Schilling’s firm may get more aid

Curt Schilling’s firm made a $1.1 million payment today, clearing the way for the company to receive millions of dollars in additional tax credits.

Facebook ends flat in first day of trading

The social media giant’s stock closed at $38.23, up 23 cents.

New Bedford teen shot to death by police was troubled

Police shot and killed 15-year-old Malcolm Gracia on Thursday night after he repeatedly stabbed an officer. Gracia’s father died in a police-related incident in 2009.

Mitt Romney used the Sawyer Bridge as a backdrop on a visit to Hillsborough, N.H., on Friday.

Mitt Romney blasts stimulus funding in N.H. speech

In a visit to Hillsborough, N.H., Romney poked fun at the $150,000 renovation of the Sawyer Bridge, the town’s so-called “bridge to nowhere.”

Rebecca Perlo in her “Where The Wild Things Are” room.

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Quirky Arlington home is all about the unexpected

Rebecca Perlo’s home – with its purple paint job and over-the-top interior ­— is a warren of funhouse rooms, each more whimsical and ornate than the last.

Luke Cannon and Bill Wetterhahn hung three paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir together for the first time in 25 years at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The MFA’s “Dance at Bougival” (left) is joined by “Dance in the City” (center) and “Dance in the Country,” both on loan from the Musee d’Orsay in Paris

Photo gallery

Globe photos of the week

The best photos taken this week by Globe staff photographers, as chosen by the Globe’s photo desk.

Celtics at 76ers, 8 p.m. (ESPN)

Rajon Rondo had Sixers under his control

Rondo is prepared for the unexpected in Game 4, as he knows containing him will be a chief goal of the 76ers.

Donna Summer performed in Boston in 1978.

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Donna Summer’s powerful voice was the soul of Dorchester

Every dance track on the radio today, every wedding that ends with the anthem “Last Dance,” owes a debt to Summer.

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

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Sunbathers love Chatham Lighthouse Beach on Cape Cod, and so do seals, making this a top seal-observing spot.

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Best beaches guide for New England
Above: Jackie Kennedy Onassis (second from left) with Bess Myerson, architect Philip Johnson (left), and Ed Koch after a 1976 press conference about preserving New York’s Grand Central Station.

Book Review

‘Jackie After O’

Morning Star Baptist violence still resonates

Path to success with Posse Foundation
“White Visor” by Alex Katz.

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The enigma of Alex Katz

Mike Gorman

Sports Media

Celtics’ local TV team better for viewers

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O’Flaherty’s aborted coup
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Jonathan Papelbon has made seamless switch to Phillies

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Momenta: The perfect Mass. success story
From left: Bassist François Moutin, pianist Jean-Michel Pilc, and drummer Ari Hoenig balance the familiar and the abstract, the reassuring and the adventurous in their music.

With jazz trio Pilc Moutin Hoenig, anything can happen
In a circle from left forefront: Actors Alexander Cook, Michael Fordham Walker, Kerry Dowling, director Richard McElvain, playwright Tom Grady, and actors Jen Alison Lewis (far right) and Carly Waldman rehearse Grady’s “Hand Down the Chesterfield” at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.

Stages

Boston Theater Marathon XIV: 53 plays, 10 hours

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Red Sox notebook

David Ortiz, right, has played just 39 games at first base over the last eight seasons.

David Ortiz ready to take the field

Ortiz is set to play first base when the Red Sox visit the Phillies this weekend. Adrian Gonzalez may shift to the outfield.

Metro

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City official calls for stricter NStar oversight

At a hearing this morning, city councilors questioned an NStar official over two recent power outages.

Columnists

Boston Capital

Schilling’s cash and credibility crisis
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joan wickersham

The invasion of the garden snatcher
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid failed to support reform, but has since apologized.

JOSHUA GREEN

Taking on the F-word

Yvonne Abraham

Putting on the brakes
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brian mcgrory

Schilling a hypocrite about smaller government

Joan Vennochi

Warren’s voice against Wall Street gets tuned out
President Bush, right, met with the all-male joint chiefs and combatant commanders in 2007; there are still no women combatant commanders.

Juliette Kayyem

Urging women to Be All That You Can’t Be

Derrick Z. Jackson

Mitt Romney failed to man up on high school bullying

Dan Shaughnessy

Celtics are better than 76ers, and they know it
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

Politics

Billionaire tied to ad plan a rising conservative force

Joe Ricketts was identified Wednesday as the financier behind plans to target President Obama’s relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Arts

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Classical Notes

Composer Lisa Bielawa (pictured here in her New York apartment) returns to Boston next week for the debut of “Collective Memories in Fragments.”

Lisa Bielawa comes back with a new venture

Bielawa was composer in residence with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project from 2006-09.

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Enterprise enters car sharing with Mint Cars On-Demand

The national car rental chain’s purchase of the Zipcar competitor means a bigger presence in the growing on-demand rental market.

Nation & World

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Effort to honor Vietnam veterans is sputtering

This Memorial Day is supposed to mark the 50th anniversary of the start of US involvement in Vietnam. Yet few events are planned.

Movies

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MOVIE REVIEW

Tadanobu Asano (left) and Taylor Kitsch in a scene from “Battleship,” inspired by the game of the same name.

With ‘Battleship,’ ‘Transformers’ goes to sea

Hasbro’s corporate dreams of duplicating its success with that unabashedly toyetic franchise are precisely what led to “Battleship.”

“It was a major turning point for the city of Boston that had national implications. The church mobilized in a way no one expected.’’

Rev. Eugene Rivers,  on violence in Morning Star Baptist Church 20 years ago

Magazine

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Things to do in and around Boston this week
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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
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144 free things to do around Boston

Opinion

“Republicans may win control of the Senate and White House this fall. Then they’ll be the frustrated ones.”

Joshua Green, on the filibuster

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