Consultant offers 10 fashion secrets to jump start the New Year

By Jane Keller Gordon, Assistant Editor   Lynn - For over 30 years, Ginger Burr has worked as an image consultant, helping women look and feel...

Six-time cancer survivor rides the Pan Mass Challenge 20 times…and counting

By Jane Keller Gordon Assistant Editor Hudson - Howie Davidson’s numbers are great. He has survived six bouts of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma; biked the Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC)...

Steve Blackwood lives the Hollywood dream

By Elizabeth Rose, Contributing Writer  Newburyport - In the late nineties, Steve Blackwood was hunting acting work in Hollywood when he had several one-day temporary...

Athlete renews health, fitness and life goals

By Ed Karvoski Jr., Culture Editor Melrose – Larry Gamst of Melrose renewed his health, fitness and life goals within recent years. In 2017, he...

Former business executive now championing the cause of ‘conscious capitalism’

By Brett Peruzzi, Contributing Writer Chatham - Darby Hobbs originally planned to be a special education teacher, but when she decided to go into business...

Continuing to help singers find their voice through cabaret

By Ed Karvoski Jr., Culture Editor Boston/Watertown – Now serving a second term as president of the Boston Association of Cabaret Artists (BACA), vocalist Jim Keating...

Fashionable compassion – one mask at a time

Waltham – David Josef, a well-known fashion designer who has dressed hundreds of celebrities throughout his career, is now creating for superstars of a...

Former graphic designer created new career as jewelry designer

By Brett Peruzzi, Contributing Writer Swampscott - Nancy Marland had a 30-year career as a self-employed graphic designer, but at age 55 she decided that...

Barry Scott finds his groove with ‘The Lost 45s’

Barry Scott with David Cassidy during his 1997 book-signing appearance for “Could It Be Forever? My Story” at downtown Boston’s Barnes & Noble By Ed...

Founding producer preparing 20th Boston Comedy Festival

By Ed Karvoski Jr., Culture Editor Boston – A native of West Hartford, Conn., Jim McCue decided in the late-1980s to pursue a stand-up comedy...