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Home to the Harbor walk and the Old North Church, the historic North End is the city's oldest residential community, dating back to the 1630s. Known for its robust Italian American community, the North End hosts numerous Italian and seafood restaurants along Hanover Street and down its narrow
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Sandwiched between Boston's theater and financial districts, Chinatown is home to many of the city's immigrants and a magnet for tourists and Bostonians alike. People flock to the area to sample the many Asian cultures offered by various restaurants, shops and street side boutiques. A symbolic
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By learning the rudiments of penning a memoir, older Boston residents are creating a sort of eye-witness history of the city, its neighborhoods and nearby suburbs, through the Memoir Project. The joint venture between City Hall and Grub Street Writers, a Boston company that teaches writing skills, aims to capture
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MILTON – In an annual tradition, children who attend Glover Elementary School line corridor walls and campus walkways to watch as ducklings hatched in an enclosed courtyard march behind their Mrs. Mallard to nearby Turners Pond. They're given a bit of encouragement and guidance along their seasonal waddle, and
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CAMBRIDGE — Even for non-students, living near a world-famous college has its perks. In the last few months alone, I've sat front row at a free lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Marilynne Robinson, had the rare opportunity to visit the storerooms below the Harvard Semitic Museum, and see a
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The world's largest contemporary music school, Berklee College of Music in Boston, shapes the very core of the city's music scene. To most Berklee students, who come from all over the world, music has been fundamental to them all their lives. We asked some of them
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This campaign season has provided plenty of fodder for comedians and television shows, with the latest example including a Massachusetts hook. In last weekend's episode of "The Simpsons," a political ad questions how either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump would handle a 3 a.m. wakeup
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once called music "the universal language of mankind." Many literary and musical men and women from all ages and cultures have similarly pointed to music as the great unifier, as "naming the unnamable" and "communicating the unknowable" (Leonard Bernstein); as "
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