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Sky Zheng presides over the counter at Wa Shin in Bay Village.

Sky Zheng was executive chef at NYC’s Michelin-starred Sushi Nakazawa. Now you can enjoy his exquisite fish in Bay Village.

Wa Shin opened in February, offering an omakase experience.

Salmon With Barigoule

From soup to salmon, garden-fresh vegetables star in light, bright spring dishes

Gisele Bündchen attended the IWC Schaffhausen Live Talk on Dec. 8, 2023, in Miami Beach, Florida. The supermodel's new cookbook, "Nourish," is now a New York Times bestseller.

Gisele Bündchen celebrates her cookbook becoming a New York Times bestseller

Fried chicken with mashed potatoes, gravy, and collard greens at Blue Ribbon Brasserie.

Here are 8 new restaurants to try near Fenway Park

Lots of people bought second homes on the Cape during the pandemic. This summer, that means more short-term rentals.
The Cape has nearly 18,000 short-term rentals on the market this summer, a 12 percent increase from April last year and nearly 50 percent more than March 2021, according to the Massachusetts Department of Revenue and the Cape Cod Commission.

PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

Red Sox need to make Fenway Park less beloved to opposing teams and their fans
“We haven’t made Fenway uncomfortable to the opposition in a long while,” Alex Cora said. “[Fenway] is awesome. I love it. ‘Sweet Caroline’ in the eighth [inning] and all that stuff. But when we’re down seven, ‘Sweet Caroline’ doesn’t sound all that great.”

Brayan Bello will be on the mound for Boston after the team celebrates the 2004 World Series champions.

orioles at red sox | 2:10 p.m. (NESN)

It’s the home opener at Fenway Park. Here’s your Red Sox-Orioles preview.

Brayan Bello will be on the mound for Boston after the team celebrates the 2004 World Series champions.

Remembering Tim Wakefield’s iconic, one-of-a-kind contract with the Red Sox Watch: Red Sox to honor 2004 World Series team, Wakefields at Fenway Park Opening Day

Drake Maye and North Carolina went 8-5 in 2023.

Ben Volin | On Football

After assessing the quarterback options in the draft, one emerges as the clear choice for the Patriots

A little advice for Eliot Wolf and Jerod Mayo, who have been in New England long enough that they probably don’t need it: Size matters.

Appeals court rejects Donald Trump’s latest attempt to delay April 15 hush money criminal trial

Trump’s lawyers had wanted the trial postponed indefinitely while he fights a gag order that bars him from commenting about jurors, witnesses, and others connected to the hush money case.

Massachusetts House budget plan includes $739m for cash-strapped transit agencies

The proposal has about $555 million for the MBTA and $184 million for the state’s 15 regional transit authorities, according to a preview provided by the office of House Speaker Ronald Mariano.

Mayor Wu proposes $4.6b budget for next fiscal year

Federal probe of Karen Read murder case highly unusual, legal experts say

The federal investigation into the state's murder case against Karen Read is highly unusual and is likely to have an impact on her upcoming trial, according to several prominent criminal defense attorneys and former federal prosecutors.

GOP’s Marjorie Taylor Greene delivers fresh threats of ousting Speaker Johnson in scathing rebuke
Greene is escalating her criticism of House Speaker Mike Johnson, blistering his leadership in a lengthy letter to colleagues and renewing threats of a snap vote that could remove him from office.

Hearing this week could pave way for firing of embattled cannabis commission chief Shannon O’Brien

O’Brien, the state's top cannabis regulator, is scheduled to appear in a two-day administrative hearing on Beacon Hill, during which she can challenge state Treasurer Deborah Goldberg’s decision to suspend her.

Mother of woman killed in alleged act of road rage in Hopkinton hails medical staff who tried to save her
Destini Decoff died Saturday from injuries she sustained when she was hit by a car on Route 85 on Thursday, officials said.

A kitten was found wearing a white dress with strawberries Monday night in Everett.

