What has been dubbed “the best workout in the world” is coming to The Street. Barry’s Bootcamp is slated to open at the property in Winter, 2017 at 55 Boylston Street Chestnut Hill, MA, neighboring Bernard’s restaurant, Pottery Barn and lululemon.
Barry’s Bootcamp first originated in Los Angeles in 1998, delivering The Best Workout in the World® to a legendary following, including A-list celebs, models and even Olympic athletes. Through its franchise business model, locals Dustin Martin and Brian Weller opened its first Boston location in Downtown Crossing in 2013.
The studio’s signature workouts can burn up to 1,000 calories in just one hour through 25-30 minutes of interval cardiovascular treadmill routines and 25-30 minutes of strength training utilizing a range of equipment, including free weights, resistance bands, and medicine balls. Muscle groups and even workout segments vary throughout the week so that no one class is ever the same. The technique works to “shock” the body in the most efficient and effective way, improving students’ cardiovascular system, helping with weight loss and building muscle. World-class trainers lead the high-energy classes in a studio with dim, red lighting and a booming sound system.
The location at The Street will feature a 50-person studio, fully stocked men’s and women’s locker rooms, and a customized Barry’s Fuel Bar, offering healthy smoothies, juices and snacks. Classes will be available seven days a week and offered at both drop-in rates, class packs and “academies.”
“While we still have a build-out ahead of us, we’re looking forward to unleashing the red room on The Street in 2017!” says co-owner Dustin Martin.
“Hip-hop holiday fun… [with] enthusiasm and a sense of inclusive community onstage.”
-The Boston Globe
Tony Williams Dance Center presents the 16th year of the Boston holiday classic, Anthony Williams’ Urban Nutcracker,December 16-31 at John Hancock Hall (180 Berkeley St, Boston, MA 02116). This modern holiday classic has been praised as “a Nutcracker with real soul” by Boston Metro. This year includes three special performances: an Autism sensory-friendly performance (Dec. 17) and an LGBTQ Night (Dec. 29), both designed to be inclusive and spread the joy of dance; and a New Year’s Eve performance on December 31.
In 2001, local dance legend Tony Williams reimagined the classic holiday Nutcracker tale to become a Boston inner-city story with a neon-buzz, blending the rhythms of Duke Ellington with the classical music of Tchaikovsky. Annually, 150 performers – including professional ballet dancers – take the stage to showcase a broad diversity of dance forms starring the multicultural icons of Boston. Audiences will join heroine Clarice as she explores iconic Boston scenes such as Make Way for Ducklings, Top of the Hub, Chinatown, and the Boston Public Garden. The delightful story continues by following the magical journey of Clarice and her Nutcracker guide through classical ballet, tap, hip hop, jazz, flamenco, and more.
All performances of the Urban Nutcracker will take place at John Hancock Hall
180 Berkeley St, Boston, MA 02116
Dec 16 | 7:30 PM
Dec 17 | 11 AM (Autism Sensory Friendly)
Dec 17 | 3 PM
Dec 18 | 11 AM
Dec 18 | 3 PM
Dec 22 | 7:30 PM
Dec 23 | 7:30 PM
Dec 24 | 11 AM
Dec 24 | 3 PM
Dec 29 | 7:30 PM (LGBT Inclusive)
Dec 30 | 1:30 PM
Dec 30 | 7:30 PM
Dec 31 | 3 PM
All performances are approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes with one intermission.
Ticket Prices: $25-$85; Discounts for groups of 15 or more
MBTA: Green Line to Arlington, Orange Line to Back Bay
The Urban Nutcracker celebrates multicultural Boston through a broad range of diverse dance styles. Produced by the Tony Williams Dance Center, the Urban Nutcracker harnesses the power the arts to unite diverse communities to be a catalyst for positive social change.
Presenting sponsor of Urban Nutcracker is Adage Capital. Additional support is provided by Chobee Hoy Real Estate.
About Tony Williams
Tony Williams is a dance pioneer and retired international ballet star. Williams’ dance philosophy uses the arts to unite diverse communities in Boston, having had direct experience on how transformative the arts can be on young lives. As a young man, he gained access to Boston Ballet’s dance program and progressed to become their first African-American principal dancer. From there he danced with the Joffery Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and performed all over the world. When Williams retired, he returned to Jamaica Plain, where it all began, and opened a dance school. Not long after, he produced the beloved Urban Nutcracker which annually enjoys a successful run downtown. Widely respected as a progressive dance educator, Williams has won the Dance Teacher Magazine Award and Wheelock Family Theater’s Wheel Award. In 2014, he founded the Tony Williams Ballet and expanded his dance school to Concord, MA.
We would also like to inform you of our upcoming Soccer on the Mat clinics. For more information on these, please visit www.socceronthemat.com or click here.
More specific information on all our clinics, including information on how to register, can be found on our website www.bcwomenssoccer.com.
If you have any questions,or would like more information, please see contact information below.
Raphael Keller-Go, owner of VINOdiVINO and a current EDP parent, has graciously partnered with our Program to donate 10% of any purchases you make between now and Thanksgiving to the Peirce Extended Day Program!
