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Dan Shaughnessy remembers Tim Wakefield

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Boston takes its case for more liquor licenses to Beacon Hill

The city is aiming to add 250 licenses over five years — a 25 percent expansion — dedicated to neighborhoods where sit-down restaurants and bars are sparse.

Trump seethes through the start of trial in New York lawsuit accusing him of lying about his wealth
The state’s lawsuit accuses Donald Trump and his company of deceiving banks, insurers, and others by misstating his wealth for years in financial statements.

Russ Francis, former Patriots tight end, killed in Lake Placid plane crash
Francis was a passenger when the plane crashed near the Lake Placid Airport on Sunday. Richard McSpadden, who was piloting the plane, was also killed.

An All-Pro tight end, a free-spirit, and a subject of legend: Looking back on the career of Russ Francis

Lexington native Dr. Drew Weissman who won Nobel Prize in medicine tells reporters he first thought it was a ‘prank’
Dr. Weissman told reporters Monday that he received a “cryptic” text message from his colleague alluding to something big.

How does mRNA technology work? Meet the scientists at the center of the race for COVID-19 vaccines

Allegations of discrimination and harassment roil Worcester Art Museum
A pair of complaints paint a picture of a "hostile" workplace under director Matthias Waschek.

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Warm air returns, along with clear skies now that Canadian wildfire smoke has moved out
Above average temperatures are going to continue for the rest of the week.

AG Campbell launches reproductive justice unit, appoints Sapna Khatri as director

Weymouth hiker helped down Mount Monadnock after becoming lost, officials say

Central Mass. health care system Heywood Health files for bankruptcy

N.H. man convicted of running unlicensed bitcoin business gets 8-year prison sentence

Jaylen Brown (above), who posed for photos on media day, went to a Colorado football game with former Buffalo Derrick White.

Celtics Media Day

Tailgating with Derrick White, Kristaps Porzingis’s health, and other takeaways from Celtics media day

The Celtics officially ushered in the new season, and new addition Jrue Holiday was a popular topic.

‘This one hurt’: Jayson Tatum says goodbye to former Celtics teammates Robert Williams and Malcolm Brogdon

Cowboys 38, Patriots 3

While voicing his belief that the 1-3 Patriots are better than what they have shown so far, Bill Belichick also spoke to the reality of a 35-point loss.

The Patriots say they’re better than they seem. Their words are starting to ring hollow.

The Patriots were an undisciplined mess, incapable of stringing together a touchdown drive in a 38-3 blowout loss, the worst of the Belichick era.

Discussion: Is Bill Belichick doing the right thing by sticking with Mac Jones at quarterback?

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Always more than a baseball player, Tim Wakefield was a hero, on and off the field, for the Red Sox
Wakefield was a community pillar for his entire three decades in Greater Boston, and never wavered in his support for causes like the Jimmy Fund.

Share your favorite memories of Tim Wakefield Red Sox teammates pay tribute to late Tim Wakefield

Seattle Mariners starting pitcher George Kirby throws against the Texas Rangers during the fifth inning of a baseball game Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023, in Seattle.

Watch: Mariners pitcher George Kirby throws knuckleball as tribute to Tim Wakefield

Kirby threw his first knuckleball in the major leagues to honor the late Wakefield, who mastered the pitch during his Red Sox career.

Tim Wakefield, former Red Sox knuckleballer who won two World Series, dies at 57

Singer Taylor Swift cheered prior to the game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium on Sunday in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Taylor Swift watches Travis Kelce’s Chiefs take on the Jets at MetLife Stadium

Taylor Swift’s appearance came a week after she was at Arrowhead Stadium — decked out in red and white — to watch the Chiefs play the Chicago Bears at home in a suite alongside Donna Kelce.

Third baseman Rafael Devers signed a lucrative long-term extension last January that begins next season.

