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Level99, a high-tech escape room startup business with one location in Natick and a second opening soon in Providence, has a research workshop in Norwood where creative ideas and prototypes are made. In this photo, senior project engineer Dane Stebbings tweaks electronic motors in the electronics research lab.

Innovation economy

‘There’s a hunger for this type of entertainment’: The escape room business is expanding

Local companies are broadening the concept of interactive entertainment as more people seek an alternative to screen time.

‘Fins Up Forever,’ Jimmy Buffett mourned in Boston, where he sought cancer treatment
The iconic songwriter known for "Margaritaville" died Friday at his home in Long Island, four years after being diagnosed with Merkel Cell Skin Cancer. Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute are among the places his family asks for donations to be made, according to his obituary.

‘Margaritaville’ singer Jimmy Buffett, who turned beach-bum life into an empire, dies at 76 Here’s a look at some of Jimmy Buffett’s best-known songs

A threatened auto workers strike poses trouble for Biden’s reelection
A strike is looking increasingly probable, and a lengthy walkout in such a major manufacturing sector would be a hit to a vulnerable US economy.

Bill and Rose Russell hold two of their children, William Jr. (left) and Jacob, in an undated photo.

The world knew him as Bill Russell. They knew him as dad.

From chasing storms to boxing lessons with Muhammad Ali, the Celtics legend's children share what it was like growing up Russell.

Basima Tewfik, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, is a research expert on the "imposter phenomenon."

KARA MILLER | THE BIG IDEA

Feel like an imposter? It might be good for your career.

MIT professor Basima Tewfik’s research uncovers an upside to being bothered by self-doubt.

Do diversion programs actually curb youth violence? Experts say yes.

Researchers and youth workers say the evidence is clear: Diversion is a key pathway to rehabilitation for children and young adults who might otherwise stumble deeper into a life of crime.

Death under investigation at Burning Man as flooding strands thousands at Nevada festival site

Authorities in Nevada were investigating a death at the site of the Burning Man festival where thousands of attendees remained stranded Saturday night as flooding from storms swept through the Nevada desert.

Burning Man on Monday, before the rains came.

This year’s Burning Man is a wet, muddy mess. Here are videos and photos.

Four Boston city councilors urge state of emergency be declared at Mass. and Cass
Councilors Murphy, Baker, Flaherty, and Flynn wrote in a Friday letter to the Boston Public Health Commission stating that the declaration would give Mayor Wu's administration "more flexibility to respond to the ongoing tragedy."

Drug firms test medicines to halt Alzheimer’s before symptoms appear
Signs of cognitive decline and memory loss may not show up for 10 to 20 years after the formation of deposits of amyloid and other toxic proteins in the brain, experts say.

Man shot and killed Saturday night in Dorchester near Franklin Park Zoo

The man was found at Old Road and Michigan Avenue. Emergency crews took him to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Fatal shooting in Lynn Saturday night not connected to earlier shooting of seven

The fatal shooting around 11 p.m. Saturday on Lincoln Street was about a quarter mile away from the shooting of seven early that morning.

Seven shot, one fatally, in drive-by shooting in Lynn

Johnston Sun Rise publisher John Howell looked over a layout of the front page of the Warwick Beacon newspaper near stacks of the newspapers in the office.

In a small Rhode Island town, a big issue about the First Amendment

Legal ads bring a lot of revenue to little local newspapers. What happens when local politicians pull them?

Undrafted rookie Malik Cunningham got through waivers and was re-signed to the Patriots' practice squad.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Breaking down the biggest news and moves from NFL’s cutdown day

This year’s cuts didn’t see too many surprises, but there were a few noteworthy moves.

How the NFL’s most recent controversy is alienating some of its broadcast partners

John Wesner Jeune and his wife, Daniella Colin, pose for a portrait with their daughter, Esther, 2, in Salem on Sept. 1, 2023. The family is staying in an emergency shelter at Salem State University.

