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The Ruthie Ristich Trio presents music from the Great American Songbook. Presented by the Harvard Art Museum, the band's namesake will sing the songs of Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, and more.

Audio recording of noted labor organizer and author Steve Early reading from his new book "Embedded with Organized Labor, Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home" on June 29th, 2009, at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States.

Main Category: Swine Flu Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Flu / Cold / SARS Article Date: 03 Jul 2009 Scientists in the US and the Netherlands discovered what most doctors already suspected: the new H1N1 swine flu virus causes more severe infection than seasonal flu, but the two groups disagreed on how easily it spreads, ...

Image of Cambridge City Hall by Caroline Roberts. Every year, folks in Boston try to find alternatives to spending Independence Day on the Charles, amidst the crowds.

Boston police captured a man allegedly breaking into a second floor Jamaica Plain apartment while his pants were waiting for him in the backyard.

NASA has chosen two Space Camp graduates as part of the nine 2009 inductees into the astronaut corps.

Boston police officers are searching for a man suspected in a string of robberies.

Three suspected bank robbers were arrested Tuesday night. James Rigano, 42, of Malden, Terry Dunnels, Jr., 29, of Cambridge, and Eric Leonard, 20, of Everett were arrested and turned over to Somerville Police who then charged them with bank robbery.

Boston cops charged 50-year-old convicted sex offender Fitzhugh Newton with the February rape and murder of a Dorchester woman.

The results of the Clinical Proteomic Technology Assessment for Cancer study, which is sponsored by the National Cancer Institute , part of the National Institutes of Health, and partner organizations, appeared online June 28, 2009, in Nature Biotechnology.

Overview : Since 6/23/09 there has been a string of commercial robberies involving a Black male with a beard, who displays a firearm, and usually attempts to purchase something in order to get the clerk to open the register.

A team of researchers, including several from UCSF, has demonstrated that a new method for detecting and quantifying protein biomarkers in body fluids may ultimately make it possible to screen multiple biomarkers in hundreds of patient samples, thus ensuring that only the strongest biomarker candidates will advance down the development pipeline.

Great walks. Just a couple comments on things to avoid or be careful of... Prospect St.

Simple etiquette just doesn't cut it anymore. So when the Boston Globe magazine was looking for someone authoritative to take over as its Miss Conduct columnist five years ago, they were intrigued by Robin Abrahams' eclectic resume: doctorate in psychology from Boston University; English professor; organizational-change communications manager; ...

Friday, Jun 26 Traffic raced around the Internet yesterday, following the announcement of Michael Jackson's death, temporarily slowing down TMZ.com, the LA Times, and many other news sites.

Tonight, the city will cut loose. Hundreds are expected to groove during Cambridge's annual dance party on Massachusetts Avenue.

A New York City man has been indicted in the shooting death of a 21-year-old man inside a Harvard University dormitory last month.

Lawrence Mayor Michael Sullivan says he now supports suspending embattled School Superintendent Wilfredo Laboy after another police raid.

With his office now the subject of a criminal probe, Lawrence Superintendent Wilfredo Laboy has lost the ability to lead the city's schools.

Congratulations, Harvard graduates! Now you can feel good about being poor. While most college graduates this year unhappily face uncertain futures, the threat of impending and dire poverty, and a good 10 to 15 years of hopeless sub-management toil until the Baby Boomers recoup enough of their lost retirements to finally leave the workforce, one ...