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From left: Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, and Taylor Swift.

When only affluent fans can afford concert tickets, there’s a price to be paid

The cost to see Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and other megastars is widening the gulf between haves and have-nots and fraying the connection between artists and their fan bases.

INVESTIGATION

Mike Mota and the art of the Virtual Con
The secret behind this businessman’s success? Tireless networking, great timing — and some smoke and mirrors.

A proposal to build the ‘world’s tallest flagpole’ looms over a small community in Maine
What would become of this picturesque community five hours north of Boston if a powerful local family’s proposal to turn hundreds of acres of nearby wilderness into a billion-dollar patriotic theme park — complete with a 1,461-foot flagpole — moves ahead?

ADDRESS

We were told there’d be a wave of home sales once baby boomers turned 65. That isn’t happening.
People are living longer, and high home prices have them hunkering down instead of listing, experts say. For prospective home buyers, the future will be frustrating.

Are empty-nesters really downsizing? Home of the Week: Get a start on spring. Easton contemporary features atrium garden.

‘I am who I am — a gangsta.’ The long, sordid history of the man charged in Tyler Lawrence’s killing.

The shooting death of a child — for no apparent reason and with no apparent motive — has shaken the city like few other crimes in modern times.

Immigrants allegedly exploited at local restaurants for years were abused in plain sight

The immigrants allegedly abused and exploited at local restaurants for years weren’t hidden away in some sweatshop. People saw their suffering, and for years, it made no difference.

Stash’s Pizza owner allegedly bragged about fatal car crash

Twenty years after the start of the Iraq War, Seth Moulton reflects on a generation shaped by the conflict
Moulton and other congressional veterans discuss how their status informs their decision making.

Wellesley teachers vote no confidence in superintendent, School Committee as contract negotiations drag on

More than 94 percent of Wellesley Educators Association members approved the no-confidence vote, the union said Saturday.

Trump says he expects to be arrested on Tuesday as New York prosecutor considers charges

His message seemed designed to preempt a formal announcement from prosecutors and to galvanize outrage from his base of supporters in advance of widely anticipated charges.

Some Trump rivals rally to his side as possible charges loom

Records show Healey interviewed candidate for T general manager in February

Governor Maura Healey’s daily schedules indicate she may be getting closer to naming the next head of the embattled MBTA.

Green Line speed restrictions to remain throughout Saturday, according to MBTA

Woman dies after head-on crash in Wrentham

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum closed Saturday due to climate protest

Jazz guard Talen Horton-Tucker gave the Celtics fits, scoring 19 points, including a go-ahead layup with 35 seconds left.

jazz 118, celtics 117

A promising start unraveled for the Celtics in loss to Utah, but they still clinched a playoff spot

All of the momentum and equity the Celtics built during a mostly good first half dissipated in the third period when the Jazz went on an 25-11 run.

Are the Celtics getting back to their old selves?

David Krejci celebrated with Charlie McAvoy after scoring to give the Bruins a 3-1 lead in the second period.

Bruins 5, Wild 2

Bruins get back to .500 on current road trip with win over Wild

Jake DeBrusk, David Pastrnak, David Krejci, Patrice Bergeron, and Trent Frederic scored, and Boston ended Minnesota's franchise-record 14-game point streak.

Marc-Andre Fleury was itching for a fight against Blues, but goalies tended to business in Bruins-Wild tilt

Keira Knightley in "Boston Strangler."

How accurate is Hulu’s ‘Boston Strangler’? Here’s what to know.

We looked at what's fact and fiction in the series premiering Friday. Here's what we found.

Opinion

Manager and bartender Anna Puiia prepared a to-go cocktail behind the bar at Brassica Kitchen in Jamaica Plain on Jan. 10, 2021.

Raise a glass to another year of to-go drinks

A pandemic-era perk should get more time to prove its worth to struggling restaurants.

Ending Saddam Hussein’s reign of terror was the right call

Saving the Amazon, before it’s too late

IDEAS | BRYAN PFEIFFER

Vultures all the way down

MBTArrrrrrrrrgh!

The Emancipator

Who’s going to check them?

Racial equity audits, when done right, can provide the knowledge and data for organizations to make real improvements in racial equity.

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Special reports

photo illustration of David Sabatini. photo by Jonathan Wiggs /Globe Staff

Spotlight Report: Fate and the fallen star

Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

Members of the 2001 Patriots team that won the franchise’s first title.

