Kietzke Lane is about to get fishy again. Smee's Alaskan Fish Bar and Market Place is opening soon in the former Long John Silver's and Wings & Beer location at 1160 Kietzke Lane near Vassar Street.

Such, at least, is the thesis of Sebastian Smee, the Washington Post’s art critic, and onetime Pulitzer Prize-winning chief art critic of The Boston Globe. Having survived military and political ...