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| Sponsored advertisement | Weather ☀️ 79° / 60° Sunny and dry all day. Tomorrow is warmer at 82 and sunny too, with rain showers arriving after 10pm Sunday night · full forecast → | The T Right Now ● RL ● OL ● GL ● BL Green Line, day eight of nine — no trains between North Station and Babcock St, Cleveland Circle, Kenmore or Heath St, through tomorrow. Buses cover Babcock St, Cleveland Circle and Heath St to Copley and Back Bay, the Route 39 among them, and the MBTA points riders to the Orange Line for downtown. Trains return Monday morning. Red, Orange and Blue are running normally · live status → | Roads Nothing is scheduled on the highways for Saturday. The overnight lane work starts again tomorrow night — I-95 in Waltham and I-93 between Medford and Stoneham, both after 8pm. |
| The number: 4 — free events on our list running in Boston today, counted at this morning’s build: a block party at the ICA Watershed in East Boston, the Seaport Summer Market, the African Festival on the Common, and the Fisherman’s Feast in the North End. everything free → | ⚾️ Pirates 8, Sox 4 — Boston dropped last night’s opener in Pittsburgh. The middle game of the set is tonight at 7:15, the finale tomorrow at 1:35 · full scoreboard → | 🎭 Culture Saturday · Today, tonight, tomorrow Three rooms you can walk into today Nothing on this list needed a plan made last week. A drop-in studio this afternoon, a comedy room tonight, and — because tomorrow is still the weekend — a free class in a park and a sign-up sheet in a Newbury Street bookshop. Today Make decorative tiles out of air-dry clay and acrylic glaze, drawn from the medieval and Renaissance work hanging a few rooms away. It is a drop-in studio, so there is nothing to book and no reason to be early. |
Tonight Gaspare Randazzo headlines a stand-up night built around classroom life and the people who survive it, in the city’s flagship comedy room. Tremont Street, and the Orange Line is your way in this weekend. |
Tomorrow A free slow-flow class in the park off Tremont, gentle movement and some stillness, with modifications offered at every level. Debbie Lay leads it. | Up the stairs at Trident on Newbury, Back Bay’s last great independent bookstore-cafe. The sign-up sheet goes out in the early evening and the room fills from there. You can just turn up. |
Closing soon — Dine Out Boston ends tonight, Saturday, Aug 15, after two weeks of prix-fixe menus citywide · the 116th Fisherman’s Feast closes Sunday, Aug 16, in the North End, ending as it always does with the Flight of the Angel · and John Kuntz’s one-man show Starf*ckers closes Sunday, Aug 16, at Central Square Theater. | | Boston Local Judge in Boston dismisses the federal antisemitism case against Harvard A federal judge has thrown out the government’s suit alleging Harvard tolerated antisemitism, and Massachusetts education officials publicly welcomed the ruling. Per Boston.com. Read more → | Public Safety Police prepare for big crowds at Sunday’s Dominican festival Boston police are preparing for large crowds at tomorrow’s Dominican festival, one of the summer’s bigger street gatherings. Per the Dorchester Reporter. Read more → | Politics Healey wades into the Quabbin communities’ water dispute The governor has stepped into a long-running argument over water in the Quabbin communities. Per GBH News. Read more → | Business Red Sox lease 100,000 square feet at Samuels’ Fenway tower The club has taken 100,000 square feet in Samuels & Associates’ new Fenway office tower. Per Banker & Tradesman. Read more → | Tomorrow: your week, planned — plus the Scoreboard. | You are getting the Culture Saturday edition of The Daily Boston Brief. ExploreBoston.com is wicked proud to be a local Boston small business. ExploreBoston · 1 Beacon Street, Floor 15, Boston, MA 02108 |
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