THEATER DISTRICT — Nearly 1,000 guests attended the 12th annual Teamsters Local 25 Autism Gala at the Boch Center Wang Theatre on Saturday, March 23, 2019. The event, which was emceed by WBZ-TV news anchor David Wade, raised more than $1 million for area nonprofit organizations that support people with autism and developmental delays. “We’re proud of the contributions Teamsters Local 25 has been able to make within the autism community these last 12 years,”…

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BOSTON — 150 guests attended the Museum of Fine Arts Boston’s special VIP pre-event reception on Friday, March 15, 2019 to mark the opening of “Gender Bending Fashion,” an exhibition that opens on March 21 and will be on view through August 25 at the Fenway museum. Among the special guests were Michelle Finamore, Penny Vinik Curator of Fashion Arts, who worked on this groundbreaking show, the first major museum exhibition “to examine the long-intertwined…

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SOUTH BOSTON — Some 600 swimsuit wearing souls took the annual Polar Plunge into the water off of M Street Beach in South Boston for the annual L Street Brownies New Year’s Day polar swim. It is one country’s oldest such charity plunges going on for more than 116 years. With air temperatures topping 50 degrees, the plungers faced a significantly different challenge than last year when the air temperature was just 1 degree above…

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SEAPORT — A couple hundred guests attended the 41st annual New England All Service Academy Holly Ball, which was held on December 30, 2018 at the Seaport Hotel, Boston. The Holly Ball is an evening for friends and family to gather and honor our cadets/midshipmen who attend the US Military Academy, US Naval Academy, US Coast Guard Academy, US Merchant Marine Academy, and US Air Force Academy. Also, as tradition dictates, there will be a…

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