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‘Nomadland’ takes best picture at the Oscars, and director Chloé Zhao makes history

Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland,” a wistful portrait of itinerant lives on open roads across the American West, won best picture Sunday at the 93rd Academy Awards, where the China-born Zhao also became just the second woman to win best director, and the first woman of color.
Oscars 2021: A complete list of the winners (and nominees) The biggest history-making moments at the 2021 Oscars
Viola Davis at the 93rd Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles Sunday.
CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

The Oscar looks we loved — and the one we really didn’t

On the red carpet, there were bold color choices, gold color choices, and at least one didn’t-she-have-other-choices?
Here’s what the stars wore on the Oscars red carpet tonight

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MATTHEW GILBERT
Regina King speaks onstage during the 93rd Annual Academy Awards at Union Station.
Oscar-cast with less glitz and a new script suits the moment
I’m not sure we need this kind of lean approach every year, but it did seem like the right style for a sobering year that has been ridden with loss, grief, illness, and financial strain.

Youn Yuh-jung makes history at the Academy Awards — and finally meets Brad Pitt

Regina King reacts to Chauvin verdict in Oscars opening

Glenn Close knows all about ‘Da Butt’ in Oscars’ game

Paola Sierra de Valerio is graduating from Northern Essex Community College next month, at an in-person commencement.
Virtual, in-person, no-guests: College graduation ceremonies vary widely this year, leaving parents and students feeling like they’re missing out
The pandemic forced commencement online for all colleges last year, but this spring as vaccines are becoming readily available, schools are diverging widely on how they’re celebrating their seniors.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke at a news conference on Tuesday with members of the Congressional Black Caucus after the guilty verdicts in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis.
Democrats push racial justice measures as some Republicans briefly seek an ‘Anglo Saxon’ caucus
The push on civil rights has so far attracted zero Republican votes, while GOP party leaders spent last week tamping down a move by a handful of their more extreme members to form a caucus dedicated to celebrating “Anglo Saxon” heritage.

Former Fall River mayor Jasiel Correia, arriving last week at the John Joseph Moakley US Courthouse in Boston. Jasiel Correia
Federal corruption trial of former Fall River mayor Jasiel Correia to begin
Prosecutors contend marijuana companies were extorted in brazen shakedowns.

Millions of people are skipping their second doses of COVID vaccines

More than 5 million people, or nearly 8 percent of those who got a first shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, have missed their second doses, according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

State expects about 4,000 Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 doses this week

Massachusetts is expected to receive around 4,000 doses of one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine this week, according to the state, after federal officials allowed health providers to resume use of the drug following reports of a very rare, though serious, blood clotting condition.

Mass. reports 6 new COVID-19 deaths, 1,085 cases, 77,703 vaccinations Sunday

The number of coronavirus vaccinations administered in Massachusetts rose by 77,703 to 5,683,450, state officials reported Sunday.

Belichick, a frequent attendee of Army-Navy lacrosse games, was presented the key by Annapolis mayor Gavin Buckley.
Bill Belichick receives key to City of Annapolis at Army-Navy lacrosse game
Belichick played lacrosse at nearby Annapolis High School.

Owners Ed Kane and Randy Greenstein inside Big Night Live at the Hub on Causeway in Boston.

The pandemic pummeled nightlife. So Big Night bet on media, sports cards, and ghost restaurants

Despite the pandemic, there’s been a lot happening behind the scenes as the Boston company Big Night Entertainment Group expands its scope beyond bricks and mortar.
Tom Flannery, 72, and his wife. Debbie Flannery. 71, were notified their annual premium for long-term-care insurance may go up to $19,000 — almost four times what they paid when they bought the policy in 2004.

Skyrocketing cost of long-term-care insurance leaves a couple in a bind

The long-term-care insurance industry as a whole has suffered gigantic losses due to pricing decisions made decades ago that proved to be far off the mark.
Senior Pastor Willie Bodrick lead the Healing and Call to Action Service at Twelfth Baptist Church in the Roxbury on Friday. Most people attended virtually.

