The Darkest Night: A Bookish Solstice

Spend the evening before winter solstice with a group of authors who know a thing or two about finding light in the darkness. Join us as we gather in the warmth of the historic Loring Greenough House as several authors share the tradition of telling ghost stories! Settle in as they read excerpts from their favorite haunting holiday tales. About the authors: <a href="https://loring-greenough.org/house-event/the-darkest-night-a-bookish-solstice/">https://loring-greenough.org/house-event/the-darkest-night-a-bookish-solstice/</a> Stay for a brief discussion on how these talented writers navigate their relationships with holding on to hope through the darkest of times. Light refreshments will be provided. Admission: $7 / $5 for LGH members* Space is limited! <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-darkest-night-a-bookish-solstice-tickets-1084136564649">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-darkest-night-a-bookish-solstice-tickets-1084136564649</a> --- *Individual Membership holders are entitled to one ticket at members-only price, Family Memberships may purchase two tickets at members-only price. All additional Tickets must be purchased at General Admission price. Plentiful on-street parking is available in the surrounding neighborhood. Please leave parking spot places for those with special mobility needs. The 39 bus stops in both directions right outside the house on South Street.

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Chocolate Tasting with Cocoa Beantown

The Loring Greenough House is pleased to present <a href="https://www.cocoabeantown.com/">Cocoa Beantown</a>, a woman-owned local business, for a special chocolate tasting event! Imagine being able to dazzle your family and friends during the upcoming holiday season with your insider chocolate knowledge! The event will include a 4-part tasting and an informative talk. Did you know that chocolate has a sound? And moreover, that sound can be a reflection of the level of sophistication of how the bar was made? If you’re looking to learn things you never knew about chocolate, this program will guide you through the same process expert chocolate tasters use to assess quality. Experience chocolate in a new, deeper, more meaningful sense as you taste your way through a variety of small batch, craft, specialty bars from women chocolate makers from around the country. Tickets: $35 per person Date: Thursday, November 14, 2024 | Time: 7:00 - 8:30pm <img src="https://img.evbuc.com/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.evbuc.com%2Fimages%2F872363849%2F20247531488%2F1%2Foriginal.20241011-134741?h=740&amp;w=1200&amp;auto=format%2Ccompress&amp;q=75&amp;sharp=10&amp;s=e06ae0cb14898a5584229bb493801eca"> About Cocoa Beantown: Cocoa Beantown, a Boston-based chocolate education and experiences company, spreads the love of chocolate through a variety of cocoa-centric neighborhood walking tours, tasting and pairing events, socials,classes and educational lectures, to folks from around the Hub and beyond, bringing smiles to the faces of chocoholics from 19 months to 101 years old. <img src="https://img.evbuc.com/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.evbuc.com%2Fimages%2F872364859%2F20247531488%2F1%2Foriginal.20241011-134851?h=740&amp;w=1200&amp;auto=format%2Ccompress&amp;q=75&amp;sharp=10&amp;s=cffbc490af1a2d3b5c3976ef64435011">

Appraisal Day!

Loring Greenough House's Appraisal Day is back! On Sunday November 3rd, between 1pm and 4pm, bring over those antique treasures and art and have them appraised by professional appraiser Edward Stanley. Tickets are not required, you can pay for your appraisal in peron. But RSVP here to receive any updates and a reminder for this event. Donation is $10 per item or $25 for 3 items. Bring up to 3 items - or just come and watch our very own Roadshow with refreshments! There are sure to be some exciting discoveries! Proceeds to benefit the Preservation Fund of the House. About our Appraiser: Edward Stanley is an accredited professional appraiser with 20 years of experience assisting clients in the valuation of their collections, estates, charitable donations and sale planning. A generalist appraiser he can evaluate a wide variety of fine art, antiques, decorative art and modern design items. (Please note: Jewelry, stamps and coins cannot be evaluated.)

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Friday Night at the Movies - WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?

