The Beantown Bloggery

Bloggery rep Vkuo swung by the Rebecca Minkoff event at Saks last week to check out the new purse/bag collection.

Like the name states, the new candy store on Boylston is indeed a Sugar Heaven. Media rep Dwillens swung by the grand opening and snapped a few pics to post here. And I think I may have diabetes now just from looking at them too long.


Looks like their website is down right now, but check them out, their address is:  669 Boylston Street.

Looks like today is a food-themed day.  It could be because I was starving all afternoon.  I was swamped with work and didn't have time to eat lunch, so all I had during the day was a bowl of cereal.  But it's ok, I made up for it at dinner.  But, I digress.  Also coming up in a little over a week is the 15th Annual Taste of Back Bay - on 4/8.

The Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay (NABB) will be hosting its 15th annual Taste of the Back Bay this April. Back Bay residents and guests alike will have the opportunity to try cuisine from the finest restaurants in the area all while enjoying the breathtaking city views from the Prudential Skywalk Observatory. This year’s participating restaurants include: Da Vinci Ristorante; Haru Sushi; Pairings; Stanhope Grille; and Vox Populi.

Prudential Center Skywalk Observatory – 800 Bolyston Street, Boston
Thursday, April 8th, 2010 from 6:30 – 9:30pm
Members of NABB: $75 per person.
Non-members: $85 per person.

Click (here) to get tickets.

Ya'll know that I love to eat.  So I always pay particular attention to food festivals and expos.  Coming up in a little over a week is the "Local Bites" preview party. 

“Local Bites,” a festive preview party and food tasting event on Friday,  April 9th from 5pm to 9pm for the Down:2:Earth green living festival, will bring together local chefs, food producers, green restaurants and sustainable wine sellers to celebrate Boston’s thriving local food culture.

Come after work to browse the expo, talk to the exhibitors, and be entertained...all while sampling local bites and sipping organic wine.  Meet and mingle with the rest of the Boston foodie scene along with the leaders of the eco-industries and natural foods movement.

Friday, April 9 - 5:00p to 9:00p
at Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston St, Boston, MA
Price: $20 online - $25 at the door
Phone: (617) 266-6540
Age Suitability: All Ages

Click (here) to get more info.

Ok, so I have mixed feelings about this.  I was ok with Ferran Adria closing El Bulli for a couple of years to 'reconcept' the restaurant.  Cause God knows I'm going to need at least that much time to save up enough money to actually fly to Spain and eat there ... that is if I can ever get a reservation.  But he's now going to teach at Harvard?  Come one, stick with cooking.  Or at least teach at Le Cordon Bleu. 

Spanish celebrity chef Ferran Adria, who has concocted treats such as ravioli made from squid and freeze-dried foie gras, is teaming up with Harvard University to offer an undergraduate course in culinary physics at the Ivy League school.

Adria will begin teaching in the fall at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the university said Wednesday. His general education science course will use cooking to introduce students to soft matter physics, which involves the study of suspensions and gels.

Welcome to Boston, Ferran.  But, let's not lose focus on El Bulli, por favor.

Click (here) to read the rest of the article.

What business does a single guy have shopping at Costco, you ask?  None at all.  Except that they have a great wine selection at the one near the Ikea.  And I always like to drool over the TV's while I'm there.

Click (here) for the original coupon site.

I just recently started watching anime again.  I watched a little bit as a kid and then nothing and then now I'm hooked on Naruto and Full Metal Alchemist.  Coming up next week is Anime Boston.

Anime Boston is an annual three-day Japanese animation convention held in Boston, Massachusetts. Anime Boston 2010 will be held Friday, April 2nd through Sunday, April 4th at the Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Boston Hotel.

Anime Boston 2010 will once again be presenting popular events which include a masquerade, an anime music video contest, video programming rooms, an artists' alley and art show, karaoke, game shows, video games, manga library, dances and balls, and much more... We'll also be hosting some special guests and industry representatives at Anime Boston.

I recently watched Death Note.  That one was pretty good as well.  Any other suggestions?

Click (here) for more info.

How often do these things happen?  I could have sworn a Snuggie Pub Crawl already happened.  Am I losing my mind?  According to the site though, this is the first one.