Amid ‘constant crisis’ since Chauvin trial, preachers at Boston’s Black churches pray for a ‘healed land’

The Rev. Willie Bodrick II, senior pastor at Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury, characterized the string of headlines since the Chauvin verdict in Minneapolis simply: “constant crisis.” That feeling resonated at Black churches throughout Boston.
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King Boston expects to need about $9 million to pay for "The Embrace" and the plaza where it will sit, on the Tremont Street side of Boston Common.
Bank of America pledges $1 million to King Boston efforts, the biggest corporate gift so far
The Charlotte, N.C.-based bank, the largest in Massachusetts based on market share, is giving $1 million to the King Boston initiative, to help pay for a Boston Common memorial honoring the Kings’ formative time in this city.

Beth Williams, Roxbury Technology CEO, spoke during 2013 CEO round table.
Manufacturing CEO Beth Williams, ‘one of our brightest lights in the Black community,’ dies at 57
Ms. Williams was a role model and mentor to "many young aspiring women, particularly women of color."

Natalie White, a 2020 Boston College graduate, is set to launch her new line of performance basketball shoes for women called Moolah Kicks.
BC grad tries to get her foot in the door with performance basketball shoes made for women
When Natalie White discovered women's feet are anatomically different from men's, she went to work creating a different shoe.

Thomas Farragher
Max Ford-Diamond is Boston's tree warden.
He helps put the emerald in the Emerald Necklace
Max Ford-Diamond is in the green business, a man whose professional life is devoted to keeping Boston’s 40,000 street trees alive and well — green and growing — and forever climbing for the sky.

Jaylen Brown was one of the bright spots for Celtics, scoring 20 points in the loss.
Are these the real Celtics or was it just a bad game?
This was supposed to be the easiest game of the trio of games that could determine the Celtics' playoff seeding, but they responded with a dismal performance despite a nearly full healthy roster.

love letters
Love Letters
He deleted her ... then texted her
Is the letter writer seeing a real red flag? Help.

Opinion

The John Joseph Moakley Courthouse in Boston. We need more federal district and appellate court judges, and the Biden administration and lawmakers on Capitol Hill would be better served by keeping their focus on that.
EDITORIAL

Pack the lower courts

Forget the question of whether the US Supreme Court should have more justices. Urgent, bipartisan reform is needed elsewhere in the federal judiciary.
Ingrid Zavala, right, with her mother and sister in 1990.
IDEAS | INGRID ZAVALA

Left behind after my family’s deportations, I still dream of making it in America
A bird's-eye view of Charlestown in the early 20th century.
IDEAS | TOM SHEEHAN

Charlestown, 1935: A cold-water flat, a 7-year-old boy, and a bully called ‘Shove’
STEVE BRODNER

Oscars 2021: The director’s cuts
President George W. Bush delivering a televised address from the White House on January 30, 2005.
RENÉE GRAHAM

The wholly undeserved rehabilitation of George W. Bush

Recommended reads

The Battle for the GOP
Supporters of changes in Georgia’s voting laws held signs inside the State Capitol in Atlanta last month. Much of the Georgia GOP’s base was in favor of the new voting laws, citing what they claimed were irregularities in earlier elections.
In rapidly changing Georgia, many Republicans remain obsessed with the last election
Many in Georgia’s Republican Party are still stewing over a presidential election they think was simply stolen. The main focus so far has been on passing a restrictive new voting law. Meanwhile, some Trump devotees are also targeting the state’s elected Republican officials who upheld the 2020 results.

Globe Magazine

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2021

Even amid a pandemic, these 24 communities saw the biggest leaps in house prices north, south, and west of Boston, plus in the city itself.

