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Introducing Pho Hoa featuring Anh Hong Restaurant Two powerhouse restaurateurs in the Vietnamese community – Pho Hoa Restaurant and the recently-closed Anh Hong Restaurant - have landed on the same page, announcing this week that they will combine forces on Dorchester Avenue to create a new culinary establishment.

Lisette Le, the executive director of the Vietnamese American Initiative for Development (VietAID) in Fields Corner, plans to step down later this year. She has served in the role since January 2018. “The past four years have been profound, transformative, and challenging,” she wrote in an email to supporters.

Dorchester Avenue is embarrassing. Though certain sections, like the Lower Mills area adjacent to Milton, are better planned and developed, the northern half is an uneven mess. Dot Ave, as residents refer to it, is supposed to be Dorchester’s prestigious main street for businesses and services, and a thoroughfare for travel to downtown, but it does none of these things well.

Dorchester Avenue is embarrassing. Though certain sections, like the Lower Mills area adjacent to Milton, are better planned and developed, the northern half is an uneven mess. Dot Ave, as residents refer to it, is supposed to be Dorchester’s prestigious main street for businesses and services, and a thoroughfare for travel to downtown, but it does none of these things well.

50Kitchen, the Fields Corner eatery that featured a fusion of Southern American and East Asian cuisine, plans to permanently close its doors in February, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to pummel the restaurant industry. According to its Facebook page, 50Kitchen has been closed except for takeout and delivery since Dec.

Stigma free is what these musicians living with mental health conditions want to be.

Though invisible to the naked eye or to those unaffiliated civically, Parkman Street represents a stark boundary between Fields Corner and the St. Mark’s area, and while that boundary has been mostly non-controversial, a nine-unit condo development on the street is highlighting differences on both sides of the line. While the Fields Corner Civic Association (FCCA) has signaled

Write on the Dot recently marked ten years in operation with the publication of its sixth book of local writing and artwork. Founded in 2011 by former UMass Boston student Aaron Devine and his classmates, Write on the Dot is a local community reading series and literary platform coordinated by the university’s Master of Fine Arts students, with input from a local advisory

Somewhere in the middle of pouring the concrete slab and hand-cutting roof joists with a circular saw high above Westville Street, Fields Corner residents Vivian and Elisa Girard believe they found the answer to affordable housing without getting into the red tape of “affordable housing.” Their foray into a new type of housing – efficient studios in the price range of $650 to

A key player in the Field Corner Vietnamese eatery scene and the Boston Little Saigon district, Anh Hong Restaurant, closed its doors suddenly on Dec. 29, citing landlord issues that could not be overcome despite ongoing negotiations since September. Victoria Nguyen and her husband, Dino, have operated Anh Hong on their own for the last six years during which time it became a