Minuteman reenactor gives up deadly role

For decades, Jim Hart has played Jonas Parker, a Minuteman at the Battle of Lexington who is fatally stabbed by a Redcoat. On Monday, he takes one for the team a final time.

ON THE JOB

Lighting design creates the right feeling

Nancy Goldstein, principal of Light Positive, a Marblehead lighting design firm, has been in the lighting profession for more than 30 years.

Nigeria strained by rate of births

In a quarter century, at the rate Nigeria is growing, 300 million people will live in a country the size of Arizona and New Mexico.

MARATHON NOTEBOOK

If it’s too hot, runners can defer to 2013 race

Amid growing concerns about high temperatures on race day, the Boston Athletic Association announced a deferment option for this year’s Boston Marathon.

Boston 6, Tampa Bay 4

Red Sox get third straight win

David Ortiz continued his fast start and Cody Ross hit a three-run home run as the Red Sox won their third straight over the Rays.

Book Review

‘Magic Hours’ by Tom Bissell

Bissell’s main targets are writers (living and dead), filmmakers (Werner Herzog), and TV producers (the guy behind “Big Bang Theory”).

In heart of the Lakes Region, Meredith, N.H. sits pretty

In the early 1980s, Meredith was a rundown, hardscrabble kind of place, with a bunch of decrepit old mill buildings. All that has changed.

Television Review

HBO’s ‘Girls’ brings grimaces, grins

“Girls” is an angsty, younger bizarro take on “Sex and the City,” as viewers tag along in the lives of four very different twentysomething friends.