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Boston (band)
Boston: American rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, led by MIT-trained engineer Tom Scholz with singer Brad Delp. Its 1976 debut, recorded in Scholz's basement, was then the best-selling US debut album; six albums sold 31 million-plus nationally.
Boston (Stella Lefty song)
"Boston" is a 2026 country-pop single by Stella Lefty that interpolates Noah Kahan's "Stick Season," earning Kahan a pre-release writing credit; it peaked at No. 2 on the Hot 100 and No. 1 at country radio.
Boston accent
Boston accent: the Eastern New England English variety of Boston, Massachusetts, defined by non-rhotic r-dropping ("pahk the cah"), broad a, cot-caught merger, vocabulary like bubbler; returning rhoticity among younger speakers.
Boston Beer Company
The Boston Beer Company (NYSE: SAM), founded in Boston in 1984 by Jim Koch and partners, brews Samuel Adams Boston Lager plus Twisted Tea, Truly, Angry Orchard, Dogfish Head, and Sun Cruiser, with major breweries in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Delaware.
Boston Blue
Boston Blue is a CBS police procedural spinoff of Blue Bloods (2025–), starring Donnie Wahlberg as Danny Reagan, now a Boston PD detective partnered with Sonequa Martin-Green's Detective Lena Silver of the law-enforcement Silver family; created by the Brandons, renewed for a second season premiering October 9, 2026.
Boston Bowel Preparation Scale
Boston Bowel Preparation Scale (BBPS), a validated 0-9 colonoscopy bowel prep score rating right, transverse, and left colon segments after washing; ICC 0.74, endorsed by 2024 ASGE-ACG quality indicators.
Boston Brahmin
Boston Brahmin, or First Families of Boston, describes Boston's traditional upper class, descendants of Puritan merchant families like the Adamses, Cabots, and Lowells, named by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. in 1860.
Boston Bruins
Boston Bruins, NHL team founded November 1, 1924 as the league's first US franchise; six Stanley Cups (1929, 1939, 1941, 1970, 1972, 2011); play at TD Garden, owned by the Jacobs family since 1975.
Boston Calling 2017
Boston Calling 2017 was the May 26–28, 2017 edition of the Boston Calling Music Festival, held for the first time at Harvard's athletic fields in Allston, Boston.
Boston Celtics
Boston Celtics, NBA team founded 1946, play at TD Garden. Record 18 NBA championships (1957-2024), eight straight 1959-66, Auerbach-Russell dynasty, 2008 and 2024 titles, record $6.1B Chisholm sale.
Boston Children's Hospital
Boston Children's Hospital, founded 1869 by Francis Henry Brown, is a Harvard-affiliated pediatric medical center at 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, with 485 licensed beds, top U.S. News pediatric rankings, and the largest pediatric research enterprise.
Boston City Hall
Boston City Hall, completed in 1968, houses Boston's municipal government and is a leading American example of Brutalist architecture, designated a Boston Landmark in December 2024.
Boston College
Boston College is a private Jesuit, Catholic research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, founded in 1863 to educate Boston's Irish Catholic immigrant community and comprising nine schools and colleges.
Boston College Eagles football
Boston College Eagles football: Boston College's ACC football program since 2005, playing at 44,500-seat Alumni Stadium since 1957; founded 1893, 37th head coach Bill O'Brien, 2025 record 2-10.
Boston College High School
Boston College High School, also known as BC High, is a Jesuit, Catholic, all-boys college preparatory school in Boston, Massachusetts, known for its mission to form leaders of competence, conscience, and compassion.
Boston Common
Boston Common is America's oldest public park, a roughly 50-acre downtown Boston green held in common since its 1634 purchase from William Blackstone, now a National Register-listed park with the Frog Pond undergoing a $23 million master-plan renovation.
Boston Community Stadium
Boston Community Stadium (Jakemans Community Stadium), Wyberton, Boston, Lincolnshire: home of Boston United F.C. since December 2020, capacity 5,061, community interest company ownership, 3G pitch, planned £4m South Stand and Sports Hub.
Boston Consulting Group
Boston Consulting Group (BCG), founded 1963 by Bruce Henderson, Boston-headquartered private management consultancy; 33,500 employees, $14.4B firm-reported revenue, 40% from tech and AI, CEO Christoph Schweizer.
Boston Corbett
Boston Corbett, born Thomas P. Corbett, was an English-born American hatter and Union Army sergeant who shot and killed John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin, in 1865.
Boston cream pie
Boston cream pie is a sponge cake, not a pie: two cake layers with pastry cream and chocolate glaze, created at Boston's Omni Parker House around 1856-1865 and Massachusetts' official state dessert since 1996.
Boston Digital Arm
The Boston Digital Arm is a microprocessor-controlled powered elbow prosthesis made by Liberating Technologies in Massachusetts, descended from the 1968 Boston Arm, the world's first myoelectric elbow.
Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics is an American robotics company in Massachusetts, founded by former MIT researcher Marc Raibert in 1992 and owned by Hyundai Motor Group since 2021.
Boston Dynamics AI Institute
The Boston Dynamics AI Institute, renamed the Robotics and AI Institute in 2025, is a robotics and AI research organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded by Marc Raibert in 2022.
Boston Dynamics Stretch
Stretch is Boston Dynamics' mobile warehouse robot, unveiled in 2021, that autonomously unloads boxes from trailers and containers onto a conveyor, entering commercial service with DHL in 2023.
Boston Early Music Festival
Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF), a nonprofit founded in 1980 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, presenting Baroque opera, a biennial Festival and Exhibition (next June 6–13, 2027, Telemann's Emma und Eginhard), annual Boston and New York concerts, Grammy-winning recordings, and young-artist training programs.
Boston Garden
Boston Garden (Boston Madison Square Garden) was a 1928–1995 multi-purpose arena on Causeway Street, home of the Bruins and Celtics, host of concerts and rallies, demolished 1998 for TD Garden.
Boston Globe–Horn Book Award
The Boston Globe–Horn Book Award is an annual American literary prize for children's and young adult literature, presented since 1967 by The Boston Globe and The Horn Book Magazine.
Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park
Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park, also the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, is a 1996 partnership park of 34 islands and peninsulas in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, jointly managed by federal, state, municipal, and nonprofit agencies.
Boston hardcore
Boston hardcore: the hardcore punk scene of Boston, Massachusetts, erupting 1981-1984 with SSD, DYS, Negative FX, and the Boston Crew; known for militant straight edge, crews, This Is Boston Not L.A., and later Converge.
Boston Herald
The Boston Herald, founded August 31, 1846, is Boston's conservative-leaning daily tabloid, now owned by Alden Global Capital via MediaNews Group, with about 25,000 weekday print circulation in 2023.