Garden Party

The organizers of the annual Shrewsbury Celebration in the Garden seek sponsors and auction donations for this year's event, to be held June 16. Having generated more than $30,000 for public schools in the district since starting the fund-raiser in 2008, the garden party features catering, musical entertainment, and a spectrum of silent auctions. Peter Blute, a former US representative and more recently a local radio personality, will emcee the evening. The party will begin at 6 p.m. at the Fallon House on Prospect Road.

The organizers of the annual Shrewsbury Celebration in the Garden seek sponsors and auction donations for this year's event, to be held June 16. Having generated more than $30,000 for public schools in the district since starting the fund-raiser in 2008, the garden party features catering, musical entertainment, and a spectrum of silent auctions. Peter Blute, a former US representative and more recently a local radio personality, will emcee the evening. The party will begin at 6 p.m. at the Fallon House on Prospect Road.

In a reliable bit of commercially thematic resonance, radio station festivals usually play out with the same ephemeral shelf life of their lightning-quick playlist rotations. So it went last night at JAM’N 94.5’s Monster Jam at the TD Garden. Performers are ushered in and out of the spotlight at such a blistering pace, both on stage and on the dial, the head spins. Even memorably sticky songs like R&B belter Shontelle’s “Impossible’’ don’t stand a chance in the deluge.

Bruce Springsteen always seems to arrive just when you need him. Bad day? Terrible news? Feeling rundown? Looking to put a name to that restless feeling you have been having? Monday night, Springsteen and his stalwart contracting and expanding E Street Band brought their restorative powers to a sellout crowd of 18,210 at the TD Garden and did the most elemental thing you could hope for: Banish distractions and aggravations in favor of some fun. That's exactly what Springsteen promised during his cheeky street-corner-preacher testimonials, at one point assuring the...

By Tony Massarotti, Boston.com Columnist The building truly belongs to them now, not solely in ownership, but in pure essence. The Celtics are gone for the summer. The Bruins are returning for a final night. And the only real question concerns whether the Bruins will be hanging a banner when they unpack next fall. After all, the Bruins will be first to return next season. First in, last out. Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final will be played at the TD Garden tonight, and let there be no doubt: the home team needs home ice advantage like perhaps never before.

CASTINE, Maine -- It's not hard to identify the Castine Inn on Main Street. In a town of many stern white Federal homes dressed in black (or, for the daring, dark green) shutters, the barn-like Victorian inn is painted cream yellow with white trim. It could remind you of the garden party guest who shows up in a comfortable linen suit instead of the requested white-tie attire. When we checked into our second-floor room, the window was open and the sheer curtains fluttered in the breeze.

NORTH ANDOVER – Top-ranked Malden Catholic punched its return ticket to TD Garden and will get the chance to defend its Super 8 crown after defeating Central Catholic, 4-0, Wednesday night at Lawler Arena. "It's been a longer road . . . but I think we're coming together at the right time," said MC captain Brendan Collier. The Lancers will face Catholic Conference rival BC High in the Super 8 final Sunday at 6 p.m. "I had BC High marked down from the beginning of the season," said MC coach John McLean.

Despite the economy, return visitors will find new attractions, accommodations, exhibits, and places to dine this summer. Here is a sampling. A STORIED GARDEN Headlining what’s new is the two-acre Bibby and Harold Alfond Children’s Garden at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens (207-633-4333, www.mainegardens.org, adult $10 , 65 and older $8 ages 3-17 $5, family of two adults and two children under ...

It has been replayed again and again. It might be the best "Saturday Night Live" skit of them all. Jon Lovitz, playing Mike Dukakis, debates Dana Carvey, playing George Bush. Listening to a particularly hideous Bush ramble, Lovitz looks into the camera and says, "I can't believe I'm losing to this guy!" That's how this Celtics-Hawks playoff series feels to me. I can't believe the Celtics ever lost to these guys. I can't believe the Hawks knotted the series in Atlanta. I can't believe the Celtics went into last night's game facing a "must-win.

Something astonishing happened over the second two-thirds of the 19th century and first decade of the 20th, something so unprecedented as to come almost immediately to be taken for granted. It was, quite simply, this: Optics and engineering combined to reinvent seeing. One would have to go back to Lascaux and the first cave paintings to find a comparable shift in visual perception. The most obvious form this reinvention took was the motion picture. Yet the movies only marked the culmination of a decades-long series of developments that included dioramas and flip books (the latter was...