3-month-old kitten found in Everett wearing a dress with strawberries

Top military leaders face Congress over Pentagon budget and questions on Israel and Ukraine support

Paying off people’s medical debt has little impact on their lives, study finds

Former Hanover High teacher charged with making threat during talk with colleague, officials say

Around New England with Kevin Cullen

The moon’s shadow did something extraordinary to the Keene family in Vermont
Vermonters are used to having flatlanders invade their brave little state, but the total eclipse of the sun brought it to a whole other level.

After the eclipse, a sense of calm and camaraderie in N.H. See more eclipse coverage

If your vision is fine right now, you probably didn’t burn your retina looking at the eclipse
It takes four to six hours, sometimes as many as 12, for symptoms of retinal damage to emerge.

Mina Hasan accessorizes nearly every outfit with a smattering of watches and jewelry.

Mina Hasan wants you to wear a watch

Waltham-based social-media star Mina Hasan is the marketer, muse, model, and main character of her own watch-filled world.

This combination of photos shows U2 singer Bono (left) in 2019 and late-night host Seth Meyers in 2022.

Seth Meyers reveals time Bono asked him to stop joking about failed Spider-Man musical on ‘SNL’

The “Late Night” host launched his new rewatch podcast with Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer Monday, and they kicked off their first episode by recounting the many "SNL" sketches inspired by the 2011 Broadway disaster.

A couple we were friends with is suddenly avoiding us

Should my wife and I try to repair the fractured friendship?

Opinion

This file photo taken in 1971 shows a French nuclear test explosion in Mururoa atoll, French Polynesia, in the southern Pacific Ocean.

We need to start worrying about the bomb

The horror of a nuclear attack would be unimaginable. The impact would last generations. And all of it is eminently feasible with only a fraction of the weapons that already exist in the world.

IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

China and the US have to get off their collision course

MARCELA GARCÍA

The strange tale of a former Holyoke city councilor

Hillary Clinton to students on Gaza: Can we talk with, not shout at, each other?

A Red Sox parade 86 years in the making with only 72 hours to prepare

More recent News

Forecast | Ken Mahan

An ideal spring day awaits with lots of sunshine. Late-week storm threat ahead.
Temperatures to push 5 to 10 degrees warmer than average today, including throughout Greater Boston.

The blue bloods have returned: For the first time in more than 30 years, BC and BU are both in the Frozen Four
Remarkably, it’s only the fourth time that both BC and BU reached the national semifinals in the same season, and the first since 1990.

Everything you need to know about Boston College and Boston University in the Frozen Four

Stoneham police sergeant resigns after probe confirms use of racist language on duty, officials say
Allegations concerning Thomas Heller’s conduct surfaced in the spring of 2023, while he was working as a police sergeant, officials said.

What to know about Biden’s latest attempt at student loan cancellation
President Biden is taking another shot at student loan cancellation, hoping to deliver on a key campaign promise that he has so far failed to deliver.

Beyoncé becomes first Black woman to hit No. 1 on Billboard country albums chart
Beyoncé has made history once again.

Missy Elliott announces first-ever headlining tour, including a stop in Boston
Timbaland, Ciara, and Busta Rhymes will join "Misdemeanor" on tour this summer.

Recommended reads

The FAFSA aid debacle is like trying to get Taylor Swift tickets. My kid can’t go to college until it’s fixed.

As a parent going through the college aid process for the first time, everything related to this form has felt like an unmitigated disaster.

‘It’s nonstop’: Striking BU grad workers struggle to balance teaching, studying, life
The Boston University grad students, who have been on strike since late March, are also university employees, which not only adds to their workload but complicates their relationship with the school.

The House impeachment articles against the Homeland Security secretary are headed to the Senate. Now what?
The shelf life of articles in the Democrat-controlled Senate isn’t expected to be long.

Your guide to the 2024 Boston Marathon: What to know, how to watch, and more
Can Evans Chebet make it a three-peat on Boylston Street? Here's everything you need to know.

Culture & Lifestyle

Mina Hasan accessorizes nearly every outfit with a smattering of watches and jewelry.