As hopes rise for pandemic’s close, some are preparing for never-ending COVID

A pandemic-weary public is dreaming of Memorial Day barbecues, summer nights at Fenway Park, and putting the long-running curse of COVID-19 behind us. But in the medical and biopharma worlds, many are eyeing a more daunting prospect: coronavirus as a never-ending threat.

‘Life is renewed’: Tulip time in all its colorful glory has returned to the Public Garden🌷

The next few weeks are the best time to soak up the colorful array of flowers that dot the landscape in the country’s oldest public botanical garden.

Young people are politically engaged, pro-Biden, and depressed, study finds

A new youth poll conducted by the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics found young millennials and members of Gen Z far more likely to be politically engaged than their predecessors.

metro

Johnson & Johnson vials on a table in preparation to vaccinate at least 200 essential workers at the Chelsea Senior Center earlier this month.

State expects about 4,000 Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 doses this week

Massachusetts is expected to receive around 4,000 doses of one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine this week, according to the state, after federal officials allowed health providers to resume use of the drug following reports of a very rare, though serious, blood clotting condition.

Amid ‘constant crisis’ since Chauvin trial, preachers at Boston’s Black churches pray for a ‘healed land’
Thomas Farragher

He helps put the emerald in the Emerald Necklace

Sports

Belichick, a frequent attendee of Army-Navy lacrosse games, was presented the key by Annapolis mayor Gavin Buckley.

Bill Belichick receives key to City of Annapolis at Army-Navy lacrosse game

Belichick played lacrosse at nearby Annapolis High School.

Swayman takes the one-goal loss but still boosts save percentage to .946
Golf roundup

Cameron Smith, Marc Leishman team up to win Zurich Classic in New Orleans

business

King Boston expects to need about $9 million to pay for "The Embrace" and the plaza where it will sit, on the Tremont Street side of Boston Common.

Bank of America pledges $1 million to King Boston efforts, the biggest corporate gift so far

The pandemic pummeled nightlife. So Big Night bet on media, sports cards, and ghost restaurants

Skyrocketing cost of long-term-care insurance leaves a couple in a bind

politics

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke at a news conference on Tuesday with members of the Congressional Black Caucus after the guilty verdicts in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis.

Democrats push racial justice measures as some Republicans briefly seek an ‘Anglo Saxon’ caucus

Months after Trump’s election defeat, Arizona Republicans are recounting the vote

Americans give Biden mostly positive marks for first 100 days, Post-ABC poll finds

Living Arts

Director Chloe Zhao, left, appears with actress Frances McDormand on the set of "Nomadland."

‘Nomadland’ takes best picture at the Oscars, and director Chloé Zhao makes history

Youn Yuh-jung makes history at the Academy Awards — and finally meets Brad Pitt

The biggest history-making moments at the 2021 Oscars

education

Paola Sierra de Valerio is graduating from Northern Essex Community College next month, at an in-person commencement.

Virtual, in-person, no-guests: College graduation ceremonies vary widely this year, leaving parents and students feeling like they’re missing out

Boston College to require all students and staff to be vaccinated for fall semester
THE GREAT DIVIDE

Worcester won’t fight lawsuit aimed at diversifying school committee

rhode island

Frank O'Donnell poses for a photo in his back yard in Jamestown, Rhode Island on April 17, 2021. He began raising monarch butterflies after noticing them appearing in his yard following the death of his 15-year-old daughter Keri in 2010.
RI NEWS

Inspired by memories of his daughter, a father’s new mission is to save Monarch butterflies

Reed, Whitehouse secure $22m for clean water investments in Rhode Island
RHODE MAP

Lamar Odom still has lots of love for Rhode Island

Newton

Volunteers add flower-filled planters at restaurants throughout Newton as outdoor dining returns

Newton-based group showcases women playing jazz from around the world

video

Comfort Zone

Authors Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka's latest YA novel, "What's Not to Love" is out April 20 from Penguin Random House, following two high school seniors vying for a coveted spot at Harvard.
YA authors Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka on Harvard and high school love
The real life couple discuss their latest book, filled with hyper-competitive Ivy League longing.

