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INNOVATOR Q&A

Pharmacy dean at URI focuses on research, a new vision for the industry

Pharmacy Professor Kerry LaPlante will become the dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Rhode Island in January.

What did you Google in 2023? ‘Barbie,’ Israel-Hamas war are among the year’s top internet searches.
The ongoing Israel-Hamas war topped news trends in 2023, per Google's global data, followed by queries related to the Titanic-bound submersible that imploded in June, as well as February's devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.

Holiday crowds at airports and on highways are expected to be even bigger than last year
More Americans are expected to fly or drive far from home over Christmas than did last year, putting a cap on a busy year for travel.

Kristin Wagner’s ‘For you, I dream of me’ reclaims female agency from the confines of fairy tales
The production comes to the Brick Box Theater of the Jean McDonough Arts Center in Worcester this coming weekend.

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.
New gear for new prioritiesMore from the Globe's travel section

A Cambridge man is trying to photograph 8,000 strangers, and is learning a lot about humans doing it
Photographer Gregory Scott Katsoulis started his series in 2009 with the goal of taking 100 black-and-white portraits.

LOVE LETTERS
Should I text again?
Maybe we’re lost in translation.

12 Japanese animated films to stream before Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘The Boy and the Heron’
From "Akira" to "Spirited Away," check out these animated classics.

Culture & Lifestyle

Mariah Carey’s 1994 hit ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’ still dominates the holiday charts

“All I Want for Christmas is You,” Mariah Carey’s hit from 1994, has grown over the last three decades into the Christmas colossus.
MUSIC REVIEW

Anjimile’s searing songcraft on full display in the singer’s return to Boston

Friday night's show at the ICA served as both an emotional homecoming and an opportunity to bring a small but mighty songbook to life.

Latina women command center stage in ART’s ‘Real Women Have Curves’

The new musical, adapted from the play and film of the same name, is receiving its world premiere in Cambridge.
Odie Henderson | ★★★½

‘The Boy and the Heron’: a magical Miyazaki mystery tour

The legendary animator triumphs again with this fable about a young boy who loses his mother and befriends a heron who guides him through the Land of the Dead.

Parenting unfiltered

Inside the middle-class world of college budgeting

“It’s like buying a pair of leggings. Are you going to buy the $130 ones at Lululemon? Or are the $19 ones in Marshalls going to last you just as long?” We talk to the experts.

The Children’s Room in Arlington wants to normalize the last taboo: grief

How young should kids start dating, using social media, and breaking away from their parents?

Grades, sports, friendships gone sour: When to help your kids and when to keep quiet

Hair, periods, porn, mental health: ‘This Is So Awkward’ covers puberty from every angle

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Back to Boston

Where to eat, what to do, what to see, and more

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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A Cambridge man is trying to photograph 8,000 strangers, and is learning a lot about humans doing it

Inside the middle-class world of college budgeting

Pharmacy dean at URI focuses on research, a new vision for the industry

Parents struggle to handle child’s school stress

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LOVE LETTERS

I saw my friend’s dad at a bar

He was with someone younger than my friend!

QUICK BITE

The one where we try Central Perk

The “Friends”-inspired coffeehouse lands on Newbury Street. What is it like?

PARENTING UNFILTERED

Inside the middle-class world of college budgeting

“It’s like buying a pair of leggings. Are you going to buy the $130 ones at Lululemon? Or are the $19 ones in Marshalls going to last you just as long?” We talk to the experts.

Census Bureau wants to change how it asks about disabilities. Some advocates don’t like it.

The US Census Bureau wants to change how it asks people about disabilities, and some advocates don’t like where things are heading.

Chronic fatigue syndrome is more common than some past studies suggest, CDC says

Health officials are releasing the first nationally representative estimate of how many US adults have chronic fatigue syndrome: 3.3 million.

Coral Reefer Band members honor Jimmy Buffett ahead of Christmas benefit concert in Cambridge

Peter and Jim Mayer will perform on stage together for the first time since Buffett’s death at the upcoming show.

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

New York is great at the holidays. In the dead of winter, it’s even better.

The city is all decked out for Christmas, but come January, food, lodging, and shows are an absolute bargain.

A milestone for Notre Dame: 1 year until cathedral reopens to public after devastating fire

The restoration of Notre Dame hits a milestone Friday: one year until the cathedral reopens its huge doors to the public, on Dec. 8, 2024.

Andrea Bocelli postpones TD Garden performance just before show, citing ‘health challenges’

TD Garden said in a social media post on Wednesday evening that the 65-year-old Italian tenor's performance “has been rescheduled due to health challenges.”

Checking in on Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen, one year after divorce

As Brady podcasts and Bündchen practices martial arts, Us Weekly reports the pair is going about co-parenting in a “really mature way.”

LOVE LETTERS

If he proposed right now, I’d say no

“Are relationships supposed to be this hard?”

TABLES

New Haven classic Sally’s Apizza prepares to slice into Woburn; Blackbird Doughnuts fills a hole in Watertown’s sweets scene

Plus, Hook + Line anchors in the Seaport and other restaurant news you can use.

TRAVEL TROUBLESHOOTER

I’m still waiting on a refund from a canceled pandemic flight

Where is Erika Eng’s $994? She booked tickets from Washington, D.C., to Paris in 2020. British Airways canceled her flight, but never refunded the money.

HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE

A Green Mountains escape, a California escape, and a kit with road trip essentials

Travel news you can use.

THE VIP LOUNGE

Comedian Alex Edelman on London, Butterfingers, and why ‘you gotta see the show’

We caught up with the Brookline native ahead of his one-man comedy show “Just for Us” at the Emerson Colonial Theatre to talk about all things travel.

TRAVEL

The latest ski and snowboard gear for all your outdoor adventures

These days, a lot of winter sports gear incorporates materials that are better for our health and our planet. Gear companies are also banding together to raise awareness of environmental and indigenous issues, and to support underserved communities. Here are some of our favorites.

Ask Amy

Parents struggle to handle child’s school stress

Mom is worried about friend who wants more

Friend wants bestie to leave boyfriend

A toy kitchen brings up stereotype questions

Young bully weaponizes friendship

Bird Sightings

Bird sightings from Mass Audubon

A fairly quiet week with the most outstanding reports being a flock of 24 sandhill cranes in flight over Townsend and single ash-throated flycatchers in Cambridge and Rockport.

Bird sightings on Cape Cod

Recent sightings as reported to Mass Audubon.