The Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce celebrated its Ten Outstanding Young Leaders at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel on Tuesday night. This year’s honorees included Neel Shah, founder of Costs of Care, which aims to deflate medical bills; Erika Ebbel Angle , of Science From Scientists, which promotes science and technology to young people; John Harthorne, of MassChallenge, which helps startups; Saskia Epstein, CEO of Room to Grow, which helps babies survive their first years; Mike Harney of the Play Ball! Foundation, which brings sports to Boston middle school students; Continue reading >>>

Tony Award-Winning Pippin Director Diane Paulus Heads Home to Boston to Speak at StageSource Theater Conference A.R.T.'s Loeb Drama Center will host the New England theater conference, entitled Reframing Success. Diane Paulus(© David Gordon) Diane Paulus, recent Tony Award-winning director of this year's Best Revival Pippin, has tasted success on the Great White Way. However, many may have forgotten that she is a member of Greater Boston's smaller community of artists as the artistic director of Cambridge's American Repertory Theatre. On Saturday, June Continue reading >>>

David Butler II-USA TODAY Sports Sportscenter has been impossible to watch for a week now for Boston Sports fans. It’s has been one crippling blow after another to three of the four major sports teams in the greater Boston area. Boston Bruins fans sat stunned in the stadium, in sports bars, or on their couches when they saw a certain Game 7 disappear and the Chicago Blackhawks lift the cup at TD Ameritrade Arena after scoring to goals in just 17 seconds. Boston Celtics fans are left with mixed feelings after the Los Angeles Clippers sent a draft pick to the Celtics for head coach Doc Rivers. Continue reading >>>

The YMCA of Greater Boston is offering free summer memberships to teens ages 13 to 17 at all of its 13 branches, including the Waltham YMCA at 725 Lexington St. Teens can visit any YMCA of Greater Boston branch to enroll with a valid state or student ID or with a parent present. The free summer memberships for teens are a part of the Y’s Get Summer program. Get Summer provides a safe and fun environment for more than 7,500 teens each year to become well-rounded individuals, engaging them through sports, arts, leadership programs, community service projects, job skills Continue reading >>>

Andris Nelsons was introduced on Tuesday as the new music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. I sat down with the maestro at Symphony Hall to talk about the direction he plans to take the orchestra, his vitality on the podium and his new home in Boston.   Continue reading >>>

[Photos for Curbed Boston by Suzy Mobley; or courtesy of individual hotels] Hotels Week 2013 is in full swing here at Curbed Boston, and, as part of that, we bring you the best-looking, most intriguing hotel lobbies in the Hub. From quietly elegant spaces in the Omni Parker and the Charles to modernist makeovers in the Revere and XV Beacon, these are the lobbies that make you almost glad your room isn't ready yet. Continue reading >>>

The lowest price on the Greater Boston AirBandB site appears to be $25, and you get several options, most of them single rooms with single beds. One such single room with single bed is in this house off Pearl Street in Somerville. Lest you think you'll feel cramped, well, dig it: As limited as the phenomenal physical space is, the essential profound space has always been expansive and infinite—encompassing and penetrating all who have passed through with it's light... and when open to receive and willing to feel—the transformations I have witnessed people undergo has been nothing short Continue reading >>>

 News    Images Online Resource Boston Pads Talks on The Question of Selling or Remodeling in Boston The real estate online resource, Boston Pads, comments on a current article discussing the options of selling or remodeling in the Boston market. PHILADELPHIA, PA, June 26, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- CBS Boston released an article discussing whether or not Boston residents should sell or remodel their homes, winning the attention of the real estate online resource Boston Pads. The report mentions that "the greater Boston real estate market is sizzling," noting Continue reading >>>

Thief allegedly stole wallet — leaving behind his birth certificate and a letter from his mother A Southington, Conn., man who allegedly stole a woman’s clutch wallet in Dorchester left his birth certificate and a letter from his mother behind at the scene of the crime, making him an easy target for police, the Boston police said today. Officers responded to the Harbor Middle School schoolyard at 11:54 p.m. Monday and spoke with a woman who said a man had followed her into the yard and then snatched her wallet, which contained her ID, Charlie Card, and $40 in cash, according to police. Continue reading >>>

Recent Massachusetts Senate elections

Massachusetts has had five US Senate elections in the last seven years, more than any other state.