Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu this week announced her endorsement of Ayanna Pressley’s campaign for Congress at an event at Vejigantes Restaurant in Boston’s South End. Councilor Wu is the first Asian-American woman to be elected to the Boston City…
Author: The Boston Sun Staff
Mapparium, Mother Church are Hidden Gems in the Back Bay
Inside the Mary Baker Eddy Library on Massachusetts Avenue sits a vivid, 608-panel glass globe. Called the Mapparium, the 83-year-old globe is 30 feet in diameter and three stories high, according to tour guide Bert Hogan. The Mapparium opened in…
Braintree Native Creates Gilded Age,Concrete Furniture to Spark Conversation about Access to Space
From a very young age, Liz Glynn knew she wanted to be an artist. The daughter of an architect and an engineer, Glynn grew up in Braintree and studied at Harvard University before earning her MFA at California Institute of…
Police Briefs 07-12-2018
D-4 POLICE NEWS Carry a big stick On Sunday, July 1, at around 7:38 a.m., police responded to a radio call to investigate a person in Public Alley #438 after receiving information that a male suspect had threatened a victim…
Cleaning Blood from the Brownstone
It’s pretty tough watching all of the violence that has been unleashed by various ne’er-do-wells in our city over the past few months – particularly over the July 4 holiday and into this week. There are too many guns and…
Curing Alzheimer’s in America
Imagine waking up one morning and not knowing whether you’re in your own home, let alone your hometown. The faces around you are unfamiliar, and you don’t know who to ask for help — or what to say. This is…
Make the Most of Summer
My father who lived an extraordinary life, used to say, “When you look back on your life, you realize that all you really have is a lot of memories.” What brings these words to mind is the realization that the…
Frog Pond Opening
It was a scorcher last Friday afternoon (and pretty much every day afterward), but little Sara Lakin of the South End and her caregiver, Joan Menzie Brown, had the right way to cool off – at the season’s opening of…
Councilor Wu Holds Hearing on Resident Permit-Parking
City Councilor Michelle Wu held a hearing regarding the resident permit-parking program in the city on June 28. On the panel were transportation experts from the city as well as members of organizations who have advocated for and researched better…
Boston Landmarks Orchestra 2018 Season Begins July 11
The Boston Landmarks Orchestra is gearing up for their 2018 season of free concerts at the Department of Conservation and Recreation’s Hatch Memorial Shell on the Esplanade. On July 11, the the first ever “Season Tune-Up” will be held at…