This shelter in Salem is where hope lives

The immigrants and others at a shelter in Salem are getting the kind of welcome everyone in need deserves.

Opinion

Ocean quahogs under study at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. This species of clam has evolved changes in its genome allowing it to live over 500 years.

IDEAS | CAREY GOLDBERG

My heartening summer school class on the new science of aging

I went to the Cape to dive into the expanding field of "geroscience."

Of course it’s not racist to criticize Kamala Harris

Massachusetts needs a new tool against scammers who target elders

Republicans keep talking about ‘riots’ and ‘civil war.’ Believe them.

IDEAS | Jacqueline Grennon Brooks

Saying goodbye to ideas that no longer work

News you can use

COVID-19 levels are on the rise again in Mass. Here’s what to know.
As summer slides into fall and children around the state return to school, the uptick in COVID-19 that began in July is continuing, with hospitalizations now at a five-month high.

The Sumner Tunnel has finally reopened. Here’s what you need to know.
After a two-month closure that shut down a main route from Logan International Airport for critical repairs, the Sumner Tunnel reopened Friday.

Fun things to do Labor Day weekend in and around Boston
Classic suggestions for soaking up the last bits of summer in style.

Travelers hoping to enjoy one last summer fling over Labor Day weekend should expect lots of company

More recent News

Christopher L. Gasper

‘There was never a need for reconciliation’: Brady clan excited to return, reconnect with Patriots at opener
“It’s almost impossible to limit what the Patriots have meant to the Brady family for the last 25 years,” said Tom Brady Sr.

Bill Richardson, a former governor and UN ambassador who worked to free detained Americans, dies
Bill Richardson, a two-term Democratic governor of New Mexico and a US ambassador to the United Nations who dedicated his post-political career to working to free Americans detained overseas, has died.

Property stolen through open dorm windows at BU, officials say

Boston University Police are reminding students to lock their doors and windows following a pair of burglaries on Bay State Road early Saturday morning, in which a suspect gained access to the residence through an open window.

Biden tells Idalia’s Florida victims ‘your nation has your back.’ DeSantis rejects meeting with him.
President Biden on Saturday saw from the sky Hurricane Idalia’s impact across a swath of Florida before he set out on a walking tour of a city recovering from the storm.

‘This is a moment for workers’: Service employees march for better pay, working conditions
“We need to make sure that we are not leaving these workers behind,” said Roxana Rivera, a labor organizer with Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union.

Pope joins shamans, monks and evangelicals to highlight Mongolia’s faith diversity
With China’s crackdown on religious minorities as a backdrop, Pope Francis joined Mongolian shamans, Buddhist monks and a Russian Orthodox priest Sunday to highlight the role that religions can play in forging world peace, as he presided over an interfaith meeting highlighting Mongolia’s tradition of religious tolerance.

Recommended reads

Nancy Edwards in her apartment.

A Boston shelter tried a new approach to finding women stable housing. Three years later, its success is clear.

Since launching its stabilization program in July 2020, Women’s Lunch Place says that 97 percent of women who found housing are still living in their homes.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

A luxurious new way for Bostonians to fly to Bermuda, with a hefty price tag to match
For $2,000 round trip, you can experience BermudAir’s new “aisle class" — suites that take up the entire cabin and provide an "exceptional level of comfort and privacy.”

The story behind that profanity-laced pizza review video in Davis Square
Dragon Pizza in Somerville's Davis Square wanted no part of Dave Portnoy's “One Bite Pizza Reviews," and the owner made his feelings known.

In daring, daylong rescue, crews reach stranded hikers on Mount Katahdin in Maine
First responders who joined the daring rescue of six hikers on Mount Katahdin in Maine last weekend had to contend with 30 mph winds and plummeting temperatures during an operation that lasted 21 hours, according to a nonprofit rescue group that helped bring the trapped hikers to safety.

