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Waterfront mansion in Beverly sells for $18.2 million. See the photos.

Known as “Rock Edge,” the Georgian Revival-style mansion spans about 28,000 square feet on a rocky bluff above 400 square feet of private beachfront, according to marketing materials.

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Roger Berkowitz’s next act
The former CEO of Legal Sea Foods is taking the wraps off Roger's Fish Co., an online purveyor of flash-frozen fish, live and cooked lobsters, and ready-to-heat meals for the let’s-eat-out-at-home set.

School library book bans are seen as targeting LGBTQ content
DES MOINES — Teri Patrick bristles at the idea she wants to ban books about LGBTQ issues in Iowa schools, arguing her only goal is ridding schools of sexually explicit material.

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🍳 Learn how to make this delicious Portuguese breakfast
Get tips from a pro on how to prepare a beloved breakfast: ovos com molho de tomate e cebola.

INNOVATOR Q&A
What are the health consequences astronauts face when launching into space?
A University of Rhode Island researcher is working on easing the havoc the lack of gravity has on the muscular, skeletal, and metabolic systems in space.

Inside the weird, wonderful world of ‘Buy Nothing’ groups
The offbeat giveaway groups on Facebook flourished during the pandemic, with membership numbers more than tripling.

LOVE LETTERS
I’m waiting on his divorce
“He can’t move out of the house until the divorce is final.”

Culture & Lifestyle

James McMurtry lets the characters in his songs do the talking

The singer-songwriter, in Massachusetts this week for four shows, calls himself a “fiction writer” whose least interesting subject is himself.
STAGE REVIEW

Connection and disconnection in SpeakEasy’s ‘Wild Goose Dreams’

Hansol Jung's play gives vivid life to the question of what is real in a technology-saturated world where the boundary between a personal life and a virtual one is so porous.
MUSIC REVIEW

With Dropkick Murphys at full roar, it must be that time of year again

Night three of the band's annual hometown St. Patrick's Day extravaganza — this year, a run of four sold-out shows — featured their big-hearted songs played with customary ferocity.
MUSIC REVIEW

Sounding ‘Her Story’ and the music of loss

Giancarlo Guerrero led the BSO in a potent new work by Julia Wolfe dramatizing the struggle for women’s rights across the centuries.
TRAVEL

Traveling while old(er)*

Worries are infinite. Time is not. If you want to travel, just start. Here's what this traveler has learned about life, loss, and the joy of just getting out there.
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Parenting unfiltered

The envelope (or e-mail), please: How to brace for college admissions season

“We have multiple selves. We’re not just a ‘college-going’ self.” Some perspective from incoming Dartmouth president Sian Beilock and college adviser Rachel Katzman.

March is a popular divorce month. Here’s what to know if you’re considering a breakup

Where to donate clothes, toiletries, toys, and more

Love the kid you have, not the one you wish you had

Your February school vacation guide

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Back to Boston

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Looking for something to do? Check out our Back to Boston project, where you can use an interactive map to explore all the city has to offer.

How well do you know Boston? Test your knowledge with this quiz and scavenger hunt.

Get to know the Boston Common and Public Garden by exploring this interactive map. After that, test your knowledge. How well do you know Boston’s oldest parks?

How to spend a perfect weekend in Boston

When friends and relatives (or even strangers) come to Boston and ask for recommendations about what they should do, where do you send them? Let travel writer Chris Muther be your guide.

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Waterfront mansion in Beverly sells for $18.2 million. See the photos.

Roger Berkowitz’s next act

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Inside the weird, wonderful world of ‘Buy Nothing’ groups

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A proposal to build the ‘world’s tallest flagpole’ looms over a small community in Maine

What would become of this picturesque community five hours north of Boston if a powerful local family’s proposal to turn hundreds of acres of nearby wilderness into a billion-dollar patriotic theme park — complete with a 1,461-foot flagpole — moves ahead?

Tooth gems are sparking joy in Greater Boston

While the sparkling smile enhancers dulled in popularity post-Y2K, this refreshed trend — a professionally placed adornment on the tooth’s enamel — has returned by way of celebrity clientele and nostalgia.

LOVE LETTERS

She could have been ... my girlfriend in Canada

But she didn’t want to meet in person.

Style Watch

Remaking a kitchen originally inspired by a Vermont sugar shack

This Sherborn kitchen gets a remodel that highlights its architectural roots.

Five things we learned from Ben Affleck’s Hollywood Reporter interview

The Cambridge-raised actor recently sat down to discuss his upcoming movie, “Air,” his new role as a CEO of a production company, his family life, and everything in between.

TRAVEL

Visiting Zermatt and the Mighty Matterhorn

It seems everyone in this charming town has a story about the Matterhorn, one of Europe’s most famous peaks.

RI HEALTH

Up to 30,000 people could lose Medicaid coverage, R.I. health officials say

The Medicaid renewal and eligibility determination will only affect health insurance coverage, but will not impact other benefits like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

TRAVEL

Why you should visit Alexandria, Va.

Huh. That’s what we thought when we first learned that Alexandria, Va., was voted one of Travel + Leisure’s Best Places to Travel in 2023, Travel + Leisure’s Best Cities in the US 2022, and Southern Living’s Best Cities on the Rise 2022. That’s some kudos for a smallish southern city. We needed to check it out.

Spring Travel

Looking for a gorgeous Greek island you can actually afford to visit?

Here’s one that offers beautiful beaches, fabulous food, and is easy on the wallet.

LOVE LETTERS

Is he behaving this way because of his recent divorce?

He reconnected ... and then didn’t.

HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE

College students will fix your gear, and D.C. gears up for cherry blossoms

Travel news you can use.

BU warns students about dangers of ‘BORGs’ ahead of St. Patrick’s Day parties

A 'BORG,' short for “blackout rage gallon,” is a mix of water, liquor, and caffeinated flavor enhancers in a plastic gallon container. The BU warning comes after nearly 50 students at UMass Amherst were hospitalized March 4 after an annual daylong party.

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Bar Vlaha prepares to open in Brookline; Lehrhaus debuts outside Inman Square

Plus, Restaurant Week on the Seacoast and steak on Nantucket.

college basketball

‘Crying Northwestern Kid’ who became a meme during March Madness now attends Harvard

John Phillips was spotted courtside with his father, the ACC commissioner, last week.

TRAVEL

Toasting New England terroir in all seasons

We confess that we used to consider New England wines as little more than novelties. Now we don’t mind having to drink our words.

TRAVEL TROUBLESHOOTER

Lyft charged me $150 for mud stains in a car. But I didn’t do it!

Debbie Kim is shocked to find a $150 charge from Lyft on her credit card. What did she do — and is there a way to undo it?

Ask Amy

Teen daughter must become her own parent

Struggling business stretched by ‘asks’

Needy teacher must learn how to read people

Pandemic’s long-term effect worries reader

Letter writer is no pen pal

Bird Sightings

Bird sightings from Mass Audubon

At Suffolk County, a Barrow’s goldeneye, a lesser black-backed gull and a thick-billed murre at Castle Island, two great egrets at Millennium Park in West Roxbury and two Eastern meadowlarks at Franklin Park.

Bird sightings from Mass Audubon

Sightings last week included arriving red-winged blackbirds and common grackles, the first migrant American oystercatchers, tree swallows and Eastern phoebes, along with continuing rarities that included greater white-fronted geese in several localities, six Ross’s geese in Marion, a common gull in Nahant and a varied thrush in Longmeadow.