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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 DeSantisMeet the 32-year-old state representative thrust into the national spotlight when migrants landed on Martha’s VineyardSee 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 investigateDan 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Powerful storm Fiona hits Canada, knocking out power to thousands of people

Fiona transformed from a hurricane into a post-tropical storm late Friday, but meteorologists cautioned that it still could have hurricane-strength winds and would bring drenching rains and huge waves.
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 ChelseaIdeas | Rarely seen snapshots of Latino BostonRead 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 BaribeauVideo: What the Spotlight Team’s investigation discovered about Dr. BaribeauN.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

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 find another way to lose to Yankees despite Rich Hill quieting Aaron JudgeAlbert Pujols gets to 700 home runs with two at Dodger Stadium

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.

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.

‘Shoebert’ the seal waddled to the police station ‘for some help’ after weeklong stay in Beverly’s Shoe Pond
The gray seal made its way across a nearby parking lot and "came to the side door of the police station for some help," the Beverly Police Department said.

Boston officials report small increases in COVID-19 cases; urge booster shots
New cases have increased by 8.5 percent over the past week and 37.7 percent over the past 14 days, figures that don’t include at-home or rapid tests, according to a weekly update from the Boston Public Health Commission.

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.

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.

Oscar-winning ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ actor Louise Fletcher dies
Louise Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” set a new standard for screen villains and won her an Academy Award, has died at age 88.

Shirley Leung
There are rich people, and then there are the ‘one-time millionaires’
Opponents of the November ballot initiative that would raise taxes for some Massachusetts residents are out to redefine what it means to be wealthy.

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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

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.

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.

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.

Former Mass MoCA director Joseph Thompson found not guilty in 2018 crash

Thompson, who led the North Adams museum for three decades, pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge in the collision that killed 49-year-old motorcyclist Steven Fortier.

Sports

Red Sox

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

With the season lost, he’s pored over the games where lapses meant the difference between wins and losses.
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.
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.
RED SOX AT YANKEES | 1:05 P.M. (NESN)

Game 151: Red Sox at Yankees lineups and notes

HIGH SCHOOL GOLF NOTEBOOK

High school golf invitational is back at Cape Cod National, where patience is recommended

Bob Ryan

Aaron Judge is having a special season, but how does it compare to past Yankee greats?

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

The Hispanic history I carry with me: Rixy

Cranston library suspends use of meeting space pending policy review

Libraries face increased attempts to ban books

sports

As David Price contemplates retirement, we should remember one of the best clutch performances in Boston sports history

How Zdeno Chara changed the culture surrounding the Bruins

Future isn’t looking bright for many of MLB’s 2022 cellar-dwellers

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

Many foreign dignitaries expected to attend Abe’s state funeral

China using civilian ships to enhance navy capability, reach

Iran protests surge to dozens of cities

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

Can I get a refund for these airline credits on Expedia?

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

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

Maarten Schmidt, first astronomer to identify a quasar, dies at 92

Darrell Mudra, successful coach at all levels, dies at 93