For the past 13 years, the Rose Kennedy Greenway, a public park that stretches from the North End to Chinatown, has hosted a wide array of local food trucks to support Boston’s small businesses and provide diverse dining options to residents throughout the spring and summer....
High Street Place is Boston’s newest food hall, hosting 20 local Boston restaurants, breweries and coffee roasters. Located between the buildings at 100 High St. and 160 Federal St., the warehouse-like space’s high ceilings and open floor plan provide a communal area for...
Boston City Councilors Julia Mejia and Kenzie Bok have proposed a home rule petition that would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in all Boston mayoral and municipal elections.
The special law was discussed in a city council meeting March 16. Mejia and Bok first presented...
Nick Shea, dubbed the “$1 portrait guy” by supporters on TikTok, has been attracting locals and tourists from all over the world to Boston Common to get a $1 portrait of themselves.
Shea, who is 25, started his $1 portrait business in 2017 at Washington Square Park in...
Before patrons can bring their business to the North End for outdoor dining this summer, restaurants will have to open their wallets for the City of Boston.
In a meeting with restaurant owners March 17, city officials announced that North End restaurants will have to pay a...
Boston Public Library’s Leventhal Map and Education Center opened a new exhibit titled “More or Less in Common: Environment and Justice in the Human Landscape” mid-March. The exhibit will run through December 2022, located between the courtyard and the new section of the...
At the beginning of March Gov. Charlie Baker nominated Justice Robert A. Brennan and Justice Andrew M. D’Angelo as associate justices of the Appeals Court.
These nominations start the multi-step process for them to be confirmed justices on Massachusetts’ intermediate...
Boston Calling, Boston’s annual Memorial Day weekend music festival, is set to return May 27 - 29 for the first time since 2019.
Boston Calling is a three-day-long music festival featuring rock, indie and alternative artists, as well as comedians and celebrity hosts, such...
Meet the Double Awesome — two eggs, Cabot cheddar cheese and local greens pesto sandwiched not between slices of bread, but within a scallion pancake. This signature dish at Mei Mei captures the inventive cuisine of the local farm-focused, woman-owned dumpling business.
“The...
Seated in Brown Hall at the New England Conservatory of Music, or NEC, the murmurs of eager concertgoers fell to whispers as they heard the first sounds of Rob Patterson tuning his clarinet last month.
Around 70 audience members of all ages gathered for Boston Core 3, the...
Boston has a long standing and intricate civil rights history and Hank Willis Thomas, a New York-based artist and photographer, is working alongside local architects and organizations to immortalize one part of it. They are creating a monument titled “The Embrace” to honor...
