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ReadBoston Author Series featuring Phil Vitti
West On Centre, 1732 Centre St, West Roxbury, MA | Get Directions »
$25.00
Mayor Thomas M. Menino and ReadBoston will host an Author Series event featuring Phil Vitti, author of the book The Passage. The event will be held on Monday, October 29 at West on Centre, West Roxbury.
The Passage is an informative account of one Boston Police Department undercover cop's experiences in the 1960s era. Time travel with 'Mike Russo' through the underbelly of Organized Crime played out against the back drop of Boston's once infamous Combat Zone. Author Phil Vitti retired from the Command Staff of the Boston Police Department on Jan 2, 2003 after 38 years of service. He also served as a Senior Lecturer at University College, Northeastern University.
Tickets are $25. Hors d'ouevres will be served. Books will be available for sale. RSVP to readboston@cityofboston.gov or 617-918-5286.
This event is sponsored by West on Centre.
About ReadBoston:
ReadBoston was founded by Mayor Thomas Menino and other city leaders in 1995 as a non-profit children’s literacy organization with an ambitious goal: to ensure that every child in Boston can read at grade level by the end of the third grade.
Event Details
| Where | West On Centre 1732 Centre St, West Roxbury, MA 02132 |
| Next on | This event is over. |
| Time | 5:30 pm |
| Website | http://www.thefacebook.com/readboston |
| Phone | 617-918-5286 |
| kathleen.sullivan.jcs@cityofboston.gov | |
| Price | $25.00 |
| Tickets | Buy Tickets |
More About West On Centre
As part of the Eat, Drink, Laugh Restaurant Group (which includes 21st Amendment and The Paramount in Beacon Hill and Dorchester's Blarney Stone), West on Centre combines subtle elegance with an air of casual camaraderie to create an unusually versatile venue. Its American cuisine is presented unpretentiously but with plenty of nouveau fusion flair. The upstairs area is separated into two rooms, one with the bar and the other with a galley kitchen, while the lower level includes a function room (with its own bar) and some outdoor patio seating located beside a garden where fresh basil and other cooking herbs are grown.
Other events here
- Sunday Night Stump Trivia at West on Centre Weekly on Sundays, 8:00 pm
- West Roxbury/Roslindale Rotary Club Weekly Meeting Weekly on Tuesdays, 12:00 pm