Blankets are OK but they can slip and slide, plus your hands and beer are trapped inside.  Crawl In Boston is excited to be throwing our very first Snuggie Crawl on March 27th, 2010 with proceeds to benefit the Hattie B. Cooper Community Center

3/27/10 – Snuggie Crawl

Subject To Change
1:45 – Grand Canal
2:30 – The Point
3:15 – Red Sky
4:00 – Trinity
4:45 – Sanctuary
5:30 – Jose McIntyre’s
6:15 – The Place
7:00 - McFadden’s
7:45 – Close – Market Boston

Click (here) for more info.

I'm usually pretty on top of my events that involve beer, but somehow I missed the start of the New England Real Ale Exhibition which started yesterday.  It's still going on until 3/27, so there's still time (hopefully).

The New England Real Ale Exhibition, benefiting the VFW, is held each spring at the George Dilboy Post, Davis Square, Somerville, MA.

NERAX 2010 is our 14th Festival. As in 2009, we plan on offering over 80 firkins of Real Ale. Half U.K. beers from England, Scotland, and Wales; and half American beers from New England. All the beers are cask-conditioned, served by gravity or hand-pump.

Session Times and Festival Admission Prices

Wednesday  6:00 - 10:30 p.m.   $15
Thursday   6:00 - 10:30 p.m.  $15
Friday   6:00 - 10:30 p.m.  $15
Saturday 12:00 - 7:00 p.m.  $10

Cash Bar Prices
Imperial Pint $6.00
Half Pint $3.00
Quarter Pint $2.00

Click (here) for details.

Just got this email forwarded to me from a Bloggery reader about a volunteer opportunity that sounds pretty great.  For those of you on a tight budget (tix to the event are $85), if you volunteer to work the day/night of the event, you can stick around for just a $25 donation.  It's all in the email below:

Dear Friend,

My name is Matthew Kotlove and I am currently serving as an AmeriCorps member with Share Our Strength's Operation Frontline program. This year we are pleased to announce that Share Our Strength^’s annual Taste of the Nation^® Boston, will take place on Thursday, April 8, 2010 at the Hynes Convention Center. Boston’s best restaurants, along with their chefs, will gather to raise money to help end childhood hunger in our community and in America. With over 1000 in attendance, the evening will feature delectable cuisine prepared by Boston’s finest chefs, fine wine and spirits from around the world, along with an impressive silent auction and live entertainment. It is the only event of its kind from which 100 percent of ticket sale proceeds support vital Boston organizations such as The Greater Boston Food Bank, Project Bread, and Operation Frontline MA, as well as other anti-hunger organizations across the country. For more information regarding the event please visit www.tasteofthenation.org .

Thank you to all of you who helped to make last year’s event a huge success. I am currently in the process of recruiting volunteers for this year's event. We hope that we can count on you to share your strength by donating your time and energy this year. 2010 marks Taste of the Nation Boston’s 22^nd anniversary, and with a fundraising goal of $150,000, we need your help more than ever!

Below you will find a list of the various tasks related to set-up and night-of activities. You are welcome to choose a task/position that suits your schedule and interest, and I will do my best to accommodate requests. Lunch and dinner will be provided for all volunteers on Wednesday as well as lunch on Thursday. We also invite all volunteers who work on the evening of April 8th to take part in the activities prior to or after their shift. We do ask that volunteers who wish to join in the festivities please make a $25 contribution toward Share Our Strength’s efforts to end childhood hunger.
 
• Wednesday, April 7 Schedule
Shift 1: 11am-2pm
Shift 2: 2pm-5pm
Shift 3: 5pm-8pm
Tasks: Moving and unloading equipment, Organizing paper goods, Decorations, Signage, Table set-up, Mylar, Pipe n’ drape

• Thursday, April 8 Set-up Schedule
Shift 1: 10am-2pm
Shift 2: 2pm-5pm
Tasks: Moving and lifting equipment, Organizing paper goods, Decorations, Signage, Table set-up, Mylar, Pipe n’ drape, Goody bag stuffing

• Thursday, April 8 Night-of Schedule
Various shifts: 5-9:30pm
Sincerely,
Matthew Kotlove

This one's for those of you on the South Shore.  I'm not sure which Nordstrom you currently shop at, but looks like one's about to get a whole lot closer starting this Friday. 

