L. Rafael Reif named MIT president

Reif, the school’s provost, takes over from Susan Hockfield, who announced three months ago that she would step down.

Schilling, R.I. officials meet over game company troubles

The meeting followed reports that Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios missed a $1.12 million loan payment to the state.

Brian McGrory

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Who lies about a degree from Stonehill College? The answer, of course, is Scott Thompson, the freshly ousted Yahoo CEO.

Jeff Jacoby

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More ham-fisted state intervention won’t help the Bay State’s markets in health care and medical coverage.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/05/16/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/16traffpipc--90x90.jpg Cape Cod bridge work frays tempers

Repairs to the Sagamore Bridge throughout the spring have slowed traffic leaving Cape Cod to a crawl most nights and backed it up for miles on Sundays.

Dining Out

In Somerville, Painted Burro is raucous, fun, ready to party

More upscale Mexican restaurants? In Davis Square, the Painted Burro shows Somerville has an appetite for tacos and tequila.

Last year, upscale Mexican restaurants took over the city. Now the Painted Burro comes to Somerville's Davis Square, serving a better version of this kind of food than most. For instance, guacamole is luxurious -- so much

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This guacamole is luxurious -- so much "like buttah" one wonders if it might actually have butter blended into it. Thick, salty tortilla chips arrive at the table warm.

Everyone's favorite, Mexican street corn, appears here, the ears slathered in roasted garlic mayonnaise, cotija cheese, and a sprinkle of cayenne.

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Everyone's favorite, Mexican street corn, appears here, the ears slathered in roasted garlic mayonnaise, cotija cheese, and a sprinkle of cayenne.

Crisp fried fish tacos come with cabbage-jalapeno slaw. A $3 fish taco at Dorado in Brookline is as tasty as the $14 plate here. But as much as tortillas and fillings, you are paying for atmosphere. The Painted Burro is a successful reinvention of the former Gargoyles space -- cream-colored paint, wood beams, folkloric murals featuring Day of the Dead skeletons and, yes, a burro, wearing a Mexican wrestling mask and sporting a horn. And, of course, here there is tequila, more than 80 kinds in all.

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Crisp fried fish tacos come with cabbage-jalapeno slaw. A $3 fish taco at Dorado in Brookline is as tasty as the $14 plate here. But as much as tortillas and fillings, you are paying for atmosphere.

Tender short rib barbacoa is flavored subtly with red wine and cola, with creamy Oaxaca cheese grits on the side.

JOSH REYNOLDS FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

Tender short rib barbacoa is flavored subtly with red wine and cola, with creamy Oaxaca cheese grits on the side.

Desserts include this silky flan, as well as chocolate mousse, tres leches cake, and ice cream in flavors such as corn and the excellent chili-chocolate.

JOSH REYNOLDS FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

Desserts include this silky flan, as well as chocolate mousse, tres leches cake, and ice cream in flavors such as corn and the excellent chili-chocolate.

Martha Holley-Paquette and Dann Paquette of Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project try a sample at their Somerville office.

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How Pretty Things Beer became a Boston institution

How the Boston-area brewer become so beloved in such a short time?

Gesine Bullock-Prado, bakery owner, multiple-cookbook author, blogger, and sister of actress Sandra Bullock, offers pastry recipes and tips in “Pie it Forward.’’

Cookbook Review

‘Pie It Forward’ is all about what’s inside a sweet crust

I was half in love with the book before I ever started a recipe. Then I took it into the kitchen.

Boston Globe ePaper

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Globe Insiders

Globe Talk | May 23, 6 p.m.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2011/08/05/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/05books1.jpg A conversation with Ben Mezrich

The New York Times best-selling author discusses his books “Bringing Down the House” and “The Social Network.”

BostonGlobe.com exclusives

One wind turbine in Falmouth will be turned off, officials said, while the other will continue to operate during the day.

Mass. moves to shut turbine over noise levels
Blue Jay Recording Studio may not look like much from outside, but it has brought some of music’s biggest names to Carlisle over the years.

Old-school Blue Jay studio up for sale
‘‘If this can help one person, it’s worth it,’’ said Dan Magoon, an Army veteran and Boston firefighter who was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

RUN-WALK TO HOME BASE

Fenway Park event honors sacrifices of veterans
Phil Tayler, Harry McEnerny V, and Davron S. Monroe in the Lyric Stage production of “Avenue Q.”

