State jobless rate falls to 6.3%

With 2,500 jobs added, April marked the fifth consecutive month of gains for the state and the lowest unemployment rate since October of 2008.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/05/17/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/Schillings Gaming Company.JPEG-09498-1542--90x90.jpg R.I. official out amidst Schilling controversy

The head of the agency that approved a $75 million loan guarantee for Curt Schilling’s now financially troubled video gaming company has resigned.

Mitt Romney, RNC raise $40m in April

The total closes the fund-raising gap with President Obama and reveals a party coalescing around its presumptive nominee.

Medford Housing executive resigning under fire

Robert Covelle’s exit comes one year after allegations of widespread favoritism in hiring and contracting under his leadership.

Undercover drug unit to focus on South Boston

Seven officers will target areas with high drug activity, especially during early-morning hours, when addicts are more likely to seek fixes, police said.

Actors Jason Bateman and Will Arnett provide commentary and comedy in Morgan Spurlock’s “Mansome,” a film on male beauty and vanity.

WARRIOR POETS

‘Mansome’ looks at pressure on men to be perfect, too

Are men more vain in 2012 than any previous point in history? Morgan Spurlock’s new documentary looks for answers. And cosmetics.

Dan Shaughnessy

Celtics are better, and they know it

The Celtics seem to be toying with the 76ers in this series, with visions of a meeting with the Heat or Pacers on their minds.

Joan Vennochi

Elizabeth Warren’s voice against Wall Street gets tuned out

Warren’s is the voice of reason and clarity, standing up to Wall Street power brokers. She’s also the voice that Wall Street and Washington insiders like to ignore.

Yvonne Abraham

After side-swipes, 77-year-old driver gives up driving

After a lifetime of liberty behind the wheel, Nancy Lawton reached the point where she couldn’t drive any more.

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The New York Times best-selling author discusses his books “Bringing Down the House” and “The Social Network.”

BostonGlobe.com exclusives

Andrew Taylor with College Fashionista founder Amy Levin (left) and style blogger Shayna Straus at a clinic.

style

12 tips for looking professional at a job interview
Burlington, MA., May 16, 2012: Kids at the Pine Glen School in Burlington check out their favorite smartphone and/or tablet apps for a story on apps for kids during the Memorial Day holiday. For Business section. Hiawatha Bray is the reporter. Photo by Evan McGlinn for The Boston Globe.

Tech Lab

Apps in hand, the kids are all right
Red Sox reliever Franklin Morales questioned home plate umpire Hunter Wendelstedt after being called for an eighth-inning balk.

On baseball

Balks now a problem for Red Sox

EVENTS

Upcoming music events around Boston

Implant uses brain signals to control robotic arm
Blue Jay Recording Studio may not look like much from outside, but it has brought some of music’s biggest names to Carlisle over the years.

Old-school Blue Jay studio up for sale
The pushcart vendors in Boston’s Haymarket district have resisted new approaches from pre-Big Dig ways.

Opinion | Paul McMorrow

Haymarket pushcart vendors need to embrace change

Dan Shaughnessy

Celtics are better than 76ers, and they know it
MassArt fashion graduate Zachary William Allen with Sarah Atwood. Behind them are (from left) Nikita Washington, Caroline Wells, Jess Clements, and Shauna Matthieu. Allen says the designs were influenced by samurai warriors.

Style

Meet some of Boston’s top fashion graduates
Guacamole comes in a number of versions. The best is just avocado, cilantro, salt, and onion.

Dining Out

Painted Burro is raucous, fun, ready to party
The ruby slippers that Dorothy wore in “The Wizard of Oz.”

MOVIE REVIEW

‘The Story of Film’ is wildly ambitious
Representative Barney Frank.

Joanna Weiss

Barney Frank reflects on the change he’s seen

Sports

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Rays 2, Red Sox 1

Bobby Valentine and the Red Sox saw their winning streak end on Wednesday.

Red Sox stumble vs. Rays as win streak ends

The Red Sox, looking like a team that used to be good, were out-executed by the first-place Rays after a fielding miscue.

Metro

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Implant translates brain signals into movement

A team led by Rhode Island scientists revealed that two patients had been able to use their minds to control a robotic hand.

Columnists

Yvonne Abraham

Putting on the brakes

Joan Vennochi

Warren’s voice against Wall Street gets tuned out
President Bush, right, met with the all-male joint chiefs and combatant commanders in 2007; there are still no women combatant commanders.

Juliette Kayyem

Urging women to Be All That You Can’t Be

Derrick Z. Jackson

Mitt Romney failed to man up on high school bullying

Dan Shaughnessy

Celtics are better than 76ers, and they know it
The loss by LeBron James, left, Dwyane Wade and the Heat on Tuesday dropped Miami into a 1-1 tie with the Pacers in the second round of the playoffs.

Bob Ryan

NBA playoffs a big letdown so far

Jeff Jacoby

On health care, state doesn’t know best

Brian McGrory

Stonehill College dragged into Yahoo scandal
Representative Barney Frank.

Joanna Weiss

Barney Frank reflects on the change he’s seen

BOSTON CAPITAL

Business guru’s tips for living

Bob Ryan

This time, Celtics couldn’t close it out
A lone worker picks tomatoes on an Alabama farm in 2011. Much of the crop rotted after migrant workers moved to other states when a strict immigration law took affect.

Juliette Kayyem

A crackdown avoided

Arts

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Book Review

Charles Wheelan tells graduates to treat life more as a journey than as a race.

‘10½ Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said’ by Charles Wheelan

He aims to offer solid, if amusing, advice to young people.

Politics

Political Notebook

Two PACs plan series of GOP attack ads

The independent conservative group Crossroads GPS announced a plan Wednesday to spend $25 million airing an Obama attack ad in 10 swing states.

Business

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Joseph Hooley in New York early this month.

State Street chief backs tighter rules

State Street Corp. chief executive Jay Hooley said he favors stricter trading rules following last week’s disclosure of a $2 billion derivatives loss by JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Nation & World

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife Mary attended the funeral service for US Senator Edward Kennedy in Boston on Aug. 29, 2009.

Robert Kennedy Jr.’s wife is found dead in N.Y. home

Mary Kennedy, the estranged and troubled former wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was found dead at her home outside New York City. The cause of death was not immediately known.

Style

MassArt fashion graduate Zachary William Allen with Sarah Atwood. Behind them are (from left) Nikita Washington, Caroline Wells, Jess Clements, and Shauna Matthieu. Allen says the designs were influenced by samurai warriors.

Top fashion graduates from Boston-area colleges

Amid all the cutting and sewing, we found some of the best work from this year’s crop of graduates.

“We were intrigued by the notion of taking this historic board game and making it into a box office worthy cinematic piece of art today.’’

Jameel Spencer, on  the new “Battleship” film

Magazine

The cover for the May 13 2012 issue

The Boston waterfront has arrived
The cover for the May 6 2012 issue

Homes for sale for $250,000, $500,000, $750,000, and $1 million
The cover for the April 29 2012 issue

Dying wishes expected to be decided on November ballot
The cover for the April 22 2012 issue

144 free things to do around Boston

Opinion

“Warren’s message is also undermined by a Democratic president with a JPMorgan Chase account that’s worth between $500,000 and $1 million.”

Joan Vennochi 

Ideas

“Genoeconomics is a field with a nightmare scenario already built into it—that banks might demand saliva tests before granting loans, or insurance companies could raise premiums for customers genetically predisposed to risk.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on the search for the money gene