This weekend, music fans have the opportunity to listen to one of the nation’s more noteworthy performers of traditional music. Jeff Warner brings a collection of community songs, 18th-Century New England hymns, and sailor tunes to the stage at First Parish of Watertown on Saturday, Jan. 28 at 8 p.m. The concert is presented by The Folk Song Society of Greater Boston (FSSGB), which produces an annual concert series of folk performers who otherwise would not have the opportunity to be heard in and around Boston. "Jeff is a master of traditional music, which he presents with warmth and humor," Continue reading >>>

  The following article comes from Brooke Brindley of the Nashoba Brooks School. When you ask a seventh grader how they’d like to spend their Saturday, most would probably say “sleep in” or “hang out with friends.” However, 22 seventh grade girls from Nashoba Brooks School chose to spend their snowy Saturday doing something meaningful. They volunteered for Heading Home, an organization whose mission is to end homelessness in Greater Boston, moving a 21-year-old college student and her 2-year-old daughter out of a shelter and into their first apartment. The event was well orchestrated, Continue reading >>>

Pop Warner football and cheerleading in Everett will have a brand new look in the 2012 season as the Everett Huskies and Everett Eagles organizations have merged and will compete under the unified name of Everett Crimson Tide Pop Warner. Bill Marchant, vice president of the Huskies, said the Eastern Mass. Conference Board of Directors was expected to confirm the merger at a meeting Tuesday night, which would allow the Everett Crimson Tide Pop Warner organization to officially begin operations on March 1. Brian Dimond, current president of the Eagles, will serve as the first president of the newly Continue reading >>>

The Everett High girls basketball team enjoyed a superbly successful week, winning all three of its games, including two against Greater Boston League opponents. The trifecta ran the Lady Crimson Tide’s winning streak to four games, moved them into a tie for first place in the GBL with Somerville, and improved their overall season record to 6-4. Everett began the week with a 36-30 triumph at Salem of the Northeastern Conference. The contest was a hard fought battle all the way, with the Lady Crimson Tide taking a slim 19-18 advantage into the locker room at the half. However, Everett opened Continue reading >>>

The Chelsea High boys basketball team won two of its three games in the past week to improve its record to 7-5 on the season. The Red Devils came out on the short end of a dramatic 65-64 decision to Revere last Thursday. The Patriots held a lead throughout the contest, but Chelsea parlayed a tough defense and some outstanding offense by Carlos Mojica to overcome a 10 point deficit with four minutes to play and move ahead by four with 1:30 to go. However, to their credit the visiting Patriots refused to fold and stanched the Chelsea momentum. Still, the Red Devils held a 64-62 advantage with nine Continue reading >>>

Peter Sarro, owner of JJ’s Sports Bar and Grille in Northboro, isn’t a gambler. A DirecTV customer, he said he isn’t banking on the possibility his satellite television provider and Florida-based Sunbeam Television Corp. will resolve their stalemate in time to air the Super Bowl on Channel 7. The New England Patriots and New York Giants will play Feb. 5, a rematch of the big game from four years ago. Sunbeam owns WHDH Boston’s Channel 7, and Channel 56, which is WLVI, a CW affiliate. On Jan. 14, Sunbeam ceased transmitting to those two stations, plus a Fox station in Continue reading >>>

Boston Music Award winner Toni Lynn Washington will stop by Parker Wheeler's Blues Party on Sunday night at The Grog. Washington will take her turn on stage with Wheeler, as she's joined by her musical director Bruce Bears and "an all-star ensemble." Wheeler hosts his Blues Party each Sunday. The show begins at 6 p.m. Admission is $5. The Grog is at 13 Middle St., Newburyport. New Works Festival concludes The Firehouse's annual New Works Festival will wrap up this weekend. Tomorrow night, Newburyport playwright Josh Faigen will see his work performed live for the first time. The full-length play Continue reading >>>

The magazine gave Boston the ranking in its January issue in an article that listed the 20 rudest cities in the nation. Results were based on an online survey that asked readers to rate certain aspects of 35 U.S. cities, according to the magazine’s website.Etiquette coach Susan Callender is CEO of Oh My Gauche!, a company dedicated to “transforming individuals from gauche to grace,” according to its website. She said many of her clients are Boston residents.“Many people are from the Greater Boston area, but I also have in every [etiquette] class a contingent of people that have moved here Continue reading >>>

The following letter was sent to state officials and the MBTA regarding proposed cuts to Woburn's bus and commuter rail service: Dear Governor Patrick, Senator Donnelly, Representative Dwyer, RepresentativeKaufman, Secretary Davey and General Manager Davis:We write to you today to express our complete disagreement with the potentialMassachusetts Bay Transit Authority fare increases and service reductions that will adversely affect the City of Woburn.While we recognize the budgetary challenges the MBTA faces, we are also of the opinion that bus service in Greater Boston is being disproportionately Continue reading >>>