Red Sox reset: A look at the contract status of every player on the 40-man roster

Here is how the roster looks heading into the offseason after another disappointing last-place finish.

Artist Salvatore Del Deo walked around Frenchie's shack with the aid of his son, Romolo Del Deo, in June, shortly before the family was evicted.

Artist’s family strikes deal to stay in Provincetown dune shack for five more years

Following weeks of negotiations, a pro bono legal team representing Salvatore Del Deo, working with Interior Department representatives, struck a deal that allows his family to continue to occupy the shack.

A House divided doesn't get much done.

Larry Edelman | Trendlines

Paying the price for a do-little Congress

The stopgap government funding deal to avoid a federal shutdown was an unexpected display of bipartisan sanity. But paralysis in Congress is bad for the economy.

Pine Tree Power grassroots organizer Lucy Hochschartner spoke to Dean Bradbury, of Portland, Maine, during canvassing on Sunday. Also pictured is Bradbury's dog Sadie.

A battle rages in Maine over an election that some say could change the course of climate action

“This is a definitive fight of 2023 as far as climate,” said Candice Fortin, US campaigns manager for the climate activism group 350.org.

Krisha Panchalingam, center, director of lab and scientific operations at Portal Innovations, spoke to attendees at an information session for MassBio’s Bioversity, a new biotech training program to expand workforce training in the former Boston Globe building in Dorchester (now called Southline).

The promise of biotech jobs is coming to Boston’s neighborhoods

Bioversity, a new training center under construction in Dorchester, last week hosted residents and job seekers at its future site.

Opinion

A patient was wheeled into the emergency room at Boston Medical Center in 2020.

Patients in hallways, long waits for beds: Hospital bottlenecks reach crisis levels

Hospitals, nursing homes, insurers, and policy makers need to find solutions.

The complicity that enables sexual predators

IDEAS | ALISSA VALLES

‘1984’ was meant as a critique of the USSR, but it really fits Putin’s Russia

State needs to end MCAS as a graduation requirement

Pandemic learning losses show MCAS is needed now more than ever

Hispanic Heritage Month

Jose Masso stands next to "The Embrace" monument on Boston Common. His name is one of 69 inscribed on the 1965 Freedom Plaza that encircles the sculpture.

On the air and off, Jose Masso has been heard

Four girls at an athletic field in Roxbury, at a recreational sporting event sponsored by La Alianza Hispana.

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

Dr. Pablo Rodriguez, a long-time public health advocate and Latino radio host who has launched Rhode Island’s first Spanish-language health website, nuestrasalud.com.

During Hispanic Heritage Month, doctor says R.I. can do better: ‘Taco Tuesday is not progress. It is appeasement.’

Owner Edner Ttrente Et Un at Viva Mi Arepa, a Venezuelan restaurant in West Roxbury.

10 restaurants that capture the spirit of Hispanic Heritage Month

More recent News

In Boston’s council election, Mayor Michelle Wu tries to flex her influence
By backing certain candidates, she is trying to build a power structure that makes it easier for her to deliver on her agenda.

PROVIDENCE

Downtown Providence grocer Rory’s closes its doors, a year after opening
Rory’s Market + Kitchen was the first grocer to open in downtown Providence in decades.

Over the weekend, Greater Boston gained a company on the S&P 500
Veralto Corp., a new arrival in Waltham, has spun off from Danaher and is now trading as an independent company.

Organizers cancel a Twin Cities marathon and 10K race due to ‘extreme and dangerous’ heat
In the days leading up to Sunday's Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon, organizers had warned that weather conditions could be unsafe.

Fire destroys Jamie Wyeth paintings, damages historic buildings in Maine
The original paintings and illustration, along with several signed prints, books, and photographs, were lost when the fire started late Wednesday.

Jury selected for trial of Logan Clegg, man accused of killing retired couple in Concord, N.H., opening statements Tuesday
A jury was selected Monday in the highly anticipated trial of Logan L. Clegg, a drifter who allegedly killed a retired Concord, N.H., couple on a hiking trail near their home last year, paving the way for opening statements in the case on Tuesday morning, officials said.

