English High School graduate Allan Rohan Crite’s work celebrated a multicultural, multiracial, multigenerational community, and can be seen in a special gallery exhibit at the Isabella Stewart Gardner ...

SNAP households who missed payment last week now have full SNAP immediately available on their EBT cards. Massachusetts was one of several states to release full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...

Have you always wanted to try your hand in pottery? A new studio recently opened in Jamaica Plain, and is ready for you to dig your hands in. Image from https://www ...

A new fast-casual restaurant is bringing Korean fried chicken and street food to Jackson Square. Husband-and-wife Richard Kim and Jiyeon Lee are the co-founders of Gangnam Spice. Gangnam Spice is ...

Boston’s Public Works Department will be reconstructing several Jamaica Plain streets this year to grow the city’s network of low-stress bike routes, and community feedback is wanted to shape the ...

Jamaica Plain has a fantastic array of murals throughout the neighborhood, and artists Chepe Leña and Cedric Douglas recently finished a new one at the Brewery Complex. “The portrait depicts a child ...

An impressive sculpture of the 19th Century politician and Dominican Republic founding father Juan Pablo Duarte was unveiled on Saturday at Mozart Park. FUNDOARCU, a nonprofit that highlights the ...

A local nonprofit has purchased the former EnVision Hotel on South Huntington Avenue, which it has been operating as temporary transitional housing since 2022. Victory Programs is now operating the ...

Of the 340 pounds of garbage that JP ZeroWaste collected along a stretch of Centre Street in a recent waste audit, the organization determined more than half could’ve been recycled or composted. JP ...

An artist whose Hyde Square mural became a landmark has died at 85. Rafael “Sonny” Rivera García, died Friday in Puerto Rico, according to his son, Boricua Rivera. In 1984, the elder Rivera painted a ...

Arnold Arboretum plant clippings are used for a lot of things: mulch, compost, repurposed, made into benches, used by woodworkers. And they’re also fed to giraffes and other Franklin Park Zoo animals.

Growing up, Michaela Chavelis Arroyo loved creating fashion shows with her Bratz Dolls. While her models are no longer toys, her brand Chavelis Playhouse channels the same spirit of childlike ...