/Refresh?
For more information, please click here.
The Hottest Standup Comedy Showcase Comes to Cafeteria on Newbury
The last Wednesday of every month at Cafeteria features an unforgettable experience combining the most talented local and national comedians, including previous winners of the Boston Comedy Festival, acts that have been on Conan, Jimmy Kimmel, Late Night with Steven Colbert, Comedy Central, Sirius XM and more.
Not only is this show completely free – you can enjoy free drink samples from our sponsors* (that’s right – free alcohol!), $5 burgers, and a custom drink menu full of cocktails available exclusively during the show – if it seems too good to be true, Cafeteria invites you to come see for yourself
Doors open at 7pm, the show begins at 8pm – previous shows have packed to capacity, so while this event is not ticketed, we do recommend arriving early to reserve a seat.
