Some 288 MetroWest area male and female veterans are featured in "Legacy of Service," a moving exhibit at the Morse Institute Library in Natick.

For her first solo exhibit, Rhode Island artist Jane O'Hara is showing 28 edgy, often provocative acrylic paintings of dogs, cats, elephants, rats, rabbits and pigs that subvert conventional approaches to art based on animals.

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Our refrigerators are full year-round, our cupboards packed with treats. But for hundreds, maybe thousands, of our neighbors, hunger is not a stranger. Empty cupboards are a fact of life, one they can only hope will be temporary.

Make a commitment to do your part to help feed the region's neediest families, not just during the holiday season, but year-round. Here's a list of food banks that can help translate your generous spirit into family nourishment:

Weekly/monthly meetings in Waltham and Newton.

Volunteer Opportunities in the Waltham/Newton area

Your guide to Fourth of July activities

For the 23rd season, the nonprofit Society for Historically Informed Performance is offering a rich sampling of Renaissance and Baroque music at three locations.

Road trip nets memorable brews in the Steel City.

Lead in ginkgo pills. Arsenic in herbals. Bugs in a baby's colic and teething syrup. Toxic metals and parasites are part of nature, and all of these have been found in "natural" products and dietary supplements in recent years.