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Barbara Lynch photographed inside of her South End restaurant, The Butcher Shop, in 2018.

After scandal, struggles, Barbara Lynch is paring back her restaurant group

Only No. 9 Park, B&G Oysters, and The Rudder will remain open.

Read the statement on the closure and sale of multiple Barbara Lynch restaurants At Barbara Lynch’s restaurants, growing concern over a toxic culture

The northern lights over Trømso, Norway.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

Forget over-hyped tourist hotspots. Here are the best destinations to visit in 2024.

Here’s a handy rule of thumb for determining where to travel in 2024: Look at the many lists and surveys of places people plan to visit this year, then pick somewhere else. Here are some ideas to get you started.

A Hurtigruten Expedition ship sailed by Brown Bluff in Antarctica. The cruise line is known for its cutting-edge research on the continent.

Antarctica is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth. Are tourists making it worse?

One study found that each tourist’s arrival to the continent results in 83 tons of snow loss. And interest only continues to grow.

What should you do if you develop COVID? Take our quiz.
Stay up to date on the latest guidance for testing, isolation, and leaving isolation. But make it fun.

Bill Belichick has taken Patriots fans on quite a ride over the last 24 years.

dan shaughnessy

If this is the end for Bill Belichick, he deserves gratitude, and other thoughts

Belichick has delivered the goods longer and better than any other coach in NFL history.

Tell us: What are your thoughts ahead of Belichick's potential last game as Patriots head coach? Is Robert Kraft ready to move on from Bill Belichick? First they need to have ‘The Talk.’

Gift cards displayed at a Target store. You can buy gift cards in grocery stores and elsewhere without worrying about size or style.

THE FINE PRINT

Got gift cards as holiday presents? Here’s what to know about using (or selling) them.

The major takeaway about gift cards? Use them promptly to avoid losing or forgetting you have them.

‘Significant’ nor’easter to hit New England Saturday into Sunday

A powerful storm system that could drop as much as a foot of snow in some parts of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut is expected to arrive Saturday evening, the National Weather Service said Friday.

Mass. officials preparing for weekend snow storm

Forecast | Dave Epstein

Weekend storm could drop up to a foot of snow away from the coast

This map shows how much snow is expected to fall across New England.

Maps: How much snow is expected in your area?

Police identify victims of Dorchester rollover crash as 14 and 15-year-old boys. 17-year-old boy remains in ‘grave’ condition

Four teenage boys were in a car when it rolled over multiple times near the entrance to the UMass-Boston campus Thursday.

Boston-bound JetBlue flight diverted in Florida due to ‘disturbance’ between two passengers

JetBlue Flight 170, carrying passengers from Fort Lauderdale to Boston, was diverted to Orlando “due to a disturbance between two customers on board,” according to a spokesperson for JetBlue Airways.

As he lags behind Trump and Haley in N.H., Chris Christie resists calls to drop out of GOP primary race

Less than three weeks before the New Hampshire primary, Christie’s campaign is looking not only quixotic but increasingly counterproductive, as the moral case for his presidency butts up against simple political game theory.

Liberal group files challenge to remove Trump from Massachusetts primary ballot

Hundreds of convictions, but a major mystery is still unsolved 3 years after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot

Mass. officials have collected $769 million less in tax revenues than expected in past six months

Haverhill 9-year-old struck after getting off bus, seriously injured

Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall in "Colin From Accounts," a binge-able rom-com on Paramount+.

12 shows to binge on this snowy weekend

Here are a dozen shows Globe TV critic Matthew Gilbert recommends to fill the hours of being stuck inside.

Car dealers back away from Buick amid lower sales, EV push

Even as General Motors prepares to roll out electric versions of its Buick vehicles, hundreds of Buick dealerships nationwide, including at least four in Massachusetts, are turning their backs on the brand.

Seth MacFarlane returns as the voice of Ted in Peacock's new prequel series.

How Seth MacFarlane’s New England roots influenced his Framingham-set prequel series ‘Ted’

The show’s creator found inspiration in "loud and abrasive and just impossible to ignore" Bostonians.