Culture & Lifestyle

A look at design through a feminist lens; a children’s tale by the booksellers at I AM Books; Salem Literary Festival opens this week

Jake Gyllenhaal (pictured) and Greta Caruso (”The Secret Society of Aunts & Uncles”) discuss their children’s book with illustrator Dan Santat virtually via Brookline Booksmith on Sept. 7.

Author readings around Boston Sept. 3-9

Lucy Liu and Jonny Lee Miller as Watson and Holmes in "Elementary."

If you like ‘Suits,’ then try these shows on for size

A crowd greets Little Amal on a visit to Staten Island.

Why is this 12-foot-tall puppet coming to Boston?

Special Projects

Photo Illustration

Boston thrives off the dreams of young people. But can they make it here?

Baby boomers and Gen Xers benefited from economic conditions that do not exist for millennials. And by many measures, the path ahead for Gen Z is even more fraught.

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

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

Brittany Tee, Soomaiiah Quraiishi, and Reina Morales Rojas are among thousands of people thought to be missing from Massachusetts.

How the missing become the uncounted

Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

Two Weeks in America

Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Xolo Maridueña stars as a Mexican American superhero in the movie "Blue Beetle."

MARCELA GARCÍA

‘Blue Beetle’s’ Latino superpower

District 5 City Council candidate Enrique Pepén.

Enrique Pepén for City Council in District 5

El superpoder latino de “Blue Beetle”

Former president and 2024 hopeful Donald Trump arrived at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., Aug. 3 before being arraigned in Washington, D.C., on charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election.

Trump is unfit by many measures, including the Constitution’s

A view from Building 8 at the Suffolk County House of Correction in Boston.

Breaking the cycle of post-prison homelessness

"This city is special," the author writes, "and Boston, so restrained in emotion, deserves to hear this more often."

IDEAS | OMER AZIZ

My farewell love letter to Boston

Metro

Four Boston city councilors urge state of emergency be declared at Mass. and Cass

Councilors Murphy, Baker, Flaherty, and Flynn wrote in a Friday letter to the Boston Public Health Commission stating that the declaration would give Mayor Wu's administration "more flexibility to respond to the ongoing tragedy."

Kailyn loves sports, art, and animals

Sunday’s Child is a weekly column featuring a child currently in foster care awaiting adoption.

Marilyn Lovell, stoic wife of Apollo 13 commander, dies at 93

Her whose outward demeanor and inward agony epitomized the emotional rigors of the space program for astronauts’ wives.

‘Fins Up Forever,’ Jimmy Buffett mourned in Boston, where he sought cancer treatment

The iconic songwriter known for "Margaritaville" died Friday at his home in Long Island, four years after being diagnosed with Merkel Cell Skin Cancer. Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute are among the places his family asks for donations to be made, according to his obituary.

Sports

Chris Sale has dominated the Royals in his career.

RED SOX AT ROYALS | 2:10 P.M. (NESN)

Game 137: Red Sox at Royals lineups and notes

Sunday starter Chris Sale hasn't lost to the Royals since 2016.

Ceddanne Rafaela has spent most of his brief time with the Red Sox on the bench, a departure from the usual plan when teams call up highly touted prospects.

RED SOX NOTEBOOK

Ceddanne Rafaela largely watching from the bench despite Red Sox being big fans of the prospect

Alex Cora has had reasons to keep Trevor Story, Adam Duvall, Masataka Yoshida, and Justin Turner in the lineup. That's resulted in Rafaela getting just one start and two late defensive appearances in the five games since he was called up on Monday.

Alex Verdugo had a triple and a double by the end of the second inning on Saturday night in Kansas City, part of a potent Red Sox attack one night after they were blown out by the abysmal Royals.

RED SOX 9, ROYALS 5

One night after ghastly blowout, Alex Verdugo, Red Sox crack back at Royals to end five-game skid

The Royals led the Sox, 7-0, after three innings on Friday night. The Red Sox led the Royals, 8-1, after four innings on Saturday. Baseball works that way sometimes.

