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Lisa Stringfellow is a 54-year-old mom of twins who have disabilities and have been affected by BPS bus delays. She has seen some improvements during Mayor Michelle Wu's first term.

How Boston has changed — and hasn’t — during Michelle Wu’s first term

Wu’s performance as mayor is on many voters’ minds as she prepares to formally secure her second term in the Nov. 4 election.

A voter turned in his ballot at Boston City Hall on Sept. 9.

Boston’s mayoral race is over. That could mean far fewer voters actually decide the city’s at-large election.

Concerns about turnout, and speculation over its implications on the race for city-wide seats on the city council, are swirling amongst Boston’s political class.

TOP, L-R: Ruthzee Louijeune, Henry Santana, Marvin Mathelier, Julia Mejia.

BOTTOM L-R: Will Onuoha, Erin Murphy, Alexandra Valdez, and Frank Baker.

Meet the 8 candidates vying for citywide seats on the Boston City Council

With Boston’s mayoral contest all but decided, much of the action this Election Day in the city will take place down ballot, including with eight candidates vying for four at-large Boston City Council seats.

Trump cuts tariffs on China after meeting Xi in South Korea
“I guess on the scale from 0 to 10, with ten being the best, I would say the meeting was a 12,” President Trump said. “I think it was a 12.”

Follow live updates on the Trump administration

SNAP benefit cuts are looming. Here are some of the food pantries serving the Boston area.

What other states are doing to make up for loss of SNAP benefits

When the floods come

Catherine Gonzalez with her son, Kyrie Cortez, 8, and daughter, Paula Cortez,16, stood atop the levee that is a few houses away from her home in the Willimansett neighborhood of Chicopee. (Barry Chin/Globe Staff)

Behind the levee: The forgotten communities at risk in Massachusetts

Far from the rising seas that threaten the coast, people living behind inland levees are facing a climate-fueled risk that is often overlooked, but which could soon bring disaster to their doorstep.

Explore the full project

The church of Lacovia Tombstone, Jamaica, sits damaged in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, on Oct. 29.

Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba pick up the pieces after Melissa’s destruction

People across the northern Caribbean were digging out from the destruction of Hurricane Melissa on Thursday as deaths from the catastrophic storm climbed.

These maps detail Hurricane Melissa’s track

Massachusetts is a great place to raise a family. Too bad parents can’t afford it anymore.

The rising costs of everything from diapers to day care are hitting local families hard. Tariffs and inflation are partly to blame.

Mass. House passes reading bill years in the making, rebuffing powerful teachers union

The bill’s passage marks a rare setback for the Massachusetts Teachers Association, although the legislation still needs Senate approval.

Mayor Wu’s goal to make Boston’s schools the best in the nation faces steep challenges, and many skeptics

Five more arrests made in the investigation into Louvre jewel heist

The five were detained late Wednesday night in Paris and the Paris region, Prosecutor Laure Beccuau said. She did not release their identities or other details.

Facing public outrage, Quincy’s mayor wants to reduce controversial raise to $225,000

Thomas Koch's original idea would have made the Quincy mayor the highest-paid mayor in Massachusetts. He said the controversy over his proposal had consumed the city.

In landmark agreement, the MFA restores enslaved potter’s work to descendants
The agreement conferring ownership of two ceramic vessels by David Drake sets “a new standard for ethical restitution.”

Forecast | Ken Mahan
Storm timeline: Bursts of rain for Thursday, but no weather tricks in store for Halloween
This fast-moving storm will produce steady to heavy rain late Thursday into the overnight. Halloween starts out wet but dries out for evening trick-or-treating.

Lindsay Clancy, charged with killing her three young children, seeks trial delay

Middlebury College senior remembered as gifted student, athlete, and friend: ‘Everybody knew her’

Conn. girl, 11, found dead in storage bin, allegedly suffered abuse, neglect before her death, police say

Jaylen Brown scored 22 points in the first half for the Celtics. He finished with 30 for the game.

Celtics 125, Cavaliers 105

Celtics put on best show of the season in demolishing Cavaliers

The Celtics completed their most impressive and thorough game of this young season.

On Basketball: The Celtics’ decisive win over the Cavaliers was an important building block

Critic's Notebook

Are music critics bullies?

