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Moe’s Southwest Grill plans to open more than 30 new restaurants in Mass. over the next three to four years.

Moe's Southwest Grill grows in the Bay State

The Tex-Mex restaurant chain has big plans to expand in Massachusetts.

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Boston Ballet’s ‘Simply Sublime’ inspires awe

The dances may leapfrog decades, moving from 1909 to 1972 to 2001, but they are contemporaries under the skin.

An architectural rendering of Boston City Hall, which was the subject of an unusual design competition in the early 1960s.

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How Boston City Hall was born

Fifty years after a groundbreaking competition, two architects look back at the project that polarized the city — and gave it a new lease on life.

After uproar, Obama shifts birth control policy

The head of the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops called the president’s decision to require insurance companies, not employers, to cover birth control a “step in the right direction.”

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At CPAC, Mitt Romney makes his pitch to conservatives

Mitt Romney made an explicit appeal at today’s conference for the support from the right that has largely eluded him.

raptors 86, celtics 74

Celtics fall to young Raptors team

Toronto avenged its huge Feb. 1 loss against Boston by handing the Celtics their second straight defeat tonight.

“People look at the park and think it’s beautiful, but if you spend more time there you realize the grass is patchy, and the soil is like concrete.”

Sylvia Salas,  executive director of The Esplanade Association

Globe Insiders

Globe Talks | Feb. 15, 6 p.m.

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Join the Boston Globe’s movie critics, Ty Burr and Wesley Morris, for a conversation about this year’s Academy Awards.

Inside The Boston Globe

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In defense of getting married
During a year of record snow fall, the roofs of buildings had to be cleared of snow. Snow removal crews got rid of the snow from roof of the Shaw’s supermarket in Dorchester one bucket at a time.

Photos

Boston Press Photographers Pictures of the Year 2011

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

Star-crossing our favorite characters
Arlington, MA., 01/30/12, Seventy-three-year-old Anne DeFeo is blind. Her guide dog, Viv, is a 5-year-old yellow labrador. Anne and Viv will be attending the Feb. 14 ceremony at the Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library in Watertown celebrating the release of the US Postal Service's

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Photos of the week
Julie Brady (far left) posed for a Brady family photo at a charity event in 2008. Julie and Red Sox star Kevin Youkilis are engaged.

Names

Tom Brady’s sister engaged to Kevin Youkilis

A Libyan fighter leaves Mass. for home
Rob Gronkowski was courtside at the Lakers-Celtics game last night.

Rob Gronkowski has ankle surgery
Dave Maynard in an undated handout photo from WBZ.

Obituary

Boston broadcaster Dave Maynard dies at 82
Greenbean Recycle, a Cambridge start-up that operates high tech recycling machines, brings its users together on a Facebook page.

The social network, smaller
FOXBORO: December 17, 2008: During a VIP reception before the screening of

Sports Media

It was OK for Steve DeOssie to root for Giants

Blueprint expands Esplanade access, amenities

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

Romance is alive and well in pop music

Columnists

SCOT LEHIGH

Money, machine, but no message

Bob Ryan

Lakers’ win nothing to get nostalgic about
Josh Bekcett and the Red Sox will begin spring training next week.

Tony Massarotti

Josh Beckett must take responsibility

Edward L. Glaeser

Gaffe gives Romney chance to redesign safety net

Opinion | Brian McGrory

I’ll take Tom, and hold the Mayo

Joan Wickersham

A valentine to Ella

ALEX BEAM

Poe — we hardly knew ye

Boston Capital

Shrinking the foreclosed real estate glut
Mattapan, MA 020412 Jennifer Smith (cq), of Mattapan picks up her son Sammy Aaron, (cq), 6, his Mather School in Dorchester elementary school every day. She doen't let him ride the school bus since he was dropped off at the wrong stop on January 4, 2012.(Essdras M Suarez/ Globe Staff)/MET

Yvonne Abraham

Wrong bus stop, wrong response

Brian McGrory

Joey’s long legacy

Juliette Kayyem

Tweeting with a pile of Saudi money

Gareth Cook

Why scientists are boycotting a publisher

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Firefighters posted a sign on the building on Harrison Ave. yesterday indicating that it is vacant and should not be entered in case of fire.

Owners of evacuated building get violation notices

The city’s Inspectional Services Department handed eight violation notices to the owners of a Chinatown apartment building evacuated Wednesday because of structural problems.

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A protester hurled rocks at riot police today in Athens, Greece.

Papademos: Greek default would lead to ‘chaos’

The country’s coalition government promised to push through tough new austerity measures as popular protests turned violent today.

Nation & World

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A damaged bus is shown in front of a Syrian military intelligence building in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.

Syria says suicide bombers kill 28 in Aleppo

Two suicide car bombers struck Syrian security compounds, killing 28 people, Syrian officials said.

Politics

Newt Gingrich spoke today at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.

At CPAC, Gingrich invokes Reagan and slams Obama

The crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference chanted “Newt, Newt, Newt’’ after he pledged to repudiate “at least 40 percent” of government if elected.

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On college basketball

Boston College coach Steve Donahue, left, has a team with nine freshmen on its roster.

Steve Donahue has BC basketball looking up

At BC, no one expected miracles this season. But this is not about wins and losses. It is about the superb job of coaching that Donahue has done.

Movies

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MOVIE REVIEW

‘Safe House’ plays it a little too ‘Safe’

This CIA thriller shows a cool and calm Denzel Washington, but the charisma is missing.

Arts

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Stage Review

‘69° S.’ is entrancing

The near-mythic dimensions of the Shackleton expedition story have prompted a spate of retellings.

Magazine

The cover for the February 5 2012 issue

What if the lights go out?
The cover for the January 29 2012 issue

Reversing a restaurant curse
The cover for the January 22 2012 issue

Mother worries about her Occupy Wall Street protester son
The cover for the January 15 2012 issue

Mass. voting maps reflect State House evolution

Opinion

“He’s got money. He’s got a machine. But he’s missing the M-word essential to a persuasive campaign: A message.”

Scot Lehigh, on Mitt Romney

Ideas

“For American enthusiasts of the Kagame regime, the Ingabire case points to a dilemma: Rwanda’s remarkable reconciliation and success have gone hand in hand with severely curtailed freedom of speech.”

Peter Canellos,  on free expression in Rwanda