Security measures dampen mood for July Fourth party
A State Police boat patrolled near the fireworks barge. The Massachusetts Avenue bridge will host a fireworks display.

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This year’s celebration on the Esplanade, which is Boston’s largest event since the Marathon, is fraught with concerns.

Christopher L. Gasper

It’s time to start paying attention to Red Sox

If you have tuned out the Red Sox over the first three months of the season, you have missed a good time and a good team.

Arsenal Mall may become a tech sector haven

A scruffy stretch of East Watertown may be destined for a makeover as a mecca for start-ups and young professionals.

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The private equity firm Kohlberg & Co. plans to take the Waltham company private after 17 years of trading under the ticker symbol LVB.

Gas, cigarette taxes would rise in new state budget

The budget relies on about $500 million in higher taxes on tobacco, gas, utilities and certain computer services that businesses purchase.

Boschetto’s Bakery in the North End will close this weekend. Co-owner Mhamed “Ahmed” Idroui, who has run the bakery since 2000, said the business simply couldn’t keep up with increasing rent.

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Rising rents end legacy of fresh loaves in North End

Boschetto’s Bakery will be firing up its brick oven for the last time on Saturday as locals lament the demise of a neighborhood fixture.

Trial of ‘Whitey’ Bulger

Jurors are told of Bulger’s ties to drug dealing

A former cocaine dealer offered the first evidence of James “Whitey” Bulger’s involvement in the drug trade.

Kevin Cullen

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The shabby treatment of the Donahue family continues to this day, John Morris’s weasel words not withstanding.

Opinion

Farah Stockman

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It is far easier to burn Deen at the stake for a comment 25 years ago than participate in a real conversation about race.

Globe exclusives

Thomas Van Dyck, 32, is one of the newest members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The BSO’s new ace of bass
Johnny Depp (left) as Tonto and Armie Hammer as the title character in “The Lone Ranger.”

Movie Review

‘Lone Ranger’ doesn’t have much giddy-up

Frame by Frame

Looking at ‘Woman Playing a Lute’
“Despicable Me 2” centers on reformed baddie Gru (left, voice of Steve Carell) and his interactions with Anti-Villain League operative Lucy Wilde (right, Kristen Wiig), as well as his Minions.

Movie Review

Less ‘Despicable,’ still funny

opinion | jennifer graham

Fireworks freedom
Bidding on eBay for a jersey bearing Aaron Hernandez’s name has reached $227. The piece of Patriots apparel originally sold for $50.

Hernandez jerseys are hot items on eBay
Nina Rossi holding her iPod Touch with a photo Lance Rice took after he robbed Rossi’s house.

Health

Heroin plagues rural Mass. towns
The sketch artists provided their own perspective of the scene in the courtroom when John Martorano testified at James “Whitey” Bulger’s trial.

Sketch artists in their element

Ideas

Revising your writing? Blame the Modernists
The cost of having a baby in the United States is billed item by item, a practice that has spiraled in the last decade.

US childbirth is uniquely expensive
At the Jeremiah Burke High School in Dorchester, a $50 million renovation five years ago has done little to entice students to enroll, and more than half of the seats are empty.

Student decline a strain for city
Jayne Atkinson as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Treat Williams as Henry II in “The Lion in Winter” in Stockbridge.

Stage Review

‘The Lion in Winter’ roars to life

Sports

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Celtics draft picks Colton Iverson and Kelly Olynyk are introduced during a team community event in Mattapan.

Celtics introduce Kelly Olynyk, Colton Iverson

Even the two 7-footers the Celtics acquired in the NBA draft don’t know what kind of team they’re joining.

Metro

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The new infection is the fifth human disease known to be spread by bite of the tiny ticks.

Lyme isn’t the only tick-borne illness

Patients who test negative for Lyme disease after a suspected tick bite could be suffering from another illness also spread by deer ticks.

Columnists

Several corporations have cut ties with Paula Deen.

Farah Stockman

Paula Deen’s ‘Bubba’ problem

Kevin Cullen

An apology out of guilt

Christopher L. Gasper

It’s time to start paying attention to Red Sox

JAMES CARROLL

Our halting progress toward justice
The Franklin Park Zoo’s new Baird’s tapir calf will make her debut in a few weeks and will look similar to this calf, born there in 2007.

EDWARD L. GLAESER

Don’t feed the animals (do feed the zoo)
Abubakar “Bubbles” Suleiman, 15, has made grea t st rides at Ro xbur y’ s Orchard Gardens school af ter moving to Bos ton from Nigeria.

Yvonne Abraham

A graduate’s inspiring story

JEFF JACOBY

Civil-rights generation prisoner to its fears

JOANNA WEISS

Rich for a day, at least until the credits roll
Katie Mattscheck, an employee at In the Pink in Boston, uses Sagamore Retail to determine which items are selling.

Innovation Economy

Technology a hard sell to local shops
Richard Seymour, Robert Kraft, his son Jonathan, Myra Kraft, Tedy Bruschi, and Ty Law performed the Super Bowl victory dance at City Hall Plaza in 2004.

opinion | JOAN VENNOCHI

Without Myra, the Patriots lost their way
As their No. 2 all-time scorer, Paul Pierce’s place in Celtics history is assured.

Christopher L. Gasper

Celtics’ trade hurts, but it was time
Once known for petty crime and drugs, the now-popular Brewer Plaza was renovated and opened last summer.

RENÉE LOTH

Brewer Plaza, reborn

Nation & World

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Military helicopters circled over Tahrir Square in Cairo during a protest against President Mohammed Morsi.

Egypt’s army gives ultimatum to Mohammed Morsi

Egypt’s top generals gave the president 48 hours to respond to protestors, or they would impose their own “road map.”

Politics

Senators Wendy Davis, Royce West, and Carlos Uresti led a rally in Austin prior to a special session of the state Legislature.

Texas lawmakers convene to revive abortion bill

Demonstrators thronged the Texas capitol in opposition to proposed abortion curbs.

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Jeremy Hobson and Robin Young, the show’s host for 13 years, co-anchor the program.

An expanded ‘Here & Now’ debuts nationwide on NPR

An expanded version of WBUR’s midday news magazine debuted Monday on more than 300 NPR stations across the country.

Arts

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Movie Review

Kevin Hart’s performance touches on genius. But at other times it suggests desperation.

Strain shows in ‘Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain’

Some things are best left unexplained. Like jokes, or the reason for telling them.

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Magazine

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Rethinking the golden years
The cover for the June 23 2013 issue

The bee keepers
The cover for the June 16 2013 issue

Last of their kind
The cover for the June 9 2013 issue

Seaside haven

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Full Globe coverage of the gangster’s ongoing trial, life on the run, and notorious legacy in Boston.

Ideas

“To North Korea, the main security threat is not the United States. It is the prosperity, wealth, and prestige of South Korea.”

Sheila Miyoshi Jager,  on the unfinished war between the two Koreas