The first mainstage concert of the Boston Early Music Festival was also the North American debut of Mozart’s own violin and viola.

The Medfield native has been awarded the Second International Sir Georg Solti Conducting Apprenticeship with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Lauren Bush Lauren and her husband, David Lauren, were honored by UNICEF at its annual Children’s Champion Award Dinner.

The Boston-bred actor and “Star Trek” star was at the West End Museum last week for a tour.

The stately brick dwelling in Provincetown that the author called home from 1990 until his death in 2007 is for sale.

Former contestant on “The Voice” Amanda Brown was among the 350 guests at Hebrew SeniorLife’s “EngAGEment Party.”

The song in the commercial, called “Je T’adore,” appeared on their 2004 double album, “Palais.”

Oprah Winfrey is giving $12 million to a museum being built on Washington’s National Mall that will document African-American history.

Waterfront site will house a $1.6m playground where children of all abilities can romp side by side.

Many of those beautiful spots near the water, once waiting for commercial tenants, are filling up fast with eateries, lounges, bars, and shops, with more to come.

It’s an odd sensation, the feeling that this experience with a favorite artist might just be your last. That the book you are savoring or the story you are reading may well be the final one she or he will write. That you’re watching a beloved band for what could be the last time.

In part, it’s the impending, unwelcome end of a musical or literary experience whose regular recurrence has become a pleasurable part of your life.

Something beyond that is also at play, however: The uncomfortable recognition that an era which has defined all of your early and middle adulthood is coming to a close. It’s a sense of lengthening shadows, a vicarious mid-life shiver.

Wicked identity politics come with the territory in Boston. The city exists because an exclusionary mood took hold of a group of Englishmen four centuries ago, and ever since Bostonians have been marking those they deem to truly belong here and those who don’t. But even by the standards of a city obsessed with the struggle against perceived outsiders, the bout of class and identity politics that’s been convulsing Jamaica Plain in recent years is an epic one.

If Barrio in Fenway hasn’t been a priority to restaurateur Michael Schlow, it’s time to make it one.

Steve DiFillippo is expanding his empire from four to seven establishments, while also publishing his first book, “It’s All About The Guest.”

“The Yogurt Cookbook” explores yogurt cooked every which way, including making it yourself.