STAGE REVIEW

Lyric Stage makes ‘Avenue Q’ feel like home
Michael Natkin in the How2heroes test kitchen in Cambridge.

Food

Michael Natkin adds spice to vegetarian recipes

Opinion | Farah Stockman

Racism and infant mortality
Representative Barney Frank.

Joanna Weiss

Barney Frank reflects on the change he’s seen

Warren seeks to refocus campaign on Wall St.

Design for Bill Russell statue unveiled
Sacha Baron Cohen stars as a despot who winds up working at a Brooklyn food co-op.

Movie Review

‘Dictator’ tweaks broadly and carries a big shtick

Frame by Frame

Flippant ‘Rock Fan’ fits well in college setting
Last month, MIT professor Amy Finkelstein became the third woman in the last five years to gain the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Medal, which recognizes the top US economist under 40.

Women making gains in economics, but progress is slow

Sports

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Red Sox 5, Mariners 0

Red Sox starter Josh Beckett fanned nine Mariners in seven innings.

Josh Beckett up to speed in Red Sox’ shutout win

Beckett rebounded strongly from last week’s disastrous outing as the Red Sox won their fifth straight game.

Metro

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Eugene O’Flaherty said he still believes it makes sense to place the Chelsea court under Boston’s system.

Official drops call for shift of Chelsea court

Rep. Eugene O’Flaherty said his plan could give the impression of a misuse of power.

Columnists

Derrick Z. Jackson

Mitt Romney failed to man up on high school bullying
The loss by LeBron James, left, Dwyane Wade and the Heat on Tuesday dropped Miami into a 1-1 tie with the Pacers in the second round of the playoffs.

Bob Ryan

NBA playoffs a big letdown so far

Jeff Jacoby

On health care, state doesn’t know best

Brian McGrory

Stonehill College dragged into Yahoo scandal
Representative Barney Frank.

Joanna Weiss

Barney Frank reflects on the change he’s seen

BOSTON CAPITAL

Business guru’s tips for living

Bob Ryan

This time, Celtics couldn’t close it out
A lone worker picks tomatoes on an Alabama farm in 2011. Much of the crop rotted after migrant workers moved to other states when a strict immigration law took affect.

Juliette Kayyem

A crackdown avoided

Innovation Economy

A new twist on the home office

JEFF JACOBY

Benefit of doubt on ‘evolution’

JOANNA WEISS

Why not let the bake sale crumble?
The Celtics are widely perceived as gritty and the embodiment of team spirit.

Dan Shaughnessy

Celtics giving their all, as Fenway draws boobirds

Arts

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MOVIE REVIEW

Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan sustains an atmosphere of jocularity, beauty, and dread in “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia.”

‘Once Upon a Time in Anatolia’ a Turkish procedural

The murder remains elusive, but the filmmaking is exquisite.

Politics

Banking sector puts its money on Mitt Romney

Donors from big banks are betting on Romney to defeat President Obama and repeal new restraints on risky, large-scale investments.

Business

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Workers in Myanmar printed Facebook logos onto T-shirts at a printing shop

Facebook boosts size of IPO by 25 percent

The company said in a regulatory filing that about 421 million shares will be sold, up from 337 million under its earlier plans.

Nation & World

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Ex-Murdoch editor charged

Rebekah Brooks was charged of perverting the course of justice in the hacking scandal that has engulfed the British press.

Food & dining

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Martha Holley-Paquette and Dann Paquette of Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project try a sample at their Somerville office.

How Pretty Things Beer became ubiquitous in Boston

How the Boston-area brewer become so beloved in such a short time?

“Whoever conceived of this plan should be fired. If I were a tourist and I was caught up in that thing on Sunday, I would never go to the Cape again.”

Anne Kilguss,  a Boston social worker

Magazine

The cover for the May 13 2012 issue

The Boston waterfront has arrived
The cover for the May 6 2012 issue

Homes for sale for $250,000, $500,000, $750,000, and $1 million
The cover for the April 29 2012 issue

Dying wishes expected to be decided on November ballot
The cover for the April 22 2012 issue

144 free things to do around Boston

Opinion

“Romney’s ‘I don’t remember’ is either preposterous or a penetrating window into a void of human feeling.”

Derrick Z. Jackson 

Ideas

“Genoeconomics is a field with a nightmare scenario already built into it—that banks might demand saliva tests before granting loans, or insurance companies could raise premiums for customers genetically predisposed to risk.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on the search for the money gene