Topic: Charlestown

The Simple Dollar The National Park system is the best vacation value in the country

The National Park Service provides tremendous value for US travelers. If you’re planning a family summer vacation, keep our national parks and national forests in mind.

Indiana leopard: Since when did leopards live in Indiana?

Indiana leopard: An Indiana woman and her boyfriend shot and killed a leopard that they spotted prowling in their backyard. Wait, they have leopards in Indiana?

Opinion Father's Day: Why a 'superhero' father wants to join the Mothers Association

Where are the fathers? In my neighborhood, the Mothers Association gets things done. Too many men want to avoid the thankless tasks that women have performed for hundreds of patriarchal years. They're also missing out on the beautiful intimate mundanity of nurturing a human being.

Opinion Stricter gun laws alone won't stop America's urban violence

Getting guns off the streets or out of the hands of criminals won’t by itself address the problem of gun violence in poor urban communities. America needs to address the underlying circumstances that lead people like my inmate students to gun violence in the first place.

A state-by-state look at superstorm's effects

Power outages now stand at more than 1.8 million homes and businesses, down from a peak of 8.5 million. Here's a snapshot of what is happening, state by state.

Hurricane Sandy: Life without power

On Wednesday night 44 million in the Northeast still had no power. The scale of destruction brought by Hurricane Sandy has been beyond anything power companies have dealt with before.

Chapter & Verse In an age of Kindles, Harcourt Bindery sticks to tried-and-true book methods

The Charlestown, Mass., bindery still makes books by hand, using a 19th-century production model.

Rick Perry exit gives Newt Gingrich momentum as the anti-Mitt

Rick Perry will announce Thursday that he is dropping out of the race for the GOP presidential nomination and will back Newt Gingrich. The move could boost a Gingirch surge. 

In Pictures Occupy Wall Street then and now

Letters to the Editor – Weekly Issue of February 28, 2011

Readers write in about conservative art, and America's deficit – in character.
03/08/2011 09:30 am

Can 'The Town' be top of the Hub? Top 5 Boston-based movies

The Red Sox may be struggling to make the playoffs this season, but Boston is a perennial box-office favorite. The latest Boston-based film to hit silver screens is "The Town," starring and directed by local boy Ben Affleck. The top 10 Boston-based films, ranked by US box-office receipts, includes the Sox-centered "Fever Pitch," according to Turner Classic Movies and IMDB.com. Also on the list is the 1968 version of "The Thomas Crown Affair" starring Steve McQueen, which was shot on Boston's Beacon Hill. Do your favorite Boston films make the top 5?
09/17/2010 08:34 pm

The Town: movie review

Ben Affleck stars as a robber ringleader in ‘The Town,’ a dark drama with a cliché-ridden script.
09/17/2010 03:03 pm

'The Town': Is Charlestown really America's 'bank robbery capital'?

‘The Town’ is Ben Affleck's new thriller set in the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown. But residents beg to differ with the movie’s portrayal of the area.
09/17/2010 02:47 pm

Gallery Famous US monuments and memorials