Austin FC 2, Revolution 2

A late tying goal denies Revolution victory, but draw keeps home unbeaten streak alive

Lefthander Brandon Williamson to miss start Sunday as Reds continue to be hit hard by COVID-19

guardians 7, rays 6 (11 inn.)

Guardians rally with two runs in 11th for walkoff win over Rays

Business

Russia attacks a Ukrainian port before key grain deal talks between Putin and Turkey’s president

Two people were hospitalized following a 3½-hour Russian drone barrage against port infrastructure in Ukraine’s Odesa region on Sunday, officials said.

KARA MILLER | THE BIG IDEA

Feel like an imposter? It might be good for your career.

MIT professor Basima Tewfik’s research uncovers an upside to being bothered by self-doubt.

This red dye was so valuable it built cities. One family in Mexico is still making it the old way

US hiring settles into a lower gear

magazine

The New England Revolution’s B-team, known as Revolution II, during a game.

He's the youngest soccer player ever signed by the Revolution

How do you get people to leash their dogs in places where it’s required?

Smugglers dumped drugs off the coast. Struggling Maine fishermen saw a jackpot.

He was caught trying to scam a COVID fund. Then he vanished.

metro

Brian Diaz and Lucy Encarnacion were among those gathered outside the house on Essex Street in Lynn where seven people were shot early Saturday morning. Diaz said his brother Abraham was killed, and Encarnacion said two of her cousins were injured.

Seven shot, one fatally, in drive-by shooting in Lynn, according to district attorney

‘This is a moment for workers’: Service employees march for better pay, working conditions

This shelter in Salem is where hope lives

sports

Megan Khang made five birdies on the back nine Saturday in the third round of the Portland Classic in Oregon, putting her in position to follow her long-sought first LPGA victory with a second the following week.

Rockland’s Megan Khang, fresh off her first LPGA victory, takes another lead into the final round

Shohei Ohtani considering his options, but a second Tommy John surgery could mean tougher recovery

Auburn’s running game too much for UMass football to handle

business

Rosalind Brewer

S&P 500 loses its sole black female CEO with Walgreens departure

This Boston company is rethinking the way digital tickets are sold

Giant ‘stuffies’ are part of a new R.I. tourism campaign. Locals aren’t the biggest fans.

politics

Bill Richardson, the the governor of New Mexico, in his office at the state capitol in Santa Fe in 2010.

Bill Richardson, a former governor and UN ambassador who worked to free detained Americans, dies

Biden tells Idalia’s Florida victims ‘your nation has your back.’ DeSantis rejects meeting with him.

A threatened auto workers strike poses trouble for Biden’s reelection

Nation

Burning Man on Monday, before the rains came.

This year’s Burning Man is a wet, muddy mess. Here are videos and photos.

Death under investigation at Burning Man as flooding strands thousands at Nevada festival site

Tribe getting piece of Minnesota back more than a century after ancestors died there

World

Taiwan suspends work, transport and classes as Typhoon Haikui slams into the island

Pope joins shamans, monks and evangelicals to highlight Mongolia’s faith diversity

India’s moon rover completes its walk, scientists analyzing data looking for signs of frozen water

opinion

Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley during the Republican primary presidential debate hosted by Fox News in Milwaukee Aug. 23.

First debate gets GOP primary up and running

‘Blue Beetle’s’ Latino superpower

Enrique Pepén for City Council in District 5

lifestyle

Speed-dating offers an alternative to getting stuck in a pattern of swiping on apps.

Less swiping, more face time: Niche speed-dating offers a specialized alternative to online romance

PEM turns cultural perceptions of bats upside down

His mother expects him to help with her farm property

food & dining

From left: three roasted duck tacos, from dry rubbed, slow-roasted duck thighs, with tamarind glaze and cilantro; shaved sesame ribeye steak with kimchi; cauliflower with piquillo romesco sauce; and braised pork belly in a sweet chili glaze with pickled red onions.

