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Ime Udoka has put the Celtics in a terrible position, and other thoughts

It seems nothing has gone right for the Celtics since Bill Russell died, and the unanswered questions about the latest controversy just make things worse.
Gary Washburn: Ime Udoka was selfish and unprofessional, but blame the Celtics for this mess, too Celtics learned of Ime Udoka’s team policy violations in the summer, and had a law firm investigate Four things to know about Celtics interim head coach Joe Mazzulla

Nia Long issues statement following Ime Udoka suspension, asks for privacy ‘to process recent events’

“The outpouring [of] love and support from family, friends and the community during this difficult time means so much,” actress Nia Long said in a statement following the suspension of her longtime partner, Boston Celtics head coach Ime Udoka.
Jeneé Osterheldt

Stop talking about Ime Udoka and start talking about Brett Favre

Welfare fraud in the poorest state in our country has gotten less attention than the inappropriate behavior of an NBA coach. We should ask ourselves why we care more about the latter than the former.
Chad Finn | Sports Media

An ugly side of social media surfaced in the Ime Udoka controversy

While we waited for details to come out, Internet "sleuths" dragged female Celtics employees into the scandal with baseless and disgusting speculation.

‘Shoebert’ the seal waddled to the police station ‘for some help’ after weeklong stay in Beverly’s Shoe Pond
The gray seal made its way across a nearby parking lot and "came to the side door of the police station for some help," the Beverly Police Department said.

Watch surveillance video of ‘Shoebert’ the seal galumphing down the sidewalk in Beverly

Dow hits 2022 low as markets sell off on recession fears

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.6%, closing at its lowest level since late 2020, and the S&P 500 fell 1.7%, close to its 2022 low set in mid-June.

Three Stoughton police officers had inappropriate relationships with a young woman who later killed herself, town report finds

Sandra Birchmore originally came to them for mentoring and was pregnant with what she said was one officer’s child when she died.

‘They’re unfit to serve.’ Stoughton police chief will ask state to decertify officers identified in explosive internal affairs report

Second body found in home of former Woonsocket mayor identified

Daniel Grabowski was the founder and former CEO of the Boys & Girls Club of Woonsocket.

Meet the 32-year-old state representative thrust into the national spotlight when migrants landed on Martha’s Vineyard
Dylan Fernandes has been catapulted into the national spotlight as an outspoken critic of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. “This has been a crazy circus,” he said.

At 13, I didn’t make the cheerleading squad at Eastern Junior High. Was the ‘Pom Squad’ at a local senior center my second chance?
I guess it’s true what they say — nothing ever really stays buried.

The ‘Cider Donuteur’ is back. Here’s what he’s learned while hunting for New England’s best cider doughnuts.

Alex Schwartz, known to fans online as the "Cider Donuteur," is back on the road to hunt for New England's best fried treats. And he's sharing some tips and tricks for getting the most out of your autumn adventures.

Boston’s sea-level rise will require a ‘Big Dig level’ solution, city leaders say

A recent federal report forecast that, by 2050, sea levels in Boston will be 16 inches higher than they were at the start of the century. Addressing this, city leaders say, will require a comprehensive, coordinated climate change effort.
Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘She looked like she’d put in some effort, which made me nervous since I’d just come in my work clothes’

Will these two running enthusiasts be on the same path?

Hispanic Heritage Month

Mi Historia en Boston
Soy cantautora multilingüe. Por mucho que viaje, nunca me siento a gusto hasta que vuelvo a Boston.
Aquí es donde he creado mi propia identidad, una que incluye ser bostoniana, de Nueva Inglaterra y latina.

Documentando el corazón infatigable de Chelsea Ideas | Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston Read more Hispanic Heritage Month stories
CONNECTIONS

Visiting Guatemala, my parents’ homeland, transported me to my childhood memories

A family outing to Jamaica Plain’s old Hi-Lo Foods market was always a taste of home.
Opinion
MARCELA GARCÍA

In praise of activist lawyers

In response to the Trump anti-immigrant era, Massachusetts developed a strong legal and advocacy muscle.
IDEAS | PATRICK COLE

Rage, rage against the dying of the laser light
EDITORIAL

DA Hayden must take juvenile justice reform seriously
Renée Loth

Go back to the office — please!
Kimberly Atkins Stohr

John Roberts’s constitutional color-blindness threatens civil rights

Culture
Banned Books Week Quiz
Banned Books Week is now underway! Put your knowledge of banned and challenged works to the test with our quiz.

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150 years of The Boston Globe

Scenes from a century and a half, as covered by the Boston Globe.
Spotlight investigation

Part 1
A celebrated surgeon, a trail of secrets and death
Dr. Yvon Baribeau set a record for malpractice settlements, and many colleagues tried desperately to stop him. But hospital executives let him go on and on.

Timeline: What the public didn't know about Dr. Yvon Baribeau Video: What the Spotlight Team’s investigation discovered about Dr. Baribeau N.H. hospital promises review after revelations about doctor with 21 malpractice settlements
Part 2

A crisis of conscience, with lives on the line

Alarmed doctors at Manchester's Catholic Medical Center tried to get a troubled colleague barred from surgery. But hospital leaders resisted. Then came the "summer of death."