It’s simple: Buy Wine, Support PEDP (we also carry beers and spirits)
For any purchase you make between now and Thanksgiving, vinodivino donates 10% of your purchase to PEDP.
We’d like to make it as easy as possible for you to get the wine, beer or spirits that you desire. No matter which way you decide to purchase, we can always deliver to you or you can pick up from our Newton store. Your options are listed below; pick the one that’s most convenient for you.
Delivery: We deliver every day from 6-9pm, the delivery fee is just $1.95 with a 2-bottle minimum!
Option 1: Visit our store at 899 Walnut Street in Newton Highlands, right across from Whole Foods.
– Our Newton store team Michaela, James and Karylyn will happily help you pick out your beverages
– Just mention that you’re shopping to benefit PEDP and vinodivino will donate 10% of your purchase directly to PEDP.
– They’ll help you carry your beverages to the car as well!
– We can also deliver the wine to you
Option 2:Call us and order for pick-up or delivery
– Call our Newton store at 617-527-8466 and our Newton team (see above) will happily assist you.
– Order for pickup or delivery
Option 3: Order online for pick-up or delivery
– Go to vinodivino.com
– Order and set-up an account as with any other website
– On the check-out screen just type “PEDP” into the Order instructions/Comments box.
WHAT: Originally from a tiny town in Maine, Emma Willmann exploded onto the Boston comedy scene in 2010. In 2011 she won first place in the Boston Comedy Riots and was featured in The 2011 and 2012 Boston Woman in Comedy Festival. From there she brought her high energy, deeply personal, and observational act to New York City, where she quickly moved through the NYC comedy ranks – making her national TV debut on Axis TV’s Live at Gotham in 2014.
Willmann has also appeared in The 2014 New York Comedy Festival, hosted The 2013 Hoboken Comedy Festival, appeared on ComedyTimeTV, opened for Louie Anderson, appeared with Aziz Ansari and Donald Glover, and will be starring in two upcoming episodes of the popular TV show Deadly Affairs, on the Investigation Discovery Network.
WHERE: Laugh Boston, 425 Summer Street, Boston MA
WHEN: Wednesday Nov. 30th at 8pm and Sunday Dec. 4th at 7pm
Emma Willmann is one of the New York scene’s fast risers. Her credits are excellent despite that she’s fairly new in comic years. In the past two years, she was featured in Just for Laughs New Faces, one of the 10 Funniest Women in New York according to Time Out New York, featured in Elle Magazine, recently passed at the NY Comedy Cellar, became a regular on SiriusXM Raw Dog, landing her own monthly show, appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and will soon be appearing on a new show on FuseTV in October.
Watch: Emma Willmann Perform Stand-Up on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert!
Want to contribute to the Y’s Annual Fund and Have a Great Meal at the Same Time?
Simple! Grab lunch or dinner at Not Your Average Joe’s in Watertown any Tuesday this November and 15% of your bill will be donated to the Y!
Not Your Average Joe’s believes in giving back and we are thrilled that they have chosen our Y as their Not Your Average Cause partner.
Just download the Not Your Average Cause certificate from our website and present it with your order – you can use it for take-out too! (Don’t worry if you forget the certificate, just mention the Y to your server). Printed certificates will be available at the Welcome Center all month long.
Donations will go directly to our Annual Fund which provides financial assistance to local families in need for memberships, life-changing programs like LIVESTRONG at the YMCA, child care and summer camps.
Over the past 48 hours, I have heard from principals and faculty who have reported a wide range of student reaction to the election results. One veteran middle school guidance counselor wrote the following to me,
“I spoke to many students yesterday who had varying issues resulting from the election results. Never in my career would I ever imagine that there would be a need to respond to students due to election results in a similar way that I would respond to them as a result of a crisis.”
I wanted to share with you a message I sent to NPS faculty and staff yesterday. I share it with you because I want you to know that the teachers and staff in our buildings are deeply committed to supporting your children as we all seek the path forward from the contentious election.
Everyday, our schools work hard to create communities that are welcoming, inclusive and supportive for all. It is our mission to prepare students to be active and engaged citizens of this country and world who appreciate diverse perspectives. We remain steadfast in this commitment.
In the coming days, should you have any concerns or need additional assistance, please do not hesitate to contact your school directly.
I know many of you are physically and emotionally exhausted after this long and contentious election. I have struggled with what to write since 3:30 this morning. The election has had an impact on many people in a way that none of us could probably have ever imagined.
I recognize that many of you had to process the results very quickly in order to be prepared for discussion with and reaction from your students. This could not have been an easy task as it has been difficult to talk about so many aspects of this election with students.
Given the polarizing nature of the election, many of our students do not know what to expect. There are students who express fear, dismay and concern for their future and we need support them. Others may be enthusiastic about the result and we need to protect their right to express their views.
One of my concerns about our national discourse is that we have lost our ability to engage in thoughtful dialogue about serious issues in a respectful manner. While we do not have control over what happens at the national level, we can create a culture in our schools that is respectful and supportive. Hopefully, the work we are doing now will help our students to be prepared to participate in a less divisive world. Given where we are right now, I recognize this is a tall order.
