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| Weather ⛈️ 70° / 58° Showers and thunderstorms likely into midafternoon, then patchy fog and a lingering chance — a quarter to half an inch of rain, and the last wet day of the week · full forecast → | The T Right Now ● RL ● OL ● GL ● BL Red: last day of Alewife–Park St shuttles, regular service returns Friday · Green: Symphony closed (E), Summit Ave (C) bypassed · Orange and Blue clear · live status → | Roads Planned lane closures and paving are posted on the state’s live map — worth a look before a wet Thursday drive or a weekend trip out of town. |
| The number: 36 — separate events on Boston’s calendar between Friday morning and Sunday night, from a statewide charity ride to a puppet circus in Brookline. see them all → | ⚾️ Sox 4, Athletics 2 — Boston took last night’s game in Sacramento and leads the series 2–1. The Sox wrap it there tonight at 9:40, then open at the Dodgers on Friday — the same day the trade deadline lands · full scoreboard → | 📅 Weekend Preview Four days, and the weather turns tomorrow Get today over with. The rain moves out overnight, Friday recovers to 81, and the two warmest days of the week land exactly where you want them. Thu ⛈️ 70° / 58° T-storms | Fri ⛅️ 81° / 62° Partly sunny | Sat 🌤️ 84° / 65° Mostly sunny | Sun ☁️ 83° / 65° Mostly sunny |
| THU 7/30 | Free · today through Sunday, Hanover Street. The Saint Agrippina Society opens North End feast season with four days of processions, free live music and street food. It runs all weekend, so tonight’s rain costs you nothing — go Saturday instead. | | FRI 7/31 | 6:30pm Friday and Saturday. Their first shows at the ballpark since 2019, and they do not repeat songs across a run — which makes the two nights genuinely different concerts rather than the same one twice. | | SAT 8/1 | 8pm, free, Parkman Bandstand. Commonwealth Shakespeare’s outdoor Midsummer Night’s Dream is a Boston summer institution, and 84 and dry is exactly the night it is built for. Bring a blanket and get there early. | | SUN 8/2 | 10:30am to 3pm, free. The city hands Centre Street to pedestrians and JP’s business district turns into a block party — the easiest good decision on an 83-degree Sunday. |
| | THU 7/30 | 5 to 9pm: the Cambridge galleries stay open late — the dry way to spend a thunderstorm evening. | | FRI 7/31 | 7:30pm at Leader Bank Pavilion, right on the water in the Seaport — and the first dry night of the week. | | SAT 8/1 | Noon to 6pm, free, at Rowes Wharf Plaza on the Greenway — music, art and food with the harbor behind it. | | SUN 8/2 | 7pm: Fenway’s fourth straight concert night, after Tim McGraw tonight and both Phish shows. |
| Via GBH News The state chapter is going to court for federal records on the practice, arguing the public is entitled to know who is deciding immigration cases and what training they have had. Via WHDH 7News Chelsea police say the man threatened to harm officers after he was refused entry to the bureau’s building. He was arrested and sent for a mental health evaluation. Via Boston.com The couple, who ran an e-commerce news site, were sent live cockroaches and a bloody pig mask by company employees trying to silence their coverage. The settlement closes one of the strangest corporate harassment cases the state has seen. Business The second downtown mainstay to announce its end in a week, after Boloco said it would shut its last location in September. Two closings do not make a trend, but the block is emptying out. | Know before you go — every morning. | ExploreBoston · 1 Beacon Street, Floor 15, Boston, MA 02108 |
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