By Samantha Laine, Town Correspondent The José Mateo Ballet Theatre in Harvard Square will be hosting an open house on Sunday, January 6, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. The ballet theatre, a nonprofit organization that opened in 1986, is the second largest professional ballet company and school in the Greater Boston area. Scott Fraser, the managing director, said the school’s mission is to use dance and ballet training to reach out to the diverse community of Greater Boston. Hosting open houses is one way the theatre accomplishes this mission. “When the school was founded, the whole premise was to Continue reading >>>

Thursday, January 3, 2013, 11:30am   The Greater Boston markets registered 6.6 percent rent growth year-over-year and a positive 1.4 million square feet in net absorption, according to fourth quarter 2012 data released this week by Jones Lang LaSalle. According to the commercial real estate firm, Boston's Financial District registered a vacancy rate of 11.9 percent at the year's end, an improvement of four Continue reading >>>

Boston, MA The Greater Boston office market ended 2012 with a bang, according to a report by Jones Lang LaSalle. It had a 6.6% rent growth year-over-year and a positive 1.4 million square feet in direct net absorption.Leading the way in the recovery was Boston's financial district that has been benefitting from the spillover demand for the Back Bay and Seaport Districts. This submarket had a direct vacancy rate 11.9% at year-end, a level not seen since early 2010 and an improvement of over four percentage points year-over-year, although the availability rate was 19.1%.In the past, according to Continue reading >>>

3 Jan, 2013 15:30 CET Boston – The Boston Foundation, Greater Boston’s community foundation, has promoted Kate Guedj to the role of Vice President for Development and Donor Services. The promotion was announced by Paul S. Grogan, Continue reading >>>

“Scott was a tough, relentless, hard-nosed and highly committed football player for us, and he brings those same attributes as a coach,” said Murphy, who had Larkee as a freshman recruit in his second season, 1995, at Harvard Stadium. “He brings a great balance of expertise, work ethic, and a great understanding of the Harvard football program to our staff.”

Newton-Wellesley Hospital announced that a baby girl Ahaana Prem was born at 12:08 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2013 — putting her in the running as the first baby born in the Greater Boston area in 2013.

Her mom is Sameeta Bilgrami and her father is Prem Ramasamy. Ahanna will take her father’s first name as her last.

The family lives in Waltham and Ahanna is their first child. She weighed 6 pounds, 15 ounces.

BOSTON (AP) — The National Hockey League's labor dispute is costing bars and restaurants near the TD Garden as much as $1 million for every Bruins home game that's canceled. The Greater Boston Convention Visitors Bureau says the business impact extends beyond the hospitality industry, with parking lots, equipment and souvenir shops and other businesses losing money with the NHL's third work stoppage in 19 years. Stanhope Garage Inc., which operates three small parking lots near the Garden, typically takes in $6,000 per game by filling all of its 200 spaces. Revenue from 22 Bruins home games Continue reading >>>

BOSTON (AP) — The National Hockey League's labor dispute is costing bars and restaurants near the TD Garden as much as $1 million for every Bruins home game that's canceled. The Greater Boston Convention Visitors Bureau says the business impact extends beyond the hospitality industry, with parking lots, equipment and souvenir shops and other businesses losing money with the NHL's third work stoppage in 19 years. Stanhope Garage Inc., which operates three small parking lots near the Garden, typically takes in $6,000 per game by filling all of its 200 spaces. Revenue from 22 Bruins home games Continue reading >>>

BOSTON (AP) — The National Hockey League's labor dispute is costing bars and restaurants near the TD Garden as much as $1 million for every Bruins home game that's canceled. The Greater Boston Convention Visitors Bureau says the business impact extends beyond the hospitality industry, with parking lots, equipment and souvenir shops and other businesses losing money with the NHL's third work stoppage in 19 years. Stanhope Garage Inc., which operates three small parking lots near the Garden, typically takes in $6,000 per game by filling all of its 200 spaces. Revenue from 22 Bruins home games Continue reading >>>

10:00AM - MFA - the first 300 button-wearers get free admission to the MFA. This is a great of an excuse as any to check out my top recommended Postcards exhibit if you haven't already. Also, according to the MFA site, they'll be doing their first screening of the Festival of International Short Films, if you want to catch it then. 11:00 - Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - likewise, you can sneak into the Gardner for free too, if you can make the earlybird special (first 300 button-wearers). 12:00-12:45 - Festival of International Short Films (MFA) - This year's program features such curiosties Continue reading >>>