The summer season at Jacob's Pillow will include a performance of “joyUS justUS" by CONTRA-TIEMPO.
After a lost summer, Jacob’s Pillow will return for a full season in 2021
The June 30-Aug. 29 season will also offer unprecedented online access to most festival programming.

COMFORT ZONE
Safiya Leslie
This musical journey around the globe comes once a month in a box
Berklee grad Safiya Leslie — a singer/songwriter and entrepreneur — is giving world music fans a chance to explore the sounds of a different country each month through her Safiya’s World Music Tour Playlist subscription boxes.

COMFORT ZONE
People in Boston and beyond can grab a free BlueBike to reach their vaccination site starting April 19.
Take a free Bluebike to your COVID-19 vaccine appointment
The complimentary trips will be available in Arlington, Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Newton, Revere, Somerville, and Watertown.

COMFORT ZONE
Volunteer Coordinator Carol Carlson will read “Carl and the Meaning of Life” by Deborah Freedman and “Trees Make Perfect Pets” by Paul Czajak and Cathy Gendron at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
Eight Earth Week events for the whole family
From your backyard to your favorite trail, enjoy these virtual (or socially distanced) events that make you proud to be an earthling.

Special Projects

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.
See the full project Follow @abeautifulresistance on Instagram

On the Street

A man repacked the food he got from a food pantry on Broadway in Chelsea. Chelsea has been one of the places in Greater Boston hardest hit by the pandemic.

In tackling the pandemic, Chelsea finds new strength
A mural on the side of the Mayor Bill Carpenter Garage in Brockton.

Brockton offers a gateway to a new generation
Evening light sets upon stores and restaurants on Hancock Street in Quincy Center.

This time, Quincy Center’s revival looks legit

See more from our business series ‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

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PROJECT TAKEOUT | DEVRA FIRST
The Globe launches Project Takeout, an effort to help restaurants make it to the other side of this pandemic.
Get takeout. It’s your civic duty.
Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.

Boston Globe launches ‘Fresh Start’ initiative: People can apply to have past coverage about them reviewed
Similar to “right to forget” programs that have cropped up across the country, the undertaking is meant to address the lasting impact that stories about past embarrassments, mistakes, or minor crimes, forever online, can have on a person’s life.

Boston Globe Spotlight Report
Boston’s hospital chiefs moonlight on corporate boards at rates far beyond the national level
Hospital chiefs and trustees defend this as boosting public-private partnerships, but critics say these board positions — some paying millions of dollars — raise troubling issues of conflict of interest and hospital priorities.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

The helicopter Ingenuity casts a shadow as it hovers above the surface of Mars on Monday, April 19, 2021. The little 4-pound helicopter rose from the dusty red surface into the thin Martian air Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.
JEFF JACOBY

Thirty seconds over Mars
A migrant family wearing face masks crosses the border into El Paso, Texas, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Feb. 26. February data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows the Biden administration has continued to use an existing public health rule, known as Title 42, to immediately expel more than 70 percent of asylum seekers and border crossers stopped at the border.
EDITORIAL

Don’t use public health to rationalize keeping the Mexico border closed to asylum seekers
Acting Mayor Kim Janey has promised a full investigation into allegations against former Boston Police officer Patrick M. Rose Sr. of child sexual assault.
EDITORIAL

Rose files reveal union’s warped priorities
The Muddy River Flood Risk Management and Environmental Restoration project getting ready for work near Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in the vicinity of Brookline Avenue and Riverway on Feb. 12.
Renée Loth

Bringing Boston into the wild
Moderna, one of the patent-holders of the three US-approved COVID-19 vaccines, has licensed their intellectual property at no cost. This and other collaborative deals are speeding vaccine deployment, and they wouldn’t be possible without intellectual property rights.
Michael Rosenblatt

The downside of suspending intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines
ideas

The Future of Work

STAT

Road ahead illo
The Road Ahead: Charting the pandemic over the next 12 months — and beyond
In this project, STAT describes 30 key moments, possible turning points that could steer the pandemic onto a different course or barometers for how the virus is reshaping our lives.

