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Get ready to laugh: there’s a comedy float in the parade.
Yes, that's right, a comedy float. What's a comedy float, you ask? Well, it's exactly what it sounds like a group of comedians on a [...]
Woods School of Irish Dance on the Move in the Neighborhood on Saturday
Get in the St. Patrick's Day spirit! Be on the lookout for the Woods School of Irish Dance stopping in at some Southie hot spots [...]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day – Parade Day circa 1974
What a rag-tag bunch of parade-goers this is. According to Dirty Old Boston, this photo was captured during the St. Patrick’s Day Parade back in [...]
St. Patrick’s Day Parade- The Inside Scoop from Parade Commander Randy Greeley
Aside from the Boston Marathon, St. Patrick’s Day is probably Boston’s biggest day of the year and most definitely South Boston's. Businesses sell green and [...]
Old School Dogs
Whatever happened to the old-school Southie dogs? You know the ones who just roam around the streets without a leash and no owner in sight. [...]
What We’re Reading – Southie Edition
Book 1: Counterfeit By Kirstin Chen I’m not one that’s interested in designer bags or name-brand things, but I am interested in scammers - and [...]
On this day in 1776 – Henry Knox returns from Fort Ticonderoga with 59 Cannons
With the Evacuation Day Parade (aka St. Patrick's Day Parade) on the horizon, a quick history lesson via Irish Boston. On January 24, 1776, 25-year-old [...]
Southie-Centric New Year’s Resolutions
I’m not really one to play the New Year’s Resolution game. For starters, most resolutions are broken by February. Eat better, go to the gym, [...]
Dating in the New Year – some helpful advice and tips from dating coach Michelle Wax
As the year is coming to a close and new episodes of Love is Blind and Too Hot To Handle are released, you might be [...]
The King of Layaway – A trip down memory lane
Written by Gino Provenzano Christmas is upon us, and the memories of days gone by and the purchasing power that I had as a kid [...]
Old School Southie: On this Day in 1911 on Dorchester Ave.
Waaaayyy back in the day! Boston City Archives sent us these fantastic photos of the Dorchester Ave. neighborhood from 1911. A Boston Public Works Department [...]
South Boston Foundation Now Accepting Proposals
The South Boston Foundation is a not-for-profit Trust formed in 2019 to administer a generous $1.5 million commitment from Massachusetts Port Authority over 10 years [...]
Gold Dust Orphans presents: Little Christmas Tree Shop of Horrors at the Lith. Club
The award-winning, Vaudeville-inspired comedy troupe Gold Dust Orphans moved to the South Boston Lithuanian Club on West Broadway a few years ago with a Christmas [...]
Thicc & Tired – A new podcast by Southie resident and model Ashley Elizabeth Gregory
Click click, click click. The fingers belonging to the photographers assembled in the cramped line outside the event seemingly never left their cameras. Constant flashing [...]
CIS Book Review: 3 Books to Give as Gifts
It’s a Co-Ho-Ho Christmas! And a completely different type of book is down below! Colleen Hoover is known as the romance author with a flair [...]
Old School Southie: Gillette encourages property damage to prove the strength of its razors
Stronger than glass Way back in 1932, Gillette encouraged people to use their razors to cut window panes to show just how strong the edges [...]