Friday Night At The Movies invites you to…Summer&nbsp;Camp! For season four of our outdoor movie series, help us celebrate 100-years of The Loring Greenough House being saved from demolition by the all-women Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club in 1924, with an all-star line-up of high-camp films featuring all female or female presenting leads. October 11 - Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Hollywood’s grand dames Bette Davis and Joan Crawford went head to head both on screen and in real life as they redefined sick sibling rivalry in this black and white, high-camp, horror-classic from 1962, based on the 1960s novel of the same name. The once famous actresses are ageing alone together in their decaying, dimly lit Los Angeles mansion, with the sadistic and delusional former child star ‘Baby Jane’ playing psychological games on her now paraplegic sister. It invented the ‘psycho-biddy’ genre, with ‘Baby Jane’ now a by-word for ‘deranged showbiz crone’. No official rating (ooo-errr), but probably R. All films will contain English subtitles for the hard of hearing. <img src="https://img.evbuc.com/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.evbuc.com%2Fimages%2F743355549%2F20247531488%2F1%2Foriginal.20240414-233951?h=2000&amp;w=720&amp;auto=format%2Ccompress&amp;q=75&amp;sharp=10&amp;s=cd21da9d7c71e01556423306c92374e8"> The 2024 season of Friday Night at the Movies is sponsored by our friends at&nbsp;<a href="https://ellenandjanisrealestate.com/" target="_blank">Ellen+Janis @ Denman Drapkin Group!</a>

Fall Fest Thursdays at the Loring Greenough House with Hive!

Thursdays on the Lawn are so last season!! Welcome FALL FEST THURSDAYS! Join us on the Lawn with HIVE beer &amp; drinks garden, and a food truck for three Thursdays in October! Swing by on a cool autumn evening for dinner and a drink! October 10th, 17th, and 24th from 4pm to 8pm on the Loring Greenough House lawn at 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain!

In Distemper She Died: The Real Victims of Boston’s 17th Cent.ury Witch Trials

Massachusetts Bay began executing people for witchcraft in Boston almost fifty years before the Salem Witch Trials, including in Dorchester, Cambridge and Charlestown. These executions are much lesser-known, totaling fewer than half the number that took place in Salem in one year alone, but the stories behind them deserve to be told. Join Alyssa Conary for an introduction to the women convicted and executed for witchcraft in seventeenth-century Boston. Learn their names and their stories, and how one case may have been a precursor to the tragic events of 1692. Alyssa G. A. Conary, MA, is a freelance historian and the Membership Director of <a href="https://creativecollectivema.com/">Creative Collective</a> in Salem, Massachusetts. She completed a master’s degree in history at Salem State University in 2020 after working in interpretation, administration, and development in Salem’s heritage industry for several years. Her specific areas of historical interest include witchcraft and magic, the early modern Atlantic World, and seventeenth-century architecture. Alyssa lives in southern New Hampshire with her husband Ryan, their children William and Isabelle, and their cats Jonah and Henry. Tickets: $5 for members**, $7 non-members <a href="https://loring-greenough.org/house-event/in-distemper-she-died-the-real-victims-of-bostons-17th-century-witch-trials/">Tickets on sale now.</a> -- The Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club is a community-based educational and social organization dedicated to improving the lives of our neighbors through historical, cultural and educational activities. The Club, founded in 1896, preserves the historic Loring-Greenough House (built in 1760) and its grounds for the people of Jamaica Plain. For more information please visit <a href="http://www.loring-greenough.org">www.loring-greenough.org</a> **Individual Membership holders are entitled to one ticket at members-only price, Family Memberships can purchase two tickets at members-only price. All additional Tickets must be purchased at General Admission price. Want to take advantage of Members-Only ticket prices and support an important community resource – the Loring Greenough House? JOIN TODAY!

Oktoberfest at the Loring Greenough House with Hive!

Join us on the Lawn for an autumn Oktoberfest!<ul><li>Hive Oktoberfest</li><li>Food Truck</li><li>Baked Goods</li></ul>Sponsored by JP Dental!