More recent stories

Patriots list Jakobi Meyers and Kyle Dugger as questionable for Sunday
Both have knee injuries, and though they were “did not participate” at practice Wednesday and Thursday, they were upgraded to "limited" Friday.

Celtics say Robert Williams will be out 8-12 weeks after latest knee surgery
Danilo Gallinari also had his knee surgery, and he is expected to miss the entire season.

High-profile attorney joins legal team for woman charged with killing Boston police officer in Canton
A California lawyer who represented actor Kevin Spacey has joined the defense team for Karen Read, the Mansfield woman charged with second-degree murder for allegedly driving over her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, during a blizzard in Canton this January.

Mass General Brigham agrees to slash millions of dollars in spending
The hospital system nearly doubled its earlier commitment to reduce spending after months of discussions with a state watchdog agency.

Boston resident donates rare Holocaust-era pendant to museum, honors mother’s legacy

Although it was a scary thought to give away the only physical memories of her mother, Boston resident Andi Pollinger realized donating Wermuth’s pendant, as well as other family Holocaust-era relics, was a way to honor her mother’s experiences.

Thirteen-year-old helps catch 591-pound tuna off Cape Cod
Lola Crisp, an eighth-grader at Nauset Regional High School, was part of the four-person crew that reeled in the massive prize-winning tuna while participating in the Cape Cod Bay Tuna Tournament, relaunched last weekend after a decades-long hiatus.

Recommended reads

KEVIN CULLEN

As The Squad comes to Somerville, their worst nightmare lurches to the far right just up Interstate 93

If Karoline Leavitt — a former Trump White House staffer — were any further to the right, she’d be somewhere in the North Atlantic.

Where does Western Mass. begin? The debate plays out on WBZ radio.
Worcester? Lee? Cape Cod? Those were some of the answers floated when WBZ NewsRadio reporter Matt Shearer took to the streets of Boston to ask locals the age-old question.

Shirley Leung
There are rich people, and then there are the ‘one-time millionaires’
Opponents of the November ballot initiative that would raise taxes for some Massachusetts residents are out to redefine what it means to be wealthy.

How did an image of a fake Massachusetts flag end up in a brochure for Martha’s Vineyard migrants?
“How did this happen? How did this image that I posted two years ago that no one saw end up on anyone’s radar?”

video

Culture & Lifestyle

Slanted, enchanted, and a few years older, Pavement embarks on a reunion tour

With tiresome reboots, TV is stuck in a cycle of watch, rinse, repeat

To Sidney, with love — Poitier, that is

Poet T.S. Eliot’s Gloucester connection

Special Projects

Welcome Back to Boston

Consider this our love letter to the city, a celebration of all it has to offer visitors and locals alike.
Globe Magazine

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

A guide to 36 Greater Boston communities where demand — and prices — are surging.
Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

IDEAS | ED QUINN

Russian bombing reduced their town to rubble. It could not crush their humanity.
EDITORIAL

How long will Democrats hunker in their hidey holes?
John F. Kerry

Friendships in times of political division
ABDALLAH FAYYAD

The Fed wants you to lose your job
IDEAS | ELIZABETH PRESTON

Another reason to ❤️ your heart
IDEAS | OMAR VEGA

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

Metro

CRANSTON

Cranston library suspends use of meeting space pending policy review

Hundreds protested the private Independent Women’s Network event on gender ideology, but the William Hall Library’s trustees allowed the anti-transgender event Monday, in the name of free speech.
BOOK BANNING

Libraries face increased attempts to ban books

As right-wing organizations mobilize to restrict access to titles they consider offensive, librarians in Rhode Island and around the country are finding themselves on the front lines of First Amendment freedoms.

Public officials fall short on one of two bids to replace Cape bridges

The US Army Corps of Engineers’ application for grant money failed when the US Department of Transportation last week declined to include the bridge replacements on a list of 26 projects.
WOONSOCKET

Remembering Susan Menard, Woonsocket’s trailblazing, take-charge mayor

Friends recall the city’s first woman elected mayor as someone who got things done, who by her own admission swore like a truck driver, and would reach into her own pocket to help people who needed it.

Sports

EMass cross-country: Runners of the Week

EMass cross-country: A second-place finish for Norfolk Aggie’s Madelyn Germain at Ted Dutkiewicz Invitational (18:47.2) headlines the Runners of the Week

The reigning Division 3 Runner of the Year has not slowed down, evidenced by her second in the Ted Dutkiewicz Invitational.
patriots notebook

Patriots list Jakobi Meyers and Kyle Dugger as questionable for Sunday

Both have knee injuries, and though they were “did not participate” at practice Wednesday and Thursday, they were upgraded to "limited" Friday.
MEN'S SOCCER | JAPAN 2, UNITED STATES 0

US men look sloppy and meek in World Cup tuneup loss to Japan

Several absences, including star attacker Christian Pulisic, factored into the display, but there was no excusing the disconnect and general inferiority of the Americans fewer than two months from the World Cup.
Jeneé Osterheldt

Stop talking about Ime Udoka and start talking about Brett Favre
Red Sox at Yankees | 7:05 p.m. (Apple TV+)

Game 150: Red Sox at Yankees lineups and notes
Celtics

Celtics say Robert Williams will be out 8-12 weeks after latest knee surgery

Business

Powell says economy may be entering ‘new normal’ after pandemic

Powell and his colleagues are moving rapidly to reduce the highest inflation in nearly 40 years after being slow to spot the threat of broadening price pressures.

