With no fanfare whatsoever, the last Steve's Ice Cream location has changed its name to Sprinkles Ice Cream. The store was at the east end of the Quincy Market building. I don't know exactly when the change happened -- some time in the last two or three months.
John Keith notes that Abercrombie and Fitch is moving back (although only three floors instead of eight this time) to one end, while the Hard Rock Cafe is moving to the other end:
Whatever. It can't make Faneuil Hall any less relevant than it already is.
Ed. in-a-daze note: When did Quincy Market become Faneuil Hall, and why wasn't I cc'ed on the memo?
We have it on good report that Japanese TV news crews have descended en masse on our fair Hub and they are, even as I type, Borat-ing innocent tourists from Iowa at Quincy Market demanding to know what they think about Daisuke Matsuzaka. Given that most tourists from Iowa have no idea what they're talking about, the crews are extremely grateful when somebody like Jose Melendez, being half-Japanese himself, wanders by:
... "Do yoo seenk, oder peoper in Boston, will know how to say hees name?"
Herald Managing Editor Joe Dwinell checks in from the Quincy Market rotunda, where he files a blog post via the marketplace's free WiFi - and where he learns from a visiting Mayo Clinic physician that the wireless service won't be giving him a brain tumor:
... He has pulled up a seat next to me to blog along. He's also asking about Mitt Romney and how a liberal Massachusetts can elect a Mormon Republican. Checks and balances, I say. ...
No, don't worry, we won't have two of them - the one in the Back Bay is moving. Which means the old space could become something actual Bostonians would go to. Or as John Keith puts it: Hard Rock Cafe to move. Bostonians rejoice.
Greg Kulaga begins and ends a music video (set to Ween's "So Many People in the Neighborhood") with everybody's favorite panhandler (also features streets scenes from Downtown Crossing and Quincy Market). From January.
On Involuntary Slacker, Lyss describes the scene (before abandoning it for the non-green environs of the Union Oyster House):
... As we waited in line, the friends an I spotted this girl licking the shaved head of a bald guy through the window of the nearby Bell in Hand bar. Then she got on his lap (facing him) and began rhythmically moving up and down. ...
As everybody knows, Boston's most important product - even more so than Cheers t-shirts - is lobster! So it's no surprise that roughly one out of every two items for sale in Quincy Market has a lobster theme. Herewith a small sampling.
Hand-made glass lobster:
Wow 'em back on the farm with your new lobster-claw harmonica and lobster-claw salt and pepper shakers:
Making a small glass ballerina at Henri's Glasswares in Quincy Market.
The city and Channel 4 celebrated Boston's 375th anniversary on Saturday with some cake and cupcakes at Quincy Market. It was every bit as surreal as it sounds. Anchors Lisa Hughes and Josh Binswanger spent an hour or so doing live shots in a floodlit area, standing with a small "375" cake in front of some Bostonians and many befuddled tourists who had no idea who they were or why CBS was broadcasting live but who nevertheless stuck around so they could periodically wave at the camera. Fortunately, there was a local woman in a lounge chair there to explain it all to them - after first asking puzzled looking people if they were from Boston, she'd explain all about Boston's 375th anniversary. Then, when she'd satisfied their curiosity, she'd complain about how she should have stayed home because then she could watch the whole thing live in comfort. In the photo above, Hizzonah cuts the ceremonial cake while one of his grandkids (lower right) eyes the frosting.
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