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Campers talk about need for electronic devices

For some, they’re a necessity, but others feel they take away from the enjoyment of special moments.

Tablets, iPhones, and laptops invade the family vacation

Togetherness is increasingly no match for screens of all kinds, but are the benefits of vacationing as a family lessened if each person is physically present but mentally elsewhere?By Beth Teitell

Eileen Deignan checks on her patient while medical assistants Stina McKenna, left, and Jen Pratt take notes on iPads.

Living with screens

Clicking with your doctor

Missed connections in our digital lives
Victor Watch observes his son using an iPad. A phone may come soon.

How young is too young for a cellphone?

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An infographic examining age of teen owners, usage, parents’ attitudes, texting, and calling.

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Americans spend a considerable amount of time behind their screens, using their gadgets.

“I often tell parents that cellphones are inanimate. It is their responsibility to make sure their children are using them the right way.”

Chet Thacker,  CEO of Code9 ­Mobile

“If teens can see what I’m writing about them, it makes them a little more engaged. They won’t think I’m writing secret thoughts into a computer.”

Dr. Larry Cohan, pediatrician 

Inside Arts & Lifestyle

Maurice Hines performed with protégés John Manzari (left) and Leo Manzari, brothers he discovered four years ago in Washington.

Maurice Hines taps into his history
Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Mahler’s Ninth Symphony at Carnegie Hall.

BSO pick makes history
Winona Ryder and Michael Shannon (also below) in “The Iceman,” based on the story of hit man Richard Kuklinski.

Movie Review

‘The Iceman’ inside the family man
“Dead Sea Scrolls: Life in Ancient Times.”

Events

Boston-area To Do list

Unsettled

Women, drinking, and wine-as-reward culture

Installations of men’s jackets at RISD’s exhibit.

Men’s fashion gets respect at RISD’s dandy show
Above: Sarah Polley and her father Michael in a recording studio in a scene from “Stories We Tell.” Below: A young Sarah with Michael.

Movie Review

A director’s discoveries in ‘Stories We Tell’

Composer Andrew Norman (right) demonstrates some of the unorthodox techniques called for when conductor Gil Rose (left) and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project play his music.

Classical Notes

Given time to write at BMOP, Norman produces ‘Play’
In “Icarus,” Minnie (Aimee Rose Ranger) draws patrons to her Depression-era traveling sideshow with the unusual inventions of Daedalus (Steven Emanuelson).

Stages

Icarus alights in the Dust Bowl
Ezra Koenig and Vampire Weekend (shown performing in Austin, Texas, in March) dealt with some technical trouble in Boston.

music review

Vampire Weekend just doesn’t get the blood boiling
Travis Talbot secured Fenway Park as the venue for Boston Bites Back, which will benefit the One Fund.

One Fund event gets his trademark zeal
Christian Kavanaugh, 12, takes his turn at the heavy bag for a punching drill at the Teen Center.

G Cover

Boxing, not fighting, at teen center