Capture the excitement of the opening of the new Nordstrom at South Shore Plaza as the store hosts fun events for the Boston community.  Nordstrom South Shore Plaza opens to the public on Friday, March 26 at 10:00 a.m.


I've actually started reading fashion blogs and trying to dress better.  Maybe it's time I upgrade from shopping at Macy's to shopping at Nordstrom?

This is the day that many of my friends wait for. More so when we were students (because we could skip class) and go to ALL of the Ben & Jerry's locations in Boston. But, even in recent years, I tried to swing by one on my walk home from work to pick up a free cone.


Click (here) for the Ben & Jerry's website.

HGTV is doing a casting call for a tv show called "My First Place." Here are the details:

MY FIRST PLACE, HGTV’s hit series, is coming back for an eighth season and we’re looking for first-time homebuyers (and their agents!) in the Greater Boston area RIGHT NOW!

We are looking for fun, high-energy people who are just starting the home-buying process for their first place and would like to share their story with HGTV! Our goal is to capture all the trials and tribulations of looking for, bidding on and buying your first place.

Taping takes place this spring and summer. Ideal candidates will be enthusiastic buyers with a great story to tell and a desire to share their experiences. Singles, couples and families are all invited to apply!

Candidates (including realtors) who complete taping of a My First Place episode will receive a DVD copy of their show so that they can relive their first-time home buying experience for years to come!

Request an application by emailing: sross@highnoontv.com
Or call Stephanie Ross at (303) 712-3108

Bloggery media rep JLo (yup, I know a JLo) went to the Rockin Runway event earlier this month (here) and had a pretty good time.  Here are the pics. 

Hi guys, sorry to do this to you, but a commenter said that apparently if you watch the video while it's embedded, it doesn't count.  You have to go to the youtube site.  Does anyone know if that's true?  If it is, I'm sorry but I'm going to hafta impose on another 3 minutes of your time.

Please watch this video about CRI and it's mission to open up the sport of rowing to everyone: men, women, young, old and adaptive. If the video gets 5000 views, Concept 2 (oar and erg company) will donate an erg seat for adaptive rowers. If the video gets 10000 views, they'll donate oars for adaptive rowers. For 15000 views, they'll donate an erg designed for adaptive rowers.

Easiest community service you'll do in your entire life. All you have to do is watch the video and some really inspirational athletes will get much needed equipment free of cost.

Click (here) to watch the Youtube video again.

I need you guys to help me out.  I saw this on my friend Skip's Google buzz and decided that this would be a perfect way for all of us to pitch in.  There's a charity event going on right now to get some equipment for the Veteran's Rehab program at Community Rowing in Boston.  All you have to do is watch a 3 minute video.

Please watch this video about CRI and it's mission to open up the sport of rowing to everyone: men, women, young, old and adaptive. If the video gets 5000 views, Concept 2 (oar and erg company) will donate an erg seat for adaptive rowers. If the video gets 10000 views, they'll donate oars for adaptive rowers. For 15000 views, they'll donate an erg designed for adaptive rowers.

Easiest community service you'll do in your entire life. All you have to do is watch the video and some really inspirational athletes will get much needed equipment free of cost.

I've seen a Facebook group about a pickle get a million fans.  I've seen a Facebook group about naming a baby 'Megatron' get a million fans.  All these guys need are 15K views.  You can do it!

Click (here) to go to the youtube video site.

PS.  As of the time of this post, there have been 314 views.  This time tomorrow, I'm going to check back and I really hope that there will be a lot more. 

Whenever I think of May I think of two things.  One, my brother's birthday.  And two, Mother's day.  The upcoming 2010 Ladies Luxury Escape event means I only have one present to worry about now.  I'm sure I can find something for my mom there.   

Experienced shoppers and casual buyers alike will be in paradise as dozens of shops, boutiques, salons and spas come together for the ultimate shopping and pampering experience to hit Boston yet!  Spend the day with your girlfriends or give your mom the best early Mother’s Day gift yet and join The Anthem Group for its Ladies Luxury Escape event.  

