Arts & Entertainment

Neil Gordon, the CEO of the Discovery Museum in Acton, will retire on Dec. 31 after 14 years of leading the organization.

In February 2021, two artists and entrepreneurs created a new connection for artists, a for-profit glossy magazine featuring the work and writing of artists from around New England and the world: Juniper Rag.

What to do with Great Meadowbrook Farm? That’s the question facing Hardwick residents as they head to...

Galaxy Links, LLC, registered to Galaxy Development principal Michael O’Brien, has purchased Sutton’s Pleasant Valley Country Club.

Fitchburg State University will receive $2 million in federal money for a new downtown black box theater.

In December 2022, the WBJ Editorial staff made 10 predictions of what this year’s headlines would bring. They were bold, and they were mostly wrong. We got three right. Here are our predictions and what actually happened.

A joint venture of Gilbane Building Co. of Providence, Rhode Island and Hunt Construction Group, Inc. of Indianapolis, Indiana agreed to pay $1.9 million to resolve allegations that it misrepresented allocation of work to disadvantaged businesses while building the Polar Park baseball stadium in Worcester. 

Westborough-based youth soccer club BEST FC Soccer Club has been acquired by national youth sports club and event operator 3STEP Sports LLC, which has its main office in Andover.

Trivia question: What $160-million public facility opened in Worcester’s Canal District in 2021?

The Worcester Business Journal partnered with the nonprofit Worcester Regional Research Bureau on a new project examining how rent increases over the last decade have impacted the city and its businesses, as well as an historic look at how financial decisions rooted in racism 86 years ago have exacerbated the housing and workforce problems today.