 Weekend Preview · The weekend plan Thursday, November 5, 2026 | | Spotlight This spot is open. See dates → | Boston this morning | Wear | 74° and mostly cloudy. Low 62° tonight. Forecast → | | Ride | Red Line, Orange Line and Blue Line are normal; Green Line C branch trains skip Hawes St and St. Paul St outbound, and Symphony is closed. Friday brings Commuter Rail signal work, and Green Line trains stop downtown from Sat., Nov. 7. Status → | | Drive | Route 60 WB, Revere, 6am-2pm. Tonight: I-93 NB, Boston to Medford, from 8pm; I-95, Waltham, from 9pm. Live → | | Know | 51 events on the ExploreBoston calendar Friday through Sunday, Nov. 6-8, 13 of them free. The full calendar | | Scores | 🏀 Celtics 109, Bucks 102 (Wed.) · 🏒 Bruins 3, Golden Knights 2 (Mon.) · ⚽ Inter Miami CF 2, Revolution 1 (Sun.) · Next: 🏒 Bruins at Penguins, today 7pm; 🏀 Celtics at Hornets, Fri. 7pm Scoreboard → |
| Your weekend forecast Fri. 71, rain likely and patchy fog. Sat. 64, rain likely, with a 40% chance overnight. Sun. 58, a chance of rain before 3pm, then partly sunny, per the National Weather Service. | If you do one thing Snowport, on Sunday The Seaport’s holiday market is back: WBUR has it opening Friday, with more than 130 makers, food stalls and themed bars at 100 Seaport Blvd., and it runs daily through Dec. 27. Friday and Saturday look wet, so go Sunday afternoon, when the rain chance drops and it is forecast partly sunny and 58. Entry is free. Event detailsForecast as of Wednesday. Check the event page before you go. | Boston Veterans Parade · Free · Sat noon-3pm · Boylston St. to City Hall Plaza Free. Steps off at the Boston Public Library, turns at Park and Tremont and ends at City Hall Plaza, per the city. Rain is likely, and the Silver Line SL5 detours downtown 10am-3pm. | Pumpkin Smash · Free · Sat 11am-2pm · English High School lot, 144 McBride St., Jamaica Plain Family. Bring the leftover jack-o’-lantern and smash it for compost with Zero Waste Boston, per the city. All ages, outdoors, so pack a raincoat. | Tim Dillon · Thu-Sat 7:30pm · The Wilbur, Theater District Night out. The podcaster’s three-night stand-up run; the Wilbur lists tickets for all three dates. Green Line to Boylston works through Friday. | Boston Half Marathon · Sun morning, from 8am · Franklin Park Outdoors. The B.A.A.’s half runs the Emerald Necklace past the Arboretum and Jamaica Pond and finishes back in Franklin Park, per the B.A.A. Cheer from the parkway; Sunday carries a 30% chance of rain, the lowest of the weekend. | Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird · Final weekend, closes Sun., Nov. 8 · The Huntington, 264 Huntington Ave. Rain plan. Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation gets its first regional production here, and the run ends Sunday, per the Huntington. With the Green Line closed from Saturday, take the Orange Line to Massachusetts Ave. |
| Free this weekend: Boston Park Rangers lead a fall foliage walk in Allandale Woods, West Roxbury, Fri 11am; Mass Audubon walks Mattahunt Woods in Mattapan, Sat 2pm. Last chance: Boston Lyric Opera’s A Streetcar Named Desire closes Sun., Nov. 8 with a 3pm matinee at the Cutler Majestic, per BLO. Everything on Friday through Sunday is on the events calendar. Getting around: Green Line trains stop downtown from Saturday through Nov. 15; use the Orange Line between North Station and Back Bay and shuttle buses west. Planned work | Election: Gov. Maura Healey won a second term over Republican Mike Minogue, who spent a state-record $19.5 million of his own money; the AP called it as polls closed, per WBUR. Sen. Ed Markey beat John Deaton. | Ballot questions: The Question 5 campaign, for a revenue cap with more frequent tax refunds, conceded Wednesday. Voters kept cannabis legal, expanded public records, approved same-day registration and kept gun limits, per GBH. | South End: Banyan Bar + Refuge will not reopen after a fire kept it closed; owner Rebecca Roth Gullo is putting the Gallows Group’s energy into Blackbird Doughnuts, per Boston Restaurant Talk (Nov. 3). |
| Cambridge: Healthpeak is paying $36 million for 100 Acorn Park Drive, a 129,000-square-foot building that is 53% occupied, taking full ownership of the 605,000-square-foot Cambridge Discovery Park, per Banker & Tradesman. |
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