Community: Where your voice guides the conversation https://www.boston.com/category/community/ Boston.com Tue, 06 Aug 2024 20:40:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://bdc2020.o0bc.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/BDC_Logo_2020_Social_WhiteBG-609c79a967eee-150x150.png Community: Where your voice guides the conversation https://www.boston.com/category/community/ 32 32 Book Club’s August read is ‘The Wedding People’ by Alison Espach https://www.boston.com/community/book-club/2024/08/06/book-club-august-read-the-wedding-people-by-alison-espach/ https://www.boston.com/community/book-club/2024/08/06/book-club-august-read-the-wedding-people-by-alison-espach/#respond Tue, 06 Aug 2024 20:40:00 +0000 Espach will join Charter Books store manager Amy Van Keuren on Aug. 28 at 6 p.m. for a live streamed discussion.

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]]> https://www.boston.com/community/book-club/2024/08/06/book-club-august-read-the-wedding-people-by-alison-espach/feed/ 0 Think you can ace this Aerosmith quiz? Dream on. https://www.boston.com/community/quizzes/2024/08/06/think-you-can-ace-this-aerosmith-quiz-dream-on/ https://www.boston.com/community/quizzes/2024/08/06/think-you-can-ace-this-aerosmith-quiz-dream-on/#respond Tue, 06 Aug 2024 18:46:49 +0000 https://www.boston.com/?p=31091949 Test your knowledge of Boston’s favorite retiring rock band with the “Farewell Aerosmith” quiz.

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]]> https://www.boston.com/community/quizzes/2024/08/06/think-you-can-ace-this-aerosmith-quiz-dream-on/feed/ 0 Readers share photos, memories of Dispatch at the 2004 Hatch Shell concert https://www.boston.com/community/readers-say/2024/08/06/readers-dispatch-concert/ https://www.boston.com/community/readers-say/2024/08/06/readers-dispatch-concert/#respond Tue, 06 Aug 2024 18:41:05 +0000 https://www.boston.com/?p=31092997 On July 31, 2004, a Dispatch farewell concert drew 110,000 fans to the Hatch Shell. We asked attendees what they remembered about the day.

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]]> https://www.boston.com/community/readers-say/2024/08/06/readers-dispatch-concert/feed/ 0 Your 9/1 pregame starts now https://www.boston.com/community/the-b-side/the-big-move-pre-moving-logistics/ https://www.boston.com/community/the-b-side/the-big-move-pre-moving-logistics/#respond Tue, 06 Aug 2024 13:29:05 +0000 https://www.boston.com/?post_type=bdc-community&p=31091574 Plus: 🦠 Mass.’ COVID summer

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]]> https://www.boston.com/community/the-b-side/the-big-move-pre-moving-logistics/feed/ 0 Readers: How have flight delays impacted you this summer? https://www.boston.com/community/tell-us/2024/08/05/how-have-flight-delays-cancellations-impacted-you-this-summer/ https://www.boston.com/community/tell-us/2024/08/05/how-have-flight-delays-cancellations-impacted-you-this-summer/#comments Mon, 05 Aug 2024 21:09:59 +0000 https://www.boston.com/?p=31082035 From a software outage to severe weather, travel has been disruptive for some traveling through Logan airport.

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]]> https://www.boston.com/community/the-b-side/cheap-boston-date-nights/feed/ 0 Did you follow the local news this week? Take our Greater Boston news quiz. https://www.boston.com/community/quizzes/2024/08/02/news-quiz-olympics-contraception-newport-folk/ https://www.boston.com/community/quizzes/2024/08/02/news-quiz-olympics-contraception-newport-folk/#comments Fri, 02 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.boston.com/?p=31021169 Test your knowledge of substantial CEOs, a bursting budget, and a peppy pommel horse guy in this week’s news quiz.

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]]> https://www.boston.com/community/quizzes/2024/08/02/news-quiz-olympics-contraception-newport-folk/feed/ 1 Experts and readers are at odds over Healey’s emergency shelter cap. Here’s why. https://www.boston.com/community/readers-say/2024/08/01/readers-and-experts-react-to-healeys-5-day-shelter-cap/ https://www.boston.com/community/readers-say/2024/08/01/readers-and-experts-react-to-healeys-5-day-shelter-cap/#respond Thu, 01 Aug 2024 20:48:35 +0000 https://www.boston.com/?p=31020692 The five-day cap on stays at overflow shelter sites went into effect Thursday. Readers are in support, but immigrant support groups are concerned.

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]]> https://www.boston.com/community/readers-say/2024/08/01/readers-and-experts-react-to-healeys-5-day-shelter-cap/feed/ 0 This Green Line branch will brb https://www.boston.com/community/the-b-side/green-line-b-branch-shutdown-what-to-know/ https://www.boston.com/community/the-b-side/green-line-b-branch-shutdown-what-to-know/#respond Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:12:09 +0000 https://www.boston.com/?post_type=bdc-community&p=31017846 Plus: 🍩 Dunkin’s new menu

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