Mayor Joseph Curtatone announced Thursday that fitness centers; martial arts and dance facilities; motion picture and television streaming productions; and art, music, language and other instructio…

Hilken Mancini spent a lot of the ’90s thinking about rock. The Boston singer-songwriter-guitarist came up co-leading Fuzzy across a few albums and dozens of tours. She spent very little time think…

Any gearhead has to envy Paddy McGuinness, Freddie Flintoff and Chris Harris. As hosts of BBC America’s “Top Gear,” they get to try the latest and greatest in auto technology, ret…

In doing a profile of his rock star father, Jack Osbourne wanted at all costs to avoid doing a fluff piece. No, in “Biography: The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne,” premiering Monday, on A&…

With “Love, Guaranteed,” streaming on Netflix, Rachael Leigh Cook has produced a “romantic comedy with a classic feel and modern twist.” As Susan, a struggling Seattle pro bono lawyer, Cook, 40, ta…

The race for U.S. Senate has been set and Bay Staters are now given a choice between two very different candidates with two disparate ideologies. Sen. Ed Markey was considered ‘toast’ b…

We are now deep into the worst public health crisis of our lifetimes. For the nearly 600,000 people with disabilities receiving services in Massachusetts, their families and the essential workers w…

Vicky Osterweil, the author of “In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action,” is getting her 15 minutes of fame thanks to a segment on NPR in which she said some really m…

Just when it seemed that we were due for an endless parade of violent convicts handed a get-out-of-jail card from the Massachusetts Bail Fund, someone is stepping up and taking action. As the Heral…

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