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| Sponsored advertisement | Weather ⛈️ 72° / 63° Showers and thunderstorms, some with heavy rain: the National Weather Service puts the chance at 100 percent, with one to two inches of rain possible. Cloudy, high near 72; patchy fog tonight, low around 63. Monday clears to mostly sunny and 76 after a chance of a shower before 8am · full forecast → | The T Right Now ● RL ● OL ● GL ● BL Orange is on shuttle buses between Back Bay and Forest Hills through Monday, Sept 14, for station and signal work. Green keeps Symphony closed on the E and skips Brandon Hall on the C through Oct 4; from Monday, inbound C trains also skip Dean Road through Oct 9. Red and Blue run normally. Next weekend, Sept 19–20: no Green Line trains between North Station and Babcock St, Kenmore and Heath St, and buses replace Red Line trains between JFK/UMass and Ashmont · live status → | Roads MassDOT’s planned work starts back up tonight: Route 2 through Belmont both ways, 8pm to 4am, I-95 in Waltham both ways from 8 and 9pm, and Route 1A and Route 60 in Revere from 9pm. From Monday, daytime lane closures, 9am to 3pm through Friday, on Routes 28 and 38 in Somerville. |
| The number: 70 — separate events on our calendar for the seven days ahead, Monday through Sunday, counted at this build with duplicates merged; 29 of them are confirmed free. Day 256 of 2026. all of them → | ⚾️ Red Sox 5, Royals 1 — Saturday at Fenway, Ranger Suarez struck out eight over seven innings and Wilyer Abreu’s two-run double broke the tie, ending a three-game skid. The series ends today at 3:05 · full scoreboard → | 📅 The Week Ahead · Mon Sep 14 – Sun Sep 20 Yo-Yo Ma opens Symphony Hall, and the Patriots come home One pick for each day of the coming week. Today is the washout, with thunderstorms at 100 percent, and then the forecast turns: Monday clears by mid-morning, and Tuesday and Wednesday look dry, at 66 and 79. Thursday is the week’s big night, when Andris Nelsons opens his thirteenth and final season as the BSO’s music director with Yo-Yo Ma. The weekend is crowded, and the T is not all there for it: on Saturday and Sunday, Sept 19–20, there are no Green Line trains between North Station and Babcock St, Kenmore or Heath St, and buses replace Red Line trains between JFK/UMass and Ashmont. Worth knowing before you head to City Hall Plaza or the Garden. The New Zealand songwriter’s spare, hypnotic folk, in a Harvard Square club rather than a hall. Sam Burton opens. A Monday-night show on a clear evening is about as low-effort as a good night out gets. | Thirty years of the band’s songs on the harborfront, with Gavin DeGraw and KT Tunstall opening. Tuesday’s forecast is sunny with a high near 66, so bring a layer for the water after dark. | The poet, essayist and Mellon Foundation president, in conversation on the Brattle’s stage for Harvard Book Store. She read at President Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Ticketed, and an early start. | The gala that opens the orchestra’s 146th season and Andris Nelsons’ last as music director: Yo-Yo Ma plays the Elgar Cello Concerto, and Brahms’s Fourth closes the night. Symphony station on the E branch is closed, so walk over from Hynes or Massachusetts Avenue. | The company opens its season with contemporary work, including Vertical Road (Reimagined) and Cacti, with evening and matinee performances across the weekend. Friday is the first of them. | Working artists open their doors for the weekend: paintings, prints, ceramics and sculpture, and the people who made them. The neighborhood is the venue, so walk it. With the Green Line out that weekend, the Orange Line to Back Bay is the way in. | About a hundred local-only food vendors along the Greenway, with two demo kitchens running chef demonstrations and a seafood cooking competition. Getting in is free; the vendors sell the samples. It is the same afternoon as the Patriots’ home opener, if you are staying in town. |
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 on the road, then six at home to finish What happened Seahawks 13, Patriots 10 · Wednesday night · Lumen Field · Final Week 1 went to Seattle by three. The Patriots play their first game at Gillette next Sunday. | Royals 3, Red Sox 2 · Friday night · Fenway Park · Final Carter Jensen’s two-run double and a Salvador Perez RBI were enough for Kansas City. Seth Lugo got the win and Sonny Gray the loss, and it was Boston’s third defeat in a row after two to the Angels earlier in the week. | Royals at Red Sox · Saturday afternoon · Fenway Park Red Sox 5, Royals 1. Ranger Suarez allowed one run over seven innings with eight strikeouts, and Wilyer Abreu’s tiebreaking two-run double sent Boston to 81–68 and ended a three-game losing streak. The scoreboard on the site has the box score. |
What’s next Today, 3:05 · Royals 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, 5:30 · Revolution at Chicago Fire · Soldier Field | Tue 8:05 · Wed 8:05 · Thu 8:05 · Red Sox at Texas Rangers · Globe Life Field | Fri 7:10 · Sat 4:10 · Sun 1:40 · Red Sox at Tampa Bay Rays · Tropicana Field | | Getting there, from our venue guide: on game days the MBTA runs special event trains from South Station to Foxboro Station at the stadium; by car it is I-95 south to Route 1. | The Garden sits on top of North Station, and the Orange Line and four commuter rail lines deliver you inside the building. |
One storyline Six. That is how many road games the Red Sox play this week, three in Texas from Tuesday and three at Tampa Bay from Friday, and after this afternoon they are not back at Fenway until Tuesday, Sept 22, for the last six of the regular season. Boston went into Saturday at 80–68, the second of the American League’s three wild cards and five games clear of Cleveland in the third, with fourteen games left. Both of this week’s hosts have a stake: Tampa Bay leads the division at 88–59, and Texas, at 72–76, is three games behind Cleveland in the race for that last place. And the first team through Fenway when the Sox come home on the 22nd is Cleveland. | Five days of independent features, documentaries, shorts and animation, plus studio fall releases and filmmaker Q&As, from one of the country’s longest-running film festivals. | Students and alumni of the state art school selling their own work straