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Martha’s Vineyard was portrayed as rich, white, and elite, but there’s another side to the island

Many of the 20,000 year-round residents struggle to make ends meet, housing is desperately scarce and increasingly unaffordable, and the growing number of immigrants is rapidly diversifying the population.
Lawyers for migrants are seeking nationwide injunction against Florida Governor DeSantis Meet the 32-year-old state representative thrust into the national spotlight when migrants landed on Martha’s Vineyard See more news about the migrants who came to Martha's Vineyard

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes
In light of Ime Udoka suspension, other NBA teams likely to make changes in how they hire coaches
This episode may encourage teams to place particular conduct policies in contracts.

Celtics learned of Ime Udoka’s team policy violations in the summer, and had a law firm investigate Dan Shaughnessy: Ime Udoka has put the Celtics in a terrible position
CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

Brad Stevens could have best served the Celtics by naming himself interim coach

Instead, he passed the job to unproven assistant Joe Mazzulla.

Former NBA player Matt Barnes says he knows details of Ime Udoka’s behavior, and that it’s ‘100 times uglier than any of us thought’

Udoka suspension leaves behind many questions and much confusion

“We have strong values at the Celtics,” primary governor Wyc Grousbeck said. “And we are doing our very best to uphold them here."
Chad Finn | Sports Media

An ugly side of social media surfaced in the Ime Udoka controversy

While we waited for details to come out, Internet "sleuths" dragged female Celtics employees into the scandal with baseless and disgusting speculation.

Nia Long issues statement following Ime Udoka suspension, asks for privacy ‘to process recent events’

“The outpouring [of] love and support from family, friends and the community during this difficult time means so much,” actress Nia Long said in a statement following the suspension of her longtime partner, Boston Celtics head coach Ime Udoka.

Littleton is in an uproar at hosting at least 80 gun dealers inside old mill building

Officials ask for enforcement help: “We’re just a small little outfit here.”

In apparent violation of state nepotism law, Boston councilor hired sister, son to staff

Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson said it was an honest mistake and that she ended her son's and sister's employment as soon as she learned their presence on her staff violated ethics rules.

MBTA Green Line D branch closed for nine days now, two more closures to follow

The shutdown temporarily eliminates train service between Kenmore and Riverside in Newton, which will be replaced with shuttle buses, the MBTA said.

The ‘Cider Donuteur’ is back. Here’s what he’s learned while hunting for New England’s best cider doughnuts.

Alex Schwartz, known to fans online as the "Cider Donuteur," is back on the road to hunt for New England's best fried treats. And he's sharing some tips and tricks for getting the most out of your autumn adventures.

Ilse Nathan and Ruth Siegler, sisters and Holocaust survivors, die 11 days apart

Ilse Nathan’s daughter Sharon Ayres said of her mother and her aunt that "if I talked to my mother, she would say, ‘I never would have made it without my sister,’ and if I talked to my aunt, she would say, ‘I never would have made it without your mother.’”
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

Shushed at the symphony

Is it time to clap back at no-clapping rules? Our critic investigates the origins of applause and how other concert hall conventions came to be.
YVONNE ABRAHAM

On COVID, the president put his foot in it

Nobody wants to hear this, but we are nowhere near the finish line here.
Boston officials report small increases in COVID-19 cases; urge booster shots
Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Tom Brady and the Buccaneers are winning, but look miserable and dysfunctional in the process

The injuries are piling up. The offense is stuck in neutral. Brady is throwing tablets in frustration on the sideline.

Hispanic Heritage Month

A Beautiful Resistance | Jeneé Osterheldt
The Hispanic history I carry with me: Rixy
A Beautiful Resistance celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month and Latino joy, as told to Jeneé Osterheldt.

Documentando el corazón infatigable de Chelsea Ideas | Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston Read more Hispanic Heritage Month stories
CONNECTIONS

Visiting Guatemala, my parents’ homeland, transported me to my childhood memories

A family outing to Jamaica Plain’s old Hi-Lo Foods market was always a taste of home.
Opinion
EDITORIAL

Kill the Jones Act

Hurricane Fiona highlights an ugly truth about the US maritime industry.
IDEAS | TOM JOUDREY

The high cost of Hollywood nostalgia
Elissa Ely

Another white coat in the family
Renée Loth

Go back to the office — please!
IDEAS | PATRICK COLE

Rage, rage against the dying of the laser light

Culture
Banned Books Week Quiz
Banned Books Week is now underway! Put your knowledge of banned and challenged works to the test with our quiz.

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150 years of The Boston Globe

Scenes from a century and a half, as covered by the Boston Globe.
Spotlight investigation

Part 1
A celebrated surgeon, a trail of secrets and death
Dr. Yvon Baribeau set a record for malpractice settlements, and many colleagues tried desperately to stop him. But hospital executives let him go on and on.

