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This summer, producers of free, outdoor Shakespeare are switching things up. Instead of doing yet another production of pieces like “Romeo and Juliet” or “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” they’re piquing the interest of ... Read more.

A new novel written by acclaimed author Liz Moore has a Dorchester connection: It is set in Savin Hill. “The Unseen World” hit bookshelves and mailboxes on July 26. The Washington Post — the first major news outlet to ... Read more.

The Mayor’s Mural Crew has completed work on large piece of art at the corner of St. Marks Road and Dorchester Avenue this summer that will serve as a tip-of-the-straw-hat to a Dorchester native who played a starring role ... Read more.

Residents want to see healthy, smoke-free apartments, award-winning design elements and — critically— a family-friendly, fine dining restaurant included in a mixed-use development now on the drawing board for Mattapan ... Read more.

Terrance Roberson sat motionless in the front seat of his friend’s black 2001 Honda Civic as fire trucks and police vehicles encircled the car, sirens blaring. Phone wires and electricity cables hissed on the roof over ... Read more.

MBTA riders can expect shuttle buses to replace train service on the Red Line for nine weekends beginning in September and running through December as winter resiliency work takes place, MBTA officials said last week. ... Read more.

An 7 year-old child who went missing from a city-run summer program on Tuesday afternoon near the L Street bathhouse was found dead in the nearby waters of Dorchester Bay that evening. The boy’s disappearance had sparked ... Read more.

Mattapan’s Almont Park has another new amenity this summer— a security camera aimed at helping the already vastly-improved city park become even more of a safe haven. The park— home to the Mattapan Patriots Pop Warner ... Read more.

There’s more news on the suddenly booming car business front in Dorchester this week. A popular auto dealership in Neponset will change hands next Monday if all goes according to plan. The Shrewsbury-based Sentry Auto ... Read more.

The dictionary says that a “figment” exists only in someone’s imagination, but producers of this weekend’s FIGMENT Boston disagree.

This free participatory arts festival is totally tangible: one might even go so ... Read more.

Incoming Cristo Rey teacher Maria Chal, 27, has been selected by the highly competitive Knowles Science Teaching Foundation’s to be a teaching fellow. She will be one of 34 early-career science and math teachers selected ... Read more.

The newest brewery on the block has some Dorchester faces at the helm, Dorchester teams behind it, and “Dorchester” thrown up on metal script across its facade for good measure.

The Dorchester Brewing Company ... Read more.

A Dorchester woman who worked as a nurse practitioner was arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court last week after she was indicted by a grand jury for allegedly writing illegal prescriptions for painkillers for friends and ... Read more.

Parts of an upcoming, not-yet-titled movie are currently being filmed at locations in the Ashmont/Adams neighborhood, causing parts of Ashmont Street near the T station to experience traffic diversions this week. The ... Read more.

They used to brush silently past one another, scurrying straight-eyed toward a table of familiar faces.

But now at the Codman Square Health Center dining room, employees mix freely with Codman Academy students who ... Read more.

Mice, cockroaches, mold, shut-off heat, no electricity, jammed doors, open gasoline canisters. This is what we live with, said the tenants of several dilapidated Dorchester and Mattapan properties as they loudly protested ... Read more.

Massachusetts was well represented and putting forth a unified face after two days of speeches at an initially fractious Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia that ended with the nomination of Hillary Clinton, ... Read more.

A fast-moving fire caused by careless disposal of smoking material destroyed a multi-family home on Jones Hill on Tuesday afternoon, displacing residents and prompting a huge response from the Boston Fire Department. ... Read more.

Boston Police in Area C-11 will host a free juvenile boot camp from August 15-19, 8-10a.m. each day for boys and girls ages 13-16. Spots are limited. For additional info and to sign up please contact the C-11 Community ... Read more.

The MBTA Fiscal and Management Control Board today approved the ground lease at Mattapan Station to the partnership ... Read more.

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