Boston’s critic at large, with 108 million views on her Google Maps contributions and 15 straight years as a Yelp Elite. Also a speaker, actress, author and patient advocate.
THE DEAL: firm, but fair. Since 2010.
She writes her reviews like report cards. So here is hers, in her format, as of November 5, 2026.
From her public profiles on Google Maps and Yelp, November 5, 2026. Contribution views from her Google Maps contributions page.
69,662 points. Level 10 starts at 100,000.
Every year from 2012 through 2026.
Her 866 Yelp reviews by stars. About 24% land at three or below.
THE DEAL: fifteen years, two platforms, one standard. If Lynn says it’s good, it’s good.
Pick a place. These are her real reviews from 10 countries and 22 states, in her own words, with the line she ends them on.
Boston, Massachusetts: 711 reviews and ratings so far.
This is my new favorite food place: 5 stars all across the board! The staff is exceptionally friendly, knowledgeable and patient with questions. The food choices are more abundant than other similar build a bowl style restaurants.
THE DEAL: i'll be back... Often!
Read it on YelpRoyce chocolate is one of Boston's best chocolate companies. I think that it is truly one of the best chocolates in the world. The milk in their milk chocolate comes from cows in Hokkaido, Japan...
THE DEAL: if you want some of the best chocolate in Boston, you have to try Royce chocolates!
Read it on YelpMy Service Dog, Dr Smallz, and I had so much fun this summer visiting the 75 cows in the Boston Cow Parade! The "cow parade" is the largest international public art exhibit, and not to be missed. This event is sponsored by Herb Chambers auto company.
THE DEAL: the cow parade is only on display from June through September, and each cow is a one of a kind work of art!
Read it on YelpI'm gonna be honest, right up front... I expected this art exhibit to be a little... Boring. I am so happy to be wrong! They have some thing for everyone. The first floor is a mix of adult and children's pieces.
THE DEAL: the art of the brick was worth every Lego that went into creating it. Fun for the whole family!
Read it on YelpWe live in Boston, and made a day trip to Carson Beach. My guest wanted to go for a walk... We ended up on Dorchester Harborwalk... A beautiful, sidewalk path following the ocean.
THE DEAL: if you visit Carson Beach, and you like to keep active, and LOVE that fresh ocean air, take a stroll along the Dorchester Harborwalk!
Read it on YelpI visited my friend, who lived at the Clarendon Residences, located at 140 Clarendon Street. It's right across from the nicest condo building in the neighborhood, "One Back Bay," where *I* live.
THE DEAL: don't pay top dollar to live in Back Bay, BUT at the Clarendon residences. I residents there wander the halls, aimlessly, eyes glazed.
Read it on YelpTHE DEAL: 533 of her 866 Yelp reviews end with THE DEAL. Now you know where the habit comes from.
A few frames from her 10,526 photos and 897 videos on Google Maps. Yes, she took them all.
Hotel Erwin Venice, California
Arnaud's New Orleans
Colette Lounge Boylston Street, Boston
Bear Rock Suites Colebrook, New Hampshire
Royce' Chocolate Newbury Street, Boston
Venice Beach Los Angeles
Blank Street Back Bay, Boston
CowParade Newbury Street, Boston
Burano's Hallowell, Maine
Boston Athenaeum Beacon Hill, BostonLong before the reviews, there was a stage. Then another one. Then a finish line.
As Cookie Cutter Girl, a self styled 21st century pop superhero, Lynn played girl power pop with a punch. Rolling Stone heard her song “Pain” and said she “sounds like Nashville’s version of Fiona Apple.”
Rolling Stone April 6, 2006, page 66After a 2006 fall on stage put her in and out of a wheelchair for years, she relearned to walk and started acting in 2012. About two dozen screen credits followed, from an evil nun in Witch Hunters to FX’s Married, plus the cover of Imagine magazine in June 2016.
Her credits on IMDb
On April 15, 2013, Lynn was near the Boston Marathon finish line on Boylston Street, in her own Back Bay neighborhood, and was hurt in the bombing. A year later, on April 21, 2014, she crossed that same finish line herself in the mobility impaired division. It was the first run of her life. SELF later counted her among the most inspirational women who have run Boston.
“I fought my way out of that wheelchair, and I fought my way across that finish line.”
Today she speaks on resilience, volunteers as a patient advocate with groups like the U.S. Pain Foundation, and has shared her story in published anthologies, including Outrunning the Demons (Bloomsbury, 2019). And wherever she goes, she writes it up.
“I wear more hats than a Hydra has heads!”
THE DEAL: every act ends the same way. She gets back up and goes somewhere new.
From Rolling Stone to StoryCorps, twenty years of people writing about Lynn for a change.
Stages, cameras, panels and good causes. Tell her the who, what, where and when.