Leary began working as a comedian in the Boston comedy scene of the 1980s at the underground club Play It Again Sam's.

Leary and Clarke both spoke about their early affiliations and influences in the Boston comedy scene in the documentary film When Standup Stood Out ( 2006 ).

In 1966, he and other musicians from the Boston folk scene formed a group called the International Submarine Band.

In Boston, the scene at the Rathskeller — affectionately known as the Rat — was also turning toward punk, though the defining sound retained a distinct garage rock orientation.

As Joe Harvard, a participant in the Boston scene, describes, it was often a simple necessity — the absence of a local recording industry and well-distributed music magazines left little recourse but DIY.

Over time, " New Wave " acquired a distinct meaning: Bands such as Blondie and Talking Heads from the CBGB scene ; The Cars, who emerged from the Rat in Boston ; The Go-Go's in Los Angeles ; and The Police in London that were broadening their instrumental palette, incorporating dance-oriented rhythms, and working with more polished production were specifically designated " New Wave " and no longer called " punk ".

At that time, it was within the center of the up-and-coming folk-music scene, and Baez began performing near home in Boston and nearby Cambridge.

Since 1999, the growing sketch comedy scene has precipitated the development of sketch comedy festivals in cities all around North America, including festivals in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Montreal, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, and Philadelphia.

Edwards studied art in college at Ohio University but dropped out before graduating, and became involved in the Boston music scene.

In the late 1980s, Elgin James became involved in the militant faction of the Boston straight edge scene, and he later helped found the organization Friends Stand United.

In 1982, Modern Method Records released This Is Boston, Not L. A., a seminal compilation album of the Boston hardcore scene.

Its social scene was regularly reported on in The New York Times and by the Boston press.

Someone very active in the scene at that time and today has said that the first munches in the US were called " burger munches " and were in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Boston.

The scene where the Dutch coast is crossed was filmed between Boston, Lincolnshire and King's Lynn, and other coastal scenes near Skegness.

View of Boston, c. 1860 ; an early stereoscopic card for viewing a scene from nature

In late 2001 / 2002, Welsh returned to the Boston music scene by temporarily joining Nate Albert's ( guitarist for The Mighty Mighty Bosstones ) band, The Kickovers.

Before the flashback scene, we see that Sylvia travels to Boston seeking funding for her school, which serves black children.

Both members of Gang Starr had roots in the New York hip hop scene, despite hailing from Boston ( Guru ) and Houston ( DJ Premier ), and have each worked with several artists.

Prescott remained active in the Boston music scene, forming Volcano Suns and later Kustomized and The Peer Group.

Clarke was the most famous " saloon comic " in Boston during the 1980s, the heyday of the Boston comedy scene.

A painted scene of Venice on the drop curtain and 4 other scenes by Erwin Lamoss ( 1901 ) and plaster scrollwork complete with plump cherubs built in Boston ornament the opera hall and balcony in this historic building, which was constructed with walls built of granite from Stanstead.

The city of Boston is an especially large part of the state's present music scene, which includes several genres of rock, as well as classical, folk, and hip hop music.

The unconquerable Mrs. Hutchinson was residing at Pocasset, after having been excommunicated by the Boston church and thrown out of the colony.

However, the General Court at Boston ordered the purchasers of Shawomet to appear before them to answer the sachems' claim.

The Commissioners at Boston wrote the victims to see their misdeeds and repent or they should `` look upon them as men prepared for slaughter ''.

The Boston elders were great at befuddling the opposition with torrents of ecclesiastical obscurities, but Gorton was better.

The mild activity of his command during the sojourn of the troops at Valley Forge could be handled by a subordinate, he felt, so like Henry Knox, equally loyal to Washington, who went to Boston at this time, Morgan received permission to visit his home in Virginia for several weeks.

For, after leaving the Army in 1956, I spent five years in Graduate School first at Boston College and then at the University of Toronto.

The nearest undisrupted end of track from Boston was at Concord, N. H..

Knowing the antipathy that existed in Louisiana against increasing the number of free Negroes, Giffen suggested that Palfrey bring them to Boston at once, and then send them on to Liberia.

When the Negroes landed at Boston a month later they were, of course, no longer slaves.

Bobby Lowe of Boston was the first to hit four at home and Gil Hodges turned the trick in Brooklyn's Ebbetts Field.

The decoration will be presented by A. Trichieri, Italian consul general in Boston, at a ceremony at 30 p.m. on Dec. 7 at the plant, which this year is celebrating its golden anniversary.

Alvin Ailey and Carmen De Lavallade appeared in the first New York performance of Mr. Ailey's `` Roots Of The Blues '', a work given its premiere three weeks ago at the Boston Arts Festival.

His most well-known teaching position was at the Temple School in Boston.

It was named the Temple School because classes were held at the Masonic Temple on Tremont Street in Boston.

Alcott himself moved out of Concord for his final years, settling at 10 Louisburg Square in Boston beginning in 1885.

Shortly before his marriage, for example, his future father-in-law Colonel Joseph May helped him find a job teaching at a school in Boston run by the Society of Free Enquirers, followers of Robert Owen, for a lucrative $ 1, 000 to $ 1, 200 annual salary.

News of the signings by the Boston and Philadelphia players leaked to the press before the season ended, and all of them suffered verbal abuse and physical threats from the kranks, as baseball fans were called at the time, in Beantown and the City of Brotherly Love.

Carnegie was honored for his philanthropy and support of the arts by initiation as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity on October 14, 1917, at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.

The ship landed in 1630 and the Massachusetts Bay Colony was established at what is now Boston, Massachusetts.

A US national tour began on February 26, 1974 at the Forrest Theatre, Philadelphia, and ended on February 13, 1975 at the Shubert Theatre, Boston.