Wondering why 10 utility boxes around town have turned colorful over the past few weeks? It’s part of a town-led effort to make Brookline more… Read More »Who’s behind the colorful utility boxes popping up around Brookline? …
These photos show the north side of Boylston Street from Cameron Street, on the right, to Cypress Street. The building on the left in both… Read More »Brookline Then and Now: Boylston Street East of Cypress Street …
In the basement of the Garrison House in Brookline Village, Matt Shore and Tyler Durniak have their backpacks placed on the small stage. The room… Read More »Bad Intersection tries to make comedy more diverse and more ‘nice’ with Brookline standup shows …
In 2012, Lauren Elias — a Brookline resident of 15 years and lifelong theater artist — saw a production in a near-empty theater. She paid… Read More »Hub Theatre Company’s unique business model helps make theater accessible to all …
This Brookline Village storefront, in one of the town’s oldest commercial spaces, has been home to many businesses since it first opened in the 1870s.… Read More »Brookline Then and Now: 238 Washington Street …
Costume designer Ruth E. Carter was given the prestigious Coolidge Award on Sunday night at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, where she gave remarks tracing her… Read More »Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter given Coolidge Award …
When the old New England Telephone & Telegraph Company building on Marion Street was torn down in the late 1980s, the entrance of the building… Read More »Brookline Then and Now: Marion Street, New England Telephone …
This story was published in collaboration with Meghan E. Irons’ Reporting in Depth class at Boston University’s College of Communication.
Eric Tarlin sat down at the piano at the Brookline Senior Center recently and asked members of his choir to take out their music folders.
The sound of pages turning was audible throughout the room, as the members opened their folders and cleared their throats. Tarlin counted to three, and the choir belted out “Ooh, the Proud Mary keep on burnin!”
Rock Voices isn’t your typical adult choir. …
This story was published in collaboration with Meghan E. Irons’ Reporting in Depth class at Boston University’s College of Communication. Brookline’s annual Porchfest flooded the… Read More »From bubblegum rock to bluegrass, Porchfest fills Brookline streets with music …
This Coolidge Corner apartment building at the corner of Stearns Road and Sewall Avenue, just off Harvard Street, was completed in 1902. Originally called the… Read More »Brookline Then and Now: Stearns Chambers/Hotel Coolidge …
The Brookline Department of Public Works held a ceremony on September 20th to mark the installation of seven electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in the… Read More »Brookline Then and Now: Kent Street and Webster Place …
The Pollock School was a residential school for children with Down syndrome and autism run by Dr. Miriam Pollock and her husband Morris from 1934… Read More »Brookline Then and Now: The Pollock School, 28 Alton Place …
Health Department holding flu vaccination clinics The Brookline Department of Public Health and Human Services is holding several flu vaccination clinics over the coming weeks.… Read More »News in Brief: Flu clinics, fall recreation programs, new eco-friendly turf and a public art initiative …
Twenty-two-year-old William F. Foley, after working as a clerk at a Brookline Village grocer, opened his own grocery store in The Point neighborhood in 1895.… Read More »Brookline Then and Now: Foley’s on Cypress Street …
The brick and stone building with the rounded façade at the northwest corner of Boylston and Cypress Streets has been the location of ground floor… Read More »Brookline Then and Now: Boylston and Cypress Streets …
On Wednesday, the town of Brookline’s recreation department put on a concert at the Brookline Golf Course. This year was the inaugural Sunset Concert, which… Read More »Photos: Rocking out at the Brookline Golf Course …
The wall outside the entrance to the Florida Ruffin Ridley School in Coolidge Corner is a blank expanse of brick. A planned mural would transform… Read More »Planned murals would brighten blank walls at Ridley and Baker schools …
Jonathan Traub, a rising ninth grader at Brookline High School and the author of a Red Sox blog called Sox Watch, interviewed Red Sox CEO… Read More »Q&A: Sam Kennedy on his Brookline roots and the state of the Red Sox …
This house on Aspinwall Hill has gone through many changes and many owners since it was constructed as a single-family home in 1896 or 1897.… Read More »Brookline Then and Now: 111 Winthrop Road …
The poster urging a second term for Herbert Hoover — “Keep Him on the Job” — dates the older photo to 1932. (Hoover would lose… Read More »Brookline Then and Now: Beacon Street, West of Summit …
