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1. The WooSox are required to hold 125 events per year. With 70 home baseball games, this means the team needs an additional 55 to meet its requirements, such as concerts, festivals or fireworks. They can be smaller, too, like a road race starting or ending at the stadium. This is part of the city’s vision to have the stadium serve as a year-round attraction. (Page 26 of the lease in the linked PDF document) 2. The city will have some of its own use of the ballpark. The city is able to hold up to eight revenue-generating events, which are relied upon in small part to help pay off the proj...

Dan Gabel said he envisioned a classic, vintage-inspired holiday television show "just like the ones you used to know." It's online rather than on TV, but "Happy Holidays with Dan Gabel and The Abletones" is a reality — "live" from The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts. Actually, the first number, "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," shows Steve Gagliastro, in excellent voice, and the tuneful "Moon Maids" vocal group of Annie Kerins, Sarah Callinan and Emily Greenslit making their way from Worcester Common and outside Worcester City Hall to The Hanover T...

Isla Fisher (left) and Willa Skye in "Godmothered." (Courtesy Disney+) John Stimpson has found a sweet spot making holiday movies from his Worcester home base. About half of the 15 or so of the movies he’s made since 2004 include a holiday theme. “These little movies are inexpensive to make but they sell well,” he says. Though he never imagined it, he jokes, “I’m becoming the king of Christmas movies.” In fact, he’s in the middle of editing one shot on Cape Cod right now. Stimpson’s movies have aired on Lifetime, Hallmark and ION, the cable networks that created what’s now t...

Can Boston become a ‘winter city’? How a ‘winter placemaking’ plan could help communities and businesses get through the dark season ahead. By Janelle Nanos Globe Staff,Updated December 18, 2020, 9:43 a.m. Email to a Friend In the Seaport, holiday lights are all around a curling ice sheet that is open for use by the public.Jim Davis/Globe Staff With temperatures dropping, COVID-19 cases surging, and a vaccine still months away from the public at large, there’s little doubt that a dark winter is ahead for the Commonwealth. But in a series of new efforts, cities like Wo...

How Worcester attracts big Hollywood productions — and their big bucks WORCESTER — With hockey players and rock musicians absent from the DCU Center, the stage was clear for Meryl Streep. The Academy Award winner filmed a scene for Netflix’s “Don’t Look Up” inside the city-owned arena last week. At the DCU or on Main Street, the clack of a camera slate is a familiar one in Worcester. A handful of movies have filmed scenes in the city in recent years, from Liam Neeson in "Honest Thief" to  Matthew McConaughey in "The Sea of Trees." Behind the scenes, one of the more important m...