Minuteman reenactor gives up deadly role

For decades, Jim Hart has played Jonas Parker, a Minuteman at the Battle of Lexington who is fatally stabbed by a Redcoat. On Monday, he takes one for the team a final time.

ON THE JOB

Lighting design creates the right feeling

Nancy Goldstein, principal of Light Positive, a Marblehead lighting design firm, has been in the lighting profession for more than 30 years.

Nigeria strained by rate of births

In a quarter century, at the rate Nigeria is growing, 300 million people will live in a country the size of Arizona and New Mexico.

MARATHON NOTEBOOK

If it’s too hot, runners can defer to 2013 race

Amid growing concerns about high temperatures on race day, the Boston Athletic Association announced a deferment option for this year’s Boston Marathon.

Jacoby Ellsbury on DL; no timetable for return

The Red Sox placed Jacoby Ellsbury on the 15-day disabled list after the center fielder suffered a subluxation of his right shoulder in Friday’s home opener against the Rays.

BOOK REVIEW

‘Lifeboat’ by Charlotte Rogan

Rogan has written a detailed and chokingly graphic novel.

Paul Revere’s midnight ride — by day, in a car

In a quest to discover where the myths end and the truth begins, I set off to re-create the midnight ride of Paul Revere — albeit without the horse and not by moonlight.

Television Review

HBO’s ‘Girls’ brings grimaces, grins

“Girls” is an angsty, younger bizarro take on “Sex and the City,” as viewers tag along in the lives of four very different twentysomething friends.