Boston area poised to ride the mobile tech wave

Facebook’s purchase of Instagram removes any doubt that mobile technology is the wave of the future, and the Boston area could benefit in a big way.

Ambitious Mass. emissions plan called lagging

The state is falling behind in its efforts to reduce emissions of gases that trap heat in the atmosphere, according to a review of the Patrick administration’s climate goals.

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Harvard Law student overcomes abuse, gives back

Matthew Schoenfeld couldn’t put his abusive childhood behind him, so the 25-year-old used it to mobilize others and make a difference.

Slain BU student’s passion recalled

Boston University identified the graduate student shot to death in Allston as Seshadri ‘‘Sesh’’ Rao, a 24-year-old from India who was enrolled in a selective management program.

Jiro Ono and Yoshikazu Ono appear in “Jiro Dreams of Sushi,’’ a film about the traditional Japanese craft.

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Connoisseurs find sushi in Boston often lacking

Sushi is growing in popularity, and Americans are getting their sushi in many different places, but just because it's everywhere in Boston doesn’t mean it’s good.

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‘Bachelor’ lawsuit shows reality TV is behind the times

“The Bachelor” suit reflects that regardless of our real-life demographics, our culture still shoves segregation in our faces.

Dan Shaughnessy

So far, nothing but bad times for Red Sox

It is only April and the Red Sox have unraveled completely. They blew a 9-0 lead in the seventh inning and were thrashed by the Yankees, 15-9. On national television. Mercy.

A pastor’s dream, a Roxbury church in crisis

Charles Street AME Church leaders are facing questions about how a rock of stability in Boston’s black community for nearly 200 years wound up so deeply in crisis.

MIT exhibit highlights climate change science

The new exhibit at the MIT Museum, “Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya,’’ contributes to the sometimes perplexing study of climate change.

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Globe Insiders are invited to attend the must-see performance and enjoy a Q&A after with the artistic director and several of the dancers.

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Sahr Ngaujah as Fela Anikulapo Kuti in the musical “Fela!” in a 2009 performance in New York.

Bill T. Jones on making ‘Fela!’
‘‘Sometimes veteran teams just take longer to get going,’’ said Orioles general manager Dan Duquette (right). ‘‘We were fortunate to get off to a good start, but there are a lot of good teams in this division.”

Sunday baseball notes

Slow start by AL East keeps Red Sox in picture
Copley’s “Paul Revere” (1768) has become an icon of Revolutionary-era America.

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Portrait of the artist as an Englishman
The latest example of the seek-and-destroy culture in the NHL was the repulsive, crushing blow repeat offender Raffi Torres dealt to Marian Hossa’s head Tuesday night.

Sunday hockey notes

NHL being ruined by violence and silence

Independent Film Festival Boston celebrates 10 years
“The style is what holds everything together with my work,’’ says Alex Katz, here checking the sequencing of pieces for a show at the Museum of Fine Arts.

Alex Katz, prince of prints
Robert Battle (center) rehearses his work “Takademe” with Linda Celeste Sims and Yannick Lebrun.

Robert Battle looks within to lead Alvin

Book review

‘The Cause’ by Eric Alterman and Kevin Mattson

Cubs trade Marlon Byrd to the Red Sox

Globe Magazine

144 free things to do around Boston
At Buttonwood Park Zoo in NewBedford, Emily, front, and Ruth poked a ball made from strips of old tires by the Toys for elephants sculpture class at Massachusetts College of Art.

MassArt class solves a huge challenge
Junior attackman Will Manny has 32 goals and 55 points to lead the Minutemen in scoring.

UMass is No. 1 in the nation in men’s lacrosse

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About eight people were displaced by a three-alarm fire that started early Saturday morning at 83 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, according to city fire officials. No injuries were reported as a result of the blaze.

Fires displace residents in three cities

Fires in Cambridge, Lowell, and the Jamaica Plain section of Boston displaced a total of 48 residents from their homes this weekend.

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Product Reviews

Shoppers’ views on major retailers

Costco pleased shoppers better than any other retailer, according to Consumer Reports’ recent survey of more than 26,000 readers.

Columnists

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joanna weiss

‘Bachelor’ lawsuit shows reality TV is behind the times

Jeff Jacoby

Obama a unifying force? Hardly

Joan Vennochi

Vatican targets nuns, not enablers of clergy sexual abuse scandal

Dan Shaughnessy

So far, nothing but bad times for Red Sox

INNOVATION ECONOMY

‘Accelerator’ programs help start-ups take off
Outside Fenway Park on its first Opening Day in 1912.

Bob Ryan

For longtime foes, nothing rivals in comparison

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All is not fair in Boston hotels

Love Letters

Is he stringing her along?

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Maher, Nugent pollute the dialogue

Dan Shaughnessy

A day to remember, and a game to forget

Joan Wickersham

Preparing for the Great Flood

Brian McGrory

An untimely award

Politics

Political Notebook

President Obama wants Congress to extend a law that cut interest rates on a federal loan program for low- and middle-income undergraduates.

Obama wooing young voters with student loan focus

President Obama is depicting Republicans as obstacles to an affordable college education as he previews an argument he will make on campuses in states crucial to his reelection.

Nation & World

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Race-blind policies cut campus diversity

The US Supreme Court is set to revisit the thorny issue of affirmative action less than a decade after it endorsed the use of race as a factor in college admissions.

Sports

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Game 5: Capitals 4, Bruins 3

Bruins in hole after late goal

The Capitals beat Tim Thomas on a pair of third-period shots that he usually handles to skate off with a 4-3 victory and a 3-2 series lead over the Bruins.

Arts

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“How could I not want to play someone . . . so screwed up?’’ John Cusack says of his latest role.

John Cusack faces fears to portray Poe in ‘Raven’

Maybe John Cusack really is the sweet, amiable mensch he’s played in so many films.

Travel

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Hilltop yoga at Carmel Valley Ranch in the Santa Lucia Mountains south of San Francisco.

10 places where pleasure is the plug-in

Step away from the keyboard. Power down your phone. At the following destinations, getting unplugged has never been easier.

Books

book review

‘God’s Hotel’ by Victoria Sweet

Sweet arrived at Laguna Honda intending to work part-time just until she completed her PhD. As the years passed, though, she found herself mesmerized.

“For all the miscalculation . . . I take the blame, and I take the full responsibility. Every day I toss and turn, feeling like I let my congregation down.”

Rev. Gregory Groover,  of the Charles Street AME Church

Magazine

The cover for the April 22 2012 issue

144 free things to do around Boston
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In an artist’s garden
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Are fat baseball players a problem?
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45 best breakfast joints around Boston

Opinion

“With Nixonian bile, [Barack Obama] fans the flames of grievance.”

Jeff Jacoby  

Ideas

“John Singleton Copley’s life, his works, and his words defined him as a subject of the British empire, not a citizen of the American republic.”

Jane Kamensky,  on the great American painter who wasn’t American