SIDETRACK
ELEVATOR SOX: You'll never guess what Red Sox players have been doing in an elevator at the Hotel Commonwealth ... signing their names. The Kenmore Square hotel (aka the “Official Hotel of the Boston Red Sox”) has a designated baseball elevator. Current and former Sox players have been scrawling their signatures on this lift's walls, which boasts a Green Monster motif. In the past week alone, left fielder Andrew Benintendi and former catcher Jason Varitek left their John Hancocks at the hotel. Jackie Bradley Jr. did the deed in January, and others who have gone before him include pitcher Chris Sale, right fielder Mookie Betts and former second-baseman-turned-broadcaster Jerry Remy.
HERE COMES THE CASTING: Dating got you down? You're in luck, because TV show “Married at First Sight” is now casting singles in Boston who want to walk down the aisle
ASAP. So if you appear to be aged 25 to 35, are down for marrying a total stranger and are willing to have your newly wedded … um, bliss? … broadcasted to the whole country, apply online at MAFSBoston.castingcrane.com.
HEY, MR. DJ: Boston's DJ Joe Bermudez, whose song “Sunrise” topped the Billboard dance chart last year, is releasing his new single, “Ghosting,” on April 17, Marathon Monday. The song's lyrics are a little too real for anyone who's dated in the past five years, but if you're left wanting more, look out for Joe's upcoming album, “2779 Miles to Go.”
GIVING BOCH: Ernie Boch Jr.' s Music Drives Us has given a $25,000 grant to the House of Blues Music Forward Foundation to underwrite the Boston Blues School House program in Boston. The program, which will now go by the name of Boston Blues School House presented by Music Drives Us, has students relive the history of the Blues and shows them how music can promote social change.