Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston has announced the cast of My Fair Lady, the beloved Lerner and Loewe classic about an arrogant and crotchety phonetics professor who transforms a spirited Cockney flower girl into an elegant, proper-speaking English lady. Broadway’s Rick Hilsabeck (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Billy Elliot, the first national tour of Phantom of the Opera) stars as the curmudgeonly professor Henry Higgins. His real-life co-star Sarah Pfisterer (Phantom of the Opera, Show Boat, Children and Art) is his reluctant protégé Eliza Doolittle. Performances are August 10-19 Continue reading >>>

20 Jul, 2012 18:54 CET Boston – The Boston Foundation, Greater Boston’s community foundation, has announced the organizations that will receive nearly $600,000 this summer to provide summer programs and summer jobs for youth in the city of Boston. Summer programs begin this week, with special events planned in neighborhoods throughout Boston during July and August. More than 30 Boston-area organizations will receive grants as part of My Summer in the City, an initiative developed and coordinated by the Boston Foundation and funded Continue reading >>>

Written by shelley | 20 July 2012 The Red Sox Wives are continuing the great tradition of supporting the Greater Boston Food Bank with their Cash and Can Drive.  The Sox wives have been supporting the food bank for over two decades and you can help them out with their mission to help end hunger in Massachusetts both tonight (7/20) and tomorrow (7/21). The wives will be outside the gates from 2 hours prior to start until about the 2nd inning or so.  If you bring 10 cans of food or $10 Continue reading >>>

20 Jul, 2012 17:08 CET Community-advised Equality Fund will make first grants in 2013 This endowed fund will serve as a new, permanent resource that expands the support available to help organizations address current and future needs, strengthens them in difficult economic times and ensures their long-term viability. Continue reading >>>

The Director of the Corporate Work Study Program at Cristo Rey Boston High School oversees a program that employs and trains every student ina corporate work place and generates 60% of the school's operating revenue. In 2011-12, Cristo Rey Boston students worked at 115 companies in Greater Boston.  The school will have 330 students in 2012-13 and has a full enrollment goal of 400 students. Cristo Rey is college preparatory and educates only low-income students.  The Director of the Corporate Work Study Program owns the relationship with each client and the performance of Continue reading >>>

Join the Alzheimer's Association at the 2012 Greater Boston Walk to End Alzheimer’s on Sunday, Sept. 23, at Canal Park in Cambridge. Register today at www.alzwalkMANH.org. Each participant who raises $150 by walkday receives a free T-shirt. Questions? Call 800-272-3900 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . According to the group, the Walk to End Alzheimer’s is the nation’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer care, support and research. Help our grandparents, parents, spouses, partners, brothers, sisters Continue reading >>>

The storm that hit Greater Boston Wednesday brought down trees, gutters, and power lines in Arlington, but the thing that left Kevin Wright still marveling on the day after was the dead fish left on the lawn of Arlington Gardens apartments. At the base of a felled tree was a fish, presumably hurled by the powerful storm to the apartment building from Spy Pond five blocks away. “It came through so fast,” Wright said of the storm. Continue reading >>>

The national poverty level is about $23,000 a year, but if a family of four in the Boston ­area wants to have three meals a day and pay bills, it means having to earn at least $74,000,  Crist says. “That’s what we call the meal gap. People ask, ‘Do I pay the electric bill, the heating bill, or do I buy food?’ ”

(NECN) – It's time to go on the record again with the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. This week, President and CEO Paul Guzzi discusses the Massachusetts and Connecticut unemployment rates for this month, Massachusetts legislation and Jet Blue coming to Rhode Island. For unemployment rates for the month, Massachusetts remained the same but Connecticut has increased. "I think the real message is that this is a slow and fragile economic recovery, and we have to keep focused," said Guzzi. "I wouldn’t react on one month’s data." Guzzi also says there will be a meaningful Continue reading >>>

Gosule watched Thursday’s vote from the Senate gallery with Chuck Maguire, whose brother, Woburn police officer John Maguire, was gunned down on Dec. 26, 2010, after responding to a botched jewelry heist. The officer’s killer, Dominic Cinelli, was a career criminal who’d been paroled the previous year.