FOOD & DRINK

Attention, Braintree residents! This Memorial weekend Sunday, May 28th, there's an exciting event happening at My Liberty Church. Get ready for the ultimate movie experience - Movie Sunday at Church! Showing Jesus Revolution.

Meet Maggie! This four-legged friend is the Taunton Police Departments’ new comfort dog.

Recent bear sightings in Plymouth, Massachusetts, have police warning residents to leave the animal alone -- specifically noting no one should invite Buster to their Memorial Day picnic. Plymouth police say Buster the Bear is currently foraging through people's trash on Bourne Road. Police have issued a list of tips...

The Taunton Animal Shelter Pet of the Week Nicco, a male Husky about 7 years old. This handsome guy is guaranteed to make your life and home complete! He enjoys running and playing in the play yard with squeakie toys and balls, and a fenced in yard would be ideal.

Photo byKenny Semcken / Second Wind Brewing Company. (PLYMOUTH, MA) Second Wind Brewing Company, a craft microbrewery located in historic downtown Plymouth, has announced that they are actively searching for a new home for their family-friendly and pet-friendly beer garden after their summer gathering spot at Bramhall's has come to an end.

Hot dogs, hamburgers, veggies? With the grill space in these outdoor kitchens, there's no need to limit what you serve at your holiday party. With Memorial Day approaching, Boston is ready to kick off summer with a weekend outdoors, and the weather forecast couldn’t be nicer. Whether it’s a cookout full of fan favorites or a playlist with all the summer bops, our readers know what they want in a Memorial Day party. If it were up to us, we’d host at one of these homes:

Lyra Brennan is the director Mass Audubon Coastal Waterbird Program, a plover expert, she says nesting begins in April but some Plovers start later and can nest right through early September.

WEST HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – A Connecticut woman and her son got the surprise of a lifetime from Taylor Swift last Saturday, when the singer singled out the boy to give him a special gift — for the second time in a decade. Stephanie and Leyton Barnett were...

BOSTON – Mei Mei Dumplings has a new home in South Boston and the factory is the focus. "The dumplings come out of this machine and then get finished by hand," Irene Li, co-founder of Mei Mei Dumplings told WBZ-TV.Mei Mei Dumplings started out on wheels in 2012. After the food truck's success, Li and her siblings opened a restaurant in the Fenway neighborhood where they served loyal customers until the pandemic hit."We closed the restaurant in March 2020. We thought it was going to be for a couple months. Then we decided to stay closed because we just didn't...

If you’re eager for a quality burger in Massachusetts, you may be in luck. In celebration of National Burger Day on Saturday — the official start of the burger “search season,” according to Yelp — the company this week posted its rankings of the top 100 burgers in the United States, and one joint in the Bay State scored a spot on the list.

Flags placed at cemeteries across the country for Memorial Day US flags are set next to the Soldiers and Sailors Monument by the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund for Memorial Day, in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 26, 2023. More than 37,000 US flags were planted around the monument in Boston Common to honor each US military member from the state who died while serving since the Revolutionary War. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images) (JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

Samantha Fish shares the stage with blues legend Buddy Guy on Tuesday, June 13th, at the Pines Theater in Northampton and two days later at The Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston. Somewhat ironically, she’s calling her tour with new musical partner Jesse Dayton the “Death Wish Tour,” and Buddy is calling his swan song foray his “farewell Tour” less than a month before he celebrates his 88th birthday.

On June 11, 2023, The Boston Synagogue will launch Boston’s West End Lyric with an inaugural concert, featuring music from opera, as well as Broadway and cabaret music from the Jewish-American songbook. Titled “The Joys of Music,” the concert is produced by Massachusetts-based Bloch Performing Arts. The artists for...

Few food pairings are more beloved or iconic. So of course the burger gets its own National Day: National Hamburger Day is celebrated on May 28. When it comes to finding a burger around the Taunton area, the world is your oyster. Or burger, rather. There really isn’t a wrong choice!

Looking for something to do Memorial Day Weekend that will be fun for the whole family but won’t break your wallet?

A bear broke into a bakery in Avon Wednesday morning, helped itself to 60 cupcakes and made a “bluff charge” toward an employee. It happened at Taste By Spellbound on West Main Street in Avon. The kitchen supervisor for the bakery said she was putting baked goods in...

BOSTON - The weather is beautiful for Memorial Day Weekend and there's a new place to enjoy it in Boston.The New England Aquarium opened its Dockside Beer Garden on Central Wharf Saturday.The beer garden serves beers from local breweries like Cisco Brewers and Kona Brewing. The menu also features barbecue ribs, pulled pork, burgers and cornbread.Starting next month, the beer garden will feature live music on Thursday nights.

It’s been 10 years since Boston Calling’s first festival, and after all the iterations since then, you’re likely familiar with our local Coachella. But if you’re new to this space or you simply need a refresher, here’s your guide. And yes, at the time of publishing, tickets are still available.

Comedian and actor Tom Hanks spoke at Harvard's Class Day and Commencement ceremonies, urging graduates to be fearless and become everyday superheroes. Hanks was compared to luminaries such as Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy in the Latin Salutatory, and was serenaded by members of Hasty Pudding.