Darkness on the edge of the Patriots dynasty

More recent News

Three teenagers arrested following State Police pursuit from Avon to Milton

.Hildo Pina-Vaz, 18, from Roxbury; a 17-year-old Dorchester boy; and a 16-year-old Brockton girl are facing multiple charges, including motor vehicle offenses, malicious destruction of property, and disturbing the peace related to the early Saturday morning pursuit, State Police said.

Four adults displaced by 3-alarm fire in Somerville

No one was injured in the fire that broke out on the upper floors of 34 Walker St. Saturday afternoon. The fire is not considered to be suspicious, officials said.

Maine woman charged for allegedly making false bomb, gun threats at Walmart in Seabrook, N.H.

Meghan Leavitt, 38, of Alfred, Maine, was arrested at a hotel in Seabrook, N.H. Saturday, hours after police received reports of a "possible explosive device" and a man with a firearm. Walmart and surrounding stores were forced to evacuate earlier Saturday.

Medical residents at Mass General Brigham could soon unionize. Here’s why.
The health system is pushing back, with program directors holding individual meetings with residents to discourage the effort.

‘Wakeup call’: Braintree chemical fire, Ohio derailment show need for stronger emergency planning, experts say
The fire at a waste disposal facility in Braintree, coming on the heels of the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, showed how towns left to clean up the mess from chemical accidents are not always prepared.

Allston fourth-grader wins Boston’s 15th annual spelling bee
“I feel a little bit of joy, and I also feel surprised that I won,” said the winner, 10-year-old Tanoshi Inomata.

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A 2014 image of the US Postal Service Annex alongside South Station. State lawmakers have long urged USPS to move the vast mail sorting facility to make room for an expansion of the train station, which would make room for more Amtrak and commuter rail service to Boston.

CHESTO MEANS BUSINESS

There’s momentum at last for East-West Rail, but Postal Service still stands in the way

A key lawmaker is renewing pressure on the Postal Service to move its huge sorting facility alongside South Station, to enable the expansion of rail service.

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Sale of prime Newton real estate is forcing the closure of a Catholic School: ‘Sacrificing the future’
At the center of the controversy: An aging group of Franciscan sisters who own the land and whose decision to sell the property will force the 7th- through 12th-grade girls school to close in June.

MATTHEW GILBERT

With some promising new shows on the horizon, TV has some spring in its step
Amid the returns of “Succession,” “Barry,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” and others, we'll see a full slate of newcomers. True to the season, potential is in the air.

Thirty-three years after the Gardner heist, where are the paintings?
The popularity of the Vermeer exhibit in Amsterdam underscores the significance of the loss, but also the hope that Boston and the larger art community will one day see the works return.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Artist Betye Saar in her house in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles.

To search, to seek, to see: Betye Saar brings her travels to the Gardner Museum

Regan Sims (left) and Ivan Cecil Walks in "K-I-S-S-I-N-G."

In ‘K-I-S-S-I-N-G,’ a teen absorbed in a world of possibilities

Arson Fahim left Afghanistan to study music in Cambridge just before the fall of Kabul in 2021.

Banned by the Taliban, Afghan musicians play on in Cambridge

Goose has advanced from playing small clubs, like Sonia in Cambridge, to the likes of Radio City Music Hall and Roadrunner.

Goose has never flown so high

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

A nationwide ban on a product used by more than 100 million Americans feels like an outsized, unnecessary measure.

MARCELA GARCÍA

The government wants me to delete TikTok. Here’s why it’s wrong.

In this June 2021 photo, teacher Deborah Garcia Weitz worked with Gianna Adams in her kindergarten classroom at the Mozart Elementary School in Boston.

A controversial way to protect teachers of color

A coyote strolled along Francis Street in front of Brigham and Women’s Hospital where it walked onto the grounds.

My friend, the coyote

Princeton head coach Carla Berube celebrates after cutting down the net after Princeton defeated Columbia in the NCAA Ivy League women's college basketball championship game in 2022 in Cambridge. A federal lawsuit filed by a pair of basketball players from Brown University alleges the Ivy League’s policy of not offering athletic scholarships amounts to a price-fixing agreement that denies athletes proper financial aid and payment for their services.

ANDREW ZIMBALIST

Ivy League athletes had a choice. They opted for college without athletic scholarships.

KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

I’m in my prime, and I’m done hiding my age

IDEAS | ELOISE DAVENPORT

My fitness trackers took me hostage

Metro

A proposal to build the ‘world’s tallest flagpole’ looms over a small community in Maine

What would become of this picturesque community five hours north of Boston if a powerful local family’s proposal to turn hundreds of acres of nearby wilderness into a billion-dollar patriotic theme park — complete with a 1,461-foot flagpole — moves ahead?

