79 Broadway
Boston, MA 02116
(617) 426-8902
Boston Uncommon Colonial history, meet revolutionary modern. W Boston makes its dramatic entrance into the fashionable and storied theater district, an icon of contemporary sophistication where culture, shopping and nightlife buzz across a Victorian landscape.
The interior of Cure Lounge was designed by John Stefanon of JFS Design Studio, Inc. The design aesthetics of Cure Lounge were drawn from a strong focus on history and mood. Originally designed to be the ladies lounge and orchestra area to the theater this uniquely beautiful space called for an understated elegance evocative of the period. Finished with a “Victorian Chic” design, the glamorized cues of Cure Lounge are evident from the moment you step in. Bold dramatic statements of shapes and patterns with a subtle, sophisticated color palette, balance and juxtapose each other in Jing-Jang form to bring a unique vibe to this historical Boston gem. Cure Lounge’s mood is enhanced within as you transition from the Main Lounge to the Back Lounge and a more surreal aesthetic introduces what use to be the orchestra pit area. The inspiration of “moths drawn to a flame” called for dim lighting and elements were selected to transport patrons into a warm summer night on the streets of Shanghai – or a far away fantasy location. Both lounges were created to bring an exciting movement within time and fantasy.
The exquisitely designed space is the work of the famous JFS Studios, and encompasses everything our guests have come to expect in a nightlife destination. Since opening in 1999 Venu has impeccably maintained its position as the most sought-after cosmopolitan nightclub in Boston by providing unequaled customer service. Venu’s management goes all-out in an effort to ensure that all the club’s eclectic patrons leave with an exceptional and memorable experience. The chic and stunning 6,500 square foot space, with its sleek lines, rich textures and modern elements creates a harmonious aesthetic. A dazzling palette of colors complements the club’s elaborate details generating a well-appointed and contemporary vibe. The decor and design combine to create a world-class venue. The entrance into the main room presents a spectacular viewpoint. Stylish VIP tables surround the dance floor in a striking multi-tiered environment. The dance floor, set at the lowest tier, creates a brilliant focal point in the center of the room. Every night a state of the art sound system built to suit the needs of the most discerning of music types brings the club to life and a custom designed lighting system creates an ultra-sensory experience. Simply stated, this elegant and exclusive club is one of Boston’s most preferred places to party. Venu Nightclub and any one of its sister clubs can be specifically tailored to any group’s needs. Special events and corporate receptions can be booked at any time, availability permitting. Custom proposals and can be designed upon request. We offer a full range of event services from food and beverage packages to audio-visual products, decor, transportation, floral arrangements, customized gifts, and a diverse variety of entertainment options. For more information please send email to [email protected]. **Tuesdays - Hosted by Space Entertainment - Dj Roger -M plays Top 40's, Mash Ups and House **Fridays - Hosted by Space Entertainment - Dj Roger-M plays House, Hip-Hop, Latin, & Latin House **Saturdays - Hosted by 6ONE7 - Dj Hectik plays Top 40's, Mash ups and House
Classic comfort food nourishes the body and the soul. At MJ's, you’ll find a cozy neighborhood pub where you can enjoy a warm meal and a pint of ale. Join us in our inviting Back Bay location and enjoy a modern approach to traditional Irish favorites.
Whisky Saigon has set a new standard for Boston nightlife, featuring Funktion One surround sound, state of the art special effects and lux décor.
The prototypical nightspot fashioned by Pasha Entertainment and Interior Design by John Stefanon of JFS Design Studio, ICON blends the appeal of a high-energy nightclub and an ultra exclusive lounge and is redefining nightlife in Boston. With over 7,000 square feet of extraordinary design and extravagant décor as well as a state of the art sound and lighting system, ICON promises an exciting and over-the-top experience for the discerning dance music enthusiast.
The Jacob Wirth Restaurant is a historic German-American restaurant and bar in Boston, Massachusetts at 31-39 Stuart Street. Founded in 1868, Jacob Wirth is one of the oldest restaurants in Boston.The Greek Revival building housing the restaurant was constructed in 1844. The German style restaurant was founded in 1868 and is the second oldest continuously operating restaurant in the city after the Union Oyster House. The restaurant was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and designated a Boston Landmark in 1977. Jacob Wirth was the first distributor of Anheuser Busch products. The Wirth family and Anheuser family are from the same small town in Germany.In 2010, Chelsea developer "AJ Simboli Real Estate paid $1.6 million for the 14,000-square-foot eatery,"Popular CultureThe Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz movie Knight & Day filmed a wedding scene here.it was referenced during a meeting in Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly
Heralded as "Boston's living room," The Bristol Lounge provides a comfortable setting for dining and conversation any time of day. Tables offering views of Boston Public Garden line the floor-to-ceiling windows, and a fireplace warms the spacious room during the winter. Executive Chef Brooke Vosika uses local seasonal ingredients to create upscale comfort food including the famous Bristol Burger, homemade pastas and the best of New England seafood.
