Louis Boston | Ritz hotel | St. Patrick''s Day | Nahant Beach

SEVEN: YOU CAN BUY STUFF ON NEWBURY STREET. My favorite shop is one called Louis Boston. I guess it would be sort of the Barneys of Boston. It's just a gorgeous retail store in an old, historic building. They carry men and women's clothing, and they have a nice little espresso bar there, as well as a nice, small restaurant.


EIGHT: STEALING IS BAD BUT INTERESTING. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is where one of the largest unsolved art heists in history took place. It was in the '90s. There were 13 significant pieces of arrt taken from that museum.  No suspect has ever been brought into custody, and nothing has been recovered. It happened on St. Patrick's Day. It's the perfect night to pull off some heist in Boston, because all the police are at the St. Patrick's Day festivities.

NINE: YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE A PLACE TO SLEEP. There was an old Ritz hotel on the first block of Newbury.  Just recently, they closed it and turned it into another hotel.  Then they built a more modern Ritz-Carlton across the street from the Public Garden. I love the new Ritz. It has a great gym, a Sports Club/LA, there.

TEN: BOSTON HAS BEACHES. AND BIRDS. .Revere Beach, although it is old and historical, is dirty and not very nice. But not too far away from there is a beach called Nahant Beach, which is actually where my sister lives. It's like a little island. There is only one road in and one road out. My sister and brother-in-law would take us there as kids, and we would other beach in Nahant that is very famous; it's called Forty Steps. There's no sand, just rocks.  There are rumors that parts of the movie The Birds were  filmed there.