Arthur Fiedler onstage during a Holiday Pops concert with Santa Claus in 1977. (Courtesy BSO Archives)

50 years ago, the Boston Pops started a holiday tradition

Holiday Pops was first introduced on December 21, 1973, under the name “A Pops Christmas Party.” Over the decades, the series has become more inclusive with diversified programming and grown...

New docuseries confronts the fallout from an infamous Boston murder

HBO's “Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage & Reckoning” examines what happened when Boston’s white-led law enforcement and media took Charles Stuart’s racist bait.

5 things to do this weekend, including Duke Ellington's 'Nutcracker Suite' and a Cambridge holiday market

Plus, “This Machine Creates Opacity” at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and an encore showing from the Boston French Film Festival.

Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist maps the universe of George Clinton's recorded legacy

Massachusetts-native Daniel Bedrosian's new book "The Authorized P-Funk Song Reference" organizes the eight-decade career of the funk legend through interviews with over 60 musicians. At 500 pages, it features over...

50 years ago, the Boston Pops started a holiday tradition

New docuseries confronts the fallout from an infamous Boston murder

5 things to do this weekend, including Duke Ellington's 'Nutcracker Suite' and a Cambridge holiday market

Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist maps the universe of George Clinton's recorded legacy

'The Band's Visit' — a smashing SpeakEasy-Huntington coproduction

Western Mass. actor depicts clergy abuse survivor who rejects church settlement — like he did

Sandwiched between cultures: new exhibit explores the pain of 'lunchbox moments'

Rarely seen Rembrandt etchings make first stop in Worcester on international tour

Tanglewood's Hollywood debut in Bradley Cooper's new film 'Maestro'

5 things to do for Thanksgiving weekend

Move over, Nutcracker: 12 holiday concerts to spark new traditions

Biopics 'Napoleon' and 'Maestro' are both tales of troubled marriages

How a punchbowl inspired author Katherine Howe's 'A True Account'

Worcester fusion band Zigmont chases new thrills on sophomore album

Two blind Boston-area musicians honored with awards in New York City

Starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, 'May December' is thrillingly discombobulating

5 things to do this weekend, including Twilight at MAAM and Wicked Queer documentary screenings

Gabriel Bump's 'The New Naturals' is a tale of utopia gone awry

Singer-producer LAVAGXRL's debut album is an uninhibited step into the dark and weird

For Diwali, Boston-brewed Rupee is putting the 'India' back in India Pale Ale