Opinion

Indian passengers arrived back to their homeland Dec. 26, 2023. They were on a charter plane en route to Nicaragua but were instead blocked inside the Châlons Vatry Airport in France for four days.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Nicaragua’s weaponization of migrants

President Daniel Ortega is offering Nicaragua as a shortcut for African, Asian, Cuban, and Haitian migrants who seek to reach the US-Mexico border.

ALEX BEAM

Is Taylor Swift dating the wrong NFL superstar?

IDEAS | DAN PRIETO & MILES TAYLOR

Get ready for AI mayhem in the 2024 elections

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

At 95, the ‘Make Way for Ducklings’ sculptor is ready to unveil her ‘deep,’ ‘angry’ work

LETTERS

Harvard’s interim president should quit boards of two drug companies

Beyond the Gilded Gate

The $600,000 problem. Why does it cost so much to build housing in Boston, and what can we do about it?

Many forces drive the housing crisis here, and the sky-high cost of construction is one of the most powerful.

Calculator: How costs affect construction of an apartment building

Explore the project

More recent News

Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius freed after serving nearly 9 years in prison for killing girlfriend

Pistorius has served nearly nine years of his 13 years and five months murder sentence for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day 2013. He was approved for parole in November.

Rays shortstop Wander Franco faces judge as officials accuse him of having sex with a 14-year-old

Franco, who was detained Monday in the Dominican Republic, hasn't been charged with any crimes. He is facing allegations that he had a relationship with a girl and gave her mother a car and money in exchange for her consent.

MFA among museums targeted in cyberattack on collections software

The issue is confined to the museum’s public collections search function and its private data, which is hosted on internal systems, remains secure, an MFA spokesperson said.

Flat Top Johnny’s, a neighborhood favorite, reopens in Cambridge

“We’ve missed you!” the company wrote on social media this week, announcing its return in a “fresh space.”

As Mass. greens its electric grid, state looks for ways to help ease bills on low-income customers

The Department of Public Utilities has ordered a study of affordability programs in an effort to ease the burden of higher electrical costs.

Israeli defense minister lays out vision for next steps of war ahead of Blinken visit

Israel has come under heavy international pressure to spell out a post-war vision but so far has not done so. The issue is likely to be on the agenda in Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s talks this weekend.

Globe Santa

Half a century of remembering Globe Santa
Joseph A. Milano, president of Boston’s Union Oyster House, has many titles and many interests, but an initiative that’s particularly close to his heart is Globe Santa.

Golden Globes 2024: 15 nominated movies you can stream right now

Watch some of the year’s biggest films before Sunday night’s award show.

How to watch this year’s Golden Globes

House Democratic leadership practiced being agents of chaos in 2023. Can they force a repeat in 2024?
“You don’t want to help them out of the rut they’ve created for themselves,” said Springfield Representative Richard Neal.

In Gloucester, ‘Above the Fold’ celebrates those behind the lens
The Cape Ann Museum celebrates the photojournalists and photojournalistic tradition of the Gloucester Daily Times.

‘It is maddening’: Grief, anxiety over rising violence among young people in Lynn
An alarming increase in violence in recent months has sown grief and raised anxiety just as Lynn is experiencing some measure of renewal.

Culture & Lifestyle

Mia Asano on electric violin and Ally Crowley-Duncan on bagpipes perform as Mia x Ally at Brighton Music Hall on Jan. 5.

‘I’m Shipping up to Boston’ on electric violin and bagpipes? Mia x Ally went for it

Madonna performs at the Grammys in 1999, where "Ray of Light" won best pop album.

I was just a borderline Madonna fan at first — and then her second decade happened

Robert Glasper, shown in Brooklyn in September ahead of his monthlong "Robtoberfest" residency at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York.

Robert Glasper is jazz’s on-the-go innovator

Ben Mezrich, author of "Breaking Twitter," will appear at Brookline Booksmith on Jan. 10 at 7 p.m.

Author readings around Boston through Jan. 13

Special Projects

Listen to ‘Murder in Boston’

Presented in association with HBO, “Murder in Boston: The untold story of the Charles and Carol Stuart shooting,” is available wherever you get your podcasts.

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.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

President Biden spoke to members of the media before boarding Marine One in Washington on Dec. 23.

SCOT LEHIGH

A frustrated president struggles with his limitations

People take photographs near a John Harvard statue on the Harvard campus on Jan. 2.

