You can bring your own kite, make a kite, or buy a kite at the annual (and free) Franklin Kite & Bike Festival on May 16. This free, family-friendly festival features games, arts and crafts, kites for ...

The Footlight Club is closing its 149th season with the jukebox musical Head Over Heels opening on May 2. The musical follows a royal family as they race to save their kingdom, only to discover the ...

Little Joe the gorilla has led a storied life at the Franklin Park Zoo. He gained national attention back in 2003 when he escaped, and was found sitting at a Blue Hill Avenue bus stop. But soon he ...

Gori, a Japanese shaved dessert business is coming to a Centre Street location that’s seen a lot of different businesses come and go—so let’s hope this new one stays. JP Centre South Main Streets ...

The city provided an update about the cost of White Stadium, saying the cost for the, pretty much, all-new stadium is now $325 million, with $135 million of that to be paid by the city. The Boston ...

Led by Rogerson Communities, this new build includes the creation of 41 new affordable senior and 66 new assisted living memory care units to replace existing memory care services on their campus ...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu met with a group of Forest Hills area residents inside the MBTA station on Saturday to discuss how to make streets safer. Wu apologized that changes haven’t happened yet after ...

For the good of the stiltwalkers, costumed paraders, and festival goers, we’re hoping for no rain this Saturday’s Wake Up The Earth Festival and Parades! There are two parades—one starting at Curtis ...

People are hungry for restaurants news! Here’s the dish on three Jamaica Plain restaurants that people are wondering about because one looks closed, one did close, and one is changing its name and ...

As the plan to improve the Jamaica Pond Boathouse and Bandstand begins, the city estimates the process will take 3.5 years, with renovations being completed in 2030 at the earliest. The city presented ...

The Friends of the Jamaica Plain Library spring book sale is taking place May 7-9. Donated books will be sold to raise funds for programming and extras in the coming year. Also, the next art ...

Jamaica Plain’s Delmace Mayo was honored on May 6 as the fastest Bostonian who competed in the Boston Marathon’s wheelchair divisions—finishing the race in 1:51. Mayor Michelle Wu and the Boston ...