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In “Out and About,” photos from various events and nightlife around town will be featured, including reader-submitted photos. Readers can share their photos by emailing outandabout@globe.com. And “One-Liners” will showcase a local comedian’s joke or a witty Tweet or Facebook post from a well-known Bostonian.Finally, the popular “Coupling” column is expanding under a new name: “Connections.” “Connections” will cover not only romantic relationships, but also friendships and family interactions.The Magazine, now closer in size to a typical newsstand magazine, also Continue reading >>>

BOSTON, Mar 09, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Boston Globe will introduce a newly-redesigned Boston Globe Magazine on Sunday, March 11. The magazine features additional pages, a new cover treatment and fresh content. "Our new look visually connects us to other members of the Globe family. We're also excited to introduce a number of new columns, which we think will capture the interest Continue reading >>>

Richard R. Schrock, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2005), will speak to students on March 13 when he visits the Advanced Math and Science Academy charter school (AMSA) in Marlborough. Schrock was working in the field of organic chemistry at MIT when he was selected as the Nobel Prize winner “For the Development of the Metathesis Method in Organic Synthesis.” In 2009, the Massachusetts Secondary School Administrators Association (MSSAA) developed a partnership with Nobel Lectures Centennial Inc., which made a substantial group of Nobel Laureates, many of whom reside in the greater Continue reading >>>

(NECN) - Paul Guzzi, president and CEO of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, joined NECN Business from NECN's Suffolk University studios in downtown Boston to talk about the latest economic developments in the Hub.A report released on Thursday said Boston employers added 6,600 jobs in January, and that the local unemployment rate held at a steady 6.9 percent. Guzzi explains why those numbers, while not great, aren't all that bad, either.Guzzi also gives us his take on the recently revised numbers of the amount of new jobs created last year in Boston. Initially, it was determined Continue reading >>>

The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded a four-year $5 million grant to grow and maintain the greater Boston area’s life sciences workforce. The Metro Boston Skilled Careers in Life Sciences initiative will provide industry specific job training for 360 residents, support an additional 300 post-secondary students in internships, and provide career counseling and outreach services to more than 3,000 people. SCILS is being implemented in collaboration with the City of Boston’s Jobs and Community Services, and the MetroNorth, Metro Southwest and South Coastal workforce regions.  Training Continue reading >>>

NEW YORK, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Crumbs (CRMB), the largest cupcake specialty store in the U.S., announced today its intention to open its first Boston store at 176 Federal Street near South Station on Monday, March 12th. Known for its award-winning flavors and enormous Signature size cupcakes, Crumbs offers cookies, breakfast pastries and beverages in addition to 75 different cupcakes. To celebrate opening, Crumbs Bake Shop is giving away a free coffee with any baked goods purchase through March 30th.“Boston is a very important market for us and we are excited to become a part of this Continue reading >>>

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—On Sat., Feb. 23, more than 90 Armenian youth from all over the Northeast flocked to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for an evening of dancing and socializing at an event organized by students groups from five prominent colleges and universities in Greater Boston. Students came from as far away as Columbia in New York, Yale in New Haven, Conn., Brown in Providence, R.I., and the University of Massachusetts Amherst to attend the event, which also drew local college students from Boston College (BC), Boston University (BU), Harvard, Lesley, the Continue reading >>>

So where do we rank?Top honors for the most miserable commute goes to Maryland, where it takes the average commuter 31.8 minutes each day to get to work. Commuters in New York, Illinois (Chicago) and New Jersey also all have it worse, but that's it. By contrast, in the fine state of North Dakota the median commute is just over 16 minutes - though where folks are commuting to out there beats me. That's the best in the country. If you don't want to spend 10 hours or more on the road each week then you need to find those commuter sweet spots scattered across Greater Boston. (I define GB as from I-495 Continue reading >>>

The Massachusetts House Speaker believes the state should try to halve the growth of health care costs, but he offered few details on how to do it.Boston Globe: DeLeo Says House Bill Will Try To Cut Health Cost In HalfLong-awaited state legislation to control health care costs will aim to cut annual increases in half, to about 3.7 percent, House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo said Tuesday in a speech to business leaders in which he provided few other details. Currently, the cost of health care in the state is climbing 6.7 percent to 8 percent a year, when taking into account both the prices paid Continue reading >>>