Harvard Square News

The Museum of Fine Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Arts are home to world-renowned collections and fascinating exhibits.

Jonathan Richman: The coolest, nerdiest rocker to emerge from Natick. That, and, well, a whole lot more.

South Shore artist Les Sampou will be the featured performer as the Homestead's 2011 Summer Concert Series continues this Saturday night.

One might pass the window of the Sherman CafA© in Union Square and see a man in his middle years praying over his New York Times , nursing a cup of coffee, and pondering the remains of his oatmeal scone.

After invading Harvard Square, local burger joint Tasty Burger is planning to open another location in Cambridge, according to Boston Magazine .

As our Dorchester Day Parade Marshal assembles the official cars "across the bridge," they will be in Milton, which was part of the Town of Dorchester, until it became a separate town in 1662.

Thanks to tax incentives and the comedic lure of Hollywood actors trying to master the local accent, Boston has been a hot movie set for much of the past decade.

JUST AFTER 7 O'CLOCK on a March evening, the lights go down in a function room at Maggiano's Little Italy in the Back Bay.

Charles Sumner was a reluctant politician, a conscience Whig turned Free Soiler, drafted in a deal with Massachusetts Democrats to replace Webster in the Senate.

Coney Island USA has announced that Amanda Palmer and Alt Variety Magazine have joined forces for a concert on May 25th at 7pm at the Bowery Ballroom.

Egg in a jar: potato puree, hen-of-the-woods mushrooms, duck eggs, and crisp duck skin at West Bridge in Cambridge.