Carine Hajjar

To rebuild, Harvard needs to reform DEI culture

From left, District Attorney Newman Flanagan, Boston police Commissioner Francis Roache, and Boston Mayor Ray Flynn addressed the media at a press conference following the suicide of Charles Stuart on Jan. 4, 1990.

JOAN VENNOCHI

What is Ray Flynn’s legacy in light of the Charles Stuart case?

Harvard manages an endowment worth more than $50 billion.

IDEAS | LEIF WEATHERBY

The misguided idea that universities are left-wing hotbeds

Claudine Gay in December 2022 after she was named Harvard University’s new president.

RENÉE GRAHAM

An unwillingness to accept a Black woman as Harvard’s president led to Claudine Gay’s resignation

Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

Police identify victims of Dorchester rollover crash as 14 and 15-year-old boys. 17-year-old boy remains in ‘grave’ condition

Four teenage boys were in a car when it rolled over multiple times near the entrance to the UMass-Boston campus Thursday.

‘Significant’ nor’easter to hit New England Saturday into Sunday

RI TRANSPORTATION

RIDOT to stop Bristol to Providence ferries Jan. 19, saying they are not ‘economically sustainable’

The state offered the free ferry service as after the partial closure of the Washington Bridge, but few passengers used it

How Seth MacFarlane’s New England roots influenced his Framingham-set prequel series ‘Ted’

The show’s creator found inspiration in "loud and abrasive and just impossible to ignore" Bostonians.

Sports

Oscar Pistorius leaves the High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, on June 15, 2016, after his sentencing proceedings.

Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius freed after serving nearly 9 years in prison for killing girlfriend

Pistorius has served nearly nine years of his 13 years and five months murder sentence for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day 2013. He was approved for parole in November.

Wander Franco (center) is escorted by police to court in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, on Friday.

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Rays shortstop Wander Franco faces judge as officials accuse him of having sex with a 14-year-old

Jayson Tatum leads the Celtics in points per game with 23.5.

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Jazz at Celtics: Utah is surging, but Boston will look to quiet the Jazz

Boston’s six-game winning streak ended Tuesday with a loss at Oklahoma City, and the Celtics will hope to rebound against the Jazz.

Gary Washburn I On basketball

Could Brad Stevens make one more move to fortify a Celtics roster he already loves?

Chad Finn I Unconventional Preview

Despite their records, this is certain to be a memorable Patriots-Jets season finale

ben volin | on football

Is Robert Kraft ready to move on from Bill Belichick? First they need to have ‘The Talk.’

Business

After scandal, struggles, Barbara Lynch is paring back her restaurant group

Only No. 9 Park, B&G Oysters, and The Rudder will remain open.

Florida can import prescription drugs from Canada, US regulators say

In a first-of-the-nation plan to import cheaper medication, Florida was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Friday to receive prescription drugs from Canada.

US employers added a surprisingly strong 216,000 jobs in December, a sign of continued economic strength

THE FINE PRINT

Got gift cards as holiday presents? Here’s what to know about using (or selling) them.

magazine

Globe Magazine

Dave Barry’s 2023 year in review

Sing along to The Music of Abba at The Wilbur Theatre on January 6.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, Jan. 1-14

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘I felt more comfortable as we learned more about each other’

LOVE LETTERS

My dates seem overly interested in my late wife

metro

These maps show how much snow New England could receive from first storm of season

‘It is maddening’: Grief, anxiety over rising violence among young people in Lynn

Mass. officials have collected $769 million less in tax revenues than expected in past six months

sports

If this is the end for Bill Belichick, he deserves gratitude, and other thoughts

Second-ranked Duxbury girls’ hockey follows the lead of Zoey Madigan’s shorty to shut out Andover

In a Boston barnburner, Sidney Crosby, Penguins end Bruins’ four-game winning streak

business

The recalls follow a recall in the US last month of more than 2 million of Tesla EVs to improve its system for monitoring drivers.

Tesla recalls over 1.6 million imported vehicles for problems with automatic steering, door latches

Devoted Health has raised $2 billion

As Mass. greens its electric grid, state looks for ways to help ease bills on low-income customers

politics

Hunter Biden, son of President Biden, talks to reporters at the US Capitol in Washington.

