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.

We were getting greedy. It wasn’t a matter of if the Bruins would win the Stanley Cup, but when. So many premature thoughts.

A developer wants to build 433 apartments and 109 condominiums in the $500 million, 52-story Copley Place skyscraper.

Whitey Bulger’s trial is full of mesmerizing stories of lurid gangland slayings that occurred decades ago. But the gang violence that’s happening now in Boston elicits mostly shrugs.

Far from being a detriment, Edward Markey’s Washington experience fills a need for a state that lost Edward M. Kennedy in 2009 and John Kerry this year.

Kick back and relax with these cool cocktails that Boston’s top bartenders recommend for this summer.

“Monsters University” is better than “Cars 2” but not by enough, offering unsettling evidence that Pixar’s Golden Age may be in the past.

Friday’s summer solstice is a day to spend doing your favorite activities outside. It’s a great, free gift of sunlight, from nature, with love.