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Recommended reads

Dominique Lee, the new president of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts.

Reproductive rights are under attack. Dominique Lee is up for the challenge.

Lee recently returned to Boston as the new president and chief executive of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, overseeing four clinics that serve more than 40,000 patients annually.

Faneuil Hall should be renamed, some say. But the process and support for a name change are hazy.
A coalition called the New Democracy Coalition has been pushing to rename Faneuil Hall over the last five years because of Faneuil’s enslavement of and trading of human beings.

For Boston’s police intelligence gathering operation, more barbed questions
Councilors and civil rights advocates have for years demanded more details about BRIC’s gang database.

Kendi raised millions with promises to conquer racism. What went wrong?
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi said that the recent turmoil surrounding the Center for Antiracist Research should be understood as the growing pains of a young, fast-moving organization still finding its footing.

Culture & Lifestyle

Solomon Hughes as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Quincy Isaiah as Magic Johnson in HBO's "Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty."

Lakers legend Magic Johnson pans ‘Winning Time’

Justine Covault, 59, died in June.

Friends of rocker Justine Covault offer a fitting farewell

SZA onstage at TD Garden on Saturday night.

SZA sets sail across familiar waters with an ever-loyal crew

AWR Music's "A New World: intimate music from 'Final Fantasy'" concert program was performed at Jordan Hall under the direction of Eric Roth at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall on Sept. 29, 2023.

‘A New World’ doesn’t make the most compelling case for ‘Final Fantasy’ music

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

Melissa Gomes watched her 6-year-old daughter, Melyahni, bounce on the trampoline outside her home in Malden. Many suburbs have erected barriers to the kind of income-restricted, multibedroom housing that families with kids need.

The Boston suburbs’ cynical ploy to keep poor families out: Use seniors as a shield

Footage of New York City Ballet dancers from outside the David H. Koch Theater in New York, Sept. 18.

Joan Wickersham

Body-shaming isn’t limited to the world of ballet

Rupert Murdoch in his New York office in 2007. Murdoch announced his retirement from the Fox and News Corporation boards on Sept. 21.

Rupert Murdoch was good for Boston

A two-page feature on abortion from an issue of Ms. Magazine.

Ms. magazine, ’73: show and tell in a Catholic high school classroom

The complicity that enables sexual predators

"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

Boston Foundation’s Brunson leads charge on tackling racial homeownership gap

Bold Types is our weekly roundup of the movers and shakers on Boston's business scene.

Boston takes its case for more liquor licenses to Beacon Hill

The city is aiming to add 250 licenses over five years — a 25 percent expansion — dedicated to neighborhoods where sit-down restaurants and bars are sparse.

Artist’s family strikes deal to stay in Provincetown dune shack for five more years

Following weeks of negotiations, a pro bono legal team representing Salvatore Del Deo, working with Interior Department representatives, struck a deal that allows his family to continue to occupy the shack.

Lakeville man held without bail after being shot in police confrontation Friday

On Friday at around 3:45 a.m., Timothy Hladik allegedly approached a Lakeville police officer who was monitoring traffic near the intersection of Precinct and Pickens streets with what appeared to be a black handgun, officials said.

Sports

Bills cornerback Tre'Davious White had an interception while starting all four games this season.

Bills lose key cornerback Tre’Davious White but set for Von Miller’s return

The AFC East co-leaders' secondary took a hit with the loss of a key starter.

Team owner Steve Cohen welcomed David Stearns into the Mets' fold.

Mets introduce New York native David Stearns as team’s first president of baseball operations

The 38-year-old former Brewers top executive will attempt to turn around the big-spending, poor-performing Mets, starting with finding a replacement for fired manager Buck Showalter.

