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94 years strong, the Franklin Park Zoo offers something new each time I visit.  Located in Boston's historic Franklin Park, the 72-acre attraction entertains the child in everyone. 

Greeted by the towering black iron gates, once inside this majestic park your curiosity of what lies within beckons your call.  For the smallest of visitors the park acclimates the tots by introducing them slowly to the animals by offering a farm petting zoo. 

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I've always been a girly girl. You know us, we wore the shiny patent leather shoes and refused to get them or our clothes dirty. Then as we got older, we started scouring Cosmo for fashion and make-up tips, and we had a thing for mirrors, shiny lip gloss, and combs (those big, fat one's with the long handle that we'd stick in our Gloria Vanderbilt jeans back pocket). Who ...

E room could stand for enormous, electronic or eager.  With an uber-attentive staff, pulsing mood lighting, drunken dancers, and satisfying american-style chinese food, an evening here is anything but dull. This past Thursday, a large party took up the back row seating and I dined alongside  the dance floor with several other couples.  This is a common date spot. In the lounge side of Golden Temple, called the E room, the techno-dance ...

One of the most powerful cultural attractions in Boston is the world-famous Boston Symphony Orchestra. A must-see for classical music lovers, the Symphony’s city concert season begins in early October and continues through early May, bringing great conductors and soloists to the stage in unforgettable performances.

Organized in 1881, the “BSO,” under the musical direction of conductor James Levine, is housed in Boston’s acclaimed Symphony Hall, regarded as one of the three greatest concert halls in the world--the triumph of turn-of-the-century symphony organizers led by financier, Henry Lee Higginson, and architect, Charles Follen McKim.

Completed in 1900, Boston’s “Temple of Music” is an architectural masterpiece, and though its exterior is more austere than the initial design, the hall itself is a jewel box of acoustical and aesthetic perfection.

Despite the exterior ornamentation called for in the original blueprint, Bostonians skipped the frills and stuck with a plain and simple, though august, exterior--the kind of quintessential Yankee preference that reminded architectural writer Robert Campbell of “those Boston ladies who hid their new gowns from Paris in the closet for a year, so they wouldn’t look too fashionable.”

Today, Symphony Hall boasts some of the best acoustics in the world and hosts the cream of legendary world-class musicians, conductors and classical performances of all kinds.