Friday Night at the Movies - ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES

Friday Night At The Movies invites you to…Summer&nbsp;Camp! For season four of our outdoor movie series, help us celebrate 100-years of The Loring Greenough House being saved from demolition by the all-women Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club in 1924, with an all-star line-up of high-camp films featuring all female or female presenting leads. October 4 - Addams Family Values The quintessential supernatural, family, black comedy stars Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia as Morticia and Gomez Adams (a campy goth couple whose intense romantic love is relationship goals) who welcome a third child, Pubert, and accidentally hire a serial killer as his nanny, played by Joan Cusack. Debbie weedles her way into the heart of beloved Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd of Back to the Future fame) hoping to kill him for his inheritance. Starring a young Christina Ricci as Wednesday Adams who gets packed off to ‘summer camp’ with her brother, with hilariously disastrous consequences… Rated PG-13. All films will contain English subtitles for the hard of hearing. <img src="https://img.evbuc.com/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.evbuc.com%2Fimages%2F743355549%2F20247531488%2F1%2Foriginal.20240414-233951?h=2000&amp;w=720&amp;auto=format%2Ccompress&amp;q=75&amp;sharp=10&amp;s=cd21da9d7c71e01556423306c92374e8"> The 2024 season of Friday Night at the Movies is sponsored by our friends at&nbsp;<a href="https://ellenandjanisrealestate.com/" target="_blank">Ellen+Janis @ Denman Drapkin Group!</a>

Women with Vision Author Event - Djenika Mars & Milady Auguste

Join us for a poetry reading and discussion between poet Djenika Mars and author Milady Auguste, focusing on the impact and message of women in autobiographical works. We will celebrate Djenika's new volume of poetry, "A NU" and be inspired together as we learn about the writing process. Poems will be read in both French and English. We hope you can attend! Nous espérons que vous pourrez y assister! A reception with light refreshments will follow. When: Thursday, September 26, 7:00 - 8:30pm Tickets: $5 members/ $8 non-members This event is part of our JP Literary Salon in collaboration with Papercuts Bookshop and sponsored by Cervone &amp; Deegan!

Saturday at the Movie - MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO

SATURDAY KIDS MATINEE! at the Jamaica Plain Branch of the Boston Public Library - FREE! Friday Night At The Movies invites you to…Summer&nbsp;Camp! For season four of our outdoor movie series, help us celebrate 100-years of The Loring Greenough House being saved from demolition by the all-women Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club in 1924, with an all-star line-up of high-camp films featuring all female or female presenting leads! Saturday September 21 - My Neighbor Totoro One of the most beloved, family-friendly films of all time occupies a world where there are no villains, no bad parents, no scary monsters, just a creature you find in a forest and decide to take a nap on its tummy. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki and considered the most famous title from the legendary Studio Ghibli (who only release it to schools and libraries!), this Japanese animation stars two sisters, Satsuki and Mei, who go searching for whimsical, friendly spirits in postwar rural Japan. Visually-stunning and heart-warming. (English language version). Many thanks to our friends at Jamaica Plain Library for hosting! Rated G. All films will contain English subtitles for the hard of hearing. TICKETING INFORMATION:&nbsp;This event is FREE! Max capacity for the space is 50 people. You can RSVP here to reserve your spot. All children must be accompanied by an adult - this is not a drop off event. To allow the most children to enjoy this film we ask that ONE adult accompany 1-3 children. <img src="https://img.evbuc.com/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.evbuc.com%2Fimages%2F743355549%2F20247531488%2F1%2Foriginal.20240414-233951?h=2000&amp;w=720&amp;auto=format%2Ccompress&amp;q=75&amp;sharp=10&amp;s=cd21da9d7c71e01556423306c92374e8"> The 2024 season of Friday Night at the Movies is sponsored by our friends at&nbsp;<a href="https://ellenandjanisrealestate.com/" target="_blank">Ellen+Janis @ Denman Drapkin Group!</a>