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Heralded as "Boston's living room," The Bristol Lounge provides a comfortable setting for dining and conversation any time of day. Tables offering views of Boston Public Garden line the floor-to-ceiling windows, and a fireplace warms the spacious room during the winter. Executive Chef Brooke Vosika uses local seasonal ingredients to create upscale comfort food including the famous Bristol Burger, homemade pastas and the best of New England seafood.
the other side helped to formulate who i am today and what i do. it was 1971 and i was a 15 year old runaway who with the help of my new best friend Geraldine, who id met at the free school we both went to,in Harvard square, had just come out of my closet. it was after a meeting at the gay liberation front offices (my first time being around a bunch of gay men was at a mattachine society dance a couple months before, where everyone stood around or danced stiffly, sipping on liquor-free punch), that i was invited to go to sporters. i was a ripe and ready 15 and walked into my first gay bar. there was a jukebox playing the supremes or such while all around the bar, placed in the center of the long thin room, stood the same preppy looking guys that i came in with from the glf meeting. i had a beer and sat taking it all in. it was exciting but boring. after sporters the guy who was driving me home had to make a stop at some other bar. we pulled up to this one and a half story windowless building with two large doorways on either side (was it black and white?). as the guy opened the door, a blast of music and whistles and raised voices rushed at me making me sit up and take notice. i looked around kind of nervously and noticed the other bar across the street (jacques) with tall scare -queens in full f*** make-up but no wig and pants with the shirt tied at waste, along with girls in high platforms and little hot pants all hanging out in front. lots of cars going around in circles, and really hot guys and elaborate drag queens walking quickly into what the sign across the top said was the other side. by the time the guy came back and we drove off i knew id be back to the other side soon. i felt like i was home. and i was. along with many other 14, 15, and 16 year olds that were runaways or were thrown out of the house for being gay. the people i met there became my family. the punch bowl had recently closed (i was till a little hippy in pennsylvania then), and the area around the other side was gay heaven. napoleons was down the street, jacques across the street, an upscale gay restaurant/lounge was right next to the o.s. and the concrete howard johnsons to one side of the building blocking what at one time was the exit to the street the os was on, made it like a little closed off square. having a sort of gay oasis was wonderful, it was like being in ptown. this was just two years after stonewall and gays could still be fired from their jobs, forced to move, be arrested for no reason, be committed to a mental hospital, and even lobotomized. those were still the days when theyd back the paddy wagon up against the entrance to the bar so they could herd you in. it was illegal for same sex to dance together or for gay bars to have a liquor license. when you walked into the os you passed through the doormen donald and allen who decided if you were cute enough and gay enough to let in. youd pay your two dollars, more on weekends, and enter into the p. b. pub. dark, with booths on the left, dim, fake tiffany lamps overhead, with the bar on the right. we would sit in the booths if we were waiting for the o.s. to open (many of us were street kids so had plenty of time. and.. the o.s. became home to us. we were there every night but monday), or on a weekend day for some reason. i remember vividly sitting in one of the booths before the bar with nan goldin, ( whos photos, she was taking at that time, are in her book "the other side"), my best friend geraldine, and two or three of the queens who later appeared in the book, just biding our time till they opened the door to the o.s.. you entered the o.s. through a door that had a sign that said you are entering the other side discotheque; the first time id seen that word. what i walked into, the first time i entered into the other side was like something out of barbarella, beyond the valley of the dolls and the boys in the band all rolled into one. oh, and sweet charity also. it was black, the walls were black, the only lights came from a couple dim spotlights recessed into the low ceiling, and the long bar on the other side of the room and to the right as you entered was the dance floor with its blinking christmas lights and small stage that scare queen extraordinaire, sylvia sydney would soon take over. but at that moment diana ross was singing surrender to the record that dj sam samsons was spinning in the dj booth to the left and up from the stage. as soon as diana ross (drag queen of course) got off the stage, it, and the area in front of it was instantly filled with thrashing and throbbing 16, 17 & 18 year old bodies bumping to the chacachas jungle fever. i just stood there with my mouth open.. black boys with huge afros, spandex tube tops and 6 inch platforms, beautiful full-f*** drag queens with top nots a foot high, high heels and cheekbones to