Shop from an amazing selection of clothing, jewelry, handbags and more – whatever you’re looking for we have something for you.  See what the hippest salons and spas have to offer and even get your hair and makeup done!  Take a break from shopping and indulge in some pampering in the Relaxtion Lounge with massages, complimentary appetizers and signature cocktails.  VIP patrons get the five star treatment with a swag bag filled with products and offers from our partners and exhibitors.  You don’t want to miss this ultimate shopping and pampering experience!


Saturday, May 1st, 2010
11:00AM – 7:00PM
Millennium Bostonian Hotel (Seasons Ballroom)
26 North St.
Boston, MA 

Click (here) to get tickets.

The Travel Channel just launched a new show called America's Worst Driver last week and will be featuring Boston in this Sunday's episode (3/21)

America's Worst Driver is a competition show with a twist. In this series, our contestants actually want to be eliminated, because the longer they stick around, the closer they get to being named the worst driver in America!


Each week, 4 of the worst drivers from a particular city are nominated by friends or loved ones to compete in a series of driving challenges through the streets of their hometown. These challenges are designed to seek out the city’s worst driver.

Checkout the commercial for the Boston episode below:





Click (here) to visit the show site.

I've only been to Haru once.  I swung by the weekend that it opened a couple of years back and haven't really been back since.  Nowadays, whenever I grab sushi, it's usually at Fish Market out in Brookline.  But, I'm always looking for a new happy hour location and $6 cocktails might be worth checking out.

Haru is kicking it into high gear for spring by offering a specialty cocktail each month for only $6. In March, guests are invited to indulge in the Berry Kiss, a blend of Absolut Citron, Veev Acai liqueur, POM juice and fresh strawberry puree with a sugared rim. In April, Haru will feature the Cherry Blossom, a mix of Svedka Cherry, Nigori Sake, peach puree and cranberry juice (garnished with a cherry and small flower).

Haru Sushi
55 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02199
(Beneath the shops at the Prudential Center)
During normal operating hours for the months of April and May. 

I love concerts.  Ask any of my friends.  I go to a lot of them.  One performer I have yet to see is Lady Gaga, so you can bet your .... bottom dollar ... that I'm going this time around during the 2nd leg of her North American Tour.  Citibank pre-sale tickets went on sale yesterday.  As luck should have it, I have a Citibank card.  BOOYAH!

Virgin Mobile Presents the Monster Ball Tour Starring Lady Gaga
TD Garden
Boston, MA
Thu, Jul 1, 2010 08:00 PM

It makes sense to me now why she uses a Virgin Mobile phone in her new Telephone music video.  Still not sure why Plenty of Fish and what appears to be Miracle Whip shows up in the video as well.

Hurry up and befriend someone that has a citibank card, presale ends tomorrow.

Click (here) to get tickets.

The presale for tickets to "An Evening with James Cameron" just started yesterday.  If you subscribe to my twitter you'd already know this and probably already have your tickets.  See, there is an advantage to subscribing to my twitter.  =D

An Evening with James Cameron
Lowell Memorial Auditorium
Wed Jun 16 2010 - 8:00 PM

Get while the getting's good, I'm looking at the seating chart and it doesn't look like there's a whole lot of seats at this thing. I just checked and there are still some really good seats available.

The presale password is: AVATAR

Could it have been anything else? hehe.

Click (here) to get tickets.

Gisele is on the cover of the latest Vogue magazine and she looks pretty awesome for having just had a kid.  I don't normally read Vogue, so I just skimmed the article, but came to a grinding halt when she said that she now considers herself a Bostonian.  All I can say is, Welcome!

Benjamin was born at home, in warm water in a deep bathtub that overlooks the Charles River. "I wanted to experience the transformation," says Gisele. A midwife friend of hers came in from Brazil as did her mother; her husband was there too. Gisele meditated through the birth.

The baby is called Benjamin Rein: "I wanted him to be called River because I wanted something always flowing, immortal. My husband said, 'There's no way we're going to call him River.' But my father's name is Reinoldo, so it's a homage to him. And it's like water."

She's regained her figure, apparently instantly and with no more exercise than some yoga on a mat in the living room. "I think it's muscle memory," she says. Gisele has always been in shape ... I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds."