Friday Night at the Movies - JAWS

Friday Night At The Movies invites you to…Summer&nbsp;Camp! For season four of our outdoor movie series, help us celebrate 100-years of The Loring Greenough House being saved from demolition by the all-women Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club in 1924, with an all-star line-up of high-camp films featuring all female or female presenting leads. August 23 - JAWS One of the most iconic on-screen villains of all time was a man-eating…female shark! Yes, our fifth leading lady is the Great White from Steven Spielberg’s infamous, Oscar-winning 1975 thriller based on the 1974 book by Peter Benchley. Shot primarily on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, the summer blockbuster stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody who, with the help of a marine biologist played by Richard Dreyfuss and a professional shark hunter played by Robert Shaw, attempt to end the hysteria caused by an Apex predator terrorizing a beach town. Rated PG-13.&nbsp; All films will contain English subtitles for the hard of hearing. <img src="https://img.evbuc.com/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.evbuc.com%2Fimages%2F743355549%2F20247531488%2F1%2Foriginal.20240414-233951?h=2000&amp;w=720&amp;auto=format%2Ccompress&amp;q=75&amp;sharp=10&amp;s=cd21da9d7c71e01556423306c92374e8"> The 2024 season of Friday Night at the Movies is sponsored by our friends at&nbsp;<a href="https://ellenandjanisrealestate.com/" target="_blank">Ellen+Janis @ Denman Drapkin Group!</a>

Community Centennial Celebration - a special Thursdays on the Lawn

Get ready, JP! This is it! A super special Thursdays on the Lawn to celebrate 100 years since the Loring Greenough House was saved from demolition! Extra vendors, extra fun! Please join us for our COMMUNITY CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION! Scheduled for August 22, 2024: 🍽️ Bonetown Burgers 🍽️&nbsp;Stokes BBQ 🍽️&nbsp;Juicy Greens 🍦Ice Cream Truck! 🎶&nbsp;JP Honk! (6:45-7:45) 🎨&nbsp;Face Painting by Sully Paints 💾&nbsp;The Byte Shop 🚗&nbsp;Larz Anderson Auto Museum 💃&nbsp;Ballet Rox 🖼️&nbsp;The Blank Canvas Company 🎭&nbsp;The Footlight Club ✨ plus SO MUCH MORE! In 1924, the women who formed the Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club had a vision to save the Loring Greenough House from development and demolition, preserving it for the benefit of Jamaica Plain neighbors. We want to honor their vision of a social hub for education, preservation, and community that sits at the heart of JP. Thursday, August 22, 4:00 - 8:00pm, will be a special Thursdays on the Lawn as we throw a free party celebrating 100 years of community at The Loring Greenough House! Along with the usual Hive Beer Garden, food trucks and face painting, we'll have some one-time-only surprises! Attendees will have a chance to learn our unique history and share special memories of their own connection to the house to be included in our oral history project that will be preserved for future generations. The grounds will feature games, activities, and other festive mementos from the 1920s through 2020s! Costumes representing any decade from the last 100 years are encouraged! Meet up with friends and neighbors, explore the LGH garden and enjoy one of Jamaica Plain’s best community gathering spaces! Every week neighbors from near and far gather to meet and socialize among the historic and treasured gardens of the Loring Greenough House. Food trucks! Drinks! Music! Space to picnic and play! 🍻&nbsp;Hive will be joining us once again every week with a beer garden. ✨HUGE THANKS to our sponsors Brilliant Places Realty and the Muncey Group!

Friday Night at the Movies - PARIS IS BURNING

Friday Night At The Movies invites you to…Summer&nbsp;Camp! For season four of our outdoor movie series, help us celebrate 100-years of The Loring Greenough House being saved from demolition by the all-women Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club in 1924, with an all-star line-up of high-camp films featuring all female or female presenting leads. July 26 - Paris is Burning You might have heard of Ru Paul’s Drag Race, or Madonna’s 1990 hit ‘Vogue’, but this year’s musical extravaganza features the people and subculture who&nbsp;invented&nbsp;drag culture before it became mainstream. Paris is Burning is an unmissable all-singing-all-dancing pass to the secret, underground world of African American and Latinx drag balls in 1980s New York. The electrifying documentary shot over seven years and featuring the best ‘80s hits, takes you deep into the fierce costume contests for trophies, with contestants forming chosen families lead by ‘house mothers’ who fostered joy and community for queer ‘children’ in a world ravaged by Aids, homophobia, transphobia and racism. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women—including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza. Rated R.&nbsp; All films will contain English subtitles for the hard of hearing. <img src="https://img.evbuc.com/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.evbuc.com%2Fimages%2F743355549%2F20247531488%2F1%2Foriginal.20240414-233951?h=2000&amp;w=720&amp;auto=format%2Ccompress&amp;q=75&amp;sharp=10&amp;s=cd21da9d7c71e01556423306c92374e8"> The 2024 season of Friday Night at the Movies is sponsored by our friends at&nbsp;<a href="https://ellenandjanisrealestate.com/" target="_blank">Ellen+Janis @ Denman Drapkin Group!</a>

