Bravo hits the road again with a customized “Top Chef” 18-wheeler semi-truck destined for Boston, in partnership with Comcast, as part of the network’s highly-anticipated fifth annual “Top Chef: The Tour.” The 15-city tour brings the Emmy and James Beard Award-winning, No. 1 food show on cable to fans and foodies nationwide. Back by popular demand, the tour will feature a show-down between two former Chef’testants who will compete in a live, interactive cook-off in front of “Top Chef” fans with a panel of local judges and audience members.

The free event offers fans the unique opportunity to meet and greet the Chef’testants they’ve come to know and root for, hear “Top Chef” show “secrets,” and, for the first time ever, step into the judges shoes and rate their favorite Chef’testants’ food.

Photo courtesy Sweet Cheeks

Top Chef will come to Boston for a day for an exhibition with Boston chef Tiffani Faison, owner of Sweet Cheeks Q, a Fenway barbecue restaurant.

 

Guests willhave the opportunity to participate in a variety of on-site activities, including: a “Top Chef”-themed Cornhole Toss; Tip the Scale, where fans will be tasked with putting items in order of weight; and a “Top Chef” Horseshoe Toss. Attendees will also have the chance to win prizes in an affiliate-sponsored challenge, presented locally by Comcast. Additionally, visitors can purchase Bravo and “Top Chef” merchandise on-site. “Top Chef: The Tour” is brought to you locally by Cambridge Culinary Academy and Jasper Summer Shack. For more information, visit http://www.bravotv.com/thetour.

WHO: Bravo’s “Top Chef” Chef’testants Winner Hosea Rosenberg (Season 5) and Tiffani Faison (Season’s 1 & 8).

WHEN: Tuesday, May 22. Three live competitive and mouth-watering interactive shows are open to the public at 10:30 AM, 12:00 PM & 1:30 PM.

WHERE: 1 Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Boston, MA. In front of Quincy Market Building.

Annual Board of Managers Meeting

Date:          Thursday, May 17, 2012

Time:                   7:00pm

Place:         The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Boston Common

                    Salon I, 2^nd floor

I. Welcome

• Update The Ritz-Carlton Hotel                                     Rajesh Khubchandani

II. Call to Order                                                                                   Mark Winkellar

III. Establish Quorum                                                                        Mark Winkellar

IV. Board Introduction                                                                     Mark Winkellar

V. Approval 5/18/2011 Annual Meeting Minutes              Mark Winkeller

VI. Décor Update                                                                               Maureen Phillips

VII. Treasurers Update                                                                   Bob Kozik

VIII.  Parking Update                                                                      Bruce McCue

IX.  Year in review- New goals 2012/2013                           Mark Winkeller

X.  Election of Managers                                                          Berger, Katz, Weishaus,                 .                                                                                                            Nikosey & Lenza, P.C.

XI. Open Discussion

XII.  Adjournment

Cocktails and Hors D’oeuvres at 8:30

Babe Ruth’s five-bedroom, 3.5 bath home on Dutton Road where the pitching and hitting legend lived from 1922 to 1926 has been listed for $1.65 million. The property offers 5,124 square feet of space with manicured grounds, updated systems, a chef’s kitchen, richly detailed family room, and a sunny master suite with vaulted ceilings, according to the listing agency.

In addition, the property has a 5,000-square-foot barn with horse stables, sub-divided office space, working garage bays and storage for the hobbyist. A top-floor apartment in the barn includes a full kitchen, full bathroom and bedroom all located adjacent to the house. This barn is zoned for residential and commercial use.

Legend has it that the residence was the site of many wild parties hosted by Ruth, including one where Babe pushed a piano into nearby Willis Pond.

Ruth became a permanent fixture in the Boston Red Sox rotation in 1915, accumulating an 18-8 record with an ERA of 2.44, according to BabeRuth.com. He followed up his successful first season with a 23-12 campaign in 1916, leading the league with a 1.75 ERA. In 1917, he went 24-13 with a 2.01 ERA and a staggering 35 complete games in 38 starts. On Dec. 26, 1919, Babe was sold to the New York Yankees    and the Curse of the Bambino was born.