Beach culture is on the menu at Brookline’s new bartaco location

Somerville’s Cantina La Mexicana is closing; Blue Ribbon Brasserie prepares for a fall opening

‘Our love letter to Mexico’: New restaurant on Providence’s Federal Hill pays homage to traditional cuisine

travel

A giant stuffie part of Rhode Island's new tourism campaign. The stuffed clams will head to airports all over the country.

Giant ‘stuffies’ are part of a new R.I. tourism campaign. Locals aren’t the biggest fans.

This Maine inn ranked 4th-best bed and breakfast in the US, according to USA Today

Travel Insured International holds up a refund of $12,780

Arts

Alexis Rockman, "Oceanus," 2022. Oil and cold wax on Dibond on aluminum substrate.

At Mystic Seaport Museum, Alexis Rockman’s massive ‘Oceanus’ is a monument to the sea

Cartoonist Barbara Shermund makes a comeback

At Peabody Essex Museum, Gio Swaby’s virtuosic portraits of Black women in thread and fabric

Books

Butcher or baronet?

Author readings around Boston Sept. 3-9

Did Orwell’s wife write herself out of history?

Movies

From left: Scott Johnson and Steve Johnson (with the camcorder) from "Never Let Him Go." The image is reflecting off the glass of the John Hancock Tower.

True-crime docuseries ‘Never Let Him Go’ chronicles Cambridge man’s quest for justice

Summer movies postmortem: Our critic on 4-star favorites, forgettable flops, and films he wished he’d reviewed

Taylor Swift is bringing The Eras Tour movie to theaters

Television

Tom Selleck in "Blue Bloods."

‘Blue Bloods’ mines the past to ride out the present

If you like ‘Suits,’ then try these shows on for size

A couple of picks from the AMC series popping up on Max

music

(L to R) Brian Littrell, Kevin Richardson, A.J. McLean, Howie Dorough, and Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys at the 28th Annual American Music Awards on Jan. 8, 2001, in Los Angeles, CA, where they won the award for Favorite Rock Band. Singer Nick Carter is facing two civil lawsuits in Nevada alleging two separate sexual assaults dating back to the early 2000s.

Nick Carter of Backstreet Boys facing civil lawsuits in Vegas alleging sexual assault decades ago

After outrage over Taylor Swift tickets, reform has been slow across the US

Zelda soundtrack as legendary as the game itself

Theater/Dance

Ian Shaw bears a striking resemblance to his late father, Robert Shaw (pictured on the magazine cover).

Squint and you’ll see Quint: Ian Shaw channels his dad in the ‘Jaws’-inspired ‘The Shark Is Broken’

In the Huntington’s ‘Prayer for the French Republic,’ antisemitism strikes at a Jewish family’s idea of home

Why is this 12-foot-tall puppet coming to Boston?

Health

Research nurse Sarah French checks on Rodolfo Almeida of Providence at The Miriam Hospital's new Stephen and Diana Lewinstein Center for Innovative Cancer Research, a clinical area where patients receive investigational cancer treatments.

Changing the landscape of cancer care in R.I.: Lifespan, Brown to seek NCI designation

To better understand alcohol addiction, new research is turning to fruit flies

Stanford president to resign after investigation finds he failed to ‘decisively and forthrightly’ correct research

Obituaries

Mrs. Lovell, the wife of astronaut James A. Lovell Jr., Apollo 13 mission commander, discussed the flight with Charles A. Berry, flight surgeon, a day after an explosion on the space craft. The two were in a special viewing area overlooking the flight control room.

Marilyn Lovell, stoic wife of Apollo 13 commander, dies at 93

Jimmy Buffett, singer whose ‘Margaritaville’ became anthem and empire, is dead at 76

Former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed, whose son was killed in crash with Princess Diana, dies at 94