Ahoskie Mayor Weyling White, left, and Hertford County Magistrate Deborah Morrison, right, pose for a portrait on railroad tracks that divide the predominantly White and predominantly Black parts of town in Ahoskie, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. (Photo © Landon Bost 2020)
From a small N.C. town to big-city hospitals, how software infuses racism into U.S. health care
The racial bias can produce huge differences in assessing patients’ need for special care to manage conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, or depression, a STAT investigation found.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 12: People walk through the snow and sleet in Manhattan on February 12, 2019 in New York City. New York City, in a winter that has been light on snow this season, is expected to receive two inches of snow before the storm moves later this evening. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Covid-19’s wintry mix: Dry indoor air helps the virus spread
The worry is not just that people might mingle more closely inside, but that the air they breathe will make the virus more dangerous.

Boston, MA -- 06/04/2020 -- Yoldana Desir displays a photograph of her late sister, Marie Deus, who died of Covid-19, after contracting it as a food service worker at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Kayana Szymczak for STAT)
In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic
The hospital's first employee to die of Covid-19 was a kitchen worker named Marie Deus — and her illness sparked a question. Why weren't bedside clinicians getting sick at the highest rates?

magazine
Illustration of a house, key, and outdoor activities to go with a story about how the pandemic has affected the real estate market, causing people to want more space and outdoor space in particular.
On the Cover

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2021
The Citizens Bank Opera House and Emerson Paramount are among the many performing arts spaces that have been closed because of the COVID pandemic.
Top Spots to Live

City living lost some appeal for condo hunters
Person wearing a "Hello I am ... bored" sticker on their shirt.
Perspective

Dear Grads: Don’t believe the myth that work has to be a slog

Caramelized pork with orange and sage.
Cooking

Oranges shine in 4 savory recipes, including a beef stir-fry

sports

St. John's Prep senior Nick Curley (left) defeated Chelmsford's Evan Kinney (right) in the national final at 113 pounds with an 11-7 victory.

St. John’s Prep senior Nick Curley captures national wrestling title

The no-no that wasn’t: Madison Bumgarner holds Atlanta hitless in 7-inning game

Are these the real Celtics or was it just a bad game?

metro

Beth Williams, Roxbury Technology CEO, spoke during 2013 CEO round table.

Manufacturing CEO Beth Williams, ‘one of our brightest lights in the Black community,’ dies at 57

Tito Jackson’s fortunate adoption search

Federal corruption trial of former Fall River mayor Jasiel Correia to begin

Nation

In this video image provided by ABC, Lil Rel Howery reacted as Glenn Close dances to E.U.'s "Da Butt" in the audience at the Oscars on Sunday.

Glenn Close knows all about ‘Da Butt’ in Oscars’ game

As Biden nears 100 days, polls show deep partisan divides

Health officials stress urgency of vaccinations and their safety

World

Visitors looked out over the city skyline and the Chain Bridge at night in Budapest, Hungary, on Tuesday, March 9, 2021.

EU set to let vaccinated US tourists visit this summer

US military begins final withdrawal from Afghanistan

Fire at Baghdad hospital packed with COVID patients kills at least 82

politics

Supporters of changes in Georgia’s voting laws held signs inside the State Capitol in Atlanta last month. Much of the Georgia GOP’s base was in favor of the new voting laws, citing what they claimed were irregularities in earlier elections.