Phillies reliever Craig Kimbrel (right) had the most pitch-clock violations in the majors with 13, including one in May that led to his having words with the Diamondbacks' Josh Rojas.

Game times in Major League Baseball drop by an average of 24 minutes in first year of pitch clock

The average game time dropped to its 1985 level of 2 hours, 40 minutes, after passing 3 hours for the first time in 2016.

Highlights: What Sam Kennedy, Alex Cora said in Red Sox end-of-season press conference

HS BOYS' SOCCER: TOP 20

EMass boys’ soccer: With strength in numbers, BC High stays atop Globe’s Top 20 poll

Celtics Media Day

Tailgating with Derrick White, Kristaps Porzingis’s health, and other takeaways from Celtics media day

Business

Boston Fed’s second-in-command will retire after four decades with the Federal Reserve

Kenneth C. Montgomery has been first vice president and chief operating officer since 2011.

Boston Foundation’s Brunson leads charge on tackling racial homeownership gap

Bold Types is our weekly roundup of the movers and shakers on Boston's business scene.

Crypto goes on trial, as Bankman-Fried faces his reckoning

Boston takes its case for more liquor licenses to Beacon Hill

magazine

My co-workers' jokes about suicide leave me rattled

Jazz Along the Charles, set for October 7, will feature 100 Boston-based musicians.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, Oct. 2 - Oct. 15

A social studies classroom at Kingswood Regional High School in Wolfeboro.

The Education Issue

The 'anti-woke' legislation making N.H. teachers nervous

The Education Issue

Mass. schools are among the best. Except for financial literacy.

metro

The playground at Meeting Street, the largest provider of Early Intervention in Rhode Island.

State agency proposes $2 million bump for Early Intervention amid long waits for RI infants and toddlers

Jury selected for trial of Logan Clegg, man accused of killing retired couple in Concord, N.H., opening statements Tuesday

Downtown Providence grocer Rory’s closes its doors, a year after opening

sports

Campbell Keyes used his head to net a pair of goals last week in Needham wins.

EMass boys’ soccer: Captaining Needham to a pair of bounce-back wins, Campbell Keyes headlines Players of the Week

Aliyah Boston unanimously chosen for WNBA Rookie of the Year

Looking back at the career of Russ Francis: All-Pro tight end, free spirit, and a subject of legend

business

Former president Donald Trump attended the trial of himself, his adult sons, the Trump Organization, and others in a civil fraud case brought by state Attorney General Letitia James at a Manhattan courthouse in New York City on Monday.

Trump seethes through the start of trial in New York lawsuit accusing him of lying about his wealth

Microsoft CEO testifies that Google’s power in search is ubiquitous

N.H. man convicted of running unlicensed bitcoin business gets 8-year prison sentence

politics

Former president Donald Trump attended the trial of himself, his adult sons, the Trump Organization, and others in a civil fraud case brought by state Attorney General Letitia James at a Manhattan courthouse in New York City on Monday.

Trump seethes through the start of trial in New York lawsuit accusing him of lying about his wealth

Newsom names Laphonza Butler, former Kamala Harris adviser, to Feinstein Senate seat

Paying the price for a do-little Congress

Nation

Former President Donald Trump addressed media after leaving a New York State Supreme court after the start of the civil fraud trial against him Monday. Trump and his associates are charged with inflating assets in fraudulent financial statements.

Trump’s fraud trial starts with attacks on attorney general and judge

Chicago woman, 104, skydives from plane, aiming for record as the world’s oldest skydiver

Jimmy Carter turns 99 at home with Rosalynn and other family as tributes come from around the world

World

In this photo provided by Bomberos/ayuntamiento de Murcia, part of the burned-out interior a nightclub which caught fire is pictured in Murcia, south-eastern Spain, on Oct. 1.