Timeline: What the public didn't know about Dr. Yvon Baribeau Video: What the Spotlight Team’s investigation discovered about Dr. Baribeau N.H. hospital promises review after revelations about doctor with 21 malpractice settlements
Part 2

A crisis of conscience, with lives on the line

Alarmed doctors at Manchester's Catholic Medical Center tried to get a troubled colleague barred from surgery. But hospital leaders resisted. Then came the "summer of death."

More recent stories

Boston’s sea-level rise will require a ‘Big Dig level’ solution, city leaders say
A recent federal report forecast that, by 2050, sea levels in Boston will be 16 inches higher than they were at the start of the century. Addressing this, city leaders say, will require a comprehensive, coordinated climate change effort.

Baking bread for a new year, binding five generations together
The day before Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, three generations of Michaels gathered to put the old recipe to the test once again.

In Ukraine’s south, fierce fighting and deadly costs
Interviews with dozens of commanders, ordinary soldiers, medics, village leaders and civilians who recently escaped the conflict zone portray a more difficult and costly campaign.

Peter Abraham | YANKEES 7, RED SOX 5
Future isn’t looking bright for many of MLB’s 2022 cellar-dwellers
As the Major League Baseball playoffs approach, what’s going on with the teams at the other end of the standings? Here’s a look at the seven worst teams in the majors.

Red Sox again deny Aaron Judge, but again lose to Yankees Albert Pujols gets to 700 home runs with two at Dodger Stadium

Union members rally for Democrats in Dorchester ahead of midterm elections
A Gallup poll released last month showed 71 percent of Americans approve of labor unions, the highest approval rating recorded since 1965, and union members hope to transform their moment of popularity into political wins in November.

East Boston soldier who went missing during Korean War accounted for
Army Corporal Joseph J. Puopolo, 19, of East Boston, was accounted for in August, according to a statement Friday from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

Recommended reads

Beth Teitell

At 13, I didn’t make the cheerleading squad at Eastern Junior High. Was the ‘Pom Squad’ at a local senior center my second chance?

I guess it’s true what they say — nothing ever really stays buried.

Jeneé Osterheldt
Stop talking about Ime Udoka and start talking about Brett Favre
Welfare fraud in the poorest state in our country has gotten less attention than the inappropriate behavior of an NBA coach. We should ask ourselves why we care more about the latter than the former.

With home heating bills headed higher, New England lawmakers seek more federal energy assistance for low-income families
As energy costs soar and extra funding from pandemic relief packages disappears, lawmakers in Massachusetts and across New England are working to secure more federal funding for fuel assistance for low-income families.

Massachusetts man, woman killed in head-on crash with tractor-trailer in Connecticut
Dominique Nicole Loiselle, 25, of Brighton, and James L. Bowen, 25, of East Longmeadow, were both pronounced dead at the scene just after 12:30 a.m., Connecticut State Police said in a statement.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Slanted, enchanted, and a few years older, Pavement embarks on a reunion tour

With tiresome reboots, TV is stuck in a cycle of watch, rinse, repeat

To Sidney, with love — Poitier, that is

Poet T.S. Eliot’s Gloucester connection

Special Projects

Welcome Back to Boston

Consider this our love letter to the city, a celebration of all it has to offer visitors and locals alike.
Globe Magazine

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

A guide to 36 Greater Boston communities where demand — and prices — are surging.
Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

IDEAS | ED QUINN

Russian bombing reduced their town to rubble. It could not crush their humanity.
EDITORIAL

DA Hayden must take juvenile justice reform seriously
John F. Kerry

Friendships in times of political division
Kimberly Atkins Stohr

John Roberts’s constitutional color-blindness threatens civil rights
MARCELA GARCÍA

In praise of activist lawyers
IDEAS | OMAR VEGA

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

Metro

Sports

Chad Finn | Unconventional Preview

Patriots-Ravens rivalry may be a bit lopsided, but it is indeed a rivalry

The Patriots have won 9 of 11 regular-season meetings, but the teams have split four playoff matchups.
Bruins notebook

Veteran Anton Strålman could help Bruins’ defense on the right side

He had conversations with Arizona before free agency opened, but said there weren’t many other NHL teams calling him this fall.
NASCAR

Brad Keselowski captures pole at Texas, his first as an owner-driver

Keselowski's pole comes a week after his first stage win of the season at Bristol, where fellow RKF driver Chris Buescher was victorious.
MLB NOTEBOOK

Mariners lock up trade deadline acquisition Luis Castillo for five years, $108 million
MSTCA KELLEY INVITATIONAL

The patient approach of Falmouth’s Henry Gartner pays off at Frank Kelley Invitational Championship
Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

In light of Ime Udoka suspension, other NBA teams likely to make changes in how they hire coaches

Business

China using civilian ships to enhance navy capability, reach

Experts and uneasy regional governments say ostensibly civilian ships are part of a Chinese civil-military fusion strategy, little concealed by Beijing, that enhances its maritime capabilities.