In an era dominated by AI, vapid idol worship, and minimal critical thinking, cultural discourse feels like an endangered art form worth preserving.

Blue Jays pitcher Trey Yesavage celebrates a double play that ended the seventh inning in Game 5 of the World Series.

GAME 5 | BLUE JAYS 6, DODGERS 1

Trey Yesavage pitches Blue Jays past Dodgers for 3-2 lead in World Series

Davis Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homered on Blake Snell’s first and third pitches, the first consecutive homers to start a Series game.

The Harvard Plan: Season 2

The Harvard Plan Episode 1: And so it begins...

It's been a heck of a year in academia. This podcast miniseries, in partnership with WNYC's On The Media, examines the moral calculus universities face in dealings with the Trump administration.

Listen now and subscribe to The Harvard Plan

Opinion

IDEAS | PETER GROSZ

A welcome letter to new hires on the ethics team at the Department of Justice

The creative, out-of-the-box thinking that's driving a new era in ethical standards.

EDITORIAL

Get cellphones out of schools

IDEAS | MADELINE LAMBERT

America doesn’t know what to do with mental illnesses like mine

JOAN VENNOCHI

‘Power protects itself’: Marwa Khudaynazar on her City Hall downfall

KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

Trump says America’s economy will die without his tariffs. He’s crying wolf.

More recent News

Federal Reserve cuts key rate yet Powell says future reductions are not locked in

The rate cut — a quarter of a point — brings the Fed’s key rate down to about 3.9 percent, from about 4.1 percent.

Western Mass. aide to Healey arrested after police say they seized 8 kilos of cocaine

LaMar Cook, 45, was arrested Tuesday night — a day after investigators searched his office — and charged with cocaine trafficking.

Man, 20, killed in fiery Tesla crash in Easton, officials say

First responders found a blue Tesla “actively burning, and human remains were located in the rear seat of the vehicle,” officials said.

Decades later, killers are identified in the previously unsolved murders of two R.I. women

A combination of old-school shoe leather investigations and advances in modern forensic technology helped to solve the cold cases.

Newton Star Market closed for potential asbestos

The supermarket over the Mass. Pike was closed around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, the city said.

Man who confessed to killing parents and their friends in Maine dies in prison, officials say

Joseph Eaton, 36, was being held at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster and died at a local hospital, officials said.

The DEA said it arrested 171 ‘high ranking’ Sinaloa Cartel members. A Spotlight investigation found that’s not true.

A Globe investigation found that the federal agency misrepresented the stature of its targets, claiming cartel ties at a time when the Trump administration is taking lethal military action against such groups.

A Beautiful Newsletter
D’Angelo, Diane Keaton and the artistry of self
Jeneé Osterheldt pays tribute to D'Angelo, Diane Keaton, and audacious authenticity for A Beautiful Newsletter.

BETH TEITELL
A Boston fitness instructor is getting rich off the finance bros he mocks
What started as a bit about obnoxious rich-guy behavior is now a brand machine — part satire, part hustle, all profit.

Encore casino is helping transform Everett into a housing hot spot
Industrial Everett wasn’t exactly a development hot spot before 2014, when the Massachusetts Gaming Commission cleared the way for Wynn Resorts’ Encore Boston Harbor.

Culture & Lifestyle

William L. Champney, "Boston Massacre, March 5th, 1770," 1856.

At the BPL, ‘Revolution!’ lives up to its exclamation mark

Author Olivie Blake and her book "Girl Dinner," a new release in the "femgore" subgenre.

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Femgore sinks its teeth into horror norms

Sol y Canto perform a "noche de muertos" matinee at Roxbury Community College's Media Arts Center on Saturday. Married couple Rosi Amador (center) and Brian Amador (second from right) have been performing together under the Sol y Canto moniker for 30-plus years.

From Día de los Muertos to Samhain, these shows offer a closer look at autumnal traditions from around the world

Bryan Washington and his new novel, "Palaver."

Mother and son, talking past each other, in Bryan Washington’s ‘Palaver’

Special Projects

Seventh-graders at the Curley School on the first day of school in 1975. (Ulrike Welsch/Globe staff)

Broken Promises, Unfulfilled Hope

The Boston Globe explores the legacy of Boston’s busing era.

