Q+A: Keith Lockhart
After 17 seasons conducting the Boston Pops, Keith Lockhart is as much a part of the Fourth of July around here as Sam or John Adams. (Okay, not quite, but it seems that way!) This year’s Hatch Shell spectacular features star singer Jennifer Hudson and, thankfully, no country music.
Q+A: Jeff Idelson
The National Baseball Hall of Fame president talks Fenway Park, Curt Schilling’s bloody sock, and more.
Q+A with Maria Menounos
The Dancing with the Stars celeb talks broken ribs, WrestleMania, and Bill Belichick.
How Rajon Rondo's Big Brother Became the NBA's Go-To Concierge
How Rajon Rondo’s older brother moved to Boston and became the NBA’s go-to guy.
Why It Seems Like Old Times: The Red Sox Are a Mess
[sidebar]BASEBALL IS DIFFERENT. It’s a strange, weird world with its own social structures and habits of business. It’s a place where overweight pitchers, instead of humbly copping to indulging in midgame fried-chicken banquets, bellyache about clubhouse snitches (ahem, Mr. Beckett)….
Here's Bobby: Bobby Valentine Talks Back
[sidebar]IN THE WHIRLWIND of coming here, is there anything that’s surprised you? Well, I’m still getting acclimated, so I’ll say that all life experiences are fun, and they’re the most fun when they’re new or they’re the best. Have you…
Hubbub with Seth Meyers
SETH MEYERS — now in his 10th season on Saturday Night Live and fifth as its head writer — is best known as the show’s “Weekend Update” anchor. But before he was live from New York, Meyers grew up a…
Hubbub with Nick Flynn
IF HALF OF WHAT happens in Scituate native Nick Flynn’s memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, took place in a novel, you wouldn’t buy it. The coincidences start with how Flynn, working at the Pine Street Inn, encounters his…
Game On! Clash of the Casino Titans
IN DECEMBER, WHEN FOXBORO’S board of selectmen voted 3–2 against allowing Bob Kraft and Las Vegas mogul Steve Wynn to build a $1 billion resort casino in town, you might have thought that was that. Ha! With millions and billions…
Hubbub with Diary of a Wimpy Kid Author Jeff Kinney
Respect to Dennis Lehane, but the most popular author in the state just may be Jeff Kinney with his Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. WITH ALL DUE RESPECT to Dennis Lehane, David McCullough, and Anita Diamant, the most popular…
