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Celtics 114, Pacers 111 | Game 3
Gary Washburn | On basketball

Sure, they drive you crazy ... but these Celtics are now one win away from the NBA Finals

In a span of two hours, the Celtics showed why they are the prohibitive favorites to win a title … and why they are the most infuriating elite team in recent Boston memory.
Photos: Celtics play Game 3 against Pacers Instant analysis: Behind veterans Al Horford and Jrue Holiday, Celtics show off their postseason poise, and other Game 3 observations
As it happened

Celtics claw back from 18-point deficit, beat Pacers in Game 3 to take commanding series lead
celtics 114, pacers 111

The Celtics were ‘desperate’ to solve the Pacers in Game 3. Jrue Holiday came along at the perfect time.
Celtics notebook

With bigger Celtics ailing, Jayson Tatum wants to keep Pacers from bouncing back on glass

An old worry returns for Steward’s nurses and retirees: Can they count on their pensions?
The future of the pensions — whether workers can count on them for the long haul — is bound up with the fate of hospitals that serve mostly low-income neighborhoods and communities.

THE FINE PRINT

Think you’re buying Tanglewood concert tickets from the BSO? Make sure you double check.

Joe Berger paid $822 for four tickets on a ticket resale website thinking he was on the BSO’s official site, where equivalent tickets were available for only $316.

11 men ordained as Roman Catholic priests at Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston
The new priests range in age from 26 to 63 years old, and hail from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Mexico, El Salvador, Vietnam, Colombia, and Cameroon, according to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.

At Harvard, a confrontation during a protest erupts in political controversy — and lands in court
The incident might have been forgotten as a minor tussle in a charged environment. Instead, it has ricocheted across the globe for more than half a year in viral videos, civil lawsuits, missives from lawmakers, and international news reports.

Adrian Walker: Dropping Harvard ‘assault’ case would be justice

Aid trucks begin entering Gaza under agreement with Egypt to bypass Rafah

Four girls stabbed in attack at Braintree movie theater; two people stabbed in Plymouth, police say

The four girls who were stabbed at the movie theater range in age from 9 to 17 years old, and the two victims in Plymouth are 21 and 29 years old; police described their injuries as not life-threatening.

Amid labor crisis, behavioral health workers await $200m windfall
Among other programs, the fund supports a student loan repayment program, additional training, and stipends for internships.

For Cambridge’s migrant students, a warm, English welcome
As thousands of new migrants arrive in Massachusetts, schools like the Kennedy-Longfellow Elementary School in East Cambridge are scrambling to help them learn English. One approach is Sheltered English Immersion.

Despite the state’s efforts, Logan Airport continues to be a front line in the migrant crisis

PGA golfer Grayson Murray dead at 30
There were no immediate details on the circumstances of his death, which came one day after he withdrew from the Charles Schwab Cup Challenge at Colonial in Fort Worth.

Not possible to search for British climber and his Sherpa who went missing on Everest, official says

This climbing season, which started in March and is expected to end in a few days, saw four climbers — two Mongolians, one Nepali and one Kenyan — die.

Former Boston police officer sentenced in Jan. 6 attack on Capitol officer

Trump, accustomed to friendly crowds, confronts repeated booing during Libertarian convention speech
Chad Finn | Sports Media

While a team streams, a sports fan has reason to steam

It’s extremely frustrating when you pay for an app to discover that a particular game is on another service, especially one that requires busting out the credit card yet again.
BREWERS 6, RED SOX 3

Red Sox out at home again, lose to Brewers as Fenway Park mark slip to 10-15

 On baseball: Sal Frelick, favorite son of Lexington, enjoys every part of victorious Fenway Park debut with Brewers
Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

These 15 NFL veterans are angling for new contracts — some quietly, some not so much

 Chiefs’ Harrison Butker has no regrets in first public comments since giving controversial commencement speech
Opinion
JEFF JACOBY

Generation Z has serious problems. It has serious advantages, too.

When it comes to wealth and work, Zoomers are in good shape.
RENÉE GRAHAM

Donald Trump is testing America. We’re failing.

Drew Gilpin Faust

US higher education is endangered
EDITORIAL

International graduates of US colleges should have an easier path to stay
IDEAS | VANESSA BRAGANZA

The new Amy Winehouse biopic and our obsession with tragic geniuses
AAPI Heritage Month
SHIRLEY LEUNG

In Malden, the booming Asian community could soon have a place of their own

MFA reopens its Arts of Japan galleries after six years of closure

Amy Tan reflects on her new nonfiction book. ‘Birds were fun ... fiction writing is torment.’

Eight restaurants to eat at for AAPI Heritage Month

More recent News

MIT spinoff company says its electrically conductive bricks can replace fossil fuels used in industrial processes
A Medford company has built a brick that can be heated up to 1,800 degrees Celsius from renewable sources of energy. That concentrated heat can then be used for industrial processes, such as making steel or cement, cutting out the need for coal.