Wellesley teachers vote no confidence in superintendent, School Committee as contract negotiations drag on

More than 94 percent of Wellesley Educators Association members approved the no-confidence vote, the union said Saturday.

‘Wakeup call’: Braintree chemical fire, Ohio derailment show need for stronger emergency planning, experts say

The fire at a waste disposal facility in Braintree, coming on the heels of the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, showed how towns left to clean up the mess from chemical accidents are not always prepared.

Allston fourth-grader wins Boston’s 15th annual spelling bee

“I feel a little bit of joy, and I also feel surprised that I won,” said the winner, 10-year-old Tanoshi Inomata.

Sports

Jazz guard Talen Horton-Tucker gave the Celtics fits, scoring 19 points, including a go-ahead layup with 35 seconds left.

jazz 118, celtics 117

A promising start unraveled for the Celtics in loss to Utah, but they still clinched a playoff spot

All of the momentum and equity the Celtics built during a mostly good first half dissipated in the third period when the Jazz went on an 25-11 run.

Trea Turner celebrates with his teammates after hitting a go-ahead grand slam during the eighth inning of a World Baseball Classic quarterfinal against Venezuela.

WBC quarterfinal: US 9, Venezuela 7

Trea Turner’s eighth-inning grand slam rescues Team USA in World Baseball Classic

The defending champion Team USA will face Cuba on Sunday night for a spot in the WBC championship.

American skier Mikaela Shiffrin celebrates with her globe after competing in the Women's Slalom event of the World Cup Finals in Andorra.

Mikaela Shiffrin receives slalom trophy; Vlhova wins last race

Seven weeks after securing it, Mikaela Shiffrin was finally able to hold and kiss the crystal globe for the best slalom skier of the women’s World Cup season.

Revolution 1, Nashville 0

Gustavo Bou’s goal lifts Revolution over Nashville

D2 girls' basketball: Foxborough 73, Dracut 53

Kailey Sullivan and Addie Ruter lead the way for Foxborough girls’ basketball in dominant win over Dracut in Division 2 title game

WHITECAPS 4, PRIDE 1

Pride’s Isobel Cup hopes wash away with Game 2 loss to Whitecaps in PHF semifinal series

Business

A proposal to build the ‘world’s tallest flagpole’ looms over a small community in Maine

What would become of this picturesque community five hours north of Boston if a powerful local family’s proposal to turn hundreds of acres of nearby wilderness into a billion-dollar patriotic theme park — complete with a 1,461-foot flagpole — moves ahead?

Credit Suisse’s First Boston plan in doubt amid crisis talks

Michael Klein, the CEO-designate of Credit Suisse Group AG’s investment-banking spin off, may struggle to realize his dream of building a new CS First Boston as the Swiss lender nears a forced sale to UBS Group AG.

Midsize US banks ask FDIC to insure all deposits for two years

‘We’ll look back and say that this was a bargain.’ Takeda reveals first data from its $4 billion autoimmune disease pill.

magazine

London's Elizabeth Tower, also known as Big Ben.

How to get the most out of a visit to London, before the coronation crowds take over

Practicing a yoga pose by the Stockbridge Bowl, which is also called Lake Mahkeenac.

Learning to relax at the Kripalu retreat in the Berkshires

The town of Myrina, capital of Lemnos island.

Looking for a gorgeous Greek island you can actually afford to visit?

This week's daters: Anna and Chris

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We both enjoy music; he is much more into classical music’

metro

An exterior of Stash's Pizza of Dorchester at 612 Blue Hill Ave. on Thursday.

Immigrants allegedly exploited at local restaurants for years were abused in plain sight

‘Bringing the treatment to where they are.’ Mobile health vans have boomed since the pandemic.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum closed Saturday due to climate protest

sports

Jayson Tatum crossed the 2,000-point threshold for the season on Saturday against the Jazz.

Celtics clinch a playoff spot thanks to a Heat loss

Freshman Lane Hutson scores Boston University another Hockey East championship with overtime goal

Harvard upset in ECAC men’s hockey championship by Colgate, still headed to NCAAs

business

Parents, alums, and students held a rally Friday to save Mount Alvernia High School, the all-girls Catholic school that is slated to close in June.

Sale of prime Newton real estate is forcing the closure of a Catholic School: ‘Sacrificing the future’

There’s momentum at last for East-West Rail, but Postal Service still stands in the way

BPDA approves big projects in Nubian Square, Allston-Brighton

politics

Former president Trump spoke in Davenport, Iowa, on March 13.

