Results tagged “bostongarden”

After giving a lot of thought to my first post as PotD editor for Bostonist, during which I came up with some really off-the-wall ideas, I decided that much like photography, it’s best to start with the basics. Here goes:

Tonight the New Garden will get a taste of what things used to be like at the Old Garden. The pomp, the circumstance, awe and jubilation coming together as a banner rises to the rafters. The Celtics will officially kick off their quest for back-to-back championships tonight, hosting Cleveland, but the game won't get underway until the Celts have a party 22 years in the making. The rings, the banners, the biggest Celtic celebration since 1986.

--So there was this blizzard in 1978, and the blizzard was ridiculous. But a blizzard can't be that bad if you get trapped at the Garden with color TV, beer, and hot dogs. [Boston Globe]

The Thomas Crown Affair and The Friends of Eddie Coyle Brattle Theatre, Harvard Square, Cambridge Wednesday-Thursday Showtimes and tickets Millionaire Beacon Hill residents have a lot of time on their hands. Who can blame them if they use it plotting bank heists? Norman Jewison's The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), which screens tonight and tomorrow at the Brattle, doesn't point any fingers. It's a schizophrenic movie with a paper thin plot and a clumsy script. Thomas...

Some might say that the downturn came when they dumped "The Nutcracker" in favor of "Radio City Christmas Spectacular", while others could counter it has more to do with the dumbing of America, but today may mark the darkest day yet in the history of Boston's performing arts culture. They're renaming the Wang Center for the Performing Arts.

When Bostonist heard that Banknorth, which recently bought the permanent naming rights of the Fleet Center from Delaware North, was holding a press conference today to announce the new name of the sports arena, Bostonist had a hunch that it was going to be good. Why create all this hoopla over naming it the "Banknorth Center" right? So when it was announced today that it will be called the "Banknorth Garden," Bostonist got a little happy to see that a piece of the city's history was coming back to Causeway Street. Sure, the old Boston Garden had it all: the real parquet flooring, Larry Bird's legendary whiping of the soles of his sneakers before each free throw, and those god awful "restricted viewing" seats, where you would watch the game on a tiny TV, while the fans a few rows in front of you had a clear view of the game. Unfortunately, the original garden was torn down in 1997 and rebuilt 6 inches away on a new foundation was the squanky Shawmut Center (and then the Fleet Center after another bank merger). Sure, it still had the original parquet flooring brought over from the Garden, but it was not the Garden, which was home to 16 Celtics' championships and 5 Bruins' Stanley Cups. While nothing will ever replace the Boston Garden, Banknorth did the right thing by at least respecting the old haunt that Bostonians came to love (and hate...no air conditioning in those post-season games were brutal for players and fans alike.) The name change officially takes over on July 1.

When Bank of America took over Fleet Bank last year, many were worried about their bank accounts and ATM fees. Others were more concerned about what they would rename the Fleet Center, which was once our cherished "Boston Garden." Yesterday, the new owner, Deleware North, has drummed up some publicity for the sports arena by allowing people to bid on Ebay to rename it for 24 hours. For one whole day, your arena will not...