The Let's Wine and Dine Group's Elegant Dinner Parties takes place tonight at the homes of four of your neighbors.  The menu is creme of leek soup, baked salmon with mustard dill sauce, fresh spring peas with lettuce cups, roasted red-skin potatoes with paprika and parsley, and profiteroles with creamy fudge sauce.  If you would like more information or would like to join the group, please contact Kris Field at kcfield2@verizon.net or Emily Fayen at efayen@netzero.net.

Join Mayor Thomas M. Menino for great conversation, delicious coffee and treats, and a chance to meet your neighbors!  Also take home a plant grown in one of the City's own greenhouses.  Yes, it's Mayor Menino's Neighborhood Coffee Hour at the Clarendon Street Playground (located on the northwest corner of Clarendon Street and Commonwealth Avenue) on Tuesday, May 21st, at 9:15 a.m.

This diverse group of working, semi-working and retired men meets for lunch the third Tuesday of every month for fun, new friendships and learning.  For information, please contact Jonathan Bagg at jonathan@beachbagg.com.

As part of the Boston Landmark Commission's celebration of the month of May 2013 as "Preservation Month," NABB's Neighborhood Forum this month is:

The History of the Commonwealth Avenue Mall and
Its Unique Role as the Green Axis of the Back Bay

Join Margaret Pokorny, Chair of the Commonwealth Avenue Mall Committee and a member of NABB's Board of Directors, for a lecture and discussion about the replanting, preservation and maintenance of "The Grandest Boulevard."

This forum, which is free and open to the public, will take place from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on, Wednesday, March 22, 2013, at the French Cultural Center, which is located at 53 Marlborough Street. 

If you want to find out more about what is going on with the Mall, click here to read Margaret Pokorny's 2012 Annual Report of the Commonwealth Avenue Mall Committee that she gave to all NABB members who indicated on their Membership Forms that they have an interest in the Mall.  For more information about the forum, please contact NABB at 617-247-3961 or at info@nabbonline.com.

The NABB Development and Transportation Committee meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at various locations.  This month's meeting will take place at the Learning Project, located at 107 Marlborough Street.  If you plan to attend this meeting, please RSVP to jyessian@gmail.com.   Also, if you would like more information about the Committee, please let us know and we will arrange to meet with you.  You can contact the Committee via jyessian@gmail.com or through the NABB office.

The popularity of this tour exceeded even our own high expectations and unfortunately it is already sold out!  However, please click here to go the webpage for the Reception celebrating Preservation Month that will take place at the College Club beginning at 6:45 p.m. on May 29, 2013, and sign up to attend what will be a wonderful reception with Mr. Young.

As part of the Boston Landmark Commission's celebration of the month of May 2013 as "Preservation Month," the NABB Special Events Committee is pleased to offer the “Back Bay Shuffle,” a walking tour of the Back Bay presented by the Back Bay Architectural Commission on Wednesday, May 29th, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.  The tour will be led by William Young, Senior Preservation Planner, Back Bay Architectural Commission, since 1991.

In Mr. Young’s words, “If the Back Bay remains a product of the nineteenth-century imagination, its architectural interest is by no means limited to its most historic structures. Scattered throughout the neighborhood are a surprising number of buildings erected since World War II. Some date from the largely unregulated period before the designation of the district; others, built since 1966, reflect the guiding influence of the Back Bay Architectural Commission. Whether residential or institutional, ecclesiastic or commercial, each exemplifies the changing needs and tastes of our recent past. On this tour we’ll consider the challenges of contextual design—and design review—in one of the country’s most aesthetically distinguished and creatively demanding environments.

The meeting place for the start of the tour will be confirmed by May 24, 2013.  The tour is free and limited to the first 30 people who sign up at the bottom of this webpage.   

Following the tour, a reception will be held at the College Club of Boston, located at 44 Commonwealth Avenue, beginning at 6:45 pm.  If you are one of the first 30 people who sign up for the tour, you automatically will be signed up for the reception, which will be held in the beautiful ambiance of the College Club with a selection of delightful appetizers and a cash bar. We hope to see you there!

Again, the popularity of this tour exceeded even our own high expectations and unfortunately it is already sold out!  However, please click here to go the webpage for the Reception celebrating Preservation Month that will take place at the College Club beginning at 6:45 p.m. on May 29, 2013, and sign up to attend what will be a wonderful reception with Mr. Young.

The Back Bay Police Panel generally meets on the last Wednesday of each month, at 6:00 pm in the Boston Public Library.  The NABB Crime Committee meets at 7:00 pm following the Police Panel.  For information, please call the NABB office.

As part of the Boston Landmark Commission's celebration of the month of May 2013 as "Preservation Month," the NABB Special Events Committee is pleased to host a reception with William Young, Senior Preservation Planner, Back Bay Architectural Commission, since 1991.  The reception, which is free, will have a selection of delightful gourmet appetizers and a cash bar.  It will be held in the beautifual ambiance of the College Club of Boston, located at 44 Commonwealth Avenue, beginning at 6:45 pm on May 29th, and is limited to the first 70 people who sign up for the reception at the bottom of this webpage.

This is a great way to meet your neighbors, and we hope to see you there!

The next meeting of NABB's Communications Committee will take place in the NABB office beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, June 3, 2013.  If you would like to join or help the committee or, if you would simply like to find out more information about it, please contact us at info@nabbonline.com.