Summer Restaurant Week is finally here! This means that Boston’s best restaurants are serving up their very finest for a very fair price. At participating locations, diners can enjoy prix fixe menus, with 2-course lunches priced at $15.10, 3-course lunches for $20.10, and 3-course dinners costing $33.10.  This amazing event is taking place throughout Boston, Cambridge, the suburbs and beyond. So, be sure to visit that restaurant you’ve always dreamed about or try something new in your neighborhood! Boston’s Summer Restaurant Week is sure to make your stomachs and your wallets smile!

Please click on Boston Restaurant Week for a list of participating restaurants, including our very own Turner Fisheries!

Jose, Concierge

Come by Turner Fisheries on Saturdays at lunch to get your personally made Bloody Mary.

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Are you looking for something fun to do on a date or with a group of friends in Boston?  Well, you have not seen comedy theatre until you have been to Improv Asylum.  Located right on Hanover Street, Improv Asylum is easy to get to and in the heart of Boston’s awesome North End.

A blend between Whose Line is it Anyway? and Saturday Night Live, Improv Asylum provides a hilarious comedic theatre experience to everyone at a relatively inexpensive price.  For show schedules and tickets go online to http://www.improvasylum.com/.

On the evening of Sunday, April 11th, author David Sedaris will be appearing at Boston Symphony Hall. Presented by the Celebrity Series of Boston, this performance by Sedaris will be sure to delight anyone with a taste for satire. David Sedaris is well known as one of America’s most preeminent humor writers The great skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that Sedaris is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today. He has published countless books and essays and is beloved by fans around the world. To purchase tickets to this event, check out the Celebrity Series of Boston’s website here: http://www.celebrityseries.org/CS_performers_2009_2010/sedaris.htm.

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The 2010 International Conference of Doble Clients, held at the Westin Copley Place, is an elite and advantageous conference about electric utility and testing company representatives. Created by nine Client Committees, the conference embodies the benefit of a unified, nevertheless a distinctive proficiency. This year will commemorate the 77^th year that Doble Engineering has hosted, which is known to be as the industry’s priceless event.

All companies with a Services Agreement with Doble are qualified to attend.

Moreover, non-clients are invited to the Conference as guests upon request. To request a guest invitation, please email to events@doble.com.

The deadline for booking your room is Friday, February 26th.
March 21- March 26, 2010
Westin Hotel Copley Place, Boston, MA, USA

Horn’s work is very diverse and shows how one’s own identity can change compared to water, weather, and time. This display will include sculptures, photographs, collaged drawings, artist books, sound works, and installations. Many of her works are composed of pairs, multi-sided parts, or series that invite comparison between their elements.

Poetry and language are main inspriations and her work will get one thinking about how we see, how we understand our memories and experiences, and the ever changing conditions we live in. This exhibition is an experience in itself.

John Mayer is coming to Boston, MA at the TD Garden on February 24^th at 8:00pm! This can’t miss concert will feature special guests Michael Franti and Spearhead. The seven-time Grammy Award winning artist’s tour will feature songs from his newly released 4^th studio album, Battle Studies.

Ticket prices range from $38.50- $78.50. Tickets can be purchased online at TDBankNorthGarden.com, the TD Garden Box Office, all Ticketmaster outlets, or by calling 800.745.3000. You will not want to miss his amazing performances so purchase tickets today!

On display are prints, book illustrations, and paintings that depict a comparison of the commoners of early modern Edo to the lords and ladies of ancient Heian-kyō. This exhibition is the third in a series commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the sister city relationship between Boston and Kyoto.

For those people who want to try something new, romantic and fun, check out these five Valentine’s Day events around Boston:

If you’re a little short on cash (who isn’t) for the upcoming holiday, try bringing your date to the Commons for some frog pond skating. On Sundays the skating rink is open all day (10am – 9pm), so you can start your night, or end it, here. Skating with couples and singles alike can give you a little more lighthearted fun then the quiet of a high-end (and expensive) restaurant. When you’re done you can go for a walk in the Boston Public Gardens which beautiful even in winter.

Fore more information on the frog pond head to http://www.bostoncommonfrogpond.org/

If skating isn’t your thing, and you want a more relaxing adventure, travel back to the ’40s with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Berman for the Brattle Theatre’s showing of Casablanca. Show times are at 4:15, 7:00, and 9:45. After the show walk through beautiful and bustling Harvard square to check out some of the Valentine’s events that are taking place during the day.

Tickets are available from Brattle Theatre here: http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/index.html

For animal lovers out there, The New England Aquarium presents the perfect opportunity to meet anything from a penguin to a seadragon. The Franklin Park Zoo, on the other hand, affords couples that are sick of the cold with the chance to visit the tropics through their 72 degree tropical forest exhibit.

New England Aquarium: http://www.neaq.org/index.php

Franklin Park Zoo: http://www.zoonewengland.org/

The Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum’s Venetian Valentine Evening Soiree is a chance for those of us with a little more money to spend to explore real romance while supporting a good cause. The evening features Jazz music and a romantic tour of the museum, followed by cocktails and dessert in one of Boston’s most beautiful venues. This should make for an unforgettable night.

ISGM Venetian Valentine: http://www.gardnermuseum.org/valentine.asp

Whatever your plans are for Valentine’s day, its sure to be romantic in Boston. If none of these fit you style, and you’re looking for a great seafood restaurant, check out the Westin Copley’s Turner Fisheries for their award winning presentation of New England favorites.

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