Members of the Greater Boston Sikh community who worship in Medford are distressed by the Sunday shooting at a temple in Wisconsin that left seven people, including the gunman, dead. Gurinber Singh, president of Gurudwara Guru Nanak Darbar, a temple at 226 Mystic Avenue in Medford, and a volunteer in the community, said, "We are really shocked at this moment." "We couldn't believe it," he said. Another leader in the Boston Sikh community also expressed shock while condemning the shooting. Worshipers at the Medford temple, or gurdwara (sometimes spelled gurudwara), were in observations from about Continue reading >>>

Members of the Greater Boston Sikh community were condemning a Sunday shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin that left at least seven people dead. At the same time, the local Sikh community was trying to learn more information about the circumstances of the shooting. Darfhan Singh, secretary of a gurdwara—a Sikh place of worship—that recently moved from Somerville to Everett, said members of the Boston Sikh community are "listening to the television and radio" in an attempt to learn more about what happened.  "The investigation is going on," Singh said, cautioning against jumping to conclusions. Although Continue reading >>>

CAMBRIDGE — Matt Miller shapes his schedule around the area’s public transportation infrastructure. He said his system for getting around was nearly perfect, but the influx of bicycle sharing in Cambridge completed it. Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, and Boston are participating in a “Rolling Launch Party” Wednesday to celebrate the expansion of the Hubway Bicycle Share system. “I ride the bus, I ride the T, and this is like the third ingredient,” said Miller, 39, an assistant dean at Harvard University who purchased an annual membership this spring. “Ever since I got the membership, Continue reading >>>

Are there too many cooks in the food tour kitchen? Within the past year and half, culinary tourism has been booming in Boston: Yummy Walks Food Tour launched in March; Ready to Nosh’s Boston Food Truck Tour and Bites of Boston Food Tour last October; Boston Foodie Tours and City Wine Tours in early 2011; Beer and Chocolate Tour of Beacon Hill Back Bay, along with a trio of chocolate tours in 2009 — Boston Chocolate Tour, Boston Walking Chocolate Tour and the Original Boston Chocolate Tour (part of the Old Town Trolley group). “It’s not an accident,” said Patrick B. Moscaritolo, president Continue reading >>>

As the latest effort in their ongoing mission to prevent the spread of HIV, Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) is now recruiting HIV-negative transgender women, women and men who have sex with men (MSM) into their paid, clinical HIV vaccine trials. "There is no possibility of contracting HIV from these vaccine studies," said Nakia Weaver, community education coordinator for the HIV Vaccine Clinical Trials in the Division of Infectious Disease at BWH. "The risks from the vaccine in our studies are the same risks that would come about from any vaccine: soreness at the site of injection Continue reading >>>

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Red Sox catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia is repping HomeStart Inc., a Boston nonprofit that aims to fight homelessness. Lisa van der Pool Broadcast/Social Media Editor- Boston Business Journal Email  | Twitter Red Sox catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia has signed on to support HomeStart Continue reading >>>

One day last month, a dozen high school students stood before Karina Contreras, M.L.A. ’14, as she gestured to several wires hanging vertically inside the Graduate School of Design (GSD). Contreras explained that the students would use tinfoil, construction paper, spaghetti, and the wires to improvise a freestyle design. “Your design will be inspired by the music I’m going to play,” Contreras said. “The music will influence the design, which will change based on each new track. Make sense?” The out-of-the-box exercise was part of Project Link, a four-week program that immerses 10th- Continue reading >>>

Friday, August 3, 2012, 11:25am The Route 2 West and Interstate 495 South markets are expected to experience a slight decrease in rents from now through January, according to a report from Lincoln Property Co. While Greater Boston's average asking rate for office space has increased to $26.93 per square foot, marking another period of year-over-year growth, those two markets are being held back according Continue reading >>>

OK, Canada isn't Europe, but home sizes are a lot closer to European models than to anything here. This is especially true in the province of Quebec, where the average home size is just under 1,200 square feet and where 46 percent of all the low-rise apartments in Canada are located. In our exchange, we spent a week in a first floor, three-bedroom flat in a neighborhood within sight of the old city. Not counting a significant expanse of basement space being retrofitted into a play area, I would peg the main living area at 800 square feet. However, it was well laid out, well lit and pleasant. I Continue reading >>>