Photograph by Bill Brett

ALL SMILES: Chris Reif and incoming MIT president Rafael Reif with Gardner Museum director Anne Hawley at the museum’s annual gala in Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on May 12

photograph by michael blanchard

WARM WELCOME: Governor Deval Patrick greets the Slater Foundation’s Sam Slater and Operation Homefront director Jim Knotts at a party launching a Boston chapter of Homefront, a veterans’ services group, at W Hotel on May 16

Photograph by bill brett

ART IN THE PARK: Ann Beha of Cambridge and honored guest MFA director Malcolm Rogers at the Emerald Necklace Conservancy’s annual Party in the Park in Boston, Back Bay Fens on May 16

photograph by barry chin/globe staff

SCORING POSITION: Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine with fans at a home game against Cleveland, Fenway Park on May 11

photograph by jim davis/globe staff

BROTHERLY WHAT? Ex-“Idol” singer Ayla Brown performs the national anthem — she’s wearing the wrong shirt because she’s singing for Philly this season — before a Celtics-Sixers game in Philadelphia,Wells Fargo Center on May 16

photograph by john vogus

LAX OF LOVE: Michael Spearing, Ben Kozlowski, Matt Vogus, Elliott Burr, and Steven Turpin of Hamilton-Wenham Youth Lacrosse enjoy an afternoon of volunteering in Hamilton, Acord Food Pantry on May 12

photograph by erik jacobs

IF YOU CANNES: Marilyn Monroe impersonator Erika Smith and Joe Eubanks Jr. of Dorchester at a screening and party in Boston celebrating the Cannes Film Festival, Wilbur Theatre on May 10

photograph by pat greenhouse/globe staff

JUST DUCKY: Jacob Hardy and Tea Robinson of Hyannis with Robert Flynn (as Officer Michael) at the Duckling Day parade on Beacon Hill, Charles Street on May 13