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

Never one to back down, 71-year-old former mayor of Boston Thomas Menino says, “we’ll get through this.”

Caravans have emerged as the nation’s latest trend and ecofriendly staycation.

The summary from the Hurricanes-Bruins game

Over the past 18 months, the museum has quietly opened many small but brilliant new galleries.

The Castlemartyr Resort, one of the country’s most exclusive hotels, has the hallmarks of an Irish period drama.

Nearly blinded by a line drive 13 years ago, the former Red Sox pitcher is making a new life for himself in the game he loves.

The 2012 referendum is giving rise to a new niche in the state: physicians turned medical marijuana specialists.

If you go to see Ireland in a caravan.

For a truly transformational tenure, Andris Nelsons must expand the BSO’s reach not only through compelling performances but by renewing the mission.

If you go to East Cork, Ireland.

With her new novel “Cambridge,” the celebrated author of “Girl, Interrupted” is still writing about her hometown.

As Dudamel returns to Boston, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s director is being criticized for not taking a stand on the situation in his native Venezuela.

Decades later, Ireland revisited is an Ireland revived.

“Capa in Color” at the International Center of Photography highlights the photographers striking color images.

If you go to Ireland on the road...

Muldowney has work up now in the “Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship Program Fellows and Finalists Photography” show at the New Art Center.

Sandwiched between Tufts University and North Cambridge, the commercial hub is a trendsetter rather than a follower.

A by-the-numbers breakdown of the holiday.

Marie Jansen was one of the most famous musical theater performers in the country, but died a century ago as a housekeeper.