GLOUCESTER — Dan Ryan looks at an empty plate the same way a painter considers a blank canvas: a starting point for something delectable. But what was once an exciting moment for the chef is now a symbol of anxiety. He constantly worries that he cannot put food on the table.After being diagnosed with advanced melanoma in 2010, Ryan, 48, a former chef at The Franklin Cafe in the South End and Gloucester’s Franklin Cape Ann, underwent several surgeries and chemotherapy that drained his family’s savings and forced him to quit his job. He and his wife, Tammy, slashed Continue reading >>>

More and more services are making its way over to the Greater Boston Area. We recently had Postmates, Drizly, GrubHub, and many more. Now we can add DoorDash, the West Coast delivery startup to the list.They recently launched in Boston in mid-September but added Cambridge to their service following announcement today, according to BetaBoston.There’s a TON of other services that do same thing, but “the company says it is different from anything else on the market because it delivers from restaurants that don’t offer their own delivery services”, reports BetaBoston.Isn’t that the point?Here’s Continue reading >>>

More and more services are making its way over to the Greater Boston Area. We recently had Postmates, Drizly, GrubHub, and many more. Now we can add DoorDash, the West Coast delivery startup to the list. They recently launched in Boston in mid-September but added Cambridge to their service following announcement today, according to BetaBoston. There's a TON of other services that do same thing, but "the company says it is different from anything else on the market because it delivers from restaurants that don't offer their own delivery services", reports Continue reading >>>

Citizens Bank is donating a total of $400 thousand to The Greater Boston Food Bank and six other food banks in the area. PHOTO BY AMELIA WELLS/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF Seven Massachusetts nonprofit organizations received grants to better serve the community as a result of a $400,000 total pledge from Citizens Bank, according to a Tuesday press release. Through its Citizens Helping Citizens Fight Hunger initiative, the bank will help the organizations provide emergency meals and nutritious food to families throughout the Commonwealth, said Andrew Hoglund, a spokesman for Citizens Bank. “Our Continue reading >>>

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Continue reading below Glassybaby votive holders hold the power to help heal. They are h andblown in a Seattle glass studio in 400 colors with nostalgic names like Crème Brulée, Little Bear, and Frog Hunting, and 10 percent from each sale goes to people in need. Now the company, founded by three-time cancer survivor Lee Rhodes, has taken its mission on the road (www.glassrootstour.com), and Boston is the 10th stop. They’ll be at SoWa Open Market Sunday, and sales generated will be donated to the Greater Boston Food Bank. Glassybaby at SoWa Open Market, 460 Harrison Continue reading >>>

Wynn Resorts, which won the Greater Boston casino license last month, will join other local license holders in a statewide campaign against repeal of the casino law, the company said Friday.The addition of Wynn brings another rich and powerful voice into the Coalition to Protect Mass Jobs, a procasino political group backed by organized labor and casino companies Penn National Gaming and MGM Resorts, according to campaign finance reports. Continue reading below The coalition is fighting Question 3, the November referendum that would repeal the state’s 2011 expanded Continue reading >>>

When members of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission awarded the Greater Boston casino license to Steve Wynn, they already knew there was something fishy about the ownership of the Everett parcel he plans to build on. The Globe reported last year that federal and state investigators were asking whether convicted felon and Mafia associate Charles Lightbody was a secret investor in the property that Wynn intended to buy, and the commission made the other property owners sign promises that no secret partners would get a cut of their proceeds. In the end, the panel concluded Continue reading >>>