Bizulu, an online business-to-consumer auction platform that transforms social media presence into a new sales channel for merchants and a fun new source of great deals for consumers, will hold an online auction featuring over 30 items to benefit the Pete Frates #3 Fund.
The slight crispness in the air just now reminds me of country fairs.
Although the forecasts threatened bad weather all last week, Sunday turned out to be a perfect day for the 32nd Annual Victorian Fair.
Flags flew at half staff on Sept. 11. I could see this tribute to lost lives from my window as I read the final pages of “The Yellow Flowers.” Sept. 11 is also the day Little Brown chose to release this book, one of a handful of new novels about the war in Iraq.
Get In Shape For Women, 10 Sylvan St., Peabody, will host an open house on Saturday, Sept. 15, from 1-3 p.m. The business will offer refreshments, studio tours/workouts, $100 off fitness/nutrition packages bought that day, and three drawings for gift certificates offering a free hot stone manicure at a local spa. Guests are encouraged to wear their workout clothes and meet the staff.
The family of a Melrose native who died on Sept. 11, 2001, recently met one of the volunteers who helped the search-and-recovery effort following the terrorist attacks.
The 17th novel in the Jack Reacher series, “A Wanted Man,” is less a thriller and more a precision procedural. Where once Reacher led with his fists, he now leads with his calculations — probabilities, number of bad guys left standing, number of words you can say without using the first letter of the alphabet. Most of the action is in his head.
Kelly Carmody is doing big things on little spaces. The Melrose resident and full-time artist is making a name for herself by working on an unusual scale — creating a collection of small paintings entitled “Portraits in Little.”
With the creation of Cape Ann Youth Lacrosse’s new Adaptive Lacrosse Program, Patrick Bell can play the same sport that his twin brother, Connor, and older brother, Nick, are playing. The Adaptive Lacrosse Program creates an opportunity to get involved in the sport 7-year-old Patrick – who has Down syndrome – has been asking to participate in after watching his brothers play.
A good live album can make you wish you’d been there. A really good live album makes you downright angry that you weren’t. I’ve been listening to Brian Setzer’s “Rockabilly Riot! Live from the Planet,” and I am one mad dude.
Last week's column on giant space asteroids elicited a sudden flurry of asteroid-related activity. Not among the asteroids, which are notoriously stubborn and can’t read, but among certain people who, like myself, do not want to be crushed and incinerated by them, not necessarily in that order.
Ipswich Recreation Department launches a life-long learning program incoroporating online college courese and face-to-face discussion and learning groups built around the courses.
Everyone knows the great heroes of the American Revolution - George Washington, John Adams, Ben Franklin. But great as these men were, they could not have won the war against the British Army, one of the most powerful military forces in the world, all alone.
There was not a cloud in sight last Sunday when the performance stage at Lynch Park in Beverly was dedicated to Alvin C. Mitchell.
The 2012 Brothers of the Sun Tour ended Saturday night at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro. Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals and Jake Owen saved their best for the last two shows of their tour for 2012.
While the weather has been red-hot, I find myself drawn to red food. Fresh produce such as red bell peppers, tomatoes and strawberries catch my eye.
Despite an overcast day with patchy rain, Medford residents flocked to the annual West Medford Lobster & BBQ Festival last Saturday.
Tri-Town Transcript columnist Esther Baird writes this week about her daughter going to overnight camp for the first time.
The weather may have been stormy on Saturday, Aug. 18, but dancers from all over New England were heating things up inside Memorial Hall during the third annual Massachusetts Dancesport Challenge.
Beginning at 8 a.m. and lasting until 6 p.m., the event featured nonstop Latin-style and ballroom dancing by professionals and trained amateurs.