An Ambulance passes Glenwood Regional Medical Center in West Monroe, LA on August 28, 2024.

A Boston Globe Spotlight Team report on Steward Health Care

A Boston Globe Spotlight Team review found the Steward Health Care hospital system plagued by staggering neglect at the hands of executives.

Explore the project: Snitch City

In a nation addicted to drugs, local police are addicted to informants.

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.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

A campaign volunteer hangs a sign before Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks at a town hall in Ogunquit, Maine, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)

ABDALLAH FAYYAD

Why progressives still find Graham Platner appealing

A lobster in front of a trap off Biddeford, Maine, in 2018.

IDEAS | Greg Mercer

The lobsters are moving north

IDEAS | ABDALLAH FAYYAD

What if we are misremembering the civil rights movement?

Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner spoke at a town hall in Ogunquit, Maine, on Oct. 22.

Carine Hajjar

Graham Platner’s controversial past tests Democrats’ tolerance for imperfection

Phil Eng, general manager of the MBTA, will also serve as the interim secretary of the state Department of Transportation.

EDITORIAL

Asking Phil Eng to do two jobs is a bad idea

IDEAS

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Meet the 8 candidates vying for citywide seats on the Boston City Council

Boston’s mayoral race is over. That could mean far fewer voters actually decide the city’s at-large election.

Concerns about turnout, and speculation over its implications on the race for city-wide seats on the city council, are swirling amongst Boston’s political class.

Starting Point

It’s not just Bill Belichick. Career pivots sometimes flop, even for the rich and famous.

Stars like Michael Jordan and Beyoncé have struggled to branch into new areas, too. But there also some common pitfalls to avoid.

Money, Power, Inequality

Working for Social Security is hard. Working without pay during the government shutdown is even harder.

Morale was already low at the Social Security office in Hanover. Now, it's in the toilet.

Sports

Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla has only of the team's centerpieces, Jaylen Brown, to work with this season with Jayson Tatum recovering from Achilles surgery.

TARA SULLIVAN

Joe Mazzulla’s intense nature mixed with a much different Celtics roster should make for fascinating theater

To his credit, Mazzulla has been the first to preach the party line, touting the Celtics' ever-changing lineups as a strength that reflects their depth rather than a weakness that exposes the massive talent drain.

Patriots quarterback Drake Maye has taken 28 sacks this season, second-most in the NFL.

Ben Volin | On football

Yes, they’re 6-2, but the Patriots still have some areas that need improvement

Eventually, they will need to play their best football for a full 60 minutes, especially come January.

Blue Jays pitcher Trey Yesavage celebrates in his dugout during the seventh inning in Game 5.

Peter Abraham | On Baseball

The Dodgers aren’t playing like a team capable of repeating, and now they’re on the brink of losing the World Series

The Blue Jays have a 3-2 lead as the World Series shifts back to Toronto for Game 6 on Friday night.

Patriots

When a high school football player asked for his advice, Patriots rookie Julian Ashby’s snap decision was, ‘Yes!’

MLB

One of the most competitive and dramatic baseball postseasons in recent memory goes on and on, and we love it

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS' SOCCER NOTEBOOK

As the playoffs approach, girls’ soccer teams can set themselves up for success by perfecting set pieces

Business

Massachusetts is a great place to raise a family. Too bad parents can’t afford it anymore.

The rising costs of everything from diapers to day care are hitting local families hard. Tariffs and inflation are partly to blame.

Money, Power, Inequality

Working for Social Security is hard. Working without pay during the government shutdown is even harder.

Morale was already low at the Social Security office in Hanover. Now, it's in the toilet.

China says it will work with US to resolve issues related to TikTok

Trump cuts tariffs on China after meeting Xi in South Korea

magazine

Statues from the National Statuary Hall Collection from left: Nathanael Greene (Rhode Island), John Winthrop and Samuel Adams (Massachusetts), Sakakawea (North Dakota), Po’pay (New Mexico), Helen Keller (Alabama), Chief Standing Bear (Nebraska), Chief Washakie (Wyoming), and Mary McLeod Bethune (Florida).

