You don't. Boston.com reports on Quincy city councilor Brian McNamee's fight to keep the Boston Babydolls Burlesque troupe out of town. (Not that Brian McNamee.) Other groups not welcome in the Birthplace of the American Dream include alleged creepy cults and small businesses.
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You could always shell out 90 smackers for a front row seat to Boston Ballet's annual production of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker." You'll get a nice plushy red seat at the Opera House, and be treated to the usual saccharine parade of sugar plum fairies, mouse soldiers, and marzipan shepherds.
Friday, November 21, 7-11 pm, $45
The Fluff Festival, a celebration of that delicious Marshmallow Fluff spread, was postponed yesterday. However, the event will happen this afternoon, complete with a surely-exquisite performance by a burlesque troupe, The Flufferettes. Be not worried by the rain! The Somerville Arts Festival has set up tents!
My great-grandmother used to take me to the Piantedosi bakery and buy me a roll to snack on while she picked out baked goods for the week- the smell in that place was amazing. Sometimes I still dream about being baked into a giant roll and gloriously eating my way out.
It wasn’t too long ago when a Burlesque show was something people would sneak into to catch some flesh and some naughty humor. Fast forward to today where something as simple as a burlesque show put on by a few friends in a small club has turned into platinum-selling record, inspiration for haute couture and the launch of a girl from Michigan into a pop culture icon.
Brrrrlesque Saturday, December 15, midnight Coolidge Corner Theater, 290 Harvard St., Brookline (T: Coolidge Corner) $12.50 in advance, $20 at the door Official Boston Babydolls site In the press release we got, Boston Babydolls impresario Scratch declares, "People hate the cold, the rising gas prices, and - of course - the snow. But there's a lot that's beautiful about new England in the winter, and we wanted to remind people of some of those things."...
