South Boston’s Lenox Sophia is not your typical restaurant – and in many ways Chef Shi Mei is not your typical chef. Trained in economics, Mei says the first dish he made as a kid was instant ramen. A ...

Chinese author and mega celebrity Yue-Sai Kan, while on tour at Boston University's Tsai Performance Center on Sept. 16, discussed her cross-cultural influence in promoting China abroad, and ...

Sabrina Avilés founded Boston’s only currently operating Latino film festival, CineFest Latino Boston, in 2021, during a time of personal crisis. “I was in a kind of a very pivotal moment in my life ...

A group of demonstrators on Sept. 24 surrounded the “Embrace” sculpture at the Boston Common to stand in solidarity with Haitian migrants across the country. The group called out the rhetoric and lies ...

For many women, Pap smears are an uncomfortable, even painful experience. While effective at screening for cervical cancer, the technique calls for the patient’s legs to be held apart and a metal ...

My mother started to have these horrible nightmares,” says Anne, an Asian American woman in Greater Boston. “She would wake up in the middle of the night multiple times … in a panic.” Anne assumed ...

Rain jackets, shampoo, meat, and cookware might wear out and go away, but they might never leave you. Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are integrated into almost every aspect of daily life. Given ...

If you have watched any daytime television or YouTube videos over the past few years, you have no doubt seen advertisements for medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro. The ads are ubiquitous, ...

An art project by a group of Vietnamese Americans in Dorchester will complement a proposed Vietnamese diaspora memorial and aim to become a permanent presence in Boston, say organizers.The “Trưng Bày ...

This year’s annual India Day celebration in Needham on Aug. 17 was all about inclusion.“To showcase our inclusivity, we featured a fashion show highlighting traditional garments from various Indian ...

The contrasts in the headlines were striking. Projected on a screen were copies of online stories from The New York Times and the BBC News, both covering killings in the Russian invasion of Ukraine ...