A 5.8 percent rate hike for rides on the T or the commuter rail will go into effect, according to a release from the Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority (MBTA). The governing board of the MBTA voted in favor of the fare increase on Monday night. Bus rates will be unaffected, as will rates paid by seniors and riders with disabilities.
SpeakEasy Stage Company introduces ‘Once’ to Boston with strong musical numbers. The play follows Girl and Guy as they work to create an album together in Dublin.
Prints from Staatliches Bauhaus—the German school of art, architecture, and design open from 1919 to 1933—are featured in Radical Geometries, an exhibit in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts that opened on Feb. 9. It will be open until March 21.
A lively gathering of Bostonians crowded outside the Transportation Board Room on Wednesday for a public hearing on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s (MBTA) proposed fare hike, which will go into effect July 1 of this year.
The policy initiatives that Jane Doe Inc. (JDI), a Massachusetts coalition and advocacy organization concentrating on issues concerning sexual assault and domestic violence, is seeking from the Massachusetts legislature in fiscal year 2020 were discussed at a meeting at the State House on Wednesday.
The ‘Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular’ exhibit opened at the Museum of Fine Arts on Feb. 27 and will remain open until June 16. Then again, the exhibition showcases anonymous folk artists alongside Kahlo, María Izquierdo, the latter a far more prolific exhibitor than Kahlo.
Cambridge gains a new French restaurant with Colette, sister restaurant to South End staple, Frenchie.
“I felt like I had entered a secret world where there are tons of cool, awkward teenagers, all into literature, all writing something from the depths of their being,” said Porsha Olayiwola, Boston’s new poet laureate, about the first time she heard spoken word performed.
ArtsEmerson presents ‘When Angels Fall,’ Raphaëlle Boitel’s newest play performed without words.
The Human Rights Foundation hosted the College Freedom Forum—a speaker series that hopes to inform students about democracy and human rights around the world—on Wednesday night at Harvard University. A series of civil rights activists and public dissidents shared their stories and answered audience questions about their own stories and the state of the world.
