Emily Wyrwa

Newton North High School Basketball Coach Paul Connolly, seen in this YouTube clip talking about the team's recent efforts in the MIAA state championships, is retiring after 24 years. Screenshot of video posted by Mukala KabongoOn the basketball court, Paul Connolly has a booming voice. He’s making swift calls and giving players sharp guidance. His native Massachusetts accent bounces off the walls of the gym far louder than all the sneaker screeches and dribbles.   
But when he sits down to spea...

On this season of "The Bachelor," Newton's Juliana Pasquarosa won the big prize, the heart of Grant Ellis. The two are shown here during the season's "Hometowns’ episode, in which Ellis met the remaining contestants' families. Photo Courtesy of Disney/ABC“Bachelor Mondays” were a two-year tradition with Newton native Juliana Pasquarosa and her older sister, Dominique. After work, Pasquarosa would bring a bottle of wine to her sister’s house, and they’d watch the show over pasta.
Little did she k...

The first time Stephen Nedoroscik was recognized in public was long before he went viral for his glasses at the 2024 Paris Olympic games.

Before the world knew him as “pommel horse guy,” and before he dove into the unknown world of “Dancing with the Stars,” someone tapped him on the shoulder of his hometown bar Ralph’s in Worcester. He had seen Nedoroscik at the 2021 World Championships for men’s gymnastics, and wanted to buy the gymnast a drink. It was 2022 — Nedoroscik’s second time ever at the bar.

Chad McDonough turned his ambivalence for cooking into a livelihood alongside one of his closest childhood friends, Tommy Guarino. The pair met in 2005 at a police summer camp when they were 5 years old, and they graduated from high school together. Now they’re business partners — and brothers.

When Mica Tenenbaum and Matt Lewin were in college, they were no strangers to the eight-hour bus rides between Boston and Philadelphia.

School is in full swing — we’ve seen more backpacks in Boston than we have in months. If all the back-to-school shopping has your wallet feeling a little light, we have you covered. This week, the Museum of Fine Arts will offer free admission on Saturday, plus, the return of Riverfest at Assembly Row, and a new series from GBH and JazzBoston.YOUR MONTHLY DOSE OF JAZZ GBH and JazzBoston debut their new live jazz series at the Central Library in Copley Square this week. On the second Thursday of e...

Before Marceau became a performer, he was born Marcel Mangel and as a teen fled Nazi-occupied France. His cousin recruited him into the resistance, and he was tasked with smuggling Jewish orphans into Switzerland. According to Pailet, many have speculated the games he played with those children became the foundation of his mime act.“It’s exciting to be at this stage and to be in Williamstown, which is a place that has a history of artists coming together in the summer to develop their ideas,” S...