Sept. 20, 2012, Boston, Mass. – Arts patron and civic leader Ted Cutler today formally announced the creation of Outside The Box, a 10-day citywide multi-arts festival in Boston that will include multiple performance stages on Boston Common and other public spaces. The inaugural Outside The Box festival will run from July 12-21, 2013. “Boston and Massachusetts deserve to be thought of internationally as a performing arts city and state. Boston’s cultural institutions and the artists working out there are creating great things,” said Cutler, chairman and founder of Outside The Box. “Our Continue reading >>>

WCVB-TV Channel 5 and Stop Shop are joining forces on Friday, Sept. 21, to encourage Bay Staters to Stuff-A-Truck with canned goods and other non-perishables for The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) and other hunger relief agencies in the region.  Throughout Friday, NewsCenter 5 will share stories about the increased need for emergency food assistance in our area and will air live shots from the collection site during the EyeOpener, Midday and early evening newscasts.  Chronicle, WCVB’s award-winning, nightly newsmagazine that airs at 7:30PM, will explore the changing face of hunger and show Continue reading >>>

 Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced today that Boston Moves for Health, an ambitious initiative to improve the health and wellness of the city by increasing access to free and low-cost physical activities and healthy living resources, will partner with the Hometown Wellness Showdown to help residents get healthy, get active, and lose weight. The Hometown Wellness Showdown, sponsored by Lose It!, Boston.com, and the Greater Boston YMCA, starts this week and runs through October 12, 2012.  Participants can sign up for free at http://showdown.loseit.com, and earn points for logging exercise, Continue reading >>>

Julie M. Donnelly Reporter- Boston Business Journal Email Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts CEO Andrew Dreyfus, in remarks delivered at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce breakfast, outlined a four-point prescription for transforming the Massachusetts health care system to one with better quality and lower costs. “If health care reform is a marathon, we are already at mile 22 - Cleveland Circle - on (health care) Continue reading >>>

Peter Van Delft   On September 26, a political forum will be held inside the Roxbury Community College Media Arts Center that will offer constituents the chance to solidify or perhaps even reconsider their intentions about which candidate they will select to represent them in Congress this election day.  The forum is hosted by the New England Area Conference (NEAC) and co-sponsors include: ABCD (Action for Boston Community Development), the Black Ministerial Alliance, Community Change, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), the Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston, the Madison Park Continue reading >>>

The Bay State may have moved from “aspiration to action” in passing sweeping health-care reform, but there are four “substantial, interrelated steps” the Commonwealth needs to consider taking to wipe out high health-care costs for its constituents, Blue Cross Blue Shield President and CEO Andrew Dreyfus said today. “If health-care reform is a marathon, I believe we are probably already at mile 22 — past Boston College. On the coverage issue, and quality, we’re probably at about that mile 15, crossing Wellesley at Route 16, but with those steep Newton hills still ahead,” Dreyfus Continue reading >>>

Robyn Day, an Ashland photographer, is one of the artists whose work is part of arsenalARTS’ “30 Under 30” exhibit. Billed as a fresh, dynamic exhibition of young artistic talent in the Greater Boston area, the show opens on Thursday, Oct. 4, and will run until Nov. 10. A reception is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 18, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday, noon to 6 p.m. The exhibit is free to the public. “30 Under 30” presents a diverse look at emerging artistic talent in Massachusetts: 30 artists 30 years old or younger. With a large variety of media Continue reading >>>

Editor's note: Jeffrey B. Remz is the Communications and Marketing Manager for the Boston Jewish Film Festival. This is a press release issued by the BJFF: The 24th annual Boston Jewish Film Festival will present 45 films from Nov. 7-19, ranging from an upbeat documentary about one of the world’s best known songs to edgy women’s films to an American classic hand-picked by a theatre giant to a shorts film competition to many exciting debuts from directors.A worldwide selection of film from the U.S., Israel, Argentina, Canada, France, Germany, Nigeria, Russia and South Africa will screen Continue reading >>>

Three of Buffalo's youth hockey teams will get to showcase their skills prior to the All-American Prospects Game. USA Hockey has announced the Buffalo Saints 18U team will host the Amherst Knights 18U team at 12:30 p.m. Sept. 29 in First Niagara Center. Immediately following, the Buffalo Jr. Sabres 18U team will host the Greater Boston Jr. Bruins 18U squad. Both games are free of charge and open to the public. The All-American Prospects Game, which will feature 40 of the top American-born players eligible for the 2013 draft, will start at 7 p.m. Tickets are on sale. ---John Vogl Continue reading >>>

(FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - An Essex County man in his 70s has been hospitalized with Eastern equine encephalitis.State health officials said Tuesday the unidentified man is the fifth Massachusetts resident this season to be stricken with the mosquito-borne disease.Officials also said a man in his 40s from Greater Boston has been diagnosed with West Nile virus, which is spread by mosquitoes that typically produce a less serious illness."Mosquitoes are still active in the environment until the first hard overnight frost, so it's important to keep taking common-sense precautions against mosquito Continue reading >>>