BOSTON, Mass. — This month, Boston’s TOD@S collaborative published a community assessment that provides greater insight into responding to the needs of Black and Latin@ LGBQ/T survivors of partner abuse in the Greater Boston area. TOD@S is an interagency collaboration between The Hispanic Black Gay Coalition, The Violence Recovery Program at Fenway Health, The Network / La Red, and Renewal House (a program of the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry). Since 2012, the collaborative has worked to improve and increase access to intervention and prevention services for Black and Latin@ Continue reading >>>

Boston area hotels did well in January despite several snow storms. Thomas Grillo Real Estate Editor- Boston Business Journal Email  | Twitter Despite several headline-grabbing snow storms, Continue reading >>>

Boston is by no means the fashion capital of the world, unless your world is overwhelmingly populated by The North Face jackets and UGG boots. Despite this fact, we do have our fair share of hidden gems when it comes to retail — particularly with secondhand boutiques. For all you fashion-lovers who can appreciate the thrill of the hunt, who would prefer to don vintage Versace to your average department store brand, and who don’t mind digging around a bit for the sake of your ever-growing wardrobe, here is a compilation of some of the best consignment shops worth exploring in Continue reading >>>

BOSTON — President Obama was in Greater Boston Wednesday night raising money for his party, as he tries to preserve a Democratic Senate in this fall’s election. The president addressed two small groups of donors, first at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, then at the Artists for Humanity EpiCenter in South Boston. After his arrival at Logan Airport Wednesday afternoon, President Obama talks with Boston Mayor Mayor Martin Walsh, as Gov. Deval Patrick looks on. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP) As Obama made his way through the city, protesters met him at various points. In Cambridge, Continue reading >>>

BOSTON—Meet Selina Banerjee, a 13-year-old 8th-grader at the Boston Latin School, who has produced her first professional CD, which will be released during the upcoming Learn Quest Academy of Music Conference April 18-20 in Greater Boston. She is Learn Quest Academy's first student to producer her own album."It is a very proud moment for Learn Quest that one of our students has produced a professional CD after learning music at the school for six years," said Pradeep Shukla, president of Learn Quest Academy of Music. "She started learning Continue reading >>>

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It sounds like the exterior will be slightly less dramatic at the Boston location, 59 Temple Place, which will actually be two rehabbed (as in, renovated, not Lohan) buildings at the corner of Temple and Washington Street. The combined floor area of 135,500 square feet will eventually yield 243 guest rooms plus ground-floor space for restaurants and retail. Though developers have kept pretty mum on details for the space, a lobby rendering (seen here) posted on the website of Advantage Boston, a city convention and meetings organization, suggest something along the industrial-chic lines: Continue reading >>>

BOSTON—Meet Selina Banerjee, a 13-year-old 8th-grader at the Boston Latin School, who has produced her first professional CD, which will be released during the upcoming Learn Quest Academy of Music Conference April 18-20 in Greater Boston. She is Learn Quest Academy’s first student to producer her own album. “It is a very proud moment for Learn Quest that one of our students has produced a professional CD after learning music at the school for six years,” said Pradeep Shukla, president of Learn Quest Academy of Music. “She started learning music at the school when she was only six year Continue reading >>>