Kara Baskin

Plus, a Cambridge Crossing pub and healthy food at The Street Chestnut Hill

Where to : Tenoch in Harvard Square. Why : For tacos, tortas, and eventually cocktails inside The Garage.

My son's dyslexia won't define him in the long run. But slogging through public school sure is hard in the meantime.

Choreographer Rachel Linsky stages “Gathering Sparks” with lively klezmer music and hora dancing as part of the “Welcome Home” show on Oct. 18-19.

Walpole's Hailey Donovan, 23, is the bar manager and beverage director at Northern Spy, which serves seriously old-school New England delights like

They were called dumb and made to feel like they wouldn't amount to much. Boston diners would say otherwise.

In 2006, a vaccine became available to protect against infections associated with two strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV). It was a potential game-changer: These strains cause 70% of cervical cancers, 90% of anal cancers, and about 75% of the cancers that affect the throat.

Barbara Lynch 's Gloucester seafood restaurant, The Rudder, has closed, according to an Instagram announcement signed by Lynch.

Plus, a massive pumpkin will descend upon the Boston Public Market, and Karma comes to Winchester while Life Alive sprouts in Jamaica Plain.

Instead: fiver parties, charity donations, and ‘please, no gifts' requests that both relieve and confound