Posted: Saturday, January 25, 2014 5:15 am Bostonian's songs for sick daughter up for Grammy 0 comments BOSTON (AP) — A father from Boston is nominated for his first Grammy for a children's album that was inspired by his young daughter with cancer. His child, Clio, was diagnosed with leukemia in 2012 at the age of 5. The album called "Singing Our Way Through: Songs for the World's Bravest Kids" was written by Alastair Moock Continue reading >>>

BOSTON (AP) - A father from Boston is nominated for his first Grammy for a children's album that was inspired by his young daughter with cancer. His child, Clio, was diagnosed with leukemia in 2012 at the age of 5. The album called "Singing Our Way Through: Songs for the World's Bravest Kids" was written by Alastair Moock along with the help of his daughter. The songwriter has sent out thousands of copies to hospitals, patient camps and directly to patients' families to help others cope when loved ones fall ill. According Continue reading >>>

BOSTON (AP) - A father from Boston is nominated for his first Grammy for a children's album that was inspired by his young daughter with cancer. His child, Clio, was diagnosed with leukemia in 2012 at the age of 5. The album called "Singing Our Way Through: Songs for the World's Bravest Kids" was written by Alastair Moock along with the help of his daughter. The songwriter has sent out thousands of copies to hospitals, patient camps and directly to patients' families to help others cope when loved ones fall ill. According Continue reading >>>

MELBOURNE — Lukasz Kubot and Robert Lindstedt won the Australian Open men’s double title in their first Grand Slam as a team, beating American Eric Butorac and South Africa’s Raven Klaasen, 6-3, 6-3, in Saturday’s final. Kubot and Lindstedt dominated from the start, fending off the only break point they faced and wrapping up victory in an hour and five minutes. Lindstedt of Sweden has previously lost three Grand Slam doubles finals — all at Wimbledon with Horia Tecau. Poland’s Kubot was playing for his first major title. Continue reading below The 36-year-old Linstedt said he was Continue reading >>>

Until two weeks ago, Eric Butorac was the one watching the screen. A professional tennis player currently ranked No. 48 in the world in doubles, Butorac, who lives in Boston and is a volunteer coach for the Harvard men’s team, had flown to Australia in late December to prepare for the Australian Open. His wife Maggie, a Marblehead native, had just given birth to their first child, Jack, on Dec. 13. Twice a day, Maggie would facetime Butorac, hold her phone to Jack’s crib, and Butorac would watch his son sleep or kick or simply stare back at his daddy. But Saturday in Melbourne, and around Continue reading >>>

Dude may look like a lady, but at least Steven Tyler is still deemed fashionable by someone. Independent online retailer US Trendy released their list of the Top 50 Most Fashionable Bostonians today, and the 65-year-old Aerosmith singer clocks in at a very respectable Number 26. The top spot goes to TV personality Maria Menounos (which kinda makes up for US Trendy misspelling her name in the list below), with model Gisele Bundchen (also misspelled) taking the silver, and Christina Pierce of the Christina Pierce Fashion Agency playing the role of Finland and going home with the bronze. Good Continue reading >>>

Follow Paul on Twitter: @paulstewart22 I have been having a great time in Davos, Switzerland, taking part in the hockey events overlapping with the World Economic Forum, including the charity outdoor Old Timers' Game. I have had the opportunity to room with Czech hockey legend Milan Novy, who was one of the greats of European and international hockey before the fall of communism in the former Czechoslovakia. Nowadays, Old Timers' games are called Legends' Games. Cue the George Carlin routines on the softening of language to mask the fact that we're a bunch of old guys skating. Fair enough. But Continue reading >>>

I’ve lived in Boston for 22 years, a relative newcomer by some local standards. But I realized I was a true Bostonian during a recent trip to Israel when, at the conclusion of a chamber music concert in Tel Aviv, I joined the rest of the audience in the clapping that universally stands for a request for an encore. As the musicians settled back to play another number, I realized I wasn’t waiting to hear Mozart or Schubert. I was waiting for them to launch into “Sweet Caroline.” Kathryn Bloom Boston GOT A GREAT STORY? Tell us at tales@globe.com. If we print yours, we’ll send you a Continue reading >>>

I have to admit that I felt a little bit like a wedding crasher at the inauguration ceremony for Mayor Marty Walsh on Monday. You see, I live in Newton, a city that only shares a border with Boston proper — and apparently, a small portion of Boston College. But I wanted to be there for the historic changing of the guard, to get a look at the new mayor for myself, and to celebrate with my city. And even though I don’t vote or pay taxes there, it is my city, too. Whenever I travel outside the Commonwealth and am asked where I’m from, I say “Boston.” This is not Continue reading >>>

Chinese students from wealthy families have been pouring into American colleges in record numbers. One of their favorite American destinations is metropolitan Boston and its many elite schools—especially Harvard University, home to the progeny of Communist Party leaders like president Xi Jinping, Jiang Zemin, and the now-disgraced Bo Xilai. An article in the January issue of the Chinese-language edition of GQ praises the influence of Chinese “Bostonian” alumni, but has inspired derision on social media for the way that it has idealized the city, and its implication that the city’s Continue reading >>>