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What to know about the Live Nation verdict and how it could affect ticket prices
19+ hour, 35+ min ago (107+ words) The Boston Globe What to know about the Live Nation verdict and how it could affect ticket prices Music lovers who have complained for years about Ticketmaster fees for concert tickets are surely reveling in a jury verdict Wednesday that…...
The biggest city in N. H. will soon have its own Monopoly edition. Which businesses should the game include?
1+ week, 3+ day ago (341+ words) Children as young as 8 years old will soon be invited to join well-heeled capitalists in friendly competition over the hottest real estate in New Hampshire's biggest city. By the end of this year, the city of Manchester, N. H. , will have its…...
Eastern Mass. softball: Players of the Week for March 31-April 6
1+ week, 1+ day ago (226+ words) Here are notable performances from softball players competing in Eastern Mass. conferences/leagues in the past week. Bella Bourque, Taunton " The senior, committed to South Carolina, went 3 for 3 in Saturday's 11-3 triumph over North Attleborough for the top-ranked Tigers, driving in…...
Globe Top 20 softball poll: A high 5 for the No. 1 ranking
3+ week, 1+ day ago (161+ words) Taunton, the five-time defending Division 1 champion, holds the top spot in the Globe's Top 20 preseason softball poll. At No. 2 is a star-studded King Philip squad, which will contend with Taunton for Hockomock League supremacy but has shifted down to Division…...
Why is everybody suddenly playing Mahjong?
3+ week, 2+ day ago (869+ words) The game got inside her, it took on an urgency, and Mc Laughlin, a retired attorney, found herself researching "how to play mahjong" and worrying that her friends had already formed groups. "I can't be left behind," she thought. We've…...
More than just a game: Free chess classes aim to reduce youth violence in Boston
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (1141+ words) The young chess player reached instinctively toward his threatened king, scanning the board for safe haven " until his instructor stepped in with a question. "If you move your king out of check, what can your opponent do next? ," instructor Ishmael…...
A riveting "Ragtime," a better-than-expected "Chess," a flat "Bug," and an electric "Just in Time"
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1209+ words) NEW YORK " On Broadway just now, there's a quartet of shows that can be characterized as must-see, maybe-see, don't-need-to-see, and last-chance-to see. Let's begin with the must-see. Vivian Beaumont Theatre, at Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan At the moment, Joshua Henry…...
This week's TV: "Strip Law,' Catherine Ryan Howard's "56 Days,' and the BAFTA awards
2+ mon, 9+ hour ago (377+ words) The Boston Globe This week's TV: "Strip Law,' Catherine Ryan Howard's "56 Days,' and the BAFTA awards Your TV GPS, a look at the week ahead in television, appears every Monday morning on Boston Globe. com. Today's column covers Feb. 16-22. Based…...
N. H. welcomes first babies of 2026, including a last-minute surprise
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (390+ words) New Hampshire welcomed the first newborns of 2026 in the early hours of New Year's Day. Presley Piper Salvatore was born at 12: 12 a. m. on Jan. 1 at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, N. H. , to a couple from Lebanon, Maine. Alicia Stevens, 42, and David Salvatore, 53, only…...