Trump says he expects to be arrested on Tuesday as New York prosecutor considers charges

Twenty years after the start of the Iraq War, Seth Moulton reflects on a generation shaped by the conflict

Some Trump rivals rally to his side as possible charges loom

Nation

Former president Donald Trump spoke at an election campaign rally in Davenport, Iowa, on Monday.

Trump claims his arrest is imminent and calls for protests, echoing Jan. 6

A retired prosecutor’s quest for recognition

Oregon’s rural-urban divide sparks talk of secession

World

Firefighters extinguish a bus which met with an accident in Madaripur, Bangladesh on March 19.

19 die, over 20 injured in bus crash in central Bangladesh

Russian President Putin visits occupied city of Mariupol

State news: Kuwait court annuls 2022 parliamentary election

opinion

In this June 2021 photo, teacher Deborah Garcia Weitz worked with Gianna Adams in her kindergarten classroom at the Mozart Elementary School in Boston.

A controversial way to protect teachers of color

A red badge of courage, period

My friend, the coyote

lifestyle

Gia Benitez, pictured, is the owner of Gemmed by Gia, a studio offering tooth gems and applications in Brighton.

Tooth gems are sparking joy in Greater Boston

She could have been ... my girlfriend in Canada

Is he behaving this way because of his recent divorce?

food & dining

Lamb chops are on the menu at Bar Vlaha in Brookline.

Bar Vlaha prepares to open in Brookline; Lehrhaus debuts outside Inman Square

Connecting with Portugal through food with cookbook author Maria Lawton

Puritan Oyster Bar in Cambridge isn’t trying too hard but succeeds at everything

travel

A rendering from the proposal for Flagpole of Freedom Park near Columbia Falls, Maine. If built, the more than $1 billion attraction would include the tallest flagpole in the world.

A proposal to build the ‘world’s tallest flagpole’ looms over a small community in Maine

Visiting Zermatt and the Mighty Matterhorn

Why you should visit Alexandria, Va.

Arts

Artist Betye Saar in her house in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles.

To search, to seek, to see: Betye Saar brings her travels to the Gardner Museum

A timeline of the Gardner Museum art heist

Darrel Ellis: A fractured life in pictures at the Carpenter Center

Books

Illustration from "Where Are You Going? To See My Friend!" by Eric Carle and Kazuo Iwamura.

Spotlighting Cambridge’s Blacksmith House Poetry Series, Dan Levitt’s ‘What’s Gotten Into You,’ and a new Eric Carle exhibit

Matthew Desmond’s ‘Poverty by America’ turns its lens on those who profit from it

John Sayles on reading for and during the making of a film

Movies

Keira Knightley in "Boston Strangler."

How accurate is Hulu’s ‘Boston Strangler’? Here’s what to know.

Five things we learned from Ben Affleck’s Hollywood Reporter interview

Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin are ‘Moving On’ with a little help from their friends

Television

Keri Russell (pictured in "The Americans") will star in a new Netflix political thriller.

Keri Russell returns to TV in ‘The Diplomat’

Five things we learned from Ben Affleck’s Hollywood Reporter interview

With some promising new shows on the horizon, TV has some spring in its step

music

From left: Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, and Taylor Swift.

When only affluent fans can afford concert tickets, there’s a price to be paid

‘It was life-changing’: For four scorching nights in 1977, Bruce Springsteen owned Boston

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s March 25, 1977, setlist

Theater/Dance

Boston Ballet performs "Don Quixote" at the Citizens Bank Opera House.

Boston Ballet presents its best ‘Don Quixote’ yet

In ‘K-I-S-S-I-N-G,’ a teen absorbed in a world of possibilities

When ‘Into the Woods’ was revived, the scary stuff was happening offstage

globe local

At Dave & Buster’s in the Natick Mall, Joey Lively, 11, plays one of the video games.

Autism Alliance is teaching restaurants and other places how to accommodate families with special needs children

What else is drifting away from us besides the moon?

Turkish-born faculty at Framingham State mobilize to help earthquake survivors

Obituaries

Fito Olivares performs during the Cinco de Mayo celebration held at Rosedale Park Sunday May 5, 2002 in San Antonio, Texas. Olivares, known for songs that were wedding and quinceanera mainstays including the hit “Juana La Cubana,” died Friday, March 17, 2023. He was 75. The noted saxophonist died in the morning at home in Houston, according to his wife, Griselda Olivares. (Edward A. Ornelas/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

Tejano musician Fito Olivares dies in Houston at 75

Ann Summers lingerie chain boss Jacqueline Gold dies at 62

Lance Reddick, ‘The Wire’ and ‘John Wick’ star, dies at 60