PERSPECTIVE

America doesn’t need Trump’s $40 million statue collection. We already have one that the states paid for.

LOVE LETTERS

Is my new love using me for vegan cooking lessons?

Max Schreck stars in the silent movie "Nosferatu" (1922).

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, Oct. 27 - Nov. 2

MISS CONDUCT Classics

Flight faux pas: Is it rude to wake up the person sleeping in the aisle seat when you have to get up?

metro

How Boston has changed — and hasn’t — during Michelle Wu’s first term

At Harvard University and Boston College, conservatives test free speech

As health care prices skyrocket, we must work together to bring the costs under control

sports

Eastern Mass. girls’ soccer: Players of the Week for Oct. 21-28

Globe Top 20 girls’ soccer poll: No. 1, from start to finish

Week 9 in Eastern Mass. high school football: 10 games to watch and our picks for final week of regular season

business

Bruce Perry, 17, demonstrated the possibilities of artificial intelligence by creating an AI companion on Character.AI, in Russellville, Ark.

Character.AI to bar children under 18 from using its chatbots

Obamacare prices become public, highlighting big increases

Mass. regulator trims Eversource’s proposed rate increase for home-heating gas

politics

President Trump speaks with reporters aboard Air Force One shortly after taking off from Busan, South Korea, en route to Joint Base Andrews, Md., on Oct. 30.

Trump appears to suggest the US will resume testing nuclear weapons for first time in 30 years

Follow live updates on the Trump administration

China says it will work with US to resolve issues related to TikTok

Nation

Former Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright.

Former South Carolina sheriff to plead guilty to drug-related crimes, stealing from benevolence fund

Parents of Nashville school shooting victims fight to keep records out of public view

Jurors convict Illinois deputy of killing Sonya Massey but can’t agree on first-degree murder charge

World

Local residents react after a Russian missile hit their hostel in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Oct. 30.

Russia blasts Ukraine’s power grid again, causing outages across the country and killing 2

Neck-and-neck finish in Dutch election as Wilders’ far-right party and D66 tie

Five more arrests made in the investigation into Louvre jewel heist

opinion

America doesn’t know what to do with mental illnesses like mine

Why Mass. residents who rely on well water can’t assume it’s clean — and what we can do about it

The lobsters are moving north

lifestyle

FDA approves a new drug for hot flashes. Here’s what to know about it.

Phony AI-generated videos of Hurricane Melissa flood social media sites

Chris Evans and Alba Baptista welcome first baby, according to reports

food & dining

Halloween candy comes in unnatural combinations and hues, coated in sour powders and cobbled in Nerds, and with increasingly less (expensive) chocolate in the mix.

The weirdest Halloween candy of 2025, ranked

What’s it like to live at an actual chocolate factory? Pretty sweet.

Here’s why the shutdown has put food stamps at risk, and what you can do to help

travel

Betty Kellenberger, 80, at the top of Mount Katahdin in Maine. On Sept. 12, Kellenberger became the oldest woman to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail.

She hiked the entire Appalachian Trail at 80, unaware she’d just made history

‘It’s got to be an inside job’: jewelry thieves weigh in on Louvre heist

Jake Tapper on travel, Jimmy Kimmel, and his latest book, ‘Race Against Terror’

Arts

At the BPL, ‘Revolution!’ lives up to its exclamation mark

‘It’s got to be an inside job’: jewelry thieves weigh in on Louvre heist

Museums could have caved under Trump’s cultural broadsides. Instead, they are rising to the moment.

Books

"The Secret of Secrets" by Dan Brown and "Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice" by Virginia Roberts Giuffre are two of the bestselling titles this week.

Local bestsellers for the week ended Oct. 26

The best local book events this week

Margaret Atwood didn’t want to write a memoir. Thank goodness she did it anyway.

Movies

From left: Tessa Thompson as Hedda Gabler, Nina Hoss as Eileen Lovborg, and Imogen Poots as Thea Clifton in "Hedda."

Gender-swapping in ‘Hedda’ offers a new point of view on a classic work

Fasten your seatbelts: ‘All About Eve’ turns 75

‘Nouvelle Vague’ is an entertaining ride through the joys of filmmaking

Television

Sally expresses her skepticism to Linus in "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown."