Tara Sullivan
PWHL has made a name for itself — and a place in the sports landscape
The PWHL is far from some fly-by-night, throw-everything-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks operation. The founders knew when to wait — and one look at the six team jerseys is a reminder of that wisdom within.

Gracie’s Giving Project to honor toddler fatally struck by truck in Boston while visiting from Denver
In the two months since 4-year-old Gracie Gonchar was struck and killed by a car while near the Boston Children’s Museum while visiting from Denver, her parents have turned their grief into action by forming a foundation in her name to improve child safety.

Biden’s message to West Point graduates: You’re being asked to tackle threats ‘like none before’
President Biden told graduates that their class is being called upon to preserve the country’s ideals at home “like none before.”

Man taken to hospital after being stabbing on Carson Beach

State Police responded to the beach on the report of a large fight at about 8:50 p.m. Friday, Lieutenant Sean Quirk, an agency spokesman said.

MUSIC REVIEW
At Boston Calling, Reneé Rapp leads the love parade
Ed Sheeran may have been Friday’s headliner, but it was the off-the-cuff whimsy of singer Renee Rapp and bursts of diverse sounds from other artists down the lineup that colored a solid but noticeably rock-heavy opening day of the festival.

Recommended reads

Wayfair goes brick-and-mortar with first big-box store. Take a look inside.

A giant new store in suburban Chicago is part of the Boston-based online retailer’s foray into the physical world.

He once investigated pensioners who broke the rules on working in retirement. Then he accidentally became one.
In retirement, Glenn Cunha alerted state officials that he mistakenly exceeded a state-imposed cap on what he could earn. Such violations are rarely, if ever, flagged by the retiree, but most don’t have his background.

‘Part of the further fracturing of American society’: GBH’s suspension of ‘Basic Black’ seen as troubling media trend
GBH suspended the TV program on Wednesday as part of cost-cutting measures. Longtime viewers and contributors worry that its audience won’t be able to find the type of programming anywhere else.

The YIMBYs are coming, to the suburbs
There's a fast-growing network of new advocacy groups that have sprung up in suburbs across Greater Boston, whose members go to public meetings to say yes to more housing development, instead of no.

Culture & Lifestyle

A fans’ guide to Boston Calling: Performance times, food lineup, and everything you need to know

In the Huntington’s ‘Toni Stone,’ a player in a league of her own

As the Rolling Stones prepare to hit Gillette, here’s a tour through their recent live releases

So many ways to savor Memorial Day weekend in and around Boston

Special Projects

Lost in a World of Words

Learning to read is the greatest gift a school can give a child. And yet, in Massachusetts, outmoded teaching methods leave thousands of students struggling to gain this critical skill.

Beyond the Gilded Gate

People in and around Boston are being challenged, in ways never before, to address the region's unprecedented housing crisis.

Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

IDEAS | WHITNEY ELLENBY

My son is profoundly autistic. Please don’t say he’s merely ‘neurodiverse.’
KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

The Supreme Court is a potential threat to our democracy
Christopher Weyant

We’re going to need a bigger boat
SCOT LEHIGH

Here’s how blue state voters can help the Democrats’ swing-state efforts
IDEAS | BART TOCCI

I got dumped by the Unemployment office. Would they take me back?
IDEAS

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

Metro

At Harvard, a confrontation during a protest erupts in political controversy — and lands in court

The incident might have been forgotten as a minor tussle in a charged environment. Instead, it has ricocheted across the globe for more than half a year in viral videos, civil lawsuits, missives from lawmakers, and international news reports.

Photos: Celtics win Game 3 against Pacers

The Indiana Pacers hosted the Boston Celtics during the NBA Eastern Conference finals.

Richard M. Sherman, who fueled Disney charm in ‘Mary Poppins’ and ‘It’s a Small World,’ dies at 95

Sherman — who helped write the instantly memorable songs for “Mary Poppins,” “The Jungle Book” and “It’s a Small World (After All)” — has died.

11 men ordained as Roman Catholic priests at Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston

The new priests range in age from 26 to 63 years old, and hail from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Mexico, El Salvador, Vietnam, Colombia, and Cameroon, according to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.

Sports

Not possible to search for British climber and his Sherpa who went missing on Everest, official says

This climbing season, which started in March and is expected to end in a few days, saw four climbers — two Mongolians, one Nepali and one Kenyan — die.
celtics 114, pacers 111

The Celtics were ‘desperate’ to solve the Pacers in Game 3. Jrue Holiday came along at the perfect time.

Holiday's game-sealing steal helped flip Boston over the razor-thin margin and into the win column. But the team knows a sweep isn't guaranteed.
Celtics

The Celtics face the Pacers in the Eastern Conference finals. See the schedule.

Boston, by virtue of earning the No. 1 seed with a 64-18 regular-season record, has ensured it will have home-court advantage throughout the postseason.
Celtics notebook

With bigger Celtics ailing, Jayson Tatum wants to keep Pacers from bouncing back on glass

Adam Himmelsbach | INSTANT ANALYSIS

Behind veterans Al Horford and Jrue Holiday, Celtics show off their postseason poise, and other Game 3 observations

Business

An old worry returns for Steward’s nurses and retirees: Can they count on their pensions?

