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As the downtown office market stalls in Boston, new towers still rise

Many businesses are rethinking how much pricey real estate they will need. At the same time, developers of tower projects that were launched in better days are in the hunt for tenants.

Former state lawmaker’s fraud scheme relied on elected office — until indictment ended his career

David Nangle’s gambling habit, lived largely in the shadows through his two decades in public office, motivated years of fraud, with the lawmaker scrambling for money wherever he could find it.

Mass. reports 10 new COVID-19 deaths, 1,694 cases; more than 2 million people fully vaccinated as of Saturday

The Baker administration announced more than 2 million people have been fully vaccinated in Massachusetts against the coronavirus as of Saturday.
Shirley Leung

Elderly Asian Americans are living in fear as assaults, confrontations soar. A retiree worries: ‘If people beat me, I can die right away’

If white seniors had been the victims, this country would have declared a national emergency by now.

Brandyn Tulloch, left, and DJ Hooker rallied with demonstrators outside the Brooklyn Center, Minn., police station on Friday after the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright.
Black Americans are experiencing collective trauma after police killings
Many Black Americans are facing a collective sense of grief and trauma that has grown more profound with the loss of each life at the hands of police in America. Some see themselves and their children reflected in the victims of police violence, heightening the grief they feel.

Throughout trial over George Floyd’s death, killings by police mount
Justin Turner said the Dodgers and Padres will play "19 World Series games" this season.
Peter Abraham I Sunday baseball notes

Southern California has become baseball central

The Dodgers, Padres, and Angels have never made the playoffs in the same season. Could this be the year?
NFLPA president J.C. Tretter cites three main reasons for wanting an all-virtual offseason: COVID-19 concerns, injury concerns, and the fact that it worked well last year.
Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Offseason workouts a sticking point between NFL and NFLPA

The NFLPA wants the entire nine-week program to be held virtually, like last year. The NFL wants to hold five weeks virtually and the last four weeks in person.
Jabari Parker (left) averaged 2.7 points over three games with the Kings this season before being released last month.

Celtics sign former No. 2 pick Jabari Parker, waive Moe Wagner

Parker, the second pick of the 2014 draft, has averaged 14.8 points over seven seasons. But his career has been hampered by injuries, most notably a pair of ACL tears.
School Vacation Week | April 19-23
Maddyn Wise from Needham searched for clown fish at one of the New England Aquarium's exhibits.

The kids are about to be home (again). Here’s how to fill the time
Drawing of a young girl with a net trying to capture butterflies or something.

15 last-minute ideas for things to do with kids during April school vacation

Nikolay Silkina, 7, checked out "Where the Questions Live" at Peabody Essex Museum.

10 ways for youngsters to find a little bliss (finally)
Nibble Kitchen is part of Bow Market in Somerville.

10 kid-friendly patios for April vacation dining
Mass. coronavirus at a glance |
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Weekend Arts

Boston-based artist Niu Raza released her debut album, "Mm-hmm," in late January. The native of Madagascar is a Berklee School of Music graduate.
MUSIC

Nine albums by local artists that have gotten this year off to an exciting start
On "Best Friend," Laufey pairs a swinging, jazzy lope with a mechanical drum-machine beat.
Album Reviews

The sound of our town in nine new singles
A scene from “A Very English Scandal,” starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw.
MATTHEW GILBERT

Cold? What a perfect excuse to spend the day watching TV
Elisabeth Moss and Max Minghella in Hulu's "The Handmaid's Tale"
MATTHEW GILBERT

At last, 9 returning TV shows to look forward to this spring and summer

In a recorded message, state attorney general Maura Healey (pictured in February) addressed an event organized by the Matahari Women Workers’ Center in Boston to call attention to wage theft and its impact on essential workers.
AG Healey speaks to essential women workers about wage theft
Nearly $1 billion in wages are stolen annually from workers in Massachusetts, organizers said.

Former Hudson middle school teacher charged with raping student

A former Hudson middle school teacher pleaded not guilty Friday to charges she repeatedly raped a 13-year-old girl a decade ago after meeting her at the school where she worked and where the child was a seventh-grader.

Emily Rooney at the WGBH television studios in Boston, in 2009.
Emily Rooney apologizes after accusations of ‘demeaning and racist commentary’ on ‘Beat the Press’ segment
Longtime GBH-TV host Emily Rooney apologized Friday for on-air comments she made in response to concerns raised by filmmakers of color about PBS’s decades-long relationship with documentarian Ken Burns.

Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa (right), talking with umpire Bill Miller during a game against Cleveland Thursday, returned to Boston Saturday for a four-game series.
Tony La Russa’s experience was always welcome to Alex Cora
La Russa, who worked in the Red Sox front office in 2018 and 2019, used to leave Cora a letter after every homestand with constructive comments.

Sgt. Rossano Gerald testified before Congress in Washington on March 30, 2000.
Mistreatment of Black service members was common even before Virginia case
Police treatment of a Black Army officer in a small town in Virginia has put a focus on other encounters by Black service members with law enforcement officers.

John Peirson collected 326 points in NHL 544 games, all with the Bruins.
John Peirson, former Bruins player and broadcaster, dead at 95
Peirson enjoyed a 10-plus-year NHL career, all as a member of the Bruins, and was a noted broadcaster.

Opinion

Reverend Erika Wilson, from the Awakening Spiritual Community of San Antonio, speaks at the Whole Women's Health clinic in 2019.
Mary Ann Sorrentino

The chipping away of a woman’s right to choose

This most private personal decision, as the Supreme Court declared, must be protected.
Law enforcement officers cleared an area of demonstrators outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department during a protest on April 14 over the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright during a traffic stop.
Dean A. Strang and Nancy Gertner

Supreme Court rulings on traffic stops reinforce structural racism in policing
In an interview, Boston City Councilor and mayoral candidate Michelle Wu didn’t have concrete answers to some of the most controversial questions about BPS.
MARCELA GARCÍA

Can Michelle Wu fix Boston Public Schools?
Anne Bernays

Throw Shakespeare from the train
In this image made from a Windsor Police video, a police officer uses a spray agent on US Army Lieutenant Caron Nazario on Dec. 20, 2020, in Windsor, Va. Nazario is suing two Virginia police officers over a traffic stop during which he says the officers drew their guns and pointed them at him while he was dressed in uniform.
SCOT LEHIGH

Police must be guardians, not warriors

Recommended reads

Jamill Martinez, the director of network marketing at Lawrence Community Works.
Vaccination disparities across race and ethnicity persist in Mass. communities most affected by COVID-19
Despite efforts to ensure the COVID-19 vaccines are distributed equitably across Massachusetts, predominantly Black and Latino communities, where the risk of infection is greatest, still have among the lowest inoculation rates in the state, according to a new analysis.

Cheating allegations engulf Dartmouth medical school

More than a dozen students are accused of accessing online course materials while taking a test on a different software platform. At least nine of the accused say that they are innocent, and that Dartmouth doesn’t understand how its own software platforms work.
Billy Baker

How a lockdown game became a monthly treasure hunt with a cult following

Ryan Collins created “Happy Hunting” to distract himself and his friends. Now, his intricate puzzles have a growing fan base of devotees who race around the state each month looking for his hidden treasures.

Lowell is an immigrant city on the precipice of change

Tensions are high as this immigrant city faces the beginning of the end of majority-white rule. The old guard is begrudgingly making room for more diverse leadership, and community activists are demanding that city leaders recognize racism as an urgent problem.
Analysis

Obama talked about a ‘pivot to Asia.’ Biden is actually doing it

Years after the Obama administration, the pivot to Asia is finally happening. But the person doing it is Obama’s vice president, Joe Biden.

metro

A crowd gathered in Nubian Square for Saturday's march for Daunte Wright and other victims of police violence.

Protesters remember those killed in violent encounters with police

Speakers mourned Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old who was killed when a police officer allegedly mixed up her Taser and gun during a traffic stop, and called attention to local fatal encounters with the police.
STARTS & STOPS

The new Green Line will be ready in the fall. Paying for a ride, however, will be a little tricky.

More than 2 million people in Mass. are fully vaccinated as of Saturday, says Baker administration

Sports

Chase Elliott, driver of the No. 9 Chevrolet, said the real challenge in Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway will be to find a different way to navigate the 0.75-mile, D-shaped oval than the rest of the drivers in the field.
NASCAR | Richmond Raceway

Chase Elliott would love to find a way to be different at Richmond

Navigating the 0.75-mile, D-shaped oval at Richmond Raceway will present its own challenges for the NASCAR champion.
Sports log

Attorney apologizes for assault accusation against Aaron Donald

Tony La Russa’s experience was always welcome to Alex Cora

business

The overhaul of One Post Office Square is among four ongoing projects that will add about 3.3 million square feet of office space to the heart of downtown Boston.