In rapidly changing Georgia, many Republicans remain obsessed with the last election

Biden recognizes atrocities against Armenians as genocide

‘This is the place where dreams end.’ Stranded in border cities, migrant families wait with little chance of refuge

business

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk adding SNL hosting job to his to-do list

Mattel hits four-year high on surging Barbie purchases

Beth Williams, former Roxbury Technology CEO, dies at 57

lifestyle

The bar at the Newbury Boston hotel.

These 5 Massachusetts hotels made Travel + Leisure’s worldwide ‘It List’

Hasty Pudding honors Viola Davis as Woman of the Year in virtual ceremony

20 concerts made during quarantine that you can stream right now

marijuana

Former Boston mayor Martin J. Walsh hands a pen to then-City Councilor Kim Janey after signing the new marijuana licensing ordinance she drafted at City Hall in 2019.

On 4/20, Boston’s acting mayor turns to marijuana industry for campaign cash

US House passes marijuana banking bill with bipartisan support

With marijuana legal in New York, and other states close behind, will Mass. dispensaries along state borders survive?

opinion

Ingrid Zavala, a la derecha, con su madre y su hermana en 1990.

Abandonada después de las deportaciones de mi familia, sigo soñando con salir adelante en los Estados Unidos

Pack the lower courts

Left behind after my family’s deportations, I still dream of making it in America

food & dining

Workers prepared floor and table signage, hand sanitizing stations, and other measures in the dining area at Time Out Market in the Fenway last summer. The food hall is getting ready to reopen next month.

Benedetto closes, Time Out Market Boston readies for relaunch, and a 1920s cocktail lounge prepares to debut

Wulf’s Fish can ship you a lavish brunch, caviar and all

Recipe: Spoon a medley of sauteed mushrooms on crunchy crostini with creamy whipped burrata

travel

The bar at the Newbury Boston hotel.

These 5 Massachusetts hotels made Travel + Leisure’s worldwide ‘It List’

A major refresh for a Conn. inn can mean a major refresh for its guests

Need some post-pandemic rejuvenation, stat? These spas have you covered

Books

Illustration for review of "Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis" by Sehii Plokhy. 25Nuclear; BOOKS; 4-25-21

‘Nuclear Folly’ recalls when we edged close to the brink

Learning from the tumultuous politics of another century in ‘The Age of Acrimony’

Bill Buford on reading and learning from cookbooks

Movies

The Oscars red carpet

‘Nomadland’ leads the way in an unusual night for Oscars

Chloé Zhao makes history with best director Oscar win for ‘Nomadland’

‘Another Round’ wins best international film at the Oscars

Television

Regina King speaks onstage during the 93rd Annual Academy Awards at Union Station.

Oscar-cast with less glitz and a new script suits the moment

‘Parasite’ series ‘in the same universe as the feature’

Remember when ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ used to be great?

music

Conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops rehearse their Mother’s Day celebration, which will include a performance by Pops violinist Ala Jojatu and her 16-year-old daughter, Maria.

Boston Pops announces a virtual spring season with six concert streams

What’s new, Tom Jones? Plenty, it turns out

That faint sound you hear? It’s the eventual return of live music

Theater/Dance

Maiesha McQueen portrays a variety of characters in "Until the Flood" at Merrimack Repertory Theatre.

In ‘Until the Flood,’ a portrait of a town and the ravages of racism

After a lost summer, Jacob’s Pillow will return for a full season in 2021

Theater without theater

globe local

Max Ford-Diamond is Boston's tree warden.

He helps put the emerald in the Emerald Necklace

Federal corruption trial of former Fall River mayor Jasiel Correia to begin

Sagamore Bridge expected to reopen fully Sunday, a month ahead of schedule

Obituaries

Beth Williams, Roxbury Technology CEO, spoke during 2013 CEO round table.

Manufacturing CEO Beth Williams, ‘one of our brightest lights in the Black community,’ dies at 57

Thomas Brock, whose discovery paved the way for PCR tests, dies at 94

Shock G, frontman for hip-hop group Digital Underground, dies at 57