House Republicans ready contempt of Congress charges against Hunter Biden over a subpoena he defied

Hundreds of convictions, but a major mystery is still unsolved 3 years after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot

President Biden will stress democracy is still a ‘sacred cause’ in a speech near Valley Forge

Nation

What should you do if you develop COVID? Take our quiz.

Police officer convicted of killing a Colorado man is set to learn if he will spend time behind bars

Teen kills 6th grader, wounds 5 others and takes own life in Iowa high school shooting, police say

World

Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius freed after serving nearly 9 years in prison for killing girlfriend

A desperate family in Gaza clings to a routine for survival

Israeli defense minister lays out vision for next steps of war ahead of Blinken visit

opinion

Crowds can be seen gathered on campus through an entrance to Harvard Yard on Jan. 2, the day Claudine Gay announced her resignation as president of the university.

A new, and cloudy, day at Harvard: Readers weigh Gay’s resignation

Boosting work permits will help communities in Mass. and beyond weather the migrant crisis

The misguided idea that universities are left-wing hotbeds

lifestyle

Author Jarrett Lerner's books focus on clever underdogs and outsiders.

Teenage boys get body-shamed, too. Boxborough author helps them, and any childhood outsider, feel less alone.

Messy divorce, but are we still in love?

Swifties, here’s your chance to help teach Taylor Swift class at Harvard

food & dining

After scandal, struggles, Barbara Lynch is paring back her restaurant group

Cilantro Latin Kitchen: because you’re eating healthier but you still love tacos

TGI Fridays closes six Massachusetts locations, 36 across the US

travel

Forget over-hyped tourist hotspots. Here are the best destinations to visit in 2024.

Antarctica is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth. Are tourists making it worse?

Florida festival throws spotlight on kumquats

Arts

The making of Mondrian

These are the people in her neighborhood: Cambridge photographer documents changing city in ‘Book of Saints’

Museumgoers dress to impress at MFA’s ‘Fashioned by Sargent’

Books

Celebrating women scientists who furthered knowledge of the cosmos; Harvard psychologist advocates for a ‘mindful body’; poetry collection explores death and its aftermath

After scandal, struggles, Barbara Lynch is paring back her restaurant group

Forget over-hyped tourist hotspots. Here are the best destinations to visit in 2024.

Antarctica is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth. Are tourists making it worse?

What should you do if you develop COVID? Take our quiz. Stay up to date on the latest guidance for testing, isolation, and leaving isolation. But make it fun.

If this is the end for Bill Belichick, he deserves gratitude, and other thoughts

Got gift cards as holiday presents? Here’s what to know about using (or selling) them.

‘Significant’ nor’easter to hit New England Saturday into Sunday

Weekend storm could drop up to a foot of snow away from the coast

Maps: How much snow is expected in your area?

Police identify victims of Dorchester rollover crash as 14 and 15-year-old boys. 17-year-old boy remains in ‘grave’ condition

Boston-bound JetBlue flight diverted in Florida due to ‘disturbance’ between two passengers

As he lags behind Trump and Haley in N.H., Chris Christie resists calls to drop out of GOP primary race

Hundreds of convictions, but a major mystery is still unsolved 3 years after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot

Mass. officials have collected $769 million less in tax revenues than expected in past six months

Haverhill 9-year-old struck after getting off bus, seriously injured

12 shows to binge on this snowy weekend

Car dealers back away from Buick amid lower sales, EV push

How Seth MacFarlane’s New England roots influenced his Framingham-set prequel series ‘Ted’

Nicaragua’s weaponization of migrants

Is Taylor Swift dating the wrong NFL superstar?

Get ready for AI mayhem in the 2024 elections

At 95, the ‘Make Way for Ducklings’ sculptor is ready to unveil her ‘deep,’ ‘angry’ work

Harvard’s interim president should quit boards of two drug companies

The $600,000 problem. Why does it cost so much to build housing in Boston, and what can we do about it?