 29, the last and richest of the supermodels has given in to her preference for the inner life. Gisele has sold her New York town house. "I'm really a Bostonian now," she says, with all the sober, studious implications of that move.
 
Leave it to Gisele to give women everywhere more reasons to hate her.  She gained "only" 30 lbs and then lost it after 6 weeks of having her baby.  Impressive.  Very impressive.

Click (here) to read the rest of the article.

Click (here) to subscribe to Vogue.

Interesting little tidbit in the news this weekend about a project that's currently going on to restore FDR's dorm room at Harvard.  All I can say is FDR's undergraduate dorm room was apparently nicer than my current apartment now.

Michael Weishan, a landscape designer in suburban Boston who is widely known as the host of “The Victory Garden” on PBS, is using the well-documented nonacademic habits of Roosevelt and Brown as a basis for furnishing their dorm room. Mr. Weishan has founded the nonprofit FDR Suite Foundation to restore the two-bedroom unit in the Adams House dorm as a minimuseum and guest quarters.

The suite, officially B-17, is in an 1890s Tudor building originally called Westmorly Court, designed by Warren & Wetmore, the architects of Grand Central Terminal. Roosevelt and Brown paid $400 in annual rent, while Harvard’s tuition cost just $150. The cushy building offered daily maid service and an indoor swimming pool with fireplaces and padded wicker armchairs along the tiled deck. William K. Vanderbilt, who lived down the hall from Roosevelt, decorated his rooms with stuffed animal heads and photos of yachts.

All I can say is WOW.

Click (here) to read the NY Times article.

Click (here) to see more pics of the restoration project.

I'm too tired to write today.  I'll let the flyer speak for itself.  Kim Kardashian's in Boston tonight (3/12) and she's at Gypsy Bar.


Click (here) for additional info

I don't drink a lot of coffee.  Actually, I don't drink much caffeine at all.  Instead, I try to get enough sleep so that I don't need it.  It doesn't always work though.  The last package of coffee that I bought was some stuff from Burundi that my friend gave me.  It was really good stuff.  I just got an email about a local artisanal coffee company called Terroir whose products are now available online. 

Terroir Select Coffee was created in early 2004 to forge a new kind of partnership with coffee growers – one which recognizes their fundamental role and identity in the production of high quality coffees. Terroir believes that one should not blend truly fine coffees, just like one does not blend fine wines, because they are already complete statements.

Terroir, based out of Acton, MA is tiny and their goal is to find to the best of their ability, benchmark quality coffees from single identified sources. Such coffees are often produced in tiny quantities and when transport is not available they fly the coffee to Terroir’s location. 

Definitely something worth checking out.  And Terroir's coffee is now being carried by GoCoffeeGo.com as of earlier this week.

Click (here) to check it out.
 

Pics of the BLO’s comedy about making an opera, Ariadne auf Naxos. The opera opens this Friday through the 23rd at the Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre in Boston.

Photo credit goes to Jeffrey Dunn for Boston Lyric Opera.


Click (here) to get tickets.

Ok so two stories before I get to the actual informative part of this blog entry.  First, do you remember the part in Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler golf movie) where he's told to go to his happy place, and his happy place has beer, a midget on a tricycle, and a hot blonde woman in lingerie?  Well, Lord Hobo is MY new happy place. 

Second, I was actually asked by my friends to not write this post because Lord Hobo is so awesome, that they don't want you guys to find out about it.  Selfish, right?  But understandable.  That's why this post is actually two weeks late in the making.

I went to Lord Hobo in Cambridge a couple weekends ago to hang out with friends.  There are no midgets and no blondes in lingerie, but good god the beer menu is AMAZING!  Yes, it's all-caps-worthy amazing.  I don't think I've ever had beer aged in bourbon barrels before.  Lord Hobo had two to choose from.  And yes, I drank both of them ... multiple times.  Oh and it's not just the beer, they had a braised oxtail with gnocci on the menu the night that I was there that was so incredible, I almost ate the plate.

You need to go.  But not when my friends are there, they'll be furious at me for making it crowded.

Click (here) to check out their amazing menu.

It's that time of year again.  Time to get excited about green beer, partying for three days straight (I was told long ago that in Boston, St. Patrick's Day is a three day holiday), and more green beer.  And one yearly tradition that always comes up is the St Patrick's Day Celtic Sojourn with Brian O’Donovan.  This year it's on March 20th.

For the past four St. Patrick’s Day Concerts, WGBH’s Celtic Sojourn has introduced a wide range of both familiar and new musicians to delighted audiences eager to celebrate the holiday in true Irish style. This concert follows the format established for the burgeoning Christmas Celtic Sojourn series of concerts which over the past two years alone has played to over 19,000 people in Boston, Providence and Worcester.

A St. Patrick's Day Celtic Sojourn features familiar performances by some of the principal Celtic musicians who invite you to experience the Irish holiday in a way like never before. This year's show features the return of an iconic fiddler from Ireland, Frankie Gavin, with his band De Dannan. The show also features extraordinary guitarist Tony McManus along with an exciting young singer and harpist, Maeve Gilchrist.

I've been watching a lot of late night tv lately - been combating a nasty bout of insomnia - and I keep seeing those commercials for the Celtic Women audio cd's.  I've seen them so many times, I kinda want to buy the cd's now.  But I digress ...

Click (here) to get tickets.

So according to the Globe, the first full body scanner to be used at airports in the US came to our fair city and is, as of yesterday, in use at Logan.  I don't have any flights planned for at least a month (thank goodness) and don't really have the desire to take the blue line all the way out there and back just to see it so I'm going to have to take their word for it for now.

The first of 450 controversial full-body scanners to be deployed at airports around the country this year will be put into use at Logan International Airport on Monday.  About 120 passengers went through one of the machines at Logan’s Terminal A as part of a test yesterday.

Logan has received three machines, which scan passengers’ bodies for weapons and explosives beneath their clothing using low-level X-ray beams, and the airport is expected to have more than a dozen in place at three terminals by the end of the summer.

Ok I take that back, looks like I'll have to wait until the end of the summer to see the scanner. I never fly out of terminal A.

Thanks to everyone who entered my latest giveaway for a pair of VIP tickets to the Rockin Runway event this week (March 11) at Revolution Rock Bar.  Sadly, only one person could win and this time around that lucky person was:

Fabiana T.

For those of you that are still interested in going, it's not too late to pick up tickets.

Anthem Entertainment, a Boston-based nightlife, marketing, and event business, is pleased to announce its fourth annual “Rockin’ Runway” event at Revolution Rock Bar. Fusing music and fashion into one night, this event features two great local acts performing some of your favorites while models showcase some of the hottest fashions from local Boston designers: Catherine Marie Couture, Venni Caprice, Jess DiPietro, and Brittany Lebold.

Click (here) to get tickets.

Read any good books lately?  I recently read Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and liked it so much I just started reading The Handmaiden's Tale.  It's a little ironic because I hated The Blind Assassin. 

I'm also reading two books on waste water treatment plants - don't ask, it's for work - anyone out there want to school me on the finer points of MBR systems?  But I digress.  I recently got an email about what we as a city are reading.  Here's the list

Non-fiction

1. True Compass: A Memoir, Edward M. Kennedy
2. Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell
3. Going Rogue: An American Life, Sarah Palin
4. Have a Little Faith: A True Story, Mitch Albom
5. When the Game Was Ours, Larry Bird, Earvin Johnson Jr., and Jackie MacMullan
6. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
7. The Yankee Years, Joe Torre
8. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Steve Harvey
9. Guinness World Records 2010, Guinness World Records
10. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, Malcolm Gladwell

Fiction

1. The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown
2. The Help, Kathryn Stockett
3. I, Alex Cross, James Patterson
4. Under the Dome, Stephen King
5. The Associate, John Grisham
6. Handle With Care, Jodi Picoult
7. The Last Song, Nicholas Sparks
8. The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
9. That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo
10. The Host, Stephenie Meyer

Stephenie Meyer is that Twilight lady, right?  That's one book I won't be reading.  There was one night that I was suffering from a bit of insomnia so I turned on the TV and ended up watching Twilight at like 4am on HBO.  Let me get one thing straight, instead of catching on fire in sunlight, her vampires sparkle?  No thanks. 

Click (here) for a link to the see what other cities are reading.