Results tagged “kissme”

Walking to work today, Bostonist saw two people a day early in their full-out St. Patrick's Day Irish gear (green paper hat, "all about drinking and Irishness in a hard-drinking, heavily Irish town. But part of us clings to the belief that if people only knew more about Evacuation Day - commemorating an actual Revolutionary War victory in Boston (unlike Bunker Hill Day) - they would embrace it as we do. To that end, some...

It’s in these bleak days of March when you realize that winter is far from over. So, like most Bostonians, Bostonist takes to the local pubs to warm up and forget that there is a snowstorm on the way. Our Gothamist friends might be talking about a mysterious maple syrup scent in the city, but you might be wondering why a berry smell is wafting in from the waterfront. Well, the folks over at our...

Gene Wilder, known to many as either "Young Frankenstein" or "Willy Wonka", is appearing at Boston University's Tsai Performing Center on Wednesday night. He's in town to promote his new auto-biography, "Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art," where he hits on all the high (the role of a lifetime in "The Producers") and low points (his third wife, Gilda Radner, dying of ovarian cancer) of his life. While some look at auto-biographies as a tell-all of the Hollywood scene, Wilder tells a more endearing story, which has critics admiring the book. (He does dish a bt about clashing with some of Richard Pryor's views and reveals on the last page that the title of his book was a saying that Radner always used, but he never understood it.) WBUR's Robin Young will be interviewing him, with an audience Q&A to follow. The event starts at 7p.m.; the event is free. Tickets can be reserved starting at 5p.m.the night of the show.

Too bad they want to keep them all positive. Bostonist could think of few sayings to give to an ex via a Conversation heart...