Mina Hasan wants you to wear a watch

Dan Schneider, then Nickelodeon’s star producer, accepts a lifetime achievement award at the network’s Kids’ Choice Awards in 2014.

Everything we learned from the new episode of ‘Quiet on Set’

The cast of "The Drowsy Chaperone" at Lyric Stage Company of Boston.

A comic feast in Lyric Stage’s ‘Drowsy Chaperone’

Sculptor Morgan Faulds Pike put her hand to a pearwood piece in progress with the working title, “Sapientia” inside her home studio.

Sculptor Morgan Faulds Pike tries to ‘let the wood do the talking’

Special Projects

Ashfield, MA 06/13//2023, At Sanderson Academy, books in a fourth-grade classroom.

Suzanne Kreiter\Globe staff

Lost in a World of Words

Learning to read is the greatest gift a school can give a child. And yet, in Massachusetts, outmoded teaching methods leave thousands of students struggling to gain this critical skill.

Beyond the Gilded Gate

People in and around Boston are being challenged, in ways never before, to address the region's unprecedented housing crisis.

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Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

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.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Alan Sokal and Richard Dawkins

Sex and gender: The medical establishment’s reluctance to speak honestly about biological reality

Then-Boston Red Sox president and CEO Larry Lucchino watched a video tribute before a baseball game between the Red Sox and the Baltimore Orioles in Boston, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015. Larry Lucchino, the force behind baseball’s retro ballpark revolution and the transformation of the Boston Red Sox from cursed losers to World Series champions, died Tuesday, April 2. He was 78.

The day Larry Lucchino picked up the phone and offered his help

The climbing team posed for a photo at their base camp in 1988 on the Tibetan side of Mt. Everest.

IDEAS | MIMI ZIEMAN

Climbing Mt. Everest just got a little less dangerous

Even though Massachusetts has legalized marijuana, workers in the industry face unique challenges because the federal government considers their income to be derived from criminal activity.

Don’t punish marijuana workers in bankruptcy proceedings

The ‘demographic cliff’ is coming. Colleges must be prepared.

Heather Hopp-Bruce/Globe staff; Adobe

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

The Kowloon will open in Seabrook, N.H., this summer

The Saugus icon will bring its Polynesian flare north in a collaboration with The Brook casino complex. Expect Kowloon food and potent tiki cocktails served across several dining rooms, two bars, a late-night lounge with music, and a private event space.

R.I. official says GOP Senate candidate is spreading ‘misinformation’ about voter data

Republican Patricia Morgan says Democrats are trying to “pervert our elections,” but the deputy secretary of state says a consortium of 24 states is helping to maintain voter rolls and detect fraudulent voting.

Forecast | Ken Mahan

A mix of sun and clouds on deck for Red Sox home opener

The Fenway faithful will be greeted with temps in the 50s or so with a slight breeze from first pitch to the final out.

3-month-old kitten found in Everett wearing a dress with strawberries

Around 6:30 p.m. on Monday, a little girl playing on a playground at the Albert N. Parlin School found the kitten “curled up in a ball." Its owner hasn't been found.

Sports

Nick Pivetta could miss some time with a right elbow strain.

Red Sox place Nick Pivetta on 15-day injured list with elbow flexor strain

Boston called up lefthander Brennan Bernardino to fill Pivetta’s roster spot.

Brayan Bello will be on the mound for Boston after the team celebrates the 2004 World Series champions.

orioles at red sox | 2:10 p.m. (NESN)

It’s the home opener at Fenway Park. Here’s your Red Sox-Orioles preview.

Brayan Bello will be on the mound for Boston after the team celebrates the 2004 World Series champions.

Players storm the mound after Game 4 of the 2004 World Series.

Red Sox to honor 2004 World Series team, Wakefields at Fenway Park Opening Day: Watch here

Knuckleballer Tim Wakefield and his wife Stacy will also be honored during the pregame ceremonies.