The future of the pensions — whether workers can count on them for the long haul — is bound up with the fate of hospitals that serve mostly low-income neighborhoods and communities.
THE FINE PRINT

Think you’re buying Tanglewood concert tickets from the BSO? Make sure you double check.

Joe Berger paid $822 for four tickets on a ticket resale website thinking he was on the BSO’s official site, where equivalent tickets were available for only $316.

G7 officials make progress but no final deal on money for Ukraine from frozen Russian assets

US airports set a new record: The most passengers screened in one day
magazine
from the archives

How strangers honored my uncle, who went M.I.A. in Vietnam, for years
Summer Travel

30 ways to have the perfect Cape Cod vacation

GLOBE MAGAZINE

We set out to kayak the entire Charles River. It was that or pickleball.
Things to do

40 tiny, perfect things about summer in New England

metro

Amid labor crisis, behavioral health workers await $200m windfall

Gracie’s Giving Project to honor toddler fatally struck by truck in Boston while visiting from Denver

For Cambridge’s migrant students, a warm, English welcome

sports

Jayson Tatum has his flaws, but Kendrick Perkins is among those spewing nonsense about Celtics’ star

Sure, they drive you crazy ... but these Celtics are now one win away from the NBA Finals

Sun rule the Sky, stay unbeaten behind DeWanna Bonner’s 19 points

business

Wayfair goes brick-and-mortar with first big-box store. Take a look inside.

The YIMBYs are coming, to the suburbs

Drug giant Takeda plans more than 640 layoffs in Massachusetts

politics

Trump, accustomed to friendly crowds, confronts repeated booing during Libertarian convention speech

Vice president announces commitment to increase internet access in Africa

Trump will address the Libertarian Party convention as he goes after Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Nation

‘New territory’ for Americans: Deadly heat in the workplace

Biden’s message to West Point graduates: You’re being asked to tackle threats ‘like none before’

This Nevada county is tapping a climate cash bonanza while it can

World

Aid trucks begin entering Gaza under agreement with Egypt to bypass Rafah

G7 officials make progress but no final deal on money for Ukraine from frozen Russian assets

Nicki Minaj’s England concert postponed after rapper was detained by Dutch authorities over marijuana

opinion

The problem with campus protests is not cruelty but ignorance

The Supreme Court is a potential threat to our democracy

Here’s how blue state voters can help the Democrats’ swing-state efforts

lifestyle

The siblings who changed how we party

I have a boyfriend — and a crush on my friend, who’s a woman

Ed Sheeran and Reneé Rapp attend Boston Celtics game at TD Garden

food & dining

It’s patio weather! Here are some of the best ones around.

What’s open and closed on Memorial Day in Massachusetts

A new Citrus & Salt comes to Fort Point

travel

Memorial Day travelers withstand higher prices in the hurry to kick off summer fun

Forget the beach: This is the most kid-friendly spot in Hyannis

They’re sweet on the Cape: Who needs Wonka when you’ve got caramels with local sea salt and freeze-dried Skittles?

Arts

At ICA’s Watershed, Hew Locke’s rough pageant of humanity

A portrait of Princess Kate is drawing backlash. Is it really that bad?

The West End Museum reopens after two-year closure because of flooding

Books

New wisdom from 826 Boston, a memoir of circus life, and a bookstore springs up in Springfield

Author readings around Boston through June 1

Local bestsellers for the week ended May 19

Movies

It’s no wonder I love the flicks I do. Like so many filmmakers and fans, I got my movie education from Roger Corman.

Jennifer Lopez says ‘you know better than that’ when asked about Ben Affleck rumors

‘Hit Man’: Richard Linklater’s comic neo-noir is right on target

Television

‘Dexter: Original Sin’ will present serial killer’s origin story

TV shows that are tapped out after one season don’t know when to stop

‘Interview With the Vampire’ remains compelling in season 2

music

At Boston Calling, Reneé Rapp leads the love parade

Ed Sheeran and Reneé Rapp attend Boston Celtics game at TD Garden

As the Rolling Stones prepare to hit Gillette, here’s a tour through their recent live releases

Theater/Dance

‘Gatsby’ arrives at the ART, driven by a powerhouse creative team

In the Huntington’s ‘Toni Stone,’ a player in a league of her own

ArtsEmerson’s 2024-25 season includes a musical inspired by a viral video of inmates dancing to ‘Thriller’

Health

In CVS’s home state, pharmacists in 2 retail stores vote to unionize

What we’re starting to learn about H5N1 in cows, and the risk to people

Centurion Foundation was the ‘only viable’ buyer for Roger Williams, Fatima hospitals, CEO says

Obituaries

Richard M. Sherman, who fueled Disney charm in ‘Mary Poppins’ and ‘It’s a Small World,’ dies at 95

Caleb Carr, author of dark histories, dies at 68

John Koerner, bluesman who inspired a young Bob Dylan, dies at 85