NORTH ANDOVER – Top-ranked Malden Catholic punched its return ticket to TD Garden and will get the chance to defend its Super 8 crown after defeating Central Catholic, 4-0, Wednesday night at Lawler Arena. "It's been a longer road . . . but I think we're coming together at the right time," said MC captain Brendan Collier. The Lancers will face Catholic Conference rival BC High in the Super 8 final Sunday at 6 p.m. "I had BC High marked down from the beginning of the season," said MC coach John McLean.

Folks from the Rose Kennedy Greenway, the deCordova Museum, and Boston Properties hosted a party the other night to celebrate “Urban Garden,’’ a new sculpture exhibition on the Greenway. (Featured artists include Tom Otterness , John Ruppert , and James Surls .) Guests at the party included Georgia Murray , chairwoman of the Greenway board; Don DeAmicis , a partner at Ropes & Gray and member of the Greenway board; deCordova trustee Catherine England ; deCordova director Dennis Kois ; Mike Cantalupa of Boston Properties; and sculptor Ruppert, among others.

By Tony Massarotti, Boston.com Columnist The building truly belongs to them now, not solely in ownership, but in pure essence. The Celtics are gone for the summer. The Bruins are returning for a final night. And the only real question concerns whether the Bruins will be hanging a banner when they unpack next fall. After all, the Bruins will be first to return next season. First in, last out. Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final will be played at the TD Garden tonight, and let there be no doubt: the home team needs home ice...

Seen a black bear wandering in your neighborhood? Anything’s possible in this wacky New England spring of 2011 and this might be the Year of the Bruin. It’s 90 degrees outside and the big boys are still playing hockey indoors, and last night the Bruins again routed the Vancouver Canucks, 4-0, to square their Stanley Cup Final joust at two games each. The series resumes tomorrow night on the other side of the continent. Game 6 will be Monday in the Causeway Street cauldron as the Bruins attempt to win their first Stanley Cup since Bobby Orr ruled in 1972.

In a reliable bit of commercially thematic resonance, radio station festivals usually play out with the same ephemeral shelf life of their lightning-quick playlist rotations. So it went last night at JAM’N 94.5’s Monster Jam at the TD Garden. Performers are ushered in and out of the spotlight at such a blistering pace, both on stage and on the dial, the head spins. Even memorably sticky songs like R&B belter Shontelle’s “Impossible’’ don’t stand a chance in the deluge.

Despite the economy, return visitors will find new attractions, accommodations, exhibits, and places to dine this summer. Here is a sampling. A STORIED GARDEN Headlining what’s new is the two-acre Bibby and Harold Alfond Children’s Garden at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens (207-633-4333, www.mainegardens.org, adult $10 , 65 and older $8 ages 3-17 $5, family of two adults and two children under ...

Folks from the Rose Kennedy Greenway, the deCordova Museum, and Boston Properties hosted a party the other night to celebrate “Urban Garden,’’ a new sculpture exhibition on the Greenway. (Featured artists include Tom Otterness , John Ruppert , and James Surls .) Guests at the party included Georgia Murray , chairwoman of the Greenway board; Don DeAmicis , a partner at Ropes & Gray and member of the Greenway board; deCordova trustee Catherine England ; deCordova director Dennis Kois ; Mike Cantalupa of Boston Properties; and sculptor Ruppert, among others.

Seen a black bear wandering in your neighborhood? Anything’s possible in this wacky New England spring of 2011 and this might be the Year of the Bruin. It’s 90 degrees outside and the big boys are still playing hockey indoors, and last night the Bruins again routed the Vancouver Canucks, 4-0, to square their Stanley Cup Final joust at two games each. The series resumes tomorrow night on the other side of the continent. Game 6 will be Monday in the Causeway Street cauldron as the Bruins attempt to win their first Stanley Cup since Bobby Orr ruled in 1972.

Carlos Boozer and Andrei Kirilenko each scored 23 points, and the Utah Jazz won in New York for the first time in more than five years by beating the Knicks, 95-93, last night. Mehmet Okur had the go-ahead basket with 1:16 to play and finished with 18 points and 12 rebounds for the Jazz, who opened a difficult four-game road trip by winning at Madison Square Garden for the first time since Feb. 20, 2004. Deron Williams was limited to 5 points but had 16 assists. Utah, which earned its first road victory of the season, visits Boston tomorrow and wraps up the trip Saturday night at Cleveland.