Arts & Entertainment

Is your business part of the region's creative economy? You may be surprised by the answer. MetroWest and the Interstate 495 corridor were recently named part of the Massachusetts Creative Economy Network, which was launched earlier this month to help cities and towns across the state foster opportunities to enhance the creative industry, which includes art and architecture, among other businesses. The hope, according to Helena Fruscio, the state's creative economy industry director, is that member regions will help their businesses and organizations find ways to collaborate and enrich the creative industry, which will ultimately provide a boost to the broader economy.

After the Great Recession struck in 2007, fewer golfers took their clubs out for a day on...

Developers of the planned New England Baseball Complex under construction at the junction of routes 9 and 20 in Northborough are watching a vision come to life. And although the impetus for the project, in the works for several years, was a desire to create a true home base for the youth baseball team known as the New England Ruffnecks, it has the makings of a successful retail destination in its own right, according to Jason Kosow, chief financial officer at New England Baseball Enterprises, the developer.

Danforth Art will sign the final closing documents today for its move to Framingham's historic Jonathan Maynard Building.

Old Sturbridge Village voted unanimously to extend the contract of president and CEO James Donahue through June 2017, the museum announced Wednesday.

Developers announced the soft opening of a $25-million baseball complex at the junction of Route 20 and Route 9 in Northborough this summer, which will be home to the New England Ruffnecks Baseball program.

Less than three months after the Higgins Armory closed its doors for good, the Worcester Art Museum will host its first exhibit featuring the arms and armory collection from the Higgins.

The catering business that recently announced plans to build in Devens is a harbinger of more economic activity to come, according to Steve Catalano, owner of Dolce Brands, which specializes in serving the film industry. Catalano said he's in talks with other businesses interested in leasing space at the site of the former Hodges Theatre, which Catalano bought with the intention of razing it in the spring to rebuild a state-of-the-art catering facility adjacent to New England Studios. The four-stage studio facility opened this fall, and Hodges scooped up the theater -- which closed along with the former Fort Devens military base in the mid-1990s -- and its 3-acre parcel in anticipation of the start of filming next year.

In 2005, with her children grown, Mary DeFeudis found herself in a transitional phase. In what she...

By a two-to-one margin, fans voted to name Worcester's new baseball team the Bravehearts.