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We sometimes expect a lot from our restaurant workers, but we should take a step back in order to appreciate how difficult the food game can be.

Construction is underway on a high-profile lot in the Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood primed to become home to Boston’s only food co-op, which would occupy the ground floor commercial space of a four-story affordable housing project being built by VietAID.

By Daniel Sheehan, Arts & Features Editor June 9, 2021 Muhammad Seven and the Spring “Friday Evenings on the Lawn,” a new summer community music and arts series hosted by First Parish Church and sponsored jointly by Fields Corner and Bowdoin-Geneva Main Streets, will kick off this Friday, June 11, from 6 p.m. to9 p.m. featuring a performance by local band Muhammad Seven and the Spring (pictured above). The weekly event will consist of picnicking & supervised children’s activities beginni...

By Reporter and WBUR Staff June 9, 2021 Acting Mayor Kim Janey. Photo by Jesse Costa/WBUR With the month of May’s numbers in, the record shows that Kim Janey raised more than all the other candidates in the city’s mayoral election for the second month in a row. Janey, who has seen her fundraising increase since becoming acting mayor in late March, brought in nearly $163,000 last month. The only other candidate who raised close to that total was City Councillor Annissa Essaibi-George, who ne...

Tam Le ducks into the narrow corridor behind the counter of Phó Hóa, his parents’ Dorchester Ave.

Next up for 'Waldo': University of Oregon On a Friday evening in late May, Rivaldo Soares was at the CambridgeSide Cheesecake Factory surrounded by close friends and mentors for a send-off celebration dinner of sorts. Weeks earlier, the 21-year-old Dorchester native had accepted a full basketball scholarship offer to play at the University of Oregon, a Division 1 program in a

By Taylor Driscoll, Reporter Correspondent June 2, 2021 Taylor Driscoll, Reporter Correspondent A newly published report based on interviews with nail salon workers — many of them employed in or living in Dorchester— details the challenges facing the industry and its largely immigrant workforce that was particularly hard hit by the pandemic. The Vietnamese American Initiative for Development, Inc. (VietAID) in Fields Corner and Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) published the “From Our ...

Dorchester man charged in slaying of man in Fields Corner; allegedly shot victim twice in head John R. Ellement A Dorchester man who was accused of shooting and killing one brother in 2000 appeared in Dorchester Municipal Court Tuesday where he is now charged with murdering a man by shooting him twice in the head during a daylight attack in Fields Corner last week, authorities said. Nickoyan N. Wallace, 46, was ordered held without bail by Judge Thomas S. Kaplanes after not guil...

On June 21, 1974, Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity issued his finding that Boston’s schools were segregated by the actions of the Boston School Committee. He ordered busing as a remedy beginning that September. There was fierce opposition to the ruling among many whites in Boston while Black families and children acted with courage that fall when rocks pelted their buses on

Reporter Staff Red Sox legend David Ortiz accepted the BAA Honors award for television and film as Boston Arts Academy Foundation President Denella Clark and BAA Head of School Anne Clark look on. Visual Arts photo On May 1 a virtual livestream of the 2021 BAA Honors — Boston Arts Academy’s annual fundraising event — saw a star-studded cast and a series of music and dance performances by students and alumni raise nearly $1.7 million for the city’s only public high school for the vis...