‘The Great Pumpkin’ as symbol of hope, delusion, and ... QAnon?

Prunella Scales, Sybil on ‘Fawlty Towers,’ dies at 93

Ruth Wilson and Emma Thompson are a dynamic duo in ‘Down Cemetery Road’

music

Are music critics bullies?

John Legend once worked in Boston making PowerPoint slides. Now he’s back as one of music’s most powerful balladeers.

Why Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl? For Wellesley professor who teaches class on him, it ‘makes total sense.’

Theater/Dance

Sarah Fornace and Julia Miller in "The 4th Witch."

Manual Cinema’s ‘The 4th Witch’ takes a different angle on the story of Macbeth

‘Lizard Boy’ is split between its heartfelt romance and superhero intensity

Comedian Gary Gulman tests out a more professorial look in ‘Grandiloquent’

Health

Obamacare prices become public, highlighting big increases

CVS Health tops third-quarter forecasts but absorbs hefty charge for struggling clinic business

FDA approves a new drug for hot flashes. Here’s what to know about it.

Obituaries

Rabbi Waskow joined a group of Philadelphia community activists in support of Camilo Viveiros in Philadelphia in 2004. Four years after protesters and police clashed at the Republican National Convention, Viveiros, a housing activist from Massachusetts, faced trial on charges that he helped throw a bicycle at Philadelphia's former police commissioner.

How Boston has changed — and hasn’t — during Michelle Wu’s first term

Boston’s mayoral race is over. That could mean far fewer voters actually decide the city’s at-large election.

Meet the 8 candidates vying for citywide seats on the Boston City Council

Trump cuts tariffs on China after meeting Xi in South Korea “I guess on the scale from 0 to 10, with ten being the best, I would say the meeting was a 12,” President Trump said. “I think it was a 12.”

SNAP benefit cuts are looming. Here are some of the food pantries serving the Boston area.

Behind the levee: The forgotten communities at risk in Massachusetts

Explore the full project

Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba pick up the pieces after Melissa’s destruction

Massachusetts is a great place to raise a family. Too bad parents can’t afford it anymore.

Mass. House passes reading bill years in the making, rebuffing powerful teachers union

Five more arrests made in the investigation into Louvre jewel heist

Facing public outrage, Quincy’s mayor wants to reduce controversial raise to $225,000

In landmark agreement, the MFA restores enslaved potter’s work to descendants The agreement conferring ownership of two ceramic vessels by David Drake sets “a new standard for ethical restitution.”

Forecast | Ken MahanStorm timeline: Bursts of rain for Thursday, but no weather tricks in store for HalloweenThis fast-moving storm will produce steady to heavy rain late Thursday into the overnight. Halloween starts out wet but dries out for evening trick-or-treating.

Lindsay Clancy, charged with killing her three young children, seeks trial delay

Middlebury College senior remembered as gifted student, athlete, and friend: ‘Everybody knew her’

Conn. girl, 11, found dead in storage bin, allegedly suffered abuse, neglect before her death, police say

Celtics put on best show of the season in demolishing Cavaliers

Are music critics bullies?

Trey Yesavage pitches Blue Jays past Dodgers for 3-2 lead in World Series

The Harvard Plan: Season 2

The Harvard Plan Episode 1: And so it begins...

A welcome letter to new hires on the ethics team at the Department of Justice

Get cellphones out of schools

America doesn’t know what to do with mental illnesses like mine

‘Power protects itself’: Marwa Khudaynazar on her City Hall downfall

Trump says America’s economy will die without his tariffs. He’s crying wolf.

More recent News

Federal Reserve cuts key rate yet Powell says future reductions are not locked in

Western Mass. aide to Healey arrested after police say they seized 8 kilos of cocaine

Man, 20, killed in fiery Tesla crash in Easton, officials say

Decades later, killers are identified in the previously unsolved murders of two R.I. women

Newton Star Market closed for potential asbestos

Man who confessed to killing parents and their friends in Maine dies in prison, officials say

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The DEA said it arrested 171 ‘high ranking’ Sinaloa Cartel members. A Spotlight investigation found that’s not true.