As the downtown office market stalls in Boston, new towers still rise

Peloton fights federal safety recall after its treadmills left one child dead, others injured

BPDA OKs re-do of Jamaica Plain’s Mildred Hailey complex

politics

Republican Senators Ted Cruz of Texas (left) and Josh Hawley of Missouri each brought in more than $3 million in campaign donations in the three months that followed the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Fundraising surged for Republicans who sought to overturn the election

Biden vows to ‘do more’ to end gun violence but rejects calls to appoint a czar

After blowback, White House says Biden will move to lift Trump-era refugee caps

Living Arts

A man walks a pair of dogs past a Yoshino Cherry tree in the Public Garden in Boston, MA on April 14, 2021.

Experts offer ways to banish anxiety about your post-lockdown looks

This designer wants to bring back the joy of playing dress-up
LOVE LETTERS

How do we solve the intimacy problem?

education

Leaders of civil rights, community, and education advocacy organizations and attorneys who intervened in the recent lawsuit challenging Boston Public Schools’ updated admissions process held a press conference Friday morning.

Plaintiffs seek emergency injunction to halt Boston exam school admission decisions as they pursue appeal

How many coronavirus cases have been reported in Mass. schools? Check our map

Federal judge upholds Boston exam school admissions policy

rhode island

In this June 23, 2004, file photo, President Bush presents Vartan Gregorian with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil award, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Gregorian, the noted scholar and philanthropic leader who has led the Carnegie Corporation of New York since 1997, died Thursday, April 15, 2021, after being hospitalized for stomach pain. He was 87.
RI NEWSMAKERS

Vartan Gregorian, former Brown University president and savior of the New York Public Library, dies at 87
RI HEALTH

McKee administration puts hold on plans for major changes at Eleanor Slater Hospital

AROUND RI

Welcoming spring at Bristol’s Audubon Nature Center and Aquarium

Newton

video

Comfort Zone

Families can immediately purchase timed tickets for Saturdays and Sundays next month, with extended hours arriving in June.
Boston Children’s Museum brings back play with reopening in May
Families can immediately purchase timed tickets for Saturdays and Sundays next month, with extended hours arriving in June.

This "Postcards from Allston" image features a man walking by an Allston construction site.
‘Postcards from Allston’ photographer captures a changing neighborhood and its residents
Edward Boches set out to document "one of the most authentic communities in Boston.”

Actors perform scripts created from Revolutionary-era depositions and interviews, including testimonials from white women.
With a gallery revamp, Concord Museum summons forgotten voices of 1775
The Battle of Lexington and Concord is reframed to include the contributions of white women and people of color.

NAMES
Beane performs on stage as "American Idol" gets closer to crowning a winner.
Two performers with Boston ties advance to ‘American Idol’ Top 12
Watch and vote Sunday night on ABC.

COMFORT ZONE
A man leaps into the air to try and touch "20 Knots: Daffodils for Boston", an installation originally created to celebrate the Boston Marathon made of twenty 20-foot-tall flowers made to work in concert with the wind displayed in the Seaport in June 2020.
The marathon is canceled, but Boston’s yellow daffodils still stand tall
Thousands of flowers have been gifted to Boston area medical workers, plus there’s a towering Seaport art installation.

Special Projects

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.
See the full project Follow @abeautifulresistance on Instagram

On the Street

A man repacked the food he got from a food pantry on Broadway in Chelsea. Chelsea has been one of the places in Greater Boston hardest hit by the pandemic.

In tackling the pandemic, Chelsea finds new strength
A mural on the side of the Mayor Bill Carpenter Garage in Brockton.

Brockton offers a gateway to a new generation
Evening light sets upon stores and restaurants on Hancock Street in Quincy Center.

This time, Quincy Center’s revival looks legit

See more from our business series ‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

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PROJECT TAKEOUT | DEVRA FIRST
The Globe launches Project Takeout, an effort to help restaurants make it to the other side of this pandemic.
Get takeout. It’s your civic duty.
Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.

Boston Globe launches ‘Fresh Start’ initiative: People can apply to have past coverage about them reviewed
Similar to “right to forget” programs that have cropped up across the country, the undertaking is meant to address the lasting impact that stories about past embarrassments, mistakes, or minor crimes, forever online, can have on a person’s life.

