Back Bay’s famous Trident Booksellers & Cafe celebrated 40 years of community and food for thought at its anniversary party Oct. 5. The family-run local hotspot displayed historical memorabilia, free books, fortunes and menu samples in a newly renovated event space....

Instagram recently updated its guidelines for users under 18, rolling out a set of changes Sept. 17 intended to limit the negative effects of social media on minors. Coined “Teen Accounts,” these changes include setting all minors’ accounts to private by default, muting...

In early September, hip-hop artist and rapper Kendrick Lamar announced that he would headline the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show.  The announcement came after Lamar gained traction from his recent feud with fellow artist Drake, a long-running rivalry that reignited earlier...

The 19th annual HONK! Festival took place from Oct. 4 to 6, drawing dozens of activist street bands and hundreds of attendees to Davis Square in Somerville to dance, draw, make crafts and celebrate the history of activist music in Boston. Bands played from noon to 9 p.m. Oct....

TD Garden was transported back to the 1970s for Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet” tour Oct. 3. With humorous one-liners and commercial breaks, Carpenter expertly crafted a performance that emphasized her vocals, personality and stage presence. The concert began...

SpeakEasy Stage Company opened its 34th season with Alexis Scheer’s “Laughs in Spanish,” a culturally rich telenovela mystery which debuted Sept. 13 at the Roberts Studio Theatre. “Laughs in Spanish” is the company’s first production of the 2024-25 season, and it...

The Huntington Theatre Company opened its production of Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” Sept. 12, produced in association with Washington D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre Company. The 23-person cast portrayed a Viennese family living through the 19th and 20th centuries — a...

After “brat summer’s” sunset for the season, Charli XCX and Troye Sivan rocked Boston Sept. 28 with a two-hour, pulsating and raucous performance that couldn’t have been a more accurate encapsulation of their joint tour’s branding. One could almost smell it from...

By the time indie pop trio Vampire Weekend took the stage Sept. 27, TD Garden was jam-packed. The crowd was mostly millennials — just like the band — with a few families mixed in. The stage setup was simple, with a black background reading “Vampire Weekend” in white...

Every year, over 100,000 people visit King Richard's Faire during its eight-week season, which stretches from the end of the summer into early fall. The renaissance fair, founded in 1981, is located approximately 50 minutes south of Boston in Carver. Visitors from the surrounding...

Need a break from reality and an opportunity to enter a world of dreams and distortion? Visitors can take in winding displays of mixed paintings, prints and influential works by Salvador Dalí at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, or MFA, free with general admission. Curated by...

Sleeping in your makeup, fake accents, clubbing and drunk cigarettes are just a few things that have been labeled “brat summer” coded.   For what feels like forever, TikTok and Instagram users have strived for different variations of the “clean girl aesthetic”: neutral...