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...Reilly said he was from a wealthy Irish family and owned an apartment on Beacon Hill. He said that his workload often prevented him from making the trip home...
...Baby, you close with something they knows!" That was the methodology for choosing encores of the legendary saloon singer Bobby Short. The Kroks could learn something from Bobby. Tonight, they have sung under the shadow of the Boston Statehouse on Beacon Street, in a residence owned by the mayor, and made their way on to one of the glitzier hotels in the area for another concert. After a pretty high-energy show, they have chosen an encore that's a bit dreary, a bit quiet and not at all appropriate for their drunken audience, with whom they...
...were charmed by Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes but wished at times that the author would have got out of the way of his own beguiling style, try All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (Beacon Press; 288 pages; $24), Michael Patrick MacDonald's guileless and powerful memoir of precarious life and early death in Boston's Irish ghetto...
Today, however, it is hard to deny his importance on the American political landscape, both because he has become something of a beacon for the traditionally disaffected voter, and because he is locked in a battle for control of the Reform Party with its eccentric founder, H. Ross Perot...
...yourself in architectural heritage-Boston by Foot (77 N. Washington St.; 367-3766; Monday to Saturday 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m.-2 p.m., tours run through October 31st rain or shine; $8; 90 minutes). Seven guided walks, covering the Freedom Trail, Back Bay Mansions, the Waterfront, Beacon Hill, the Italian North End, and "Boston Underground" (a tour of 19th-century crypts and engineering feats; read...