5 missing people are located after a Spanish nightclub fire, leaving the death toll at 13

Women’s voices and votes loom large as pope is to open a Vatican meeting on church’s future

Top European diplomats meet in Kyiv to support Ukraine as signs of strain show among allies

opinion

The complicity that enables sexual predators

Body-shaming isn’t limited to the world of ballet

Rupert Murdoch was good for Boston

lifestyle

Author and "Jeopardy!" champ Amy Schneider will read from her new memoir, "In the Form of a Question," at First Parish Church in Cambridge on Oct. 5.

She wants you to know the real ‘Jeopardy Amy’

She gave my husband a hug goodbye

New documentary celebrates 100-inning charity baseball game for ALS research

food & dining

Loren Lin prepared a drink at Hecate, an underground speakeasy in Boston on June 24, 2022.

Boston takes its case for more liquor licenses to Beacon Hill

Get to know the ethnic food markets in Boston and beyond

Providence’s beloved Riffraff bookstore and bar have new owners that plan on keeping it just the same

travel

The Tanglewood grounds remain open to the public all year.

Didn’t make it to Tanglewood this summer? A fall stroll sounds just as good.

We’re going to Lenox this fall. (Again.) Here’s why you should, too.

Two Berkshires motor inns have been reinvented as chic hotels, but are they worth the chic price?

Arts

"Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child," by Lavinia Fontana (Italian (Bolognese), 1552–1614)

In Renaissance Italy, women artists quietly persisted

When seeing is believing meets believing as seeing

A date with rare books and historical records at the Boston Public Library

Books

Olga Ravn, author of “My Work.”

Olga Ravn, in ‘My Work,’ turns a jaundiced eye on the experience of giving birth

Providence’s beloved Riffraff bookstore and bar have new owners that plan on keeping it just the same

Marty Baron, author of the new book ‘Collision of Power,’ tells the stories behind the stories

Movies

Beyoncé performed onstage during the opening night of the “RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR” at Friends Arena on May 10 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour is over. But it’s coming to movie theaters soon.

Hollywood writers have won the AI battle. What about the rest of us?

‘Stop Making Sense’ in IMAX: Same as it ever was, but bigger and even better

Television

Boston officials installed barricades blocking access to the City Hall playground slide after it was featured in a viral video that inspired countless adults to take it for a test ride.

Boston’s infamous ‘Cop Slide’ video featured on John Oliver’s show

Lakers legend Magic Johnson pans ‘Winning Time’

Late-night shows return after writers strike as actors resume talks that could end their standoff

music

A photo of Mick Jagger taken by Ted Gartland and featured in his exhibit, “All Down the Line: The Rolling Stones in Boston,” at the Panopticon Gallery.

Whenever the Rolling Stones were in town, photographer Ted Gartland was there, too

Taylor Swift watches Travis Kelce’s Chiefs take on the Jets at MetLife Stadium

Mariah Carey announces Christmas tour with a date at TD Garden

Theater/Dance

Jared Zirilli (center) and the cast of "The Full Monty" at North Shore Music Theatre.

‘The Full Monty’ takes a while to show what it’s got

On Broadway, a season of first impressions and second chances

A father reckons with his grief by getting onstage and holding back nothing

Health

A CVS pharmacist administers vaccinations for COVID-19 and seasonal flu to Angie Chandler at a store in Orlando, Fla. on Friday, Sept. 15.

Latest COVID vaccine rollout facing canceled appointments, pricey insurance bills

In its first year, calls to 988 Lifeline increase 50 percent in Rhode Island

Dana-Farber deal highlights a surprising trend: New cancer centers are in vogue

Obituaries

Mr. Sherman, shown at his home in Lexington in 2010, started teaching at the New England Conservatory in 1967.

Russell Sherman, luminous pianist and longtime New England Conservatory teacher, dies at 93

Chris Snow, NHL executive and ‘beacon of hope’ for those with ALS, dies at 42

Tom Conway, Steelworkers President and Biden Ally, Dies at 71