Hurricanes at Bruins | 7 p.m. (NESN, WBZ-FM 98.5)

Hurricanes at Bruins: Boston aiming for fifth straight win

Celtics at Bucks | 7:30 p.m. (TNT)

Celtics at Bucks: Milwaukee is No. 2 in the East, but the shine is off this matchup

PATRIOTS MAILBAG

Patriots mailbag: Thoughts about an ideal draft, plus some wrestling chat

Business

Beyoncé becomes first Black woman to hit No. 1 on Billboard country albums chart

Beyoncé has made history once again.

The market may have finally hit a real record, but it could be a problem

Finally, the market’s gains are outpacing the ravages of inflation sufficiently to push real stock valuations close to a new peak, according to calculations by Robert J. Shiller, a Nobel laureate in economics.

Here are 8 new restaurants to try near Fenway Park

Lots of people bought second homes on the Cape during the pandemic. This summer, that means more short-term rentals.

magazine

Designer Trisha Luong demonstrates that you don't have to match table and chairs.

Your Home: Renovations

Eight common interior design myths and mistakes, and how to fix them

The homeowners’ art collection inspired the interior color palette. The painting on the left-hand wall by Dominican artist Hilario Rodriguez was a gift from Alejandro Bascuas’s aunt. A grouping of mixed-media portraits hangs above the chair: one by Miriam Tribe on the left and two by Carlos Kahan that the couple brought back from Brazil on the right.

Your Home: Renovations

A ‘micro-addition’ made a big difference in a Jamaica Plain home renovation

This week's daters: Kat and Greg.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘We shared roommate stories — a classic Boston experience’

The moon covers the sun during a total solar eclipse as seen from Kentucky in 2017. Another takes place Monday.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, April 8-14

metro

Shannon O'Brien appeared in Suffolk Superior Court with her attorneys in December. O'Brien is slated to appear this week in a two-day administrative hearing that could pave the way for state Treasurer Deborah Goldberg to fire O’Brien from her post as chair of the Cannabis Control Commission.

Hearing this week could pave way for firing of embattled cannabis commission chief Shannon O’Brien

Firefighters respond to South Station after smoke seen at construction site

If your vision is fine right now, you probably didn’t burn your retina looking at the eclipse

sports

Former BU coach Jack Parker and former BC coach Jerry York shown in 2005. The two overlapped at the rival universities for 16 seasons, but never made the Frozen Four in the same year.

The blue bloods have returned: For the first time in more than 30 years, BC and BU are both in the Frozen Four

Here are 8 new restaurants to try near Fenway Park

After assessing the quarterback options in the draft, one emerges as the clear choice for the Patriots

business

VA loans come with two important advantages: Their interest rates are typically about a half of a percentage point lower than the typical 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage. Even better, they allow for no money down on these loans.

Proposed commission settlement could hurt veteran home buyers

Factorial Energy prepares for big move, as battery maker makes tracks for Methuen

‘It’s nonstop’: Striking BU grad workers struggle to balance teaching, studying, life

politics

Former president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Green Bay, Wis., on April 2, 2024.

Appeals court rejects Donald Trump’s latest attempt to delay April 15 hush money criminal trial

GOP’s Marjorie Taylor Greene delivers fresh threats of ousting Speaker Johnson in scathing rebuke

Top military leaders face Congress over Pentagon budget and questions on Israel and Ukraine support

Nation

James Crumbley enters the Oakland County Courtroom of Cheryl Matthews during his trial, March 13, in Pontiac, Mich.

Facing likely prison sentences, Michigan school shooter’s parents seek mercy from judge

What to do if your eyes hurt after the eclipse and how to spot damage

Norfolk Southern agrees to pay $600 million in settlement related to train derailment in eastern Ohio

World

A view of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, in Enerhodar, Zaporizhzhia region, in territory under Russian military control, southeastern Ukraine, on May 1, 2022.

