TODAY Boston Jewish Book Fair Festival: Diana Henriques (“The Wizard of Lies - Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust’’) and Hank Phillippi Ryan at 11 a.m.; Joseph Finder (“Buried Secrets’’), Leonard Rosen (“All Cry Chaos’’) and Douglas Starr (“The Killer of Little Shepherds’’) discuss thriller novels, with James Fox at 1 p.m.; Adam Schwartz (“A Stranger on the Planet’’), Robert Strauss (“Daddy’s Little Goalie’’), Stuart Hecht (“Transposing Broadway: Jews, Assimilation, and the American Musical), Continue reading >>>

Hands down the most beautiful room in Greater Boston right now is a gallery in the MIT List Visual Arts Center. The gallery is just a small, windowless room. It’s dark, too - or it would be if it were not for an astonishing and constantly changing arrangement of patterned light orchestrated by 83-year-old artist Otto Piene. The light seems to be coming from all directions. It plays across one wall and wanders onto the next, morphing in scale and clarity as it moves. The patterns come and go according to rhythms of their own, but they also work together in unison. Continue reading >>>

Before Michael E. McLaughlin and his $360,000 salary became front-page news, “Political Intelligence’’ told the small-town story about efforts to oust Mary Karabatsos from the Dracut Housing Authority. Low-income residents in the Merrimack Valley town accused the authority’s board of directors of ambushing the popular Karabatsos, after they abruptly voted in late August to seek new applicants for her job as executive director. They were especially galled that one member, Brian Bond, joined in the vote, even though he was at his first meeting after a last-minute Continue reading >>>

POSTED: 10:30 am EST November 19, 2011
UPDATED: 11:00 am EST November 19, 2011

Legal Sea Foods supports Children's Hospital Boston From now through New Year's Eve, Legal Sea Foods will donate a portion of the proceeds from every gift card sold to Children's Hospital Boston. As an added incentive, Legal Sea Foods will grant a ``Lobster Dinner Reward'' voucher (redeemable for a 1-1.25-pound steamed lobster with a choice of two sides) for every $200 worth of gift cards purchased from the restaurants. The voucher is valid from Jan. 1 through March 31, 2012. All 19 Legal Sea Foods restaurants in Massachusetts, including the ones in Framingham and Chestnut Hill, are involved Continue reading >>>

On November 21, when the Patriots host the Chiefs on Monday Night Football, the Patriots will team up with Raytheon to host more than 400 guests from the Wounded Warrior Project. Below are notes about the Patriots' only home primetime matchup this season and the activities surrounding it: The Patriots and Raytheon have donated 300 tickets to the Wounded Warrior Project for injured service members and their guests to attend the game. Additionally, Raytheon will host more than 100 Wounded Warriors and their guests, providing pregame hospitality in The Hall at Patriot Place presented by Raytheon. Continue reading >>>

Sally Willard of Ipswich has come to terms with the 1995 suicide of her 21-year-old daughter, but that doesn’t mean the pain has gone away. “I still have moments of trying to recapture her,” said Willard, who is speaking out as part of International Survivors of Suicide Day today. “I’ll do things like look through her elementary school address book and just pick out bits and pieces. It’s a really hard thing to accept because you don’t want it to have happened, and you don’t want to be living this horror.” Willard’s daughter, Sarah Devens, was a three-sport, Division 1 athlete Continue reading >>>

Print this Article Email this Article BOSTON — Every flu season for the last four years, legislation has been proposed to give all Massachusetts workers paid sick days. Now, a Cape legislator is hoping the idea will become law next year."We don't want people sending sick kids to school because they have no opportunity to use day care," said Sen. Daniel Wolf, D-Harwich, who supports the bill that gives workers paid sick days for themselves or to care for family. "We don't want people to not take sick days because Continue reading >>>

'; } }); }); Finding a good spot for an orienteering course can be complicated. Mapping it can be complicated. Setting up equipment to record times – complicated. But Gary Kraft of Mill Valley, California says the sport’s premise is pretty simple. “You have a map and you have a compass,” the former president of the U.S. Orienteering Federation said. “It is your responsibility, or your pleasure, to figure out how to get from Point A to Continue reading >>>

In its 65th Interim Meeting in New Orleans, the American Medical Association's House of Delegates voted to vigorously oppose implementing ICD-10 across health care, as mandated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). AMA leadership will now assess just how it will try to stop the new disease coding set, scheduled to replace ICD-9 on Oct. 1, 2013. Learn more about implementing ICD-10  To gauge a vendor's ICD-10 readiness, see if its partners are also ready Use coding, transcription systems to ease ICD-10 adoption Ask your questions about implementing ICD-10 at the Health Continue reading >>>