Boston Globe Spotlight Report
Boston’s hospital chiefs moonlight on corporate boards at rates far beyond the national level
Hospital chiefs and trustees defend this as boosting public-private partnerships, but critics say these board positions — some paying millions of dollars — raise troubling issues of conflict of interest and hospital priorities.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Tigrinyan refugee women prepared bread for their family in Umm Rakouba refugee camp in eastern Sudan in December 2020. President Biden is on track to admit fewer refugees than any president has since 1980.
EDITORIAL

Biden’s delay on refugees
A Ukrainian serviceman walks along a trench on the front line with Russia-backed separatists near Gorlivka, Donetsk region, on April 15.
EDITORIAL

Biden’s mission: Stand up for Ukraine
Worcester Red Sox players held a scrimmage at their new Polar Park stadium on April 8.
Mike Stanton

Rhode Islanders, don’t go to Polar Park
Yale University campus in New Haven, Conn.
Leonard L. Glass, Edwin B. Fisher, and Lance Dodes

Why did Yale dismiss Bandy X. Lee?
Licensed vocational nurse Denise Saldan prepares the single-dose Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine in Los Angeles, California on March 25.
Kimberly Atkins

I got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The pause makes me believe in it more.
ideas

The Future of Work

STAT

Road ahead illo
The Road Ahead: Charting the pandemic over the next 12 months — and beyond
In this project, STAT describes 30 key moments, possible turning points that could steer the pandemic onto a different course or barometers for how the virus is reshaping our lives.

Ahoskie Mayor Weyling White, left, and Hertford County Magistrate Deborah Morrison, right, pose for a portrait on railroad tracks that divide the predominantly White and predominantly Black parts of town in Ahoskie, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. (Photo © Landon Bost 2020)
From a small N.C. town to big-city hospitals, how software infuses racism into U.S. health care
The racial bias can produce huge differences in assessing patients’ need for special care to manage conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, or depression, a STAT investigation found.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 12: People walk through the snow and sleet in Manhattan on February 12, 2019 in New York City. New York City, in a winter that has been light on snow this season, is expected to receive two inches of snow before the storm moves later this evening. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Covid-19’s wintry mix: Dry indoor air helps the virus spread
The worry is not just that people might mingle more closely inside, but that the air they breathe will make the virus more dangerous.

Boston, MA -- 06/04/2020 -- Yoldana Desir displays a photograph of her late sister, Marie Deus, who died of Covid-19, after contracting it as a food service worker at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Kayana Szymczak for STAT)
In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic
The hospital's first employee to die of Covid-19 was a kitchen worker named Marie Deus — and her illness sparked a question. Why weren't bedside clinicians getting sick at the highest rates?

magazine
Drawing of a young girl with a net trying to capture butterflies or something.
School Vacation

15 last-minute ideas for things to do with kids on school vacation
MassArt student Bobbi Colburn wearing a face mask she created.
College & COVID

‘There’s so much beautiful work that’s come out of this’: College art students in the COVID era
MISS CONDUCT

Advice: How do you handle shower invitations for pandemic-style weddings?
Authors Live in Your Living Room features Adrian Miller, author of "Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue," on April 15.
Your Week Ahead

Five things to do, April 12-25

sports

Reading players huddle following their 49-0 victory over Lexington.

Senior Dom DeCrescenzo, Reading score a memorable victory over Lexington

Pro days key for NFL hopefuls with no combine this year

Taking stock of the Bruins after the trade deadline

metro

In a recorded message, state attorney general Maura Healey (pictured in February) addressed an event organized by the Matahari Women Workers’ Center in Boston to call attention to wage theft and its impact on essential workers.

AG Healey speaks to essential women workers about wage theft

After staying shuttered during the pandemic, Old North Church reopens in time for historic weekend

Elderly Asian Americans are living in fear as assaults, confrontations soar. A retiree worries: ‘If people beat me, I can die right away’

Nation

Residents wore masks sit in downtown Lake Oswego, Ore.

As mask mandates end, Oregon bucks trend with permanent rule

Mass. reports 10 new COVID-19 deaths, 1,694 cases; more than 2 million people fully vaccinated as of Saturday

Penelope Laingen, who united nation with yellow ribbons during Iran hostage crisis, dies at 89

World

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II sat alone during the funeral of her husband Prince Philip at Windsor Castle on Saturday.

