Sick of the hotdogs at Fenway? Check out the Yard House!

Yard House, which features 180 beer taps, makes itself at home near Fenway

Tired of the ballpark hotdogs and peanuts? This season, Boston Red Sox fans have a new dining option — one with 150 menu items, 180 tap handles, and seating for 500. The Yard House, a goliath beer-selling restaurant chain based in California, has landed a spot in the backyard of historic Fenway Park.
The Yard House’s Brookline Avenue location, which opened in March, is the newest of the chain’s 35 mega-restaurants around the country. In addition to Sox fans, it aims to attract college students, business professionals and families, with food, drink and entertainment. The restaurant is filled with flat-screen televisions, tables and booths, and an open patio with views of Fenway Park.
“Really, it’s the environment,” said Jane Hannah, the Yard House manager. “We’re all about your experience — everything about the music, energy and vibe.”
The restaurant has a large staff — 12 to 18 managers on a typical weekend night, rather than the usual two or three of a smaller eatery.
“I have worked at a few other restaurants before, and we have a lot more managers than I’m used to,” said Travis Eilerson, a server at the Yard House. “If you’ve been here on a Friday or Saturday night, it’s packed and crazy, so it’s really necessary.”
Hannah has been with the Yard House company for six years and has opened three other locations, prior to Fenway—in Miami, Hawaii and Dedham, Ma.. A native of Milton, she said she was excited to be able to open a restaurant close to home.
Fenway “is a phenomenal location,” she said. “Most of our locations are in malls, so for us having the opportunity to open something [here], that’s great, especially in the Boston community. That’s one thing we love — to be a part of the community.” The restaurant does fundraising for a number of charities, she said.
According to Hannah, the beer menu is a big draw. With 180 tap handles, the Yard House boasts one of the largest selections of beer on tap in the country.
Even though the Red Sox opened the season with an away game, “our restaurant was full of people” that day, she said.
Alison Karr had dined with her family at Yard House restaurants in Florida before coming to the Fenway location. She said the new restaurant — the biggest one she has been to — was a welcome addition to Boston.
“We’ve liked everything we’ve had — and I know my husband likes the beer selection,” she said.
By Daniella Iervolino, Globe Correspondent, Re-posted from Boston.com
Tags: 100th Anniversary, beer, Boston, Fenway, Fenway Park, Red Sox, restaurants, sports, The Yard House, 

Denzel Washington, Doing The Right Thing!!

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Remember this next time you walk up to the ticket window of your local movie theater with $10 in your hand. The Media (Accidentally?) missed this one!!!! Please read this: The troops oversees would like you to send it to everybody you know. Subject: Denzel Washington, and Brooks Army Medical Center. Don't know whether you heard about this but Denzel Washington and his family visited the troops at Brook Army Medical Center , in San Antonio , Texas, (BAMC) the other day. This is where soldiers who have been evacuated from Germany come to be hospitalized in the United States , especially burn victims. There are some buildings there called Fisher Houses. The Fisher House is a Hotel where soldiers' families can stay, for little or no charge, while their soldier is staying in the Hospital. BAMC has quite a few of these houses on base, but as you can imagine, they are almost filled most of the time. While Denzel Washington was visiting BAMC, they gave him a tour of one of the Fisher Houses. He asked how much one of them would cost to build. He took his check book out and wrote a check for the full amount right there on the spot. The soldiers overseas were amazed to hear this story and want to get the word out to the American public, because it warmed their hearts to hear it. The question is - why do: Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Tom Cruise and other Hollywood fluff make front page news with their ridiculous anticsand Denzel Washington's Patriotism doesn't even make page 3 in the Metro section of any newspaper except the Local newspaper in San Antonio . A true American and friend to all in uniform! This needs as wide a distribution as we can create. Please share it!

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CRUSADERS ARE BACK! OOH RAH!!

Group blasts Marine Corps for reviving 'Crusaders' name and symbols

The insignia for the VMFA-122 "Crusaders" that was used from 1957-2008. The name and symbols were changed to Werewolves for four years, but the historic nicname and symbols were recently reinstated.

By Kari Huus, msnbc.com

A recent decision by the Marine Corps to reinstate "Crusaders" as the name of its Fighter Attack Squadron 122 — replacing "Werewolves" — and adopting the red cross of the medieval Knights Templar was blasted as unconstitutional and willfully ignorant by a civil rights group Wednesday.
“I don’t know that the Marine Corps could do anything more to fuel the cause of jihad," said Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a nonprofit organization that advocates church-state separation. "It will directly end up taking lives and maiming members of our military."

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VMFA-122 based out of Beaufort, S.C., used the Crusaders symbol from 1958 up to 2008, when Lt. Col. William Lieblein pointed out that imagery invoking the Christian conquest and colonization of Muslims during the Middle Ages was counterproductive to U.S. soldiers based across the Arab and Islamic world.
"The notion of being a crusader in that part of the world doesn't float," he said, ordering the change to "Werewolves," as reported by the Beaufort Gazette at the time.

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Dozens of military members, including Marines in the affected squadron have contacted MRFF reporting that the name has been changed back, and that the symbols had already been painted on the vertical stabilizers of the F-18s.
Weinstein says that members of the military who contacted his group — mostly moderate Protestants and Catholics — felt that the decision was blatantly religious.
"They’re being told, 'the enemy gets to have Allah in their fight. We need to get our Lord and Savior back into our fight'," said Weinstein."
Lt. Cmdr. Wade Weigel, who currently heads the squadron, said he did not think the historic nickname was problematic, according to a report in the Beaufort Gazette on Monday.
"It's a way for our Marines to draw on the service of the Marines before them, and to make their own history under the same name," Weigel told the paper. "As the squadron prepared to celebrate its (70th anniversary), my intent was to return the squadron to the Crusader name since 50 of the squadron's 70 years were under that name. The name change is a reflection of our heritage."
Through the law firm Jones Day, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation on Wednesday sent a letter calling on top Navy and Marine Corps brass to reverse the decision, arguing that the use of Crusaders and the accompanying symbolism violate the Constitution’s separation of church and state, and threatening legal action if it is not changed.
The name change comes just as world media focuses on the trial of Anders Breivik, a Norwegian who admits to killing 77 people in a holy crusade against Islam and multiculturalism. Breivik brandished the Knights Templar symbols in his "manifesto" and YouTube video posted shortly before his bloody rampage.

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