When Joe Leary passed away last week at the age of 90, The Reporter family lost a longtime friend and contributor. Raised in Milton, the “Double Eagle” (BC High and Boston College) grad had a 30-year career as an executive with Gillette, then helped to found the Irish American Partnership, a non-profit that supports education, job training, and economic development in Ireland.
The Boston theater community was stunned to learn of the passing of Tony Award-winning actor, Michael McGrath. He was 65 and died suddenly at his New Jersey home last Thursday (Sept. 14), a few days short of his birthday. He leaves his wife of 30 years, actress Toni DiBuono, and their daughter, actress Katie Claire McGrath.In announcing Michael’s death, his rep described the
In 1983, Ed and Mary Forry launched a monthly newspaper from a makeshift office in their Lower Mills home. Forty years later, The Reporter is still in business and the Forry’s vision of creating a quality hometown newspaper for Boston’s largest neighborhood remains a weekly work in progress. When he left his home near Dorchester Park that Monday morning in August of 1983, Ed
Clannad, the Donegal family band that improbably became a worldwide pop music sensation, is calling it quits after more than 50 years, and will bid adieu to Boston on Sept. 22 at 8 p.m. at the Wilbur Theatre [thewilbur.com].Sadly, Clannad’s “In a Lifetime” farewell tour has not been a smooth-running affair. It was originally supposed to take place in Ireland, the UK, and US
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