Boston Honors Donnie Wahlberg With Lifetime Achievement Award

From his early days of playing with his eight brothers and sister in the neighborhoods of Dorchester, to family dinners (probably made with government cheese) with his late mother Alma, Donnie Wahlberg has never forgotten his roots.

Donnie Wahlberg Does It All

His local friends created a boy band that has lasted decades and continues to play to sold-out crowds.

Donnie and his brothers have expanded their business to burgers and developed a television show around it.

If a successful movie career and business ventures weren’t enough, you could also see Donnie Wahlberg star in all 14 seasons of Blue Bloods, the CBS hit drama that now has Wahlberg in his own spinoff, Boston Blue.

Lifetime Achievement Award

It's those many achievements and more that caught the attention of the Boston Arts Academy Foundation, a nonprofit organization that is honoring Wahlberg with its Lifetime Achievement Award this fall.

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Inspired by the Kennedy Center Honors, BAAF Honors recognizes leaders in the school’s art majors: Dance, Fashion Design and Technology, Music, Television and Film, and Visual Arts, as well as Honors in Civic Responsibility.

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When and Where

The ceremony will be held at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway on Thursday, October 23.

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Here Are 11 New Edition Classics That Are Undeniable

These Are 11 Songs by the R& B Group, New Edition Classic Songs That Are Undeniable

New Edition was formed in the late 1970s in The Roxbury area of Boston Massachusetts.

Bobby Brown, Michael Bivins, Ralph Tresvant and Ricky Bell were the original members in the group when their first manager Brooke Payne added his nephew Ronny Devoe.

The group experienced their share of ups and downs over the years including them booting member Bobby Brown out of the group and later adding Johnny Gill, changing managers because of shady contracts, drug abuse, hitting rock bottom and coming back into success.

Bobby Brown went on to have a rather successful run as a solo artist selling more than 20 million albums.

Johnny Gill, and Ralph Tresvant both went solo after the group broke up in the late 1980s, with Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronny Devoe starting their own solo group Bell, Biv, Devoe.

They released a comeback album in 1996 entitled Home Again and their last album with Bad Boy Records in 2004 called "One Love."

In 2017 BET released a biopic on the group and later released a biopic on the life of Bobby Brown.

The legendary group would go on to release 8 studio albums (Including one Christmas album) selling over 10 million albums worldwide.

They recently signed an agreement with CAA who has announced a future Las Vegas Residency and a national tour.

Needless to say, they are all back!

Here are 11 songs made from New Edition you can't deny!

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