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| Weather ⛅️ 85° / 70° Mostly cloudy and warm all day, then showers and thunderstorms likely tonight · full forecast → | The T Right Now ● RL ● OL ● GL ● BL Green: no trains today between North Station and Babcock St (B), Kenmore (C and D) or Heath St (E) — use the shuttles, Route 39, or the Orange Line between North Station and Back Bay · Symphony still closed · Red, Orange and Blue clear · live status → | Roads Summer paving and planned lane closures are posted on the state’s map — worth a look before any longer Sunday drive. |
| The number: 249 — events on Boston’s calendar as day 214 of the year begins. Seventy-one of them fall inside the week this email covers. see the whole list → | ⚾️ Sox beat the Dodgers 3–2 in Los Angeles last night to take the series. The finale is tonight at 7:20, and the Fenway homestand starts Tuesday · full scoreboard → | 📅 The Week Ahead Seven days, seven things worth leaving the house for One pick a day. Monday is a washout, so it starts indoors — then the week opens up into an arena night, free Verdi on the Esplanade, feast season in the North End and a whole Saturday of free jazz. | MON 8/3 | Monday is showers and storms most of the day, so start the week indoors on Newbury St — bring whatever you are reading, read in company, then talk about it. 7pm. | | TUE 8/4 | The week’s big arena night: the Japanese pop duo brings its stadium-scale production to TD Garden at 8pm. | | WED 8/5 | Verdi’s Requiem, outdoors and free, at the Hatch Shell at 7pm. The loudest free ticket of the summer — go early for a spot on the grass. | | THU 8/6 | A new show opens in the Gardner’s Hostetter Gallery — and Thursday is also the museum’s free evening, 5 to 9. | | FRI 8/7 | Feast season carries on in the North End, around Hanover and Battery Streets — one of the neighborhood’s long-running Italian societies, and the streets close for it. | | SAT 8/8 | Free jazz at the Hatch Shell from noon to 8:30 — the rare Saturday you can drop into at any hour and still catch a set. | | SUN 8/9 | Harrison Ave and Beach St close for the day, with a main stage at Phillips Square, 10 to 5 — the closing note on the week. |
One planning note for the back half of the week: the Green Line closes again from Aug 8 through Aug 16 — no trains between North Station and Babcock St (B), Cleveland Circle (C), Kenmore (D) or Heath St (E). Shuttle buses, Route 39 and the Orange Line to Back Bay are the workarounds, so build in extra time for Saturday and Sunday. | The Red Sox close out the West Coast trip in Los Angeles tonight at 7:20, then finally come home: six straight at Fenway starting Tuesday. Chicago’s White Sox are in for three (Tue–Thu, all 7:10), then the Athletics for three — Friday at 7:10, a 4:10 Saturday matinee and a 1:35 finish on Sunday the 9th. Boston arrives on the back of a 21–4 July. Also at home this week: the Revolution host Houston at Gillette on Saturday at 4:30. Scoreboard and schedule → | Via GBH News Chris Osgood, who held the job before, returns as interim chief of streets weeks after a well-known cycling advocate was hit and killed. Via NBC Boston A woman was caught and injured on the Somerville escalator where a man was fatally injured months ago. A bystander reached the emergency stop, and she survived. Via Boston.com Boston has started issuing “pet certificates” to couples who marry at City Hall, so the rest of the family gets paperwork too. Business The state moved up in CNBC’s 2026 ranking of the best states for business, with the cost of doing business here still the category holding it back. | A full week ahead — pick your days. | ExploreBoston · 1 Beacon Street, Floor 15, Boston, MA 02108 |
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