1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (748+ words) To state the obvious, our region has a serious housing crunch. One way to spur new housing, quickly and cheaply, would be to put up more prefabricated homes. Build them offsite in a factory, then later snap the pieces — a…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (909+ words) If you’re the longest-serving employee at the country’s biggest owner and distributor of fonts, you deserve more than a gold watch or fancy dinner for your retirement. Seeing it live, though, on the Woburn company’s site, really drove home what…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (116+ words) Opinion | Tapestries old and new The Boston Globe Tapestries old and new I enjoyed reading two stories about tapestries in the Aug. 23 Boston Sunday Globe: “Bayeux Tapestry’s long, bumpy road to London” by New York Times writer Alex Marshall (Page…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1118+ words) Most first-year students moving into Boston University’s Sleeper Hall on Monday wrestled large blue rolling bins full of stuff into elevators as a marching band played, “I’m Shipping Up to Boston.” Not Zara Mody, an 18-year-old freshman from San Jose,…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago   (577+ words) Robin Krawczyk wasn’t exactly ready to retire when she returned to Boston after a short stint away. For months, she half-jokingly floated an idea to family and friends: “What if I open a wallpaper store?” She was expecting someone to…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (226+ words) When we talk about popular cultural, we’re inevitably talking about fad and fashion. In the cosmopolitan world of the Northern Renaissance, there was plenty of that. Vast wealth generated by international trade brought with it a desire to display not…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (593+ words) The largest dorm in Boston has remained largely unchanged since it was built in 1965, with cracked vinyl floors, little insulation, and no air conditioning. But this week, students at Boston University will move into the first of three renovated towers,…...