die for, cute boys in tight shirts and tighter pants, the f** hags in their 40's dresses and high goody too shoes, eyebrows shaved and drawn on like jean harlow. and everyone was doing the bump. people today cant imagine just how dirty the bump could get :} i met all my best and longest friends at the other side, except for geraldine, my f** hag and partner in crime, we did everything together. there was jimmy melba, who was the diana ross id seen on the stage, soon to become just jimmy again, there was mary jane and donna, two best friends from southie, f** hags, but no bodies f** hag. bobby bellino, paul walsh, donnie ward...so many.. gordon, tilly, paul/fayja, dead jerry, blond jerry, bobby rae, lucy, naomli, collette, pearl, lola, pickles, varni/marlena, bea. lots of wild drag queens,. youd be dancing and all of a sudden youd be pushed or hear a loud crash and someone else had gotten hit over the head with a bear bottle. there were some gay girls and dykes, but they usually hung across the street at jaques, a place id frequent to visit my aunt priscilla and her lover sophie. the pimps hovered around the back of the bar while their hos set up their tricks, or older guys would take a boy to the bar and talk about how much etc. it was dark, and mostly low ceilinged, except for the dance floor which was two floors or so high. for about a year or so it was basically a private club, everyone knew everyone and everyone accepted everyone. it was dark and smelly, everyone was fucked up on black beauties and/or Quaaludes or tuinals, or acid or mescaline, or just pot and alcohol and pills (many a night wed have to put a passed-out friend or two into the back of geraldines buick electra), we knew we were being ripped off with watered down liquor, and the bathroom was a mess, and tex or sally would tell us, drink up bpys or youre gonna have to leave...and it was dangerous, but it was wonderful. the best music, soul macossa, kool & the gang hollywood swingin, funky stuff, the first choice, smarty pants, james brown, spinners, ill be around, lyn collins think about it little sister youre the one... this was before disco. my earliest really disco moment i remember at the other side was stop and think by the trammps. that, for me was the song that triggered a change in music geared specifically for the dance floor, and it was longer than the usual. but mostly at the o.s. it was soul, with some obscure rock like delaney & bonny crazy bout my baby, barabas woman, or j geils band give it to me. if i remember correctly, in the early days sam the dj had two turn tables but no mixer. sylvia sydney was a huge loud swearing scare queen in ratted afro wigs, long tight gowns and sporting a huge round belly, with no teeth. shed sing the opera come come to the chocolate soldier, and then go through the crowd and "read" different people in the crowd "ill read your beads mary!" but shed also mention that we should fight for our rights, she didnt take any s*** and neither should we. around 1973 they renovated the other side and added an upstairs area with a see through dance floor. slowly things started to change, theyd let in more straight people. and the bands that played boston like the new york dolls, david bowie, rolling stones, would all come in to talk to the queens. slowly 1270 got more popular, and then cabaret opened on lansdowne, and with the straighter crowd slowly coming onto the o.s., by 1974 it had changed. and geraldine and i had moved to new york. today im a photographer and artist and back in boston. my work revolves around what i experienced during my "other side" days that formulated who i am today. anyone from those days with any info, memories, photos, etc please contact me, i plan to get a web page started on the os. also any of the old drag queens still around. i want to photograph you! bobby busnach
The Cocoanut Grove was Boston's premier nightclub during the post-Prohibition 1930s and 1940s. On November 28, 1942, this club was the scene of the deadliest nightclub fire in history, killing 492 people and injuring hundreds more. The enormity of the tragedy shocked the nation and briefly replaced the events of World War II in newspaper headlines. It led to a reform of safety standards and codes across the country, and major changes in the treatment and rehabilitation of burn victims. It was the second-deadliest single-building fire in American history; only the 1903 Iroquois Theatre fire in Chicago had a higher death toll, of 605. It was only two years after the Rhythm Club fire which had killed 209.
Conway, Homer & Chin-Caplan, P.C. presently represents thousands of adults and children, located in all 50 states who have filed for compensation under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Program within the Federal Claims Court.
Theatre 1 has 225 luxurious seats and is outfitted with plush seating, ambient lighting and state-of-the-art projection and audio technology that can be used for everything from live performances to business presentations. Space 57 is a blank canvas and multi-dimensional event space that can accommodate up to 1,000 guests. The two combine to form the most dynamic venue in the city.
The Charles Playhouse, of Boston, Massachusetts, is a theater at 74 Warrenton Street in the Boston Theater District. Blue Man Group and Shear Madness currently perform there.