Explore the project

More recent News

Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius freed after serving nearly 9 years in prison for killing girlfriend

Rays shortstop Wander Franco faces judge as officials accuse him of having sex with a 14-year-old

MFA among museums targeted in cyberattack on collections software

Flat Top Johnny’s, a neighborhood favorite, reopens in Cambridge

As Mass. greens its electric grid, state looks for ways to help ease bills on low-income customers

Israeli defense minister lays out vision for next steps of war ahead of Blinken visit

Half a century of remembering Globe Santa Joseph A. Milano, president of Boston’s Union Oyster House, has many titles and many interests, but an initiative that’s particularly close to his heart is Globe Santa.

Recommended reads

Golden Globes 2024: 15 nominated movies you can stream right now

House Democratic leadership practiced being agents of chaos in 2023. Can they force a repeat in 2024? “You don’t want to help them out of the rut they’ve created for themselves,” said Springfield Representative Richard Neal.

In Gloucester, ‘Above the Fold’ celebrates those behind the lens The Cape Ann Museum celebrates the photojournalists and photojournalistic tradition of the Gloucester Daily Times.

‘It is maddening’: Grief, anxiety over rising violence among young people in Lynn An alarming increase in violence in recent months has sown grief and raised anxiety just as Lynn is experiencing some measure of renewal.

Culture & Lifestyle

‘I’m Shipping up to Boston’ on electric violin and bagpipes? Mia x Ally went for it

I was just a borderline Madonna fan at first — and then her second decade happened

Robert Glasper is jazz’s on-the-go innovator

Author readings around Boston through Jan. 13

Special Projects

Listen to ‘Murder in Boston’

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

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

How the missing become the uncounted

FROM OUR PARTNERS

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

A frustrated president struggles with his limitations

To rebuild, Harvard needs to reform DEI culture

What is Ray Flynn’s legacy in light of the Charles Stuart case?

The misguided idea that universities are left-wing hotbeds

An unwillingness to accept a Black woman as Harvard’s president led to Claudine Gay’s resignation

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

Police identify victims of Dorchester rollover crash as 14 and 15-year-old boys. 17-year-old boy remains in ‘grave’ condition

‘Significant’ nor’easter to hit New England Saturday into Sunday

RIDOT to stop Bristol to Providence ferries Jan. 19, saying they are not ‘economically sustainable’

How Seth MacFarlane’s New England roots influenced his Framingham-set prequel series ‘Ted’

Sports

Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius freed after serving nearly 9 years in prison for killing girlfriend

Rays shortstop Wander Franco faces judge as officials accuse him of having sex with a 14-year-old

Jazz at Celtics: Utah is surging, but Boston will look to quiet the Jazz

Could Brad Stevens make one more move to fortify a Celtics roster he already loves?

Despite their records, this is certain to be a memorable Patriots-Jets season finale

Is Robert Kraft ready to move on from Bill Belichick? First they need to have ‘The Talk.’

Business

After scandal, struggles, Barbara Lynch is paring back her restaurant group

Florida can import prescription drugs from Canada, US regulators say

US employers added a surprisingly strong 216,000 jobs in December, a sign of continued economic strength

Got gift cards as holiday presents? Here’s what to know about using (or selling) them.

Dave Barry’s 2023 year in review

Five things to do around Boston, Jan. 1-14

Blind date: ‘I felt more comfortable as we learned more about each other’

My dates seem overly interested in my late wife

metro

These maps show how much snow New England could receive from first storm of season

‘It is maddening’: Grief, anxiety over rising violence among young people in Lynn

What should you do if you develop COVID? Take our quiz.
Stay up to date on the latest guidance for testing, isolation, and leaving isolation. But make it fun.

Half a century of remembering Globe Santa
Joseph A. Milano, president of Boston’s Union Oyster House, has many titles and many interests, but an initiative that’s particularly close to his heart is Globe Santa.

House Democratic leadership practiced being agents of chaos in 2023. Can they force a repeat in 2024?
“You don’t want to help them out of the rut they’ve created for themselves,” said Springfield Representative Richard Neal.

In Gloucester, ‘Above the Fold’ celebrates those behind the lens
The Cape Ann Museum celebrates the photojournalists and photojournalistic tradition of the Gloucester Daily Times.

‘It is maddening’: Grief, anxiety over rising violence among young people in Lynn
An alarming increase in violence in recent months has sown grief and raised anxiety just as Lynn is experiencing some measure of renewal.