Right down the street from the historic Fenway Park, the Fenway Community Center, or FCC, stands as a beacon of unity. The FCC has been an integral part of the Boston community since 2016, offering a wide range of activities from yoga classes and game nights to food distributions....
Community members gathered in Union Square for the 19th annual What the Fluff? Festival Sept. 21, a celebration honoring the creation of Marshmallow Fluff in Somerville back in 1917.
Despite the gloomy weather throughout the day, thousands of people poured down Somerville...
Located at 20 Charlesgate W., Our Lady’s Guild House is planning a renovation to create more affordable housing in the Fenway area. In October 2023, the Fenway Community Development Corporation, or Fenway CDC, along with the Planning Office for Urban Affairs, or POUA, purchased...
Like every year since 1995 on the third Saturday of September, the 35th annual Boston Freedom Rally took place in Boston Common. The rally is one of the largest gatherings advocating for marijuana reform in the Northeast, drawing advocates, enthusiasts and curious learners. The...
The Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy, or MIRA, Coalition hosted a rally in Boston Common at noon Sept. 24 in solidarity with the Haitian immigrants of Springfield, Ohio, who have faced a flood of hate and threats over the last several weeks due to unsubstantiated...
On the third-floor mezzanine of Boston City Hall, there now stands a sobering structure: a glass house made of 700 translucent bricks. The total number of bricks depicts the average number of gun deaths per week in the United States. Inside the clear blocks, small tokens represent...
From its polarizing, brutalist architecture to its confusing floor plan, Boston City Hall has never been perceived as a welcoming, approachable place for Bostonians to complete their civic duties.
Kyle Potts, a fourth-year computer science major at Northeastern University,...
Full-time drag performer MT Hart sported a vibrant blue mullet and swung a full pint of beer in one hand while strutting through Boston’s Time Out Market. Hart’s intentional, theatrical stumbling delivered a comedic yet air-tight performance that concluded with the splits...
In the midst of New York Fashion Week, Boston had its own sprawling fashion event — though the invite list wasn’t limited to models and millionaires. In the late-summer heat, on the outskirts of the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Roxbury, a seemingly never-ending...
The Boston Local Food Festival was held Sept. 15 in the Rose Kennedy Greenway, highlighting various local restaurants and food-related businesses in the area and bringing together the Boston community for an exciting day of food, fun and learning experiences.
Over 80 vendors...
On a 75-degree day in Franklin Park Sept. 14, over 250 racers and walkers lined up for another run in the Boston Athletic Association’s, or B.A.A.’s, Neighborhood Race Series. The two-mile run marked the fifth installment of the six-part race series that began in March 2024....
Brittany Baker, owner of A Sanctuary Cafe, wants to bring her own little slice of bliss to the Beacon Hill neighborhood. A charming new addition to Charles Street this past July, Baker’s cat cafe and micro bookstore serves up a unique kind of comfort to its patrons, with an...
