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A new historical fiction novel returns to the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire
On the night of Nov. 28, 1942, Boston’s Cocoanut Grove nightclub erupted in flames. Nearly 500 people died in the conflagration and hundreds of survivors suffered horrific injuries. Eighty-four years later, it remains the deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history. Gemma Tizzard’s “The Nightingales of Boston” brings to vivid...
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This Underrated Massachusetts Museum Boasts A Dozen Model Trains You Actually Get To Operate
You know how sometimes you drive past a place a hundred times and never stop, and then one day you finally do, and you spend the rest of the afternoon wondering what took you so long?. That’s the Wenham Museum in Wenham, Massachusetts, and it’s been sitting there on the...
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Boston mourns percussion king, 96
Principal timpanist for the Boston Pops and assistant percussionist of the Boston Symphony, Arthur Press was a commanding figure at Symphony Hall for 46 years (1956 to 1992), playing on more than 50 recordings. He died last week at a great age. From his obit:. “Arthur Press was in many...
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Boston’s famous reject has died
The death has been made known of Danny Katzen, a hornist who is said to have auditioned 48 times for the second horn position in the Boston Symphony Orchestra before finally being given the job. Danny entered the orchestra in 1979 and played for 29 years, retiring in 2008. He performed in Leonard Bernstein’s final lifetime concert at Tanglewood and can also be heard on most of the Boston Pops’ celebrated recordings, as well as on the John Williams soundtrack of Schindler’s List.
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Boston Reparations Task Force mulls how to focus the project going forward
Members of the Boston Reparations Task Force are debating a path forward in the wake of the city’s move to drop a study of slavery in Boston that found itself mired in controversy. Historians and an archeologist who have examined Boston’s history with slavery discussed possible paths forward after...
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The Weekend Watchlist: Nov. 12 to Nov. 15
Wondering what to do once you clock out of O’Neill this Friday? The Weekend Watchlist is your guide to the places to be, on and off campus, every weekend. Read on to see what’s coming up. Olivia Clemmensen. Victoria Monét: Frequency Of Love Tour. Friday, Nov. 13...
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Review & setlist: Journey soldiers into Boston before (allegedly) going their separate ways
The Final Frontier Tour is supposedly the band's last after 53 years and many personnel changes. Journey at TD Garden, Boston, Nov. 10, 2026. Journey made music meant to be heard in three contexts: behind the bedroom door of a teenager whose parents disapprove of rock music, blasting through the rolled-down windows of a secondhand Z28, and in arenas. With the band’s core fanbase too old for the first and (probably) too responsible for the second, that left the last option on Tuesday, as the veteran band brought its Final Frontier Tour to the TD Garden.
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Salem Country Club Selected to Host Three Future USGA Championships
LIBERTY CORNER, N.J. – Salem Country Club in Peabody, Mass. has been selected by the USGA to host three future championships, further strengthening the club’s more than 125-year relationship with the Association. The 2032 U.S. Mid-Amateur, which will mark the 100th anniversary of Salem’s first USGA championship, along...
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A Moose is Loose Along the Northwest Park Art Walk
The latest addition to the 3rd Ave and Northwest Park Art Walk initiative is a nearly life-size moose sculpture by Dale Rogers, created in his signature New England style. Thaddeus (Tad) Stephanak is BCAT’s Social Media Director and Production Coordinator. Tad is a regular contributor to BNEWS and produces our BNEWS Specials, Burlington Life and several of our special features including Chamber Spotlight, Eye on Nature and Local Economic Development. A graduate of Emerson College Tad spent many years in Los Angeles employed in the entertainment industry before returning back east and has been with BCAT since 2007.