A Beautiful NewsletterD’Angelo, Diane Keaton and the artistry of selfJeneé Osterheldt pays tribute to D'Angelo, Diane Keaton, and audacious authenticity for A Beautiful Newsletter.

BETH TEITELLA Boston fitness instructor is getting rich off the finance bros he mocks What started as a bit about obnoxious rich-guy behavior is now a brand machine — part satire, part hustle, all profit.

Encore casino is helping transform Everett into a housing hot spot Industrial Everett wasn’t exactly a development hot spot before 2014, when the Massachusetts Gaming Commission cleared the way for Wynn Resorts’ Encore Boston Harbor.

Culture & Lifestyle

At the BPL, ‘Revolution!’ lives up to its exclamation mark

Femgore sinks its teeth into horror norms

From Día de los Muertos to Samhain, these shows offer a closer look at autumnal traditions from around the world

Mother and son, talking past each other, in Bryan Washington’s ‘Palaver’

Special Projects

Broken Promises, Unfulfilled Hope

A Boston Globe Spotlight Team report on Steward Health Care

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Nightmare in Mission Hill

FROM OUR PARTNERS

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Why progressives still find Graham Platner appealing

The lobsters are moving north

What if we are misremembering the civil rights movement?

Graham Platner’s controversial past tests Democrats’ tolerance for imperfection

Asking Phil Eng to do two jobs is a bad idea

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

Meet the 8 candidates vying for citywide seats on the Boston City Council

Boston’s mayoral race is over. That could mean far fewer voters actually decide the city’s at-large election.

It’s not just Bill Belichick. Career pivots sometimes flop, even for the rich and famous.

Working for Social Security is hard. Working without pay during the government shutdown is even harder.

Sports

Joe Mazzulla’s intense nature mixed with a much different Celtics roster should make for fascinating theater

Yes, they’re 6-2, but the Patriots still have some areas that need improvement

The Dodgers aren’t playing like a team capable of repeating, and now they’re on the brink of losing the World Series

When a high school football player asked for his advice, Patriots rookie Julian Ashby’s snap decision was, ‘Yes!’

One of the most competitive and dramatic baseball postseasons in recent memory goes on and on, and we love it

As the playoffs approach, girls’ soccer teams can set themselves up for success by perfecting set pieces

Business

Massachusetts is a great place to raise a family. Too bad parents can’t afford it anymore.

Working for Social Security is hard. Working without pay during the government shutdown is even harder.

China says it will work with US to resolve issues related to TikTok

Trump cuts tariffs on China after meeting Xi in South Korea

America doesn’t need Trump’s $40 million statue collection. We already have one that the states paid for.

Is my new love using me for vegan cooking lessons?

Five things to do around Boston, Oct. 27 - Nov. 2

Flight faux pas: Is it rude to wake up the person sleeping in the aisle seat when you have to get up?

metro

How Boston has changed — and hasn’t — during Michelle Wu’s first term

Trump cuts tariffs on China after meeting Xi in South Korea
“I guess on the scale from 0 to 10, with ten being the best, I would say the meeting was a 12,” President Trump said. “I think it was a 12.”

In landmark agreement, the MFA restores enslaved potter’s work to descendants
The agreement conferring ownership of two ceramic vessels by David Drake sets “a new standard for ethical restitution.”

Forecast | Ken Mahan
Storm timeline: Bursts of rain for Thursday, but no weather tricks in store for Halloween
This fast-moving storm will produce steady to heavy rain late Thursday into the overnight. Halloween starts out wet but dries out for evening trick-or-treating.

A Beautiful Newsletter
D’Angelo, Diane Keaton and the artistry of self
Jeneé Osterheldt pays tribute to D'Angelo, Diane Keaton, and audacious authenticity for A Beautiful Newsletter.

BETH TEITELL
A Boston fitness instructor is getting rich off the finance bros he mocks
What started as a bit about obnoxious rich-guy behavior is now a brand machine — part satire, part hustle, all profit.

Encore casino is helping transform Everett into a housing hot spot
Industrial Everett wasn’t exactly a development hot spot before 2014, when the Massachusetts Gaming Commission cleared the way for Wynn Resorts’ Encore Boston Harbor.