Billy Baker

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Murray Whyte |Billy Baker

IPSWICH — “Welcome to the most exclusive pub in the world,” said Eamon Murray, the fuzzy-haired bodhrán player for the Irish band Beoga, speaking into the mic. He wasn’t exaggerating. On Friday night, Beoga was warming up the small crowd assembled here, in “The Old Phone,” a pop-up Irish pub built in an Ipswich parking lot for the evening’s main event: superstar Ed Sheeran.

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Billy Baker

If you’ve got $20 million to spend and a one-story indoor slide is on your list of must-haves, an estate has popped on the market in Weston that could meet your needs. The home, at 67 Byron Road, is listed for $19,850,000, and is billed as “timeless elegance meets modern luxury,” but with a hint of Chuck-E-Cheese thrown in.

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Billy Baker

CAMBRIDGE – It’s a cold afternoon along the banks of the Charles River, and the Leslie brothers are doing what they do nearly every day of the year, which is chasing big fish. It’s something they are exceptionally good at, which is why Kyler, 13, and Ryker, 10, have exploded onto the local fishing scene over the last several weeks, racking up big awards, state records, and one mega-viral video.

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Billy Baker

Dragon Pizza owner Charlie Redd made this post on Instagram after asking a family to leave his Somerville restaurant.InstagramExperts on how children should behave in restaurants — a group which seems to include anyone who has children, knows a child, or was once a child themselves — have been loudly voicing their opinion in recent days, after a kerfuffle at a Somerville pizza shop turned into one of those online battles where everyone feels entitled to call everyone else entitled.

Feb 4, 2025 | bostonglobe.com | Billy Baker

It’s rare, you tell yourself as you board a ski lift. You have a better chance of being injured on the way down the hill. Or on the drive to the mountain. Or in the shower once you strip off your long johns. But then your chair passes alongside a support tower, and the arm holding the chair to the cable rumbles as it goes over the little wheels, and your stomach drops, and it occurs to you that you are in a chair, in the sky, and it’s a long way down. Fear of chairlifts is common in skiing.