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As hopes rise for pandemic’s close, some are preparing for never-ending COVID

A pandemic-weary public is dreaming of Memorial Day barbecues, summer nights at Fenway Park, and putting the long-running curse of COVID-19 behind us. But in the medical and biopharma worlds, many are eyeing a more daunting prospect: coronavirus as a never-ending threat.
See more COVID-19 vaccine news, resources, and guidance

They say reimagine the police. What would that look like?

A potential sea change in law enforcement has gained support in Boston and across the country after the trial and conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd.
Following Chauvin verdict, six police killings across America in 24 hours

“The past year changed me in terms of larger scale thinking,” said Toiell Washington (second from left), the 23-year-old founder of Black Boston who marched with other protesters in Boston last year to stop racial injustice.
Young people are politically engaged, pro-Biden, and depressed, study finds
A new youth poll conducted by the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics found young millennials and members of Gen Z far more likely to be politically engaged than their predecessors.

Rob Gronkowski spikes a football in the Arizona Stadium end zone on Saturday in Tucson, Ariz.
Rob Gronkowski added another accolade to his trophy case: World record holder
As part of the University of Arizona’s spring football game, Gronkowski caught a football dropped from a helicopter some 600 feet in the air.

Boston Red Sox's Nate Eovaldi allowed four earned runs over five innings against the Seattle Mariners on Saturday.
Peter Abraham | On Baseball

Even sitting atop AL East, Red Sox still have flaws to clean up

The Red Sox’ mistake-filled 8-2 loss against the Seattle Mariners on Saturday further exposed flaws that will only get more pronounced if not fixed.
With Mike Gorman (right) off last Monday, Brian Scalabrine (left) shifted to play-by-play.
Chad Finn | Sports media

NBC Sports Boston’s lack of depth apparent on recent Celtics broadcast

Brian Scalabrine, usually the color analyst, was game in attempting to be the lead voice, but he had too much to navigate.
With COVID-19 cases spiking in Tokyo, the government likely will declare another state of emergency during the upcoming Golden Week holiday.
John Powers | Olympic notes

They say the games at the Tokyo Olympics will go on, but there are significant reasons for concern

Olympic qualifying events still are being postponed, moved, or scrubbed because of COVID-19.
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93RD ACADEMY AWARDS

Oscar statuettes lined up and ready to go — but to whom?
Ty Burr

The Oscars: who should win, who will, who shouldn’t be here, who ought to be
Daniel Kaluuya plays Black Panther Fred Hampton in “Judas and the Black Messiah.”
TY BURR

An activist, a traitor, and two great actors in ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’
Steven Yeun, foreground, in a scene from "Minari."
TY BURR

‘Minari’ shows the bruises, the bounties of American life

more reviews

‘Nomadland’ parks its heart with America’s 21st-century drifters

‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’: 1969 can seem an awful lot like 2020

‘Promising Young Woman’ pushes buttons as it turns the tables

ABC's "Wide World of Sports" changed sports television as we know it.
ABC’s ‘Wide World of Sports’ debuted 60 years ago. It would go on to change sports television as we know it
Early in its run, skeptics thought the program wouldn't last. Thanks to longtime host Jim McKay, it remained a vibrant part of Saturday afternoons for more than 30 years.

Emin Abrahamian of the Massachusetts Armenian Commemoration Committee prepared for a march to the Armenian Heritage Park in Boston.
‘The truth has won out.’ Boston-area Armenians react to Biden’s genocide declaration
President Biden, fulfilling a campaign promise, recognized on Saturday that century-old atrocities against Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in modern-day Turkey were genocide.

The climate clock, built by a team of students in the MIT D-Lab, will be on display through April 30.
MIT students display ‘climate clock’ outside Green Building in Cambridge
Unveiled on Earth Day, the climate clock is the first university-based climate clock of its nature in the United States, the group of students wrote in a blog on the MIT D-Lab website.

North Carolina sheriff to seek release of body cam video of fatal shooting

A North Carolina sheriff whose deputies shot and killed a Black man while serving warrants said Saturday that he will ask a court to release body camera video as soon as he’s confident it won’t compromise an investigation into how the shooting happened.

The Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse in Maine's Acadia National Park.
Despite — and maybe because of — COVID-19, Acadia National Park in Maine just had its busiest winter ever
And as the park prepares for its peak season, which runs from May through October, it also recently announced a few changes worth noting.

‘We have never felt unsafe in our neighborhood until now’: Coyote chases woman with dog near Alewife Station
It was around 9:30 p.m. and Deanna Lydon was walking her 60-pound, 8-year-old pitbull near an empty parking lot close to Alewife Station in Cambridge when a coyote snuck up behind her. At least one other encounter was reported Friday night.

Opinion

The John Joseph Moakley Courthouse in Boston. We need more federal district and appellate court judges, and the Biden administration and lawmakers on Capitol Hill would be better served by keeping their focus on that.
EDITORIAL

Pack the lower courts

Forget the question of whether the US Supreme Court should have more justices. Urgent, bipartisan reform is needed elsewhere in the federal judiciary.
Ingrid Zavala, right, with her mother and sister in 1990.
IDEAS | INGRID ZAVALA

Left behind after my family’s deportations, I still dream of making it in America
A bird's-eye view of Charlestown in the early 20th century.
IDEAS | TOM SHEEHAN

Charlestown, 1935: A cold-water flat, a 7-year-old boy, and a bully called ‘Shove’
STEVE BRODNER

Oscars 2021: The director’s cuts
President George W. Bush delivering a televised address from the White House on January 30, 2005.
RENÉE GRAHAM

The wholly undeserved rehabilitation of George W. Bush

Recommended reads

TARA SULLIVAN
Terrence Clarke, with his brother Gavin, wanted the world to know “Boston is a great basketball city.”
‘One of our own’: Terrence Clarke’s death is felt across Boston and throughout basketball world
From his early days at Vine Street Community Center to the cusp of the NBA, he grew and dreamed of becoming the city's next big basketball star.

Globe Magazine

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2021

Even amid a pandemic, these 24 communities saw the biggest leaps in house prices north, south, and west of Boston, plus in the city itself.

‘People are buying houses left and right’: More people are moving to Vermont amid the pandemic

The pandemic spurred as many as 5,000 additional people to spend last summer in Vermont, according to a state estimate, many of them seeking refuge from hot spots and urban congestion that made them more susceptible to the virus. Now, many want to stay permanently.

‘Life is renewed’: Tulip time in all its colorful glory has returned to the Public Garden🌷

The next few weeks are the best time to soak up the colorful array of flowers that dot the landscape in the country’s oldest public botanical garden.

Is Massachusetts undercounting COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes?

A change in methodology — to align the state with national standards — pegs the death rate at 1 in 7 residents instead of 1 in 4. Some critics and researchers are puzzling over the state’s new approach, which they say may underestimate the true death rate.

metro

asson Hall on the campus of Boston College in Chestnut Hill.

Boston College to require all students and staff to be vaccinated for fall semester

Boston College will require all students, faculty and staff who return to campus for the fall semester to be fully vaccinated, school officials announced Friday. The university will start to administer 4,500 doses of the Pfizer vaccine next week on campus.

‘The truth has won out.’ Boston-area Armenians react to Biden’s genocide declaration

Silver Alert issued for missing Yarmouth man

Sports

Rob Gronkowski spikes a football in the Arizona Stadium end zone on Saturday in Tucson, Ariz.
FOOTBALL

Rob Gronkowski added another accolade to his trophy case: World record holder

As part of the University of Arizona’s spring football game, Gronkowski caught a football dropped from a helicopter some 600 feet in the air.
Revolution 1, DC United 0

Own goal lifts Revolution past D.C. United in scruffy home opener

English soccer fans want American owners out

business

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk adding SNL hosting job to his to-do list

Mattel hits four-year high on surging Barbie purchases

Beth Williams, former Roxbury Technology CEO, dies at 57

politics

Supporters of changes in Georgia’s voting laws held signs inside the State Capitol in Atlanta last month. Much of the Georgia GOP’s base was in favor of the new voting laws, citing what they claimed were irregularities in earlier elections.
The Battle for the GOP

In rapidly changing Georgia, many Republicans remain obsessed with the last election

Biden recognizes atrocities against Armenians as genocide

‘This is the place where dreams end.’ Stranded in border cities, migrant families wait with little chance of refuge

Living Arts

The Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse in Maine's Acadia National Park.

Despite — and maybe because of — COVID-19, Acadia National Park in Maine just had its busiest winter ever
TRAVEL

These 5 Massachusetts hotels made Travel + Leisure’s worldwide ‘It List’

Hasty Pudding honors Viola Davis as Woman of the Year in virtual ceremony

education

asson Hall on the campus of Boston College in Chestnut Hill.

Boston College to require all students and staff to be vaccinated for fall semester
THE GREAT DIVIDE

Worcester won’t fight lawsuit aimed at diversifying school committee

UMass Amherst to require all students to be vaccinated for fall semester

rhode island

Frank O'Donnell poses for a photo in his back yard in Jamestown, Rhode Island on April 17, 2021. He began raising monarch butterflies after noticing them appearing in his yard following the death of his 15-year-old daughter Keri in 2010.
RI NEWS

Inspired by memories of his daughter, a father’s new mission is to save Monarch butterflies

Reed, Whitehouse secure $22m for clean water investments in Rhode Island
RHODE MAP

Lamar Odom still has lots of love for Rhode Island

Newton

Volunteers add flower-filled planters at restaurants throughout Newton as outdoor dining returns

Newton-based group showcases women playing jazz from around the world

video

Comfort Zone

Authors Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka's latest YA novel, "What's Not to Love" is out April 20 from Penguin Random House, following two high school seniors vying for a coveted spot at Harvard.
YA authors Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka on Harvard and high school love
The real life couple discuss their latest book, filled with hyper-competitive Ivy League longing.

The summer season at Jacob's Pillow will include a performance of “joyUS justUS" by CONTRA-TIEMPO.
After a lost summer, Jacob’s Pillow will return for a full season in 2021
The June 30-Aug. 29 season will also offer unprecedented online access to most festival programming.

COMFORT ZONE
Safiya Leslie
This musical journey around the globe comes once a month in a box
Berklee grad Safiya Leslie — a singer/songwriter and entrepreneur — is giving world music fans a chance to explore the sounds of a different country each month through her Safiya’s World Music Tour Playlist subscription boxes.

COMFORT ZONE
People in Boston and beyond can grab a free BlueBike to reach their vaccination site starting April 19.
Take a free Bluebike to your COVID-19 vaccine appointment
The complimentary trips will be available in Arlington, Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Newton, Revere, Somerville, and Watertown.

COMFORT ZONE
Volunteer Coordinator Carol Carlson will read “Carl and the Meaning of Life” by Deborah Freedman and “Trees Make Perfect Pets” by Paul Czajak and Cathy Gendron at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
Eight Earth Week events for the whole family
From your backyard to your favorite trail, enjoy these virtual (or socially distanced) events that make you proud to be an earthling.

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

The helicopter Ingenuity casts a shadow as it hovers above the surface of Mars on Monday, April 19, 2021. The little 4-pound helicopter rose from the dusty red surface into the thin Martian air Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.
JEFF JACOBY

Thirty seconds over Mars
A migrant family wearing face masks crosses the border into El Paso, Texas, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Feb. 26. February data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows the Biden administration has continued to use an existing public health rule, known as Title 42, to immediately expel more than 70 percent of asylum seekers and border crossers stopped at the border.
EDITORIAL

Don’t use public health to rationalize keeping the Mexico border closed to asylum seekers
Acting Mayor Kim Janey has promised a full investigation into allegations against former Boston Police officer Patrick M. Rose Sr. of child sexual assault.
EDITORIAL

Rose files reveal union’s warped priorities
The Muddy River Flood Risk Management and Environmental Restoration project getting ready for work near Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in the vicinity of Brookline Avenue and Riverway on Feb. 12.
Renée Loth

Bringing Boston into the wild
Moderna, one of the patent-holders of the three US-approved COVID-19 vaccines, has licensed their intellectual property at no cost. This and other collaborative deals are speeding vaccine deployment, and they wouldn’t be possible without intellectual property rights.
Michael Rosenblatt

The downside of suspending intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines
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
Illustration of a house, key, and outdoor activities to go with a story about how the pandemic has affected the real estate market, causing people to want more space and outdoor space in particular.
On the Cover

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2021
The Citizens Bank Opera House and Emerson Paramount are among the many performing arts spaces that have been closed because of the COVID pandemic.
Top Spots to Live

City living lost some appeal for condo hunters
Person wearing a "Hello I am ... bored" sticker on their shirt.
Perspective

Dear Grads: Don’t believe the myth that work has to be a slog

Caramelized pork with orange and sage.
Cooking

Oranges shine in 4 savory recipes, including a beef stir-fry

sports

Boston Red Sox's Nate Eovaldi allowed four earned runs over five innings against the Seattle Mariners on Saturday.

Even sitting atop AL East, Red Sox still have flaws to clean up

Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel surge to lead at Zurich Classic of New Orleans

Kent Emanuel has MLB debut for the ages after Houston loses Jake Odorizzi

metro

Vaccine recipients waited in line in Central Square Park outside a coach bus converted into a mobile vaccine clinic in East Boston Saturday.

‘Mobile Vax’ effort launched Saturday in hard-hit communities, starting with East Boston

Human remains found near trail in Manchester, N.H.

MIT students display ‘climate clock’ outside Green Building in Cambridge

Nation

An Oscar statue design on a red carpet backdrop is pictured at Union Station, one of the locations for Sunday's 93rd Academy Awards, on Saturday in Los Angeles.

An Oscars unlike any other to get underway Sunday

DMX immortalized by family and close friends at memorial

Democrat Troy Carter wins New Orleans-based US House seat

World

Members of Iraqi security forces stood at the gate of Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital in Baghdad, on Sunday, after a fire erupted in the medical facility reserved for the most severe COVID-19 cases.

Iraq Interior Ministry: 82 killed in Baghdad hospital fire

India’s crematoriums overwhelmed as virus ‘swallows people’

‘Indominable’: Milva, beloved Italian singer, dies at 81

politics

President Biden.

Biden recognizes century-old atrocities against Armenians were genocide

Biden speaks to Erdogan as Armenian genocide question looms

Caitlyn Jenner to run for California governor

business

Michael Hammond will be the next president of Gordon College.

Gordon College picks Taylor administrator Michael Hammond to be its new president

Simone Biles leaves Nike for Gap’s surging Athleta brand

Five things to watch as Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine gets CDC panel review

lifestyle

Dropkick Murphys St. Patrick's Day livestream

20 concerts made during quarantine that you can stream right now

The aftermath with my boss

Four local hikes with one big bonus: heavenly views

marijuana

Former Boston mayor Martin J. Walsh hands a pen to then-City Councilor Kim Janey after signing the new marijuana licensing ordinance she drafted at City Hall in 2019.

On 4/20, Boston’s acting mayor turns to marijuana industry for campaign cash

US House passes marijuana banking bill with bipartisan support

With marijuana legal in New York, and other states close behind, will Mass. dispensaries along state borders survive?

opinion

The John Joseph Moakley Courthouse in Boston. We need more federal district and appellate court judges, and the Biden administration and lawmakers on Capitol Hill would be better served by keeping their focus on that.

Pack the lower courts

Left behind after my family’s deportations, I still dream of making it in America

Abandonada después de las deportaciones de mi familia, sigo soñando con salir adelante en los Estados Unidos

food & dining

Workers prepared floor and table signage, hand sanitizing stations, and other measures in the dining area at Time Out Market in the Fenway last summer. The food hall is getting ready to reopen next month.

Benedetto closes, Time Out Market Boston readies for relaunch, and a 1920s cocktail lounge prepares to debut

Wulf’s Fish can ship you a lavish brunch, caviar and all

Recipe: Spoon a medley of sauteed mushrooms on crunchy crostini with creamy whipped burrata

travel

The bar at the Newbury Boston hotel.

These 5 Massachusetts hotels made Travel + Leisure’s worldwide ‘It List’

A major refresh for a Conn. inn can mean a major refresh for its guests

Need some post-pandemic rejuvenation, stat? These spas have you covered

Books

Illustration for review of "Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis" by Sehii Plokhy. 25Nuclear; BOOKS; 4-25-21

‘Nuclear Folly’ recalls when we edged close to the brink

Learning from the tumultuous politics of another century in ‘The Age of Acrimony’

Bill Buford on reading and learning from cookbooks

Movies

Hiroyuki Sanada in "Mortal Kombat."

At least it’s not called ‘Immortal Kombat’

Can a computer generate a simulation of the brain?

The Oscars: who should win, who will, who shouldn’t be here, who ought to be

Television

Adam McKay (pictured in 2019) recently said in a podcast: "I basically outlined the series with director Bong [Joon-ho] during the quarantine, with him overseeing."

‘Parasite’ series ‘in the same universe as the feature’

Remember when ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ used to be great?

Second time’s a charm for ‘How I Met Your Father’

music

Conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops rehearse their Mother’s Day celebration, which will include a performance by Pops violinist Ala Jojatu and her 16-year-old daughter, Maria.

Boston Pops announces a virtual spring season with six concert streams

What’s new, Tom Jones? Plenty, it turns out

That faint sound you hear? It’s the eventual return of live music

Theater/Dance

Maiesha McQueen portrays a variety of characters in "Until the Flood" at Merrimack Repertory Theatre.

In ‘Until the Flood,’ a portrait of a town and the ravages of racism

After a lost summer, Jacob’s Pillow will return for a full season in 2021

Theater without theater

globe local

The Sagamore Bridge is expected to reopen Sunday. (David L Ryan/Globe Staff Photo)

Sagamore Bridge expected to reopen fully Sunday, a month ahead of schedule

Massachusetts authorizes immediate use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine

Retired Middleton police chief makes a stir as a cooking coach

Obituaries

Thomas Brock (above, in 1992), who found heat-resistant bacteria in a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park in 1966 that led to the development of the chemical process behind the test for COVID-19, died on April 4.

Thomas Brock, whose discovery paved the way for PCR tests, dies at 94

Shock G, frontman for hip-hop group Digital Underground, dies at 57

Shock G, off-kilter Digital Underground leader, dead at 57