I know these conversations will continue in the coming days as we process the historic nature of what we have just experienced. I appreciate the magnitude of the challenge we face as both educators and citizens.
Best,
David
And I share this letter from Vanity Fair that Aaron Sorkin Wrote His Daughter After Donald Trump Was Elected President
November 9, 2016 8:52 pm
Sorkin Girls,
Well the world changed late last night in a way I couldn’t protect us from. That’s a terrible feeling for a father. I won’t sugarcoat it—this is truly horrible. It’s hardly the first time my candidate didn’t win (in fact it’s the sixth time) but it is the first time that a thoroughly incompetent pig with dangerous ideas, a serious psychiatric disorder, no knowledge of the world and no curiosity to learn has.
And it wasn’t just Donald Trump who won last night—it was his supporters too. The Klan won last night. White nationalists. Sexists, racists and buffoons. Angry young white men who think rap music and Cinco de Mayo are a threat to their way of life (or are the reason for their way of life) have been given cause to celebrate. Men who have no right to call themselves that and who think that women who aspire to more than looking hot are shrill, ugly, and otherwise worthy of our scorn rather than our admiration struck a blow for misogynistic shitheads everywhere. Hate was given hope. Abject dumbness was glamorized as being “the fresh voice of an outsider” who’s going to “shake things up.” (Did anyone bother to ask how? Is he going to re-arrange the chairs in the Roosevelt Room?) For the next four years, the President of the United States, the same office held by Washington and Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, F.D.R., J.F.K. and Barack Obama, will be held by a man-boy who’ll spend his hours exacting Twitter vengeance against all who criticize him (and those numbers will be legion). We’ve embarrassed ourselves in front of our children and the world.
And the world took no time to react. The Dow futures dropped 700 points overnight. Economists are predicting a deep and prolonged recession. Our NATO allies are in a state of legitimate fear. And speaking of fear, Muslim-Americans, Mexican-Americans and African-Americans are shaking in their shoes. And we’d be right to note that many of Donald Trump’s fans are not fans of Jews. On the other hand, there is a party going on at ISIS headquarters. What wouldn’t we give to trade this small fraction of a man for Richard Nixon right now?
So what do we do?
First of all, we remember that we’re not alone. A hundred million people in America and a billion more around the world feel exactly the same way we do.
Second, we get out of bed. The Trumpsters want to see people like us (Jewish, “coastal elites,” educated, socially progressive, Hollywood…) sobbing and wailing and talking about moving to Canada. I won’t give them that and neither will you. Here’s what we’ll do…
…we’ll fucking fight. (Roxy, there’s a time for this kind of language and it’s now.) We’re not powerless and we’re not voiceless. We don’t have majorities in the House or Senate but we do have representatives there. It’s also good to remember that most members of Trump’s own party feel exactly the same way about him that we do. We make sure that the people we sent to Washington—including Kamala Harris—take our strength with them and never take a day off.
We get involved. We do what we can to fight injustice anywhere we see it—whether it’s writing a check or rolling up our sleeves. Our family is fairly insulated from the effects of a Trump presidency so we fight for the families that aren’t. We fight for a woman to keep her right to choose. We fight for the First Amendment and we fight mostly for equality—not for a guarantee of equal outcomes but for equal opportunities. We stand up.
America didn’t stop being America last night and we didn’t stop being Americans and here’s the thing about Americans: Our darkest days have always—always—been followed by our finest hours.
Roxy, I know my predictions have let you down in the past, but personally, I don’t think this guy can make it a year without committing an impeachable crime. If he does manage to be a douche nozzle without breaking the law for four years, we’ll make it through those four years. And three years from now we’ll fight like hell for our candidate and we’ll win and they’ll lose and this time they’ll lose for good. Honey, it’ll be your first vote.
The battle isn’t over, it’s just begun. Grandpa fought in World War II and when he came home this country handed him an opportunity to make a great life for his family. I will not hand his granddaughter a country shaped by hateful and stupid men. Your tears last night woke me up, and I’ll never go to sleep on you again.
Love,
Dad
Editor’s note: A previous version of this article overstated the amount by which Dow futures dropped on Wednesday morning.
Please read, below, letter that a well-known Hollywood writer penned to his daughters after Trump won. He says everything that I want to tell you but have not the way with words. We will fight, we will win.
Only thing I will add is that when you pick a fight, have your facts spot on and never be the one to reach the gutter first, especially on social media. Always remember, your adversary is as passionate as you are, about their positions/beliefs. That does not make them a bad person – they are just misguided and wrong. 😉 The way to win and advance your position is to educate yourselves and know what you’re talking about – completely. And never initiate tirades involving profanity – you lose credibility by doing so. Build your arguments step by step, and kill them with logic.
It’s been difficult last few days. Your mom and I have been emotional as well. It’s been hard to watch our country reject what we (and most of our friends) believe and go down a path that will have long lasting consequences. Most of all, you are loved and are safe. We will do everything we can to keep you safe.
Dad
My response to our kids: if you are going to don a safety pin, make sure you keep your self defense skills sharp. Kids, we are going to be spending more time at the boxing gym!!