UN atomic watchdog says the status of Russian-occupied Ukraine nuclear plant is ‘extremely serious’

Germany rejects allegations that it’s facilitating acts of genocide in Gaza at UN court

Bulgarian parliament formally approves caretaker government to run country until June 9 elections

opinion

The climbing team posed for a photo at their base camp in 1988 on the Tibetan side of Mt. Everest.

Climbing Mt. Everest just got a little less dangerous

A Red Sox parade 86 years in the making with only 72 hours to prepare

The day Larry Lucchino picked up the phone and offered his help

lifestyle

Mina Hasan accessorizes nearly every outfit with a smattering of watches and jewelry.

Mina Hasan wants you to wear a watch

Vertigo finds its place with ‘Makom’

Saw my friend’s wife on a dating app

food & dining

Enjoy Kowloon favorites at The Brook casino this summer.

The Kowloon will open in Seabrook, N.H., this summer

Gisele Bündchen celebrates her cookbook becoming a New York Times bestseller

From soup to salmon, garden-fresh vegetables star in light, bright spring dishes

travel

Luke Chapman, founder and owner of Del Mar Vacations, checked on a rental property in South Yarmouth.

Lots of people bought second homes on the Cape during the pandemic. This summer, that means more short-term rentals.

So much beauty, so many sieges in Girona, Spain

Keep a fresh eye: Six strategies for visiting some of New England’s art museums

Arts

Sculptor Morgan Faulds Pike put her hand to a pearwood piece in progress with the working title, “Sapientia” inside her home studio.

Sculptor Morgan Faulds Pike tries to ‘let the wood do the talking’

At the ICA, the powerful, personal histories of Firelei Báez

The National Black Doll Museum celebrates 20 years and a new home, in North Attleborough

Books

Steve Almond, author of "Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow."

Boston writer Steve Almond is a staunch defender of truth as the ultimate goal in a new book on his craft

Gisele Bündchen celebrates her cookbook becoming a New York Times bestseller

‘He was without a doubt one of the most fascinating people I’ve interviewed’: Readers share their Stephen King memories

Movies

Léa Seydoux and George MacKay in "The Beast."

In ‘The Beast,’ the past is another country — and the future is, too

Actor Jonathan Majors sentenced to probation, avoiding jail time for assaulting ex-girlfriend

‘Coup de Chance’: Woody Allen revisits one of his go-to themes: men getting away with murder

Television

This combination of photos shows U2 singer Bono (left) in 2019 and late-night host Seth Meyers in 2022.

Seth Meyers reveals time Bono asked him to stop joking about failed Spider-Man musical on ‘SNL’

Everything we learned from the new episode of ‘Quiet on Set’

Actor Jonathan Majors sentenced to probation, avoiding jail time for assaulting ex-girlfriend

music

This combination of photos shows U2 singer Bono (left) in 2019 and late-night host Seth Meyers in 2022.

Seth Meyers reveals time Bono asked him to stop joking about failed Spider-Man musical on ‘SNL’

Missy Elliott announces first-ever headlining tour, including a stop in Boston

Billie Eilish announces new album: ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’ arrives next month

Theater/Dance

The cast of "The Drowsy Chaperone" at Lyric Stage Company of Boston.

A comic feast in Lyric Stage’s ‘Drowsy Chaperone’

At the Opera House, the pleasure of Sondheim’s ‘Company’

Playwright Christopher Durang mastered the art of misbehaving

Health

Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence, R.I.

Centurion Foundation was the ‘only viable’ buyer for Roger Williams, Fatima hospitals, CEO says

Agent Orange exposure damages the brain in ways similar to Alzheimer’s disease, new study says

R.I.’s largest hospital system may no longer take Cigna health insurance

Obituaries

Mr. Grote was an All-Star in 1968 and 1974, and finished among the National League’s top five catchers in fielding percentage seven times.

Jerry Grote, star Mets catcher on 1969 championship team, dies at 81

Rev. Cecil ‘Chip’ Murray, voice of calm during L.A. riots, dies at 94

Mary Ann Zielonko, partner of Kitty Genovese, dies at 85