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| Sponsored advertisement | Weather 🌤️ 81° / 66° Mostly sunny, an east wind at 2 to 8, and the rain holds off all day. That is the end of the dry run: showers arrive after 2am and Monday is wet, with a high near 75 · full forecast → | The T Right Now ● RL ● OL ● GL ● BL Green Line, the last closed day — no trains between North Station and Babcock St, Cleveland Circle, Kenmore or Heath St today. Shuttle buses cover it, and the MBTA points riders to the Orange Line for downtown. Trains run again Monday morning. Red, Orange and Blue are normal today. One to write down: the Orange Line closes Aug 20 to Aug 30 · live status → | Roads Daytime is clear. The overnight lane work restarts tonight: I-93 south from Reading to Boston and I-95 through Waltham, both from 8pm, and Route 60 in Revere from 9pm. |
| The number: 86 — separate events on our calendar for the week ahead, Monday through Sunday, counted at this build with the multi-day duplicates merged. Day 228 of 2026. all of them → | ⚾️ Sox 4, Pirates 0 — a shutout in Pittsburgh last night. The series ends today at 1:35, and Fenway has the Diamondbacks tomorrow night · full scoreboard → | 📅 The Week Ahead · Mon Aug 17 – Sun Aug 23 Seven days, seven things worth the trip One pick for each day of the coming week. Four of the seven are free, the Green Line comes back Monday morning, and the week finishes with a street feast, a porch festival and a triathlon on the same two days. Anara Frank teaches bachata and merengue by the river, with food from local restaurants after. No partner needed. The Esplanade Association runs this every Monday through Aug 24, so this is the second-to-last one, not the last. | TUE Pomplamoose · Brighton Music Hall, Allston · 7pm · 18+ The duo who built an audience taking apart their own arrangements on video, in a 500-capacity room on Brighton Ave. A Tuesday night show at club scale. | The world tour stops on Lansdowne Street. With the Green Line running again by Wednesday, Kenmore is the walk-up stop it usually is. | The indoor market’s late-summer day, when the New England growers who stock it are at the peak of what they have. Free to walk into, and it is directly on top of Haymarket station. | The North End’s feast season does not stop with the Fisherman’s Feast closing today. San Gennaro takes over Paul Revere Mall and the streets off Hanover from Friday through Sunday. Free to walk into. | Running since 2014, and the format is the whole appeal: music, storytelling and dance on porches and green spaces across the neighborhood, six hours, no ticket, and you walk between them. | The city’s own triathlon takes over Carson Beach across Saturday and Sunday, swim in the harbor and the rest on the Southie waterfront. Watching costs nothing and the JFK/UMass stop puts you close. |
Every morning has a beat: Tue — T status before your commute · Wed — the booked-solid tables · Thu — your weekend, planned · Fri — open houses & rates. | Six games at Fenway, and the trains to get there What happened Red Sox 4, Pirates 0 · Saturday · PNC Park · Final Boston shut Pittsburgh out to even the series, a night after dropping the opener 8–4. | Patriots 13, Colts 13 · Thursday · Gillette Stadium · Final The preseason opener ended level. Preseason games have no overtime, so a tie is where it stops. | |
What’s next Today, 1:35 · Red Sox at Pittsburgh · series finale | Mon–Wed · Diamondbacks at Red Sox · Fenway · 7:10, 7:10, then 4:10 Wednesday Getting there, from our venue guide: the Green Line B, C or D to Kenmore and five minutes over the turnpike bridge, or the Framingham/Worcester commuter rail to Lansdowne, right behind the ballpark. | Wed, 7:30 · Revolution at D.C. United · Audi Field | Fri–Sun · Giants at Red Sox · Fenway · 7:10, 7:15, then 3:10 Sunday | Sat, 7:00 · Eagles at Patriots · Gillette Stadium Preseason game two, and it clashes with the Red Sox at 7:15. Gillette is in Foxborough, thirty miles south; on game days the T runs event trains from South Station to Foxboro Station at the stadium. | Sun, 4:30 · New York City FC at Revolution · Gillette Stadium |
One storyline Five and a half. That is the Red Sox’ cushion in the wild card race after last night — five and a half games clear of the cut line, holding the second of the three wild card places. It is the number that matters more than the division one: at 66–57 Boston sits third in the American League East, eight and a half back of Tampa Bay, and the postseason road runs through the wild card. This afternoon ends a six-game road trip, and then the schedule turns friendly — six games at Fenway in seven days, Arizona then San Francisco. The Green Line reaches Kenmore again on Monday morning, the same morning the team gets home. | The 116th Fisherman’s Feast closes today, after four days of Sicilian street food and processions through the North End. It ends the way it always does, with the Flight of the Angel. | Coddington Street closes for the afternoon for one of the region’s bigger Asian-American street festivals. The Red Line runs straight to Quincy Center and the festival is at the door. | The Death By Sexy twentieth anniversary tour, at the Paradise on Comm Ave. With the Green Line shut, the 57 bus and the Red Line to Central plus the 1 are the ways in tonight. | Rhinoceros · From Wednesday, 7:30pm · Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge Paul Giamatti, John Turturro and Tatiana Maslany in Ionesco’s absurdist play at the American Repertory Theater. It runs into September, so this is the week to get ahead of it. |
| Politics Brian DePena was arrested Friday and charged with wire fraud and money laundering over pandemic small-business loans. He says he has no plans to step down. It is not the first trouble around the office: two of his chiefs of staff left in legal difficulty, one stripped of his police credentials by the state, the other now in federal prison. Per NBC Boston. Read more → | Education The union representing about 2,600 non-tenure-track researchers and teachers says roughly 94 percent of the 1,366 members who voted backed authorizing a strike. No date is set, and members will pick a deadline in the coming weeks while bargaining continues — this after 44 sessions since September 2024. Harvard’s graduate student union ended its own 40-day strike on June 1 without a deal. Per Cambridge Day. Read more → | Transit Chief communications officer Gabrielle Mondestin will resign on Sept 18 and will not sue the T, general manager Phillip Eng or the state. The agreement carries no admission of wrongdoing. The incident was at a team dinner in November 2024; Eng, who is also interim transportation secretary, has said he apologized at the time. Per NBC Boston. Read more → | Business The city’s planning board approved a six-story, $72.3 million project at 1590 Blue Hill Ave., replacing an auto repair garage that has held the site since 1976. Two thirds of the units are two and three bedrooms, reserved for households earning 30 to 80 percent of area median income, and it conforms as of right under the Squares and Streets zoning. It was one of four approvals totaling 329 homes this month. Per Banker & Tradesman. Read more → |
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