Newsom vetoes ‘premature’ crypto oversight bill for California

California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would require crypto financial-service businesses to get a special license to operate, calling it premature and costly.

They were entitled to free care. Hospitals hounded them to pay.

With home heating bills headed higher, New England lawmakers seek more federal energy assistance for low-income families
magazine
My Boston History

I'm a multilingual singer-songwriter. Here's why I call Boston home.
My Boston History

Talent and education aren’t always enough. So I work to ensure opportunities for all.

My Boston History

Documenting Chelsea’s indefatigable heart
My Boston History

How I found my superpower: Becoming Raúl The Third

metro

Littleton is in an uproar at hosting at least 80 gun dealers inside old mill building

Union members rally for Democrats in Dorchester ahead of midterm elections

On COVID, the president put his foot in it

sports

Clemson football hangs on for double-overtime win over Wake Forest in ACC battle

Red Sox again deny Aaron Judge, but again lose to Yankees

‘We’ve got work to do. That’s the bottom line’: Red Sox manager Alex Cora reflects on a difficult season then looks ahead

business

Powell says economy may be entering ‘new normal’ after pandemic

Dow hits 2022 low as markets sell off on recession fears

Boston’s sea-level rise will require a ‘Big Dig level’ solution, city leaders say

politics

Georgia voting equipment breach at center of tangled tale

With home heating bills headed higher, New England lawmakers seek more federal energy assistance for low-income families

Meet the 32-year-old state representative thrust into the national spotlight when migrants landed on Martha’s Vineyard

Nation

Biden administration launches environmental justice office

U-Va. officials say 3 events are not a ‘trend of hate crimes’ on campus

Pharoah Sanders, influential jazz saxophonist, dies

World

Why Japan is angry about a state funeral for an assassinated leader

More than 700 children have died in a measles outbreak in Zimbabwe

Many foreign dignitaries expected to attend Abe’s state funeral

opinion

Literacy screenings mandated, but don’t get your hopes up

Where she lives, curbside recycling is, um, curbed

Russian bombing reduced their town to rubble. It could not crush their humanity.

lifestyle

Nia Long issues statement following Ime Udoka suspension, asks for privacy ‘to process recent events’

Battling insecurity while dating

Boston chefs dish on their top kid-meal hacks

food & dining

Near Harvard Square, a Spanish tapas bar that feels distinctly Cambridge

New Hampshire gets a Haitian destination; Hot Chix beefs up Inman Square’s food scene

This Cambridge restaurant was recently recognized by Bon Appetit magazine and The New York Times

travel

‘We must do this’: German village fulfills promise to God by staging Passion Play every 10 years

Robots, runs, and King Tut

Preacher Lawson is ready to catch some Z’s

Arts

The Hispanic history I carry with me: Rixy

Subversive strips at Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art

Jordan Seaberry’s nod to the WPA is a labor of love

Books

Libraries face increased attempts to ban books

Joshua Bennett on reading ‘to pursue astonishment’

Two books on pandemic parenting

Movies

‘Blonde’ is a rare movie with a NC-17 rating. What set it over the edge?

Forty years ago, Hollywood ushered in a new age of LGBTQ+ films. It didn’t last long.

‘The Collaboration’ and HBO’s ‘Julia’ filming around Boston this month

Television

‘Breaking Bad’ creator teams up with Rhea Seehorn for a new series

As title sequences go, ‘Bad Sisters’ is in good company

With tiresome reboots, TV is stuck in a cycle of watch, rinse, repeat

music

BSO opens new season to a full house

Jake Blount’s ‘The New Faith’ takes on the past and imagines the future under climate change

Slanted, enchanted, and a few years older, Pavement embarks on a reunion tour

Theater/Dance

For ‘Little Shop of Horrors,’ a not-so-little shot of hurrahs

‘Tina’ reaches for a star but falls short

At Moonbox, a journey of reconciliation in ‘The Good Deli,’ a venture into the unknown with ‘Jonathan’

globe local

Torah Sisters bond to piece together Jewish history

The Argument: Should accessory dwelling units be allowed statewide in Massachusetts?

Needham Town Meeting will decide on $2.5 million land purchase along Charles River next month

Obituaries

Ilse Nathan and Ruth Siegler, sisters and Holocaust survivors, die 11 days apart

Donald Blinken, ambassador, financier and art patron, dies at 96

Newton Harrison, a founder of the eco-art movement, dies at 89