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...JOHN HANCOCK OBSERVATORY...
...building offers 100-mile views from its famed 60th floor windows--on a good day you can see New Hampshire's White Mountains. Visitors watch multimedia re-enactments of the American Revolution and play with "Funscopes." The Observatory's got great trivia games, too. Did you know the John Hancock building has precisely 10,344 windows? John Hancock Tower, Hancock Plaza and Copley Square. Ticket office: Trinity Place and St. James Ave. 572-6429. Open M-Sa 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Su 12 p.m. to 11 p.m. $4.25. T-stop: Copley or Back...
...name of his latest CD, "Brooklyn Basement Blues," may smack of high school amateurism, but Poppa Chubby is truly cosmopolitan. A blues guitarist extraordinaire, Poppa toured Europe earlier this year (and his posters dotted the Paris metro). See him this weekend. Johnny D's, 17 Hancock St., Somerville...
...Maybe entering a building inevitably filled with screaming elementary school students completely adverse to the idea of "seeing where history was made and a nation born" in a panoramic view of Boston isn't exactly appealing, but the John Hancock Building certainly is one of its kind. Not necessarily because it's that tall (nothing compared to New York City or Chicago), but because it has the most militant, bitter and angry security staff on earth. Of course, the Hancock Building's brochure trumpets praises for New England's tallest sky scraper: "come aboard the express elevator and feel...
...architecture of the Hancock tower is definitely striking. Sure, it's big, but the impressive aspect of the building is that is completely made of reflective glass and aggressive angles. Although it is fairly shocking to catch sight of yourself in the wall, the Hancock also reflects beautiful images of Trinity Church and Copley Square along with the posse of skaters who flock around the fountain next store and perch with the pigeons on the statue of Phillips Brooks. But back to the security issues. The Hancock is not exactly the site of surreptitious government activity or important UN operations...