“Fiddler on the Roof,” one of Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston’s top-five-selling shows of all time, is back by popular demand July 11-21, starring Boston television personality and IRNE Award winner Scott Wahle as Tevye. Reprising the role that earned him critical acclaim 10 years ago, Wahle leads a cast of 45 in this musical based on Sholem Aleichem’s stories. Donna Sorbello, the IRNE Award-winning actress who starred as Mrs. Higgins in last season’s “My Fair Lady” at Reagle Music Theatre, returns as Tevye’s wife, Golde. With a book by Joseph Stein Continue reading >>>

BOSTON, July 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Amy Tierce, Regional Vice President of Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation in Needham, was named the recipient of the Greater Boston Association of Continue reading >>>

Boston-Area Federations Merge to Improve Finances print tell a friend A federation north of Boston merged with Greater Boston’s Combined Jewish Philanthropies in an effort to bring financial stability and expanded programs to the region’s Jewish organizations. The idea of merging the 75-year-old Jewish Federation of the North Shore and CJP has been floated for years as JFNS has suffered declining fundraising and reduced allocations to community agencies. “This is an exciting, important and meaningful time for all of us,” said Barry Continue reading >>>

Restaurants, supermarkets, and stores devoted to health and fitness helped the local retail real estate market along the road to recovery over the last 12 months, KeyPoint Partners LLC said Tuesday. A commercial real estate services firm headquartered in Burlington, KeyPoint has just issued its annual report on the sector. The KeyPoint Report for Eastern Massachusetts/Greater Boston 2013 examines supply, occupancy, absorption, and retailer expansion and contraction for retail properties in the region. “This was a recovery year,” KeyPoint Partners vice president of research Bob Sheehan said Continue reading >>>

When airline pilot and writer Patrick Smith started taking questions from the traveling public through his Salon.com series, Ask the Pilot, he was amazed by how many people were terrified of turbulence.  "It's uncomfortable; it's annoying, but no: it's absolutely not going to rip the wings off the airplane," he told Greater Boston's guest host Gail Huff, who said it was her biggest fear when flying.  "People have this idea during rough air that the plane is pitching and rolling and dropping hundreds or thousands of feet. If you were in the cockpit, even Continue reading >>>

Watching the "Whitey" Bulger trial has been like reading an intricately written crime novel. There are details, there is testimony- each side builds its case often without emotion. What can be forgotten in the day-to-day proceedings is the effect that Bulger's drug dealing had on Boston. Author Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in the South Boston housing project close to where James "Whitey" Bulger sold drugs. On Greater Boston, MacDonald took WGBH's Gail Huff on a tour of the neighborhood where the gangster still looms large.  "He was the cause of a lot of people's deaths Continue reading >>>

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The 26th annual Walk for Hospice of the North Shore Greater Boston will be held on Sunday morning, Sept. 22 at St. John’s Prep, 72 Spring St., Danvers. Registration starts at 8 a.m., and the walk will begin at 9 a.m., rain or shine. People of all ages are welcome to participate and encouraged to form walking teams in memory or in honor of a loved one. To establish a team or obtain a sponsor form, call the Walk Office at 978-223-9787 or visit hnsgb.org/walk.    Continue reading >>>

Branding is not a new topic for the Boston tech community. We all know Route 128 is no longer where the energy is, we've exhaustively debated the merits of 'Boston' vs. 'Cambridge.' And yet no single moniker that I know of has emerged to reflect the shifting urbanization of Greater Boston's tech and startup communities. Jay Batson, co-founder of Acquia among other things, had a great post on Friday about the need to reflect this shift in how we talk about the tech ecosystem. He writes: This shift in the Boston tech scene is so significant that I think we (the Boston tech community) should Continue reading >>>

Spector Photography From left to right: Asa Fanelli, president and chief executive officer of Horizons for Homeless Children; Hannah Nersasian, Greater Boston playspace director; PAL of the Year Colleen Daly; Rob Stewart, Greater Boston playspace director; and Matt Epstein, chairman of the organization’s board of directors. By Jeremy C. Fox, Town Correspondent Horizons for Homeless Children has named a North End woman its “PAL of the Year” for Greater Boston in recognition of her volunteerism, the organization announced. For more than a dozen years, Colleen Daly has volunteered as a Playspace Continue reading >>>