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| Sponsored advertisement | Weather 🌧️ 79° / 62° Patchy fog early, then a chance of rain showers through the day on a light east wind. The forecast puts the chance at 30 percent and a tenth to a quarter of an inch where it falls. It is still the wet day of a dry stretch: Monday is sunny and 81 · full forecast → | The T Right Now ● RL ● OL ● GL ● BL Orange Line, day four of eleven — no trains between Oak Grove and Back Bay through Aug 30. Shuttle buses cover Oak Grove to North Station, and the Green Line covers North Station to Copley and Back Bay. The T has a crowding notice out for the Green Line because of it. Green also has Brandon Hall closed on the C branch through Oct 4 and Symphony shut on the E. Red and Blue are normal · live status → | Roads Daytime is clear on the planned board. Overnight lane work restarts tonight: I-93 both ways between Somerville and Reading from 7pm, I-95 through Waltham from 8pm, and Route 60 in Revere from 9pm. A daytime batch starts Monday morning in Medford and Somerville — Route 28, Route 16 and the Mystic Valley Parkway connector, 7am to 3:30pm on weekdays. |
| The number: 76 — separate events on our calendar for the week ahead, Monday through Sunday, counted at this build with the multi-day duplicates merged. Day 235 of 2026. all of them → | ⚾️ Sox 3, Giants 2 — last night at Fenway, a second straight over San Francisco. Patriots 24, Eagles 21 at Gillette. Today the series ends at 3:15, and the Revolution host New York City FC at 4:30 · full scoreboard → | 📅 The Week Ahead · Mon Aug 24 – Sun Aug 30 A feast, a carnival, and five nights in between One pick for each day of the coming week. Four of the seven are free, Monday through Wednesday are sunny and near 80, and the last week of August puts the North End’s Saint Anthony’s Feast and the Caribbean Carnival on back-to-back days. The Boston Globe’s Emily Sweeney runs the questions in Aeronaut’s taproom in Somerville. A Monday night out that is not a concert and not a bar quiz about capital cities. | The harbor islands boat is the part of a Boston summer most people never get around to, and the fare is the reason. On Tuesday it is waived. Spectacle has the swimming beach and the hilltop walk; Georges has the fort. | Three British bands from the same decade on one Lansdowne Street bill, which is a rarer thing than a single reunion tour. The Green Line to Kenmore is running normally this week. | The North End’s feast season closes out with the biggest of them, filling Hanover, Endicott and Thacher Streets. Our calendar carries Thursday and Friday; both days run noon to 11pm and cost nothing to walk into. | The week’s arena night. North Station sits underneath the building, which matters more than usual right now: it is also where the Orange Line shuttles turn around until Aug 30. | The costumed parade and the day at Franklin Park that has closed out August in Boston for decades. It starts early, at 8am, and the Junior Carnival ran today as the warm-up. | Twenty-sixth year, three hours, free, and on the plaza rather than in a hall. A quieter way to end the last weekend of the summer than the one before it. |
Every morning has a beat: Tue — T status before your commute · Wed — the booked-solid tables · Thu — your weekend, planned · Fri — open houses & rates. | Three back, and four at the Stadium coming What happened Red Sox 6, Giants 4 · Friday · Fenway Park · Final Boston took the opener of the three-game set, two nights after dropping the Arizona finale 7–6. | Revolution 3, D.C. United 0 · Wednesday · Audi Field · Full time A road shutout in Washington, and the first Revolution win since the Atlanta game in July. | Red Sox 3, Giants 2 · Saturday · Fenway Park · Final A one-run night to take the series, with the finale still to play this afternoon. | Patriots 24, Eagles 21 · Saturday · Gillette Stadium · Final · preseason The preseason home date, three points in it. Cleveland on Thursday closes the exhibition slate. |
What’s next Today, 3:15 · Giants at Red Sox · Fenway Park · series finale 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. | Today, 4:30 · New York City FC at Revolution · Gillette Stadium Gillette is in Foxborough, thirty miles south. On game days the T runs event trains from South Station straight to Foxboro Station at the stadium. | Mon–Wed, 6:40 · Red Sox at Miami · loanDepot park | Thu, 8:00 · Patriots at Cleveland · preseason finale | Fri–Sun · Red Sox at the Yankees · Yankee Stadium · 7:15 Friday, then 1:05 and 7:15 in a split doubleheader Saturday, 1:35 Sunday | Sat, 7:30 · Revolution at Columbus Crew |
One storyline Three. That is how far the Red Sox sit behind the Yankees this morning — 70–59 against New York’s 73–56 — and it is a game closer than it was on Friday, because Boston won again last night and New York lost to Toronto. The two of them still play four times next weekend at Yankee Stadium, Friday through Sunday with a split doubleheader on the Saturday. Neither leads the division, mind: Tampa Bay is 76–53, six clear of Boston. And the wild card is not really the question this week — Boston holds the second of the three places, six and a half games clear of the last one. The gap to New York is what four games in three days could actually move, and the Yankees arrive having had a five-game winning streak ended on Saturday. Either way the Sox leave Fenway after this afternoon and do not play at home again until Aug 31. | The Sunday market in the South End warehouse blocks: makers, vintage, food trucks and the beer garden. Much of it is under cover, which is the useful part on a day with showers in the forecast. | The No Vacancy tour stops at the Paradise on Comm Ave, the club-sized room that has been the last small stop for a long list of acts before the theatres. | Myles Smith · Monday 7:30pm · Leader Bank Pavilion, Seaport The My Mess, My Heart, My Life tour under the tent on the Seaport waterfront. Monday is the sunny 81-degree day, which is the right weather for that particular venue. | Four free hours on the plaza for the Boston-born singer who more or less defined the form. If you want a Friday that costs nothing, this is the one on the calendar. |
| Local Federal prosecutors say Steven Tompkins extorted a $50,000 pre-IPO investment out of the political operative turned cannabis executive Frank Perullo, by suggesting the sheriff’s department would not keep up a community partnership with Perullo’s company, Ascend Wellness Holdings, unless Tompkins was let in. Two counts of extortion. Court filings put the trial at about two weeks, starting Aug 24. Tompkins has held the office since 2013. Per GBH News. Read more → | Local The Boston Public Health Commission issued an advisory Friday telling people to avoid contact with the water downstream of the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge, after state health staff found cyanobacteria above the state’s guidelines for recreational water. The commission says to keep children and pets away from it in particular: the algae can release a toxin that causes gastrointestinal illness. Per GBH News. Read more → | Transit The Federal Railroad Administration says it plans to grant the MBTA $140 million for double-tracking most of the line, plus high-level platforms at Reading, North Wilmington, Ballardvale and Andover. The bottleneck is a single-track stretch north of Reading where trains cannot pass each other, which is why half the trains on a 45-minute service turn around there instead of carrying on to Lawrence and Haverhill. Clear it and the T could run every 30 minutes to both. Per StreetsblogMASS. Read more → | Business Stefano Quaresima is taking the former Homestead Cafe space at 1448 Dorchester Ave in Fields Corner for Bottega Cannuccia: an Italian bakery-cafe in the daytime, pastries and coffee and sandwiches, turning into a wine bar with small plates at night, with seating for 30. It would be his second spot on the same avenue. Boston Restaurant Talk wrote it up Wednesday, citing the Globe, and puts a possible opening as soon as December. Read more → |
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