The star pitcher discovered Sudbury not long after he joined the Red Sox as a hitting pitcher, according to “Babe Ruth: Gentleman Farmer.” Several veteran Red Sox players, including his catcher, Chet Thomas, rented or owned camps in the Pine Lakes area where they could fish, hunt and party without being disturbed. By 1919, Ruth was using a camp on Willis Lake owned by sports enthusiast Larry Joyce. He continued to come to Sudbury even after he was traded to Jacob Ruppert’s New York Yankees that winter.

In 1922, Ruth purchased the Sylvester Perry Farm, as it was called then, along with a camp located on Willis Lake. He moved his wife, Helen, and adopted daughter, Dorothy, there soon after. He dubbed the farm “Home Plate.”

From The Boston Business Journal

Say good bye to Bina and hello to the Max & Dylans group new adventures on Avery: Sips Wine Bar and Avery Provisions.

Also, going out near by, Mantra will close it doors.

Photo by David Williams… thanks Dave

According to the Boston Business Journal it should be an interesting day:

After a mostly quiet few months for Occupy Boston, the movement’s local contingent has a day of protests planned for May 1, as part of a call for global demonstrations by the group.

According to OccupyBoston.org, the group will mark May 1 — a day that celebrates workers internationally — with a call for people to strike, skip work, walk out of school and abstain from shopping and banking in support of the ’99 percent.’ ”

In Boston, protests are scheduled to start at 7 a.m. for a “Financial District Block Party” at the intersection of Federal Street and Franklin Street, per the group’s website.

The day’s activities also will include a May Day rally at Boston City Hall Plaza at noon and a “Death of Capitalism Street Theater Funeral Procession” at 8 p.m. on May 1, during which time participants are invited to either, “participate as a mourner (dress in black), a celebrator (wear neon/bright colors/glow stuff) or be part of the skeleton bloc.”

A representative from Occupy Boston could not immediately be reached for comment.

City officials declined comment.

Here is the low down on events.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

7:00 AM – Financial District Block Party: Meet at the intersection of Federal & Franklin Streets in downtown Boston.

11:00 AM – Anti-Capitalist March from Copley Square to City Hall Plaza

12:00 NOON – May Day rally at Boston City Hall Plaza / Government Center

2:00 PM – Solidarity march from LoPresti Park in East Boston to Everett

3:30 PM – Rally at Chelsea City Hall

4:00 PM – March to Glendale Park, Everett

7:00 PM – Gathering at Copley Square Park for the Death of Capitalism Street Theater Funeral Procession

The entire 5 member board will be elected for a one year term. Interested owners are encouraged to place their names into the election process  to serve as a member. A simple board application and photo is all it takes to be placed on the ballot. But hurry, paper work must be received by the acting DOR by Monday, April 16th. Ballots will be mailed to all current owners of record shortly after.

Great opportunity to become engaged in the management of our building.

Go Bruins! Good luck in the playoffs!

The developer of a proposed 10-story office building in Boston’s Theatre District is facing a foreclosure auction on the property where the offices would be built.

Hera Development Corp. in Brighton, Mass., could lose the vacant three-story property it bought at 212 Stuart St. in 2007 for $6.5 million. A planned 2009 groundbreaking for the $30 million office building at the shuttered Jae’s restaurant and an adjacent parking lot never took place.

An auction has been scheduled by Paul E. Saperstein Co. on the property for Monday, April 23 at 2 p.m. The 3,317-square-foot parcel contains a 10,000-square-foot brick building that has been gutted and requires a total rehab.

Under the plan approved by the BRA , the existing building near the W Hotel & Residences was to be incorporated into the design of a new mid-rise office building to be built on a parking lot located at 222 Stuart St. In 2006, the BRA approved an eight-story building with 18 condominiums and 33,500 square feet of ground-floor retail for the site. But the deal fizzled as the residential housing market collapsed and Hera switched the use to offices.