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Three local authors are hoping their sequels do as well as the originals.

A new book compiles the best in visual storytelling.

Honk! just may be Boston’s most joyous music festival.

The cassette makes a comeback.

Matthew Reed Baker’s guide to this month’s events.

Building better gear for women warriors.

Head for the hills in style.

Somerville’s amped-up new training destination for the indoor mountaineer.

As the Boston Ballet begins its 50th-anniversary season, the brilliant, controversial artistic director Mikko Nissinen has made the once-forlorn company the envy of the dance world. He’s also infuriated his critics, his funders, and many of his own dancers. So what’s next for one of the most creative—and confounding—minds in ballet?

In 2011, a community of Buddhist monks in Lowell announced plans to build a large, grand temple. The structure would signal that the city’s Cambodian Americans had at last entered the mainstream. Then came accusations of financial impropriety and political backstabbing. And then came a secretly recorded video of a monk having sex.