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Weather 🌧️ 71° / 63° Showers on and off, a 33 percent chance, with patchy fog after dark. Tomorrow is the wetter of the two — 78 and a 53 percent chance of showers · full forecast → | The T Right Now ● RL ● OL ● GL ● BL Orange Line, day three of the shutdown — no trains between Oak Grove and Back Bay through August 30. Shuttles run Oak Grove to North Station, and the MBTA points riders to the Green Line between North Station and Copley or Back Bay. On the Green Line itself, Brandon Hall on the C branch is bypassed through October 4 and Symphony on the E stays closed · live status → | Roads Route 2 westbound has roadwork between Exit 135 in Arlington and Exit 125 in Lincoln, 5am to 1pm — the one daytime job scheduled on the highways today. Overnight lane work resumes tomorrow night. |
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The number: 6 — free events on our list running in Boston today, counted at this morning’s build. The Greenway Artisan Market below is one of them; the North End feast, a porchfest, a food truck festival, a beer garden and a library matinee are the others. everything free → |
⚾️ Red Sox 6, Giants 4 — Boston took Friday night’s opener at Fenway. The middle game is tonight at 7:15, the finale tomorrow at 3:15 · full scoreboard → |
🎭 Culture Saturday · Today, tonight, tomorrow Saturday, hour by hour The forecast is unsettled rather than washed out — 71 degrees and a 33 percent chance of showers, with the wetter half of the weekend holding until tomorrow. Here is what is open and on, in the order it happens. Today Local makers line the Greenway with handmade goods, artwork and craft work. Admission is free, there is nothing to book, and it runs seven hours — which makes it the outdoor plan that survives a passing shower. | An ICA graduate student lecturer walks the museum’s fourth-floor collection show, built on close looking and open conversation rather than a script. No pre-registration, and the tour is included with admission. |
Tonight A theatrical cabaret of swing, blues and jazz, staged as a two-hour show with storytelling between the numbers rather than a straight concert set. Burlesque performer Pixie Payne guests. Doors at 7, all ages. |
Tomorrow The fourth-Sunday brunch, with Mizery leading a cast of celebrity-impersonator queens through an interactive show and a seated brunch served first. Take a glow necklace at check-in if you would rather watch than be pulled into the act. | Italo-disco and synth-pop drawn from 1980s Italian dance records, in the Middle East’s upstairs room. Doors at 7, and the show is 18-plus. An indoor answer to a Sunday with rain in the forecast. |
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Bill Murray turns up at Legal Sea Foods at Logan The actor surfaced at the airport restaurant this week, a few weeks after being spotted eating tacos in New Bedford. Per Boston.com. Read more → |
Olivia Wilde on her Boston-area roots and ‘The Invite’ The actress, who got her start putting on shows at Phillips Academy in Andover, talks about her love of Diane Keaton and the discomfort at the center of her new project. Per Boston.com. Read more → |
A review: the new Peter Asher documentary The Arts Fuse’s critic calls “Peter Asher: Everywhere Man” an exuberant trace of the British Invasion star’s path from Peter and Gordon to producing James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt. A review, not a report. Read more → |
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Transit An Orange Line shuttle took riders about 10 miles the wrong way On the first day of the shutdown, a shuttle bus meant to run to North Station instead carried riders out toward Stoneham. The T has been telling riders to budget an extra 70 minutes from Oak Grove to Downtown Crossing while the closure runs. Per NBC10 Boston. Read more → |
Boston Local Boston Fed finds Gateway Cities far behind on family wealth Median family net worth in the state’s Gateway Cities is $101,500, against $373,000 across Greater Boston, and half of Gateway Cities families could not cover a $400 emergency, against a third here. Per GBH News. Read more → |
Politics Healey signs a Norwood Hospital deadline into law Six years after a flood shut the hospital, the governor signed a bill Friday giving owner Medical Properties Trust until November 1 to find a qualified nonprofit operator. Per WHDH. Read more → |
Business A Roxbury street is officially New Edition Way The Public Improvements Commission voted this week to formally rename Dearborn Street for the Roxbury-born group, a year after the ceremonial block party. Per Banker & Tradesman. Read more → |
Tomorrow: your week, planned — plus the Scoreboard. |
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