Dow hits 2022 low as markets sell off on recession fears

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.6%, closing at its lowest level since late 2020, and the S&P 500 fell 1.7%, close to its 2022 low set in mid-June.

Boston’s sea-level rise will require a ‘Big Dig level’ solution, city leaders say

After 90 years, German bakery to close as energy costs soar
magazine
My Boston History

I'm a multilingual singer-songwriter. Here's why I call Boston home.
My Boston History

Talent and education aren’t always enough. So I work to ensure opportunities for all.

My Boston History

Documenting Chelsea’s indefatigable heart
My Boston History

How I found my superpower: Becoming Raúl The Third

metro

At 13, I didn’t make the cheerleading squad at Eastern Junior High. Was the ‘Pom Squad’ at a local senior center my second chance?

Boston resident donates rare Holocaust-era pendant to museum, honors mother’s legacy

High-profile attorney joins legal team for woman charged with killing Boston police officer in Canton

sports

An ugly side of social media surfaced in the Ime Udoka controversy

Prep school football previews: Scouting Eastern Mass. teams as the 2022 season begins

Ime Udoka has put the Celtics in a terrible position, and other thoughts

business

Oil prices tumble to their lowest level since January

MIT professor shares in $3 million Breakthrough Prize for quantum computing discoveries

There’s a shortage of Moderna COVID boosters in the US

politics

Meet the 32-year-old state representative thrust into the national spotlight when migrants landed on Martha’s Vineyard

White House: GOP abortion ban would mean a nationwide crisis

Nazi sympathizer is sentenced to 4 years over role in Jan. 6 attack

Nation

Advocates seek more say in how opioid settlements are spent

Hurricane Fiona roars by Bermuda, on route to Canada

MIT professor shares in $3 million Breakthrough Prize for quantum computing discoveries

World

After 90 years, German bakery to close as energy costs soar

Occupied Ukraine holds Kremlin-staged vote on joining Russia

UN rights experts cite signs of war crimes in Ukraine

opinion

Price check, aisle 5

At the UN, Biden deftly deals with two of the world’s biggest autocrats

John Roberts’s constitutional color-blindness threatens civil rights

lifestyle

Nia Long issues statement following Ime Udoka suspension, asks for privacy ‘to process recent events’

Battling insecurity while dating

Boston chefs dish on their top kid-meal hacks

food & dining

Near Harvard Square, a Spanish tapas bar that feels distinctly Cambridge

New Hampshire gets a Haitian destination; Hot Chix beefs up Inman Square’s food scene

This Cambridge restaurant was recently recognized by Bon Appetit magazine and The New York Times

travel

‘We must do this’: German village fulfills promise to God by staging Passion Play every 10 years

Robots, runs, and King Tut

Preacher Lawson is ready to catch some Z’s

Arts

Subversive strips at Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art

Jordan Seaberry’s nod to the WPA is a labor of love

The perpetual motion of Alex Katz at Colby College Museum of Art

Books

Libraries face increased attempts to ban books

Joshua Bennett on reading ‘to pursue astonishment’

Two books on pandemic parenting

Movies

‘Blonde’ is a rare movie with a NC-17 rating. What set it over the edge?

Forty years ago, Hollywood ushered in a new age of LGBTQ+ films. It didn’t last long.

‘The Collaboration’ and HBO’s ‘Julia’ filming around Boston this month

Television

‘Breaking Bad’ creator teams up with Rhea Seehorn for a new series

As title sequences go, ‘Bad Sisters’ is in good company

With tiresome reboots, TV is stuck in a cycle of watch, rinse, repeat

music

Jake Blount’s ‘The New Faith’ takes on the past and imagines the future under climate change

Slanted, enchanted, and a few years older, Pavement embarks on a reunion tour

Eric Jackson was a singular voice for Boston’s jazz community

Theater/Dance

For ‘Little Shop of Horrors,’ a not-so-little shot of hurrahs

‘Tina’ reaches for a star but falls short

At Moonbox, a journey of reconciliation in ‘The Good Deli,’ a venture into the unknown with ‘Jonathan’

globe local

Torah Sisters bond to piece together Jewish history

The Argument: Should accessory dwelling units be allowed statewide in Massachusetts?

Needham Town Meeting will decide on $2.5 million land purchase along Charles River next month

Obituaries

Maarten Schmidt, first astronomer to identify a quasar, dies at 92

Darrell Mudra, successful coach at all levels, dies at 93

Saul Kripke, philosopher who found truths in semantics, dies at 81