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.

Former hit man John V. Martorano was the first witness in James “Whitey” Bulger’s trial to describe the gangster’s alleged involvement in a killing.

Authorities have identified the two men shot to death Sunday in an apparent murder-suicide in Swansea that allegedly escalated after an argument over money, State Police said Monday.

State and Swansea police responded to a report of shots fired on Stephen French Road around 6 p.m. Sunday and found Mitchell Stevenson, 37, of Tiverton, R.I., fatally shot in a car, State Police said.

Witnesses told police that a single gunshot was heard inside a home on Stephen French Road shortly after a man fled into a house near the car, State Police said. Police entered the home and found Christian Wilson, 43, the resident of the house, dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Police believe that a Beverly woman who initially claimed she was kidnapped and locked in the trunk of her car made the episode up, and she will now face a charge of falsifying a police report, Beverly police spokesman Mike Boccuzzi said.

The fund set up to aid victims of the Marathon bombings has $51 million, and 212 people have so far applied for compensation.

Hasbro Inc. and Rovio Entertainment announced an expanded licensing agreement for Hasbro to develop toys and physical games based on the “Angry Birds” brand.

Datawatch Corp., a Chelmsford company that develops business software for data analysis, said it agreed to acquire Panopticon Software AB.