Prince Philip is remembered for ‘courage’ and support for the queen at funeral

Myanmar’s protesters face down the military with slingshots and rocks

Britain’s goodbye to Philip: A pared-down funeral, minute of silence and a solitary queen in a chapel

politics

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

State Department watchdog says Pompeo, wife violated ethics rules

Japan’s leader urges strong alliance in White House visit

Watch live: Biden holds joint press conference with Japanese prime minister

business

Extras dressed up as Yale graduates outside the Harvard Club during recent filming for the George Cooney-directed movie "The Tender Bar."

Harvard Club, developer plan 11-story building along Mass. Pike

Amazon plans furniture assembly service to catch Wayfair

Bill Gates-backed Vicarious Surgical to go public in $1.1 billion SPAC deal

lifestyle

Families can immediately purchase timed tickets for Saturdays and Sundays next month, with extended hours arriving in June.

Boston Children’s Museum brings back play with reopening in May

‘Postcards from Allston’ photographer captures a changing neighborhood and its residents

Why your next rental car might cost more than a plane ticket

marijuana

Jennifer Flanagan speaks during a meeting of the commission in Worcester in February 2020.

Cannabis Commissioner Jennifer Flanagan to resign from state marijuana board

Mass. cannabis commission launching online catalog of marijuana products

Marijuana store sues Haverhill, saying steep ‘impact’ fees are not justified

opinion

In an interview, Boston City Councilor and mayoral candidate Michelle Wu didn’t have concrete answers to some of the most controversial questions about BPS.

Can Michelle Wu fix Boston Public Schools?

Can you believe it? Religion’s been taking a hit

Still one major disconnect in our regional rail: between north and south

food & dining

A beer from Night Shift Brewing.

Crave comes to Allston, breweries launch beer gardens, and the South End welcomes a brasserie

Baseball packages, New England rail travel, and a food lover’s road trip

Cicada Coffee Bar: a restaurant, a cafe, a community

travel

People wait in line at National rental agency in the Miami International Airport Car Rental Center on April 12, in Miami. Customers are finding that car rental agencies have limited or no supply of vehicles as people begin traveling again after being locked down during the pandemic.

Why your next rental car might cost more than a plane ticket

All is not lost at The Lost Kitchen, as chef Erin French adjusts and reinvents, yet again

Chris Wallace on ear plugs, his Globe years, and that time he went to Russia right after a tough Putin interview

Books

Brave women fighting Nazis in ‘The Light of Days’

For Ruth Ware, it was the year reading ‘got squeezed into odd corners’

This thing called life in Elizabeth McCracken’s ‘The Souvenir Museum’

Movies

When the Oscars broadcast begins April 25 on ABC, there won’t be an audience. For the producers, the challenges of COVID are an opportunity to, finally, rethink the Oscars.

The pandemic has upended the Oscars. Good, producers say

When Orson Welles doesn’t make the cut

Doc Talk: bearing witness, creating Oz, watching whales

Television

Camille Cottin plays Andrea, the character on whom the "Call My Agent" film spinoff will focus.

‘Call My Agent’ gets a fifth season — and more

Cold? What a perfect excuse to spend the day watching TV

In HBO’s ‘Mare of Easttown,’ Kate Winslet is investigating a murder — and maybe her own life

music

Mark Sandman (left) with bandmates Mike Rivard and Tom Halter (partially shown) at a Hypnosonics show at the Middle East in 1987 or 1988.

On two new releases, fans can hear Mark Sandman’s ‘secret band’ in full

Amplifying the Black composers who brought spirituals to classical music

Gil Shaham kicks off GBH concerts for German classical streaming service

Theater/Dance

Screen shot of Seth Rudetsky in "The Seth Concert Series."

Theater without theater

Huntington Theatre announces a full 2021-22 season of indoor productions

ART’s Diane Borger is stepping down

globe local

Caitlin Harding was arraigned via Zoom Friday in Middlesex Superior Court.

Former Hudson middle school teacher charged with raping student

To cut paper waste, Belmont entrepreneurs sell reusable cloth gift wrap

Lexington confronts history of slavery in liberty’s birthplace

Obituaries

Vartan Gregorian in New York City in October 2020

Vartan Gregorian, transformative civic leader and tireless educator, dies at 87

Donald Ryder, architect of Black heritage sites, dies at 94

‘Peaky Blinders’ actor Helen McCrory dies of cancer at 52