May 23, 2013
The Weekend Guide
May 23-26: Kick off the season with patio-side wine, a Cape jaunt, an eclair (or three), and a peek into a new West End hotel.
Four easy projects that will keep the kids outside all day.
May 23-26: Kick off the season with patio-side wine, a Cape jaunt, an eclair (or three), and a peek into a new West End hotel.
The 80-room, modern-industrial boutique hotel is housed in the Bulfinch Triangle flatiron building. Finch, the in-house restaurant, adds to the city’s hotel bar scene with $10 cocktails like Metro Cosmos (Grey Goose Pear, fresh lime, white cranberry).
Pastry chef Lee Napoli (ChocoLee Chocolates) feeds North Enders three times daily with breakfast pizzas, hearty sandwiches (duck confit, grilled pear and Brie), and summer salads (chopped Cobb, kale and faro). Forgo the late-night cannoli run for eclairs and chocolate beignets.
Where to send love (and help) to those affected by the Oklahoma City tornadoes.
In Sarah Nicholas Williams’s imagination, nightgown-clad mice lounge lazily on velvet sofas and billy goats take bike rides by the light of the moon. We grabbed a passport to the Shenandoah Valley-raised artist’s lyrical world, where she conjures her cavorting woodland creatures.
Offset Cape and Islands fatigue with a no-pressure jaunt to Bristol, a quintessential seaside retreat lacking only in pretension.
Set your DVR. Pass the Kleenex. Bring your own straws. We’re (back)packing up this week and sending it off with a sparkle.
An artistic mom shares the secrets to coloring her kids’ world happy.
May 16-19: Shift into warm-weather mode with a rooftop bar, a new garden store, and a summertime artisan fair.