4+ hour, 35+ min ago   (577+ words) Robin Krawczyk wasn’t exactly ready to retire when she returned to Boston after a short stint away. For months, she half-jokingly floated an idea to family and friends: “What if I open a wallpaper store?” She was expecting someone to…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (723+ words) John Turturro, Paul Giamatti, Tatiana Maslany shine in A.R.T.’s bone-chillingly prescient ‘Rhinoceros’ The Boston Globe John Turturro, Paul Giamatti, Tatiana Maslany shine in A.R.T.’s bone-chillingly prescient ‘Rhinoceros’ CAMBRIDGE — I don’t imagine you’ll see a piece of theater…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (766+ words) The Boston Globe How we planned ahead for a roof deck that captured Boston skyline views While renovating the interior of a home, Charlie Allen Renovations put the bones in place for a future roof deck that became the “crown…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (226+ words) When we talk about popular cultural, we’re inevitably talking about fad and fashion. In the cosmopolitan world of the Northern Renaissance, there was plenty of that. Vast wealth generated by international trade brought with it a desire to display not…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (593+ words) The largest dorm in Boston has remained largely unchanged since it was built in 1965, with cracked vinyl floors, little insulation, and no air conditioning. But this week, students at Boston University will move into the first of three renovated towers,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (923+ words) Boston Globe: How did this play and this cast come together? Diane Paulus: I had been thinking about directing a play, and I was looking, like one does, at like, “The 100 Great Plays.” And a couple years ago had come…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (231+ words) Veteran carpenter Ray Plouffe had been working with wood for decades when a second, related career came calling about nine years ago. A restaurant client asked him to salvage the wood from a few treasured cherry trees, so Plouffe made…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (520+ words) ESSEX, Vt. — A Vermont production of “The Rocky Horror Show” shut down in April after production members received threatening text messages about the show, only for police to ultimately discover that the texts were sent by the play’s own musical…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1175+ words) At Fenway Park, a visit by architect and urban planner extraordinaire Janet Marie Smith is cause for celebration. She oversaw the design of Baltimore’s Camden Yards (1982), which single-handedly put an end to sterile, concrete bowl stadiums. Almost a quarter-century ago,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (322+ words) A handwritten sign across the street from a neighborhood playground led Margaret and Sean Duddy to their new home: A compact Colonial town house with a small courtyard on a corner lot in Southie. Built in 1885, the 1,426-square-foot home had…...