Dear Readers: The following Q&A first ran in 2019.Dear Amy: My daughter has my husband’s extremely pale, Nordic appearance. In high school she had some darker-skinned friends of other races. Sometimes they would poke gentle fun at her for her whiteness, such as telling her...
“Unreconciled,” Jay Sefton’s tour-de-force play about a young theater student (Jay Sefton) who is the victim of abuse by a priest, and yet moves on to be a therapist and an actor, has its world premiere at Chester Theatre, July 4-14, after a workshop last...
Dear Annie: Not quite 20 years ago, I worked for a local authority mental health agency with about 650 employees. I worked in the human resources department and knew all the employees by name because I literally had access to everything about them. I made...
Dear Readers: In advance to my departure from this column, I’m spending the next couple of weeks rerunning some favorites.I don’t really have any way of “fool-proofing” the queries sent in to me, and so I’ve treated most of them as if they are serious...
BOSTON — The Red Sox set a franchise single-game record with nine steals in a 9-3 win over the Yankees on Sunday. Boston’s previous record of eight steals happened Sept. 29, 1940 against the then-Philadelphia Athletics.“Hammy kind of carried the load there but glad I...
NEW YORK (AP) — “The Outsiders,” a gritty adaptation of the classic young adult novel, became the essence of a Broadway insider on Sunday, winning the Tony Award for best new musical on a night when women made strides.The musical based on the beloved S....
BOSTON — It was about the least enviable situation for a relief pitcher imaginable. With the Red Sox clinging to a one-run lead in the top of the seventh inning, Zack Kelly entered the game with the bases loaded with New York Yankees and no...
BOSTON — Zack Kelly screamed and pounded his chest as he returned to the Red Sox dugout after escaping a huge jam in the seventh inning.Manager Alex Cora brought in Kelly with no outs, the bases loaded and Boston clinging to a 4-3 lead against...
The time to choose a side, Team Black or Team Green, is now. The highly anticipated second season of the “Game of Thrones” prequel, “House of the Dragon,” has finally arrived and will premiere on MAX on Sunday, June 16.After a two-year hiatus, the first...
When Triston Casas was about 6 years old, he watched his dad get arrested during a Little League game. But he was taught a valuable lesson that day — and it’s one he hasn’t forgotten.The Red Sox first baseman was interviewed by ESPN during Boston’s...
