Documentarian Tim Cawley examines the creative process, and his film includes interviews with Harvard faculty and alumni.

Music critic and Pulitzer-nominated author Alex Ross '90 discussed the religious music of the 20th century in a lecture accompanied by musical excerpts.

Sticking around Cambridge post-May, and need a place to stay? Check out these local summer housing options.

The Major League Baseball season may just be getting underway, but the Bay State's other great showdown, the U.S. Senate race, has been progressing for weeks. As the Boston Red Sox were preparing to celebrate the 100th birthday of Fenway Park on Friday it seemed the candidates wanted to play ball too—on MSNBC's Morning Joe, that is.

When the band started playing “Little Talks,” the audience went wild, matching each “Hey!” from the band and dancing energetically.

Ghost Box Orchestra’s recording studio is an abandoned freemason lodge.

Photographer Peter R. Simon, who shot the '60s and Occupy, and his wife Ronni, a jewelry maker and sculptor, share a gallery at Boston's Yes.Oui.Si exhibition space.

Live storytellers competed to tell the best tale in massmouth's BigMouthOff competition.

Temperatures approaching 90 degrees did not deter dedicated Harvard marathoners, who raced the 26.2 miles from Hopkington, Mass., to downtown Boston on the hottest April 16 in recorded Boston history.

Not even a "Warm Weather Advisory" will prevent the most die-hard athletes from running the 2012 Boston Marathon. With temperatures predicted to soar into the mid and upper 80s, event organizers issued a bulletin encouraging inexperienced runners to skip the race, offering them the option of deferring and participating next year. But for spectators yearning for a taste of summer in April, the warm weather provides a great excuse to get outside. Here are a few of the best places to witness all of the action: