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Boston’s newest restaurant and music venue is a whole-in-one. Nestled in the Fenway area, Church offers everything you could ask for in a night out and then some.

 

Zagat calls Helsinki, "Fabulous," rated 4 ½ stars by Metroland Magazine, and is consistently hailed "one of the best restaurants in the Berkshires." Helsinki packs 'em in for Scandanavian, Russian and Eastern European offerings, along with an eclectic array of boldly spiced selections from around the World. Sink into cozy velvet booths inside romantic rooms surrounding a blazing fireplace. The entire menu is homemade and many recipes have been artfully re-worked from recipes passed down from the "Old Country." Try comfort food at its very best and romance over lunch, dinner ,Sunday Brunch or simply a cup of tea from our specially blended tea list. The cafe also shares a menu with Club Helsinki next door.

It's hard to believe that thousands of musicians consider playing in a room no larger than 30' x 40' that intimately seats 125 in a basement in Harvard Square as "making it." But they do, because this brick-floored subterranean locale is Club Passim, one of the nation's legendary cultural icons and epicenter of great folk and acoustic music. A place where musicians like Joan Baez, Tom Rush, Jackie Washington, Peter Wolf, Taj Mahal, Patty Larkin, Goeff & Maria Muldaur, Shawn Colvin, and Suzanne Vega cut their musical teeth before playing larger venues.

Located in downtown Pittsfield, Massachusetts the Colonial Theatre is a Gilded Age architectural gem brought back to life as a performing arts center in the “heart of the Berkshires.”

Kept safe behind the temporary wall and ceiling partitions of a retail store for more than 50 years, the ornately appointed and now fully restored Colonial emerged in August, 2006 as a cultural and economic development force in the Berkshires.

The Colonial is an appropriate symbol of the re-emergence of Pittsfield as the economic and cultural center of the Berkshires. A restored and active Colonial Theatre, together with Pittsfield’s other cultural attractions and businesses, is creating jobs, attracting and inspiring audiences, contributing to rising real estate values and adding vitality back to a city that has been recreating itself as a people-center from its earlier days as a manufacturing center.

We invite you to be a part of the on-going movement to maintain this magnificent part of our history and our future. Come tour this architectural icon of another age. Come and enjoy the contemporary entertainment that gives it new life.

The Colonial Theatre is a 501 (c) 3 Not-for-Profit organization that operates with a combination of earned and contributed income. The theater and lobby facilities are available for community activities.

All Are Welcome

The First Parish in Cambridge, The First Church (Unitarian Universalist), "An Old Church for a New World" in the middle of Harvard Square. We seek to meet the religious needs of people in and around the Square, throughout Cambridge, and in neighboring communities.

We are a growing, liberal congregation of 400-plus adult members and friends with 120 children and youth. We strive to make First Parish spiritually nurturing, socially diverse, and socially responsible through a shared, gifts-based ministry of generosity and deepening spirituality.

We hold no creeds or dogmas; we encourage the pursuit of personal religious vision. The congregation is determined to become a welcoming, more inclusive congregation in areas of age, gender, race, sexual orientation, economic status, and ability issues. The ideal that inspires us is "Walking Together in our differences as a Beloved Community of Memory and Hope."

On May 19, 2002, First Par...