• Interior courtyard at the Isabella Gardner Museum. There are plants around the perimeter of the mosaic floor. Three levels of arched windows look down from light brick walls.

    The Art Museums You MUST Visit

    As Homer Simpson once eloquently said, “More artsy, less fartsy.” We here at the Oracle echo his deeply held belief. Art can be elevating and deeply moving. But if you’re in a venue that makes you feel like a fish out of water, it’s not worth your time. Join us this week as we take you to the art museums you MUST visit. And we think you’ll like them, EVEN IF art isn’t your thing! The Fogg Museum at Harvard – Cambridge, MA On a chilly March day, we stopped at the Fogg museum for the first time. We wanted to find a way to pass some time indoors and…

  • Man wearing a scaly cap, holding a pint of craft beer

    Driving the Snakes Out of South Boston

    An amazing thing happened last October. We looked ahead at our calendar for March and realized we had the weekend of St. Patty’s day free. We had no running obligations, work obligations, or family obligations. That’s right, we were so free, we were practically footloose. What better time could there be for seeing the Dropkick Murphys, drinking some Guinness and for driving the snakes out of South Boston! (I’ll be honest, I don’t really know what that last part means. It’s just sort of a nod to lore around St. Pat and it made for a catchy headline. For the sake of this article, let’s just say it means drinking…

  • Woman touching the foot of the statue of John Harvard.

    How Smart are You – going to Harvard for Free?

    With the Boston Marathon right around the corner, we had to share with you an ABSOLUTE gem we uncovered on a recent trip. In Cambridge, which is a 20 minute ride from downtown Boston, visit the Fogg Museum at Harvard. It has priceless works of art and it costs NOTHING to go there. I mean, how smart are you – going to Harvard for free? How we found it For the first time since 2015, we went to Boston FOR FUN. That’s right, NO RUNNING. (Like at all!) But here’s the thing, we were going to Boston in mid-March. The odds of the weather being warm enough to walk the…