NATURE MEDITATION, SCREENING, AND DISCUSSION

Join us for an interdisciplinary artists dama and Faith Johnson sharing their works ‘I’ve Got To Tell You Something’ and ‘Terrestrial’. Nature Meditation, Screening, and Discussion at the Loring Greenough House About the works and artists: “I’ve Got to Tell You Something,” 20 minutes, by Amanda Maciel Antunes (aka dama) “I’ve Got to Tell You Something” by Amanda Maciel Antunes (aka dama) is a unique, 90-foot work of performance art/sculptural cloth engendered by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. It is a portrait of an action of resistance and an appeal to the intention of memory and stillness. Antunes is a Brazilian artist based in Los Angeles. Her transdisciplinary practice merges language and durational performance to create paintings, photography, sculpture, sound, film, and assemblage. She is an autodidact and works in collaboration with public libraries, nature, and shared spaces as points of departure, reflecting on the selective nature of memory, inherent language and anthropological references. Antunes has shown nationally and internationally and recently published her book&nbsp;Second Birth&nbsp;with HEXENTEXTE, a Los Angeles-based feminist project. She is also a librarian at the Philosophical Research Society, where she hosts a monthly study group on women Surrealists. Website: amandamacielantunes.net / IG @amandamacielantunes Terrestrial screening (5min.) and Nature Meditation (30 min. activity), by Faith Johnson Terrestrial&nbsp;is a series of intimately ethereal moments with the natural world. All shot on an iphone during ritual practices of meditative engagement with a sensitivity to the subtle language of the more-than-human world. It is meant to privilege the perspective of the Earth with the human presence blending gently into the landscape.&nbsp;Terrestrial&nbsp;highlights the complex magic that surrounds us and our interconnection - not only physically - but emotionally and spiritually to this biosphere.&nbsp; The accompanying&nbsp;Nature Meditation&nbsp;is a guided activity to connect with the consciousness of the natural world through observation, meditation, and reflection.&nbsp; Faith Johnson is an interdisciplinary artist working with communal and individual visioning, alternative forms of knowledge, intuition, extrasensory perception, and communication with the sentience of the natural world. She is interested in revealing the magic and beingness of Earth through deep listening to the subtle languages of nature. Johnson explores these concepts in her interactive installations and experiences, participatory processes, performative actions, and videos. Her work is an invitation to engage the collective imagination in perceiving and cultivating our more subtle connections to each other and the natural world." <a href="http://www.FaithJohnson.net" target="_blank">www.FaithJohnson.net</a> / Instagram: @WaterKeepersLibrary / <a href="http://www.facebook.com/FaithJohnsonWaterMuseum/" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/FaithJohnsonWaterMuseum/</a> -- Tickets are available now: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nature-meditation-screening-and-discussion-tickets-928583918497" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nature-meditation-screening-and-discussion-tickets-928583918497</a>

Friday Night at the Movies - BOTTOMS

Friday Night At The Movies invites you to…Summer&nbsp;Camp! For season four of our outdoor movie series, help us celebrate 100-years of The Loring Greenough House being saved from demolition by the all-women Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club in 1924, with an all-star line-up of high-camp films featuring all female or female presenting leads. June 28 - Bottoms Who hasn’t joined a lesbian-run fight club at High School? Bottoms, made by the producers of Pitch Perfect and written and directed by Shiva Baby’s Emma Sennott, gives the dark teen comedy a queer and campily violent spin for our Pride month film. It stars co-writer Rachel Sennott as PJ, and The Bear’s Ayo Adebiri as Josie, a pair of “untalented gays” failing to get laid and who start a ‘self-defence’ class to try to sleep with their cheerleader crushes, under the guise of ‘female empowerment’. Rated R.&nbsp; All films will contain English subtitles for the hard of hearing. <img src="https://img.evbuc.com/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.evbuc.com%2Fimages%2F743355549%2F20247531488%2F1%2Foriginal.20240414-233951?h=2000&amp;w=720&amp;auto=format%2Ccompress&amp;q=75&amp;sharp=10&amp;s=cd21da9d7c71e01556423306c92374e8"> The 2024 season of Friday Night at the Movies is sponsored by our friends at&nbsp;<a href="https://ellenandjanisrealestate.com/" target="_blank">Ellen+Janis @ Denman Drapkin Group!</a>

S22: conversations

Wondering what to do in Boston? Places to eat? Free activities? Good for a group? Date night spot? Girls night out? The best things to do? Ask Joyraft!

Best places to go in Boston? Things to do? Places to eat?

Questions & answers about things to do in Boston

Recs 💬

Community recs 💬

S4: top picks

The most fun, cool and unique things to do in Boston. Can’t miss events, shows and experiences. Concerts, restaurants, bars, free things in Boston and beyond.

The most fun and cool events happening around Boston

Hot and new things to do in Boston

Hot & new

Hot & new 🔥

S11: happening this weekend

What to do in Boston this weekend? From festivals, concerts, performances, free events, screenings and more, Joyraft has the best things to do in Boston.

25+ things to do in Boston/Cambridge/Somerville this weekend

Things to do in Boston this weekend

This wknd

This weekend for you

S21: roundups

Our top picks: outdoor dining, free events, spring festivals, best bars, upcoming concerts, museum parties - the latest in and around Boston.  Slug: joyraft-top-picks-best-things-to-do-boston-ma

Top picks of the best things to do in and around Boston

Joyraft picks: Boston’s best things to do

Roundups ⭐️

Curated by Joyraft ⭐️

S28: calendar experiences

This week in Boston

This week in Boston 📆

This week 📆

S20: c+d experiences

Discover new, unique events and experiences happening in and around Boston. Perfect for date night, good for a group or with a friend. Be the first to know.

The newest events happening in and around Boston

The newest events on Joyraft

Just added

Just added to Joyraft

S16: editor picks

The most unique and can’t miss things coming up in Boston / Cambridge / Somerville and beyond. Festivals, food, drinks, fairs, concerts, art and free activities.

Unique and Can’t Miss Things to Do in Boston

Can’t-miss things to do in Boston 🚨

Can't-miss things to do 🚨

S2 (A): top experiences

The most popular things to do on Joyraft. Concerts, restaurants, bars, events, parties, openings, kid friendly, date ideas, free things in Boston and beyond.

Top 20 things to do in Boston

Top 20: Joyraft’s most popular

Top 20

Top 20 on Joyraft

S3 (A): trending experiences

Discover can’t miss events and things to do in Boston. The most fun, unique and cool events coming to the Boston area this spring and summer.

The hottest events happening in Boston

Trending events on Joyraft

Trending 📈

S17: interest based

Your guide to everything free in and around Boston. From events, to fairs, to festivals, to outdoors. Joyraft has all the free events happening near you.

100+ free things to do in Boston and beyond

Free things to do in Boston

Free things to do

S19: interest based

Discover kid-friendly fun in Boston, Massachusetts, and surrounding areas! Enjoy hands-on exhibits at the Boston Children’s Museum, explore the New England Aquarium, and visit the Franklin Park Zoo. Find parks, playgrounds, and seasonal events perfect for families across Massachusetts.

Top 20 kid-friendly things to do in Boston, MA

Kid-friendly things to do in Boston

Kid-friendly events

S18: interest based

Where to eat and drink in Boston? Joyraft has Boston’s newest bars, restaurants and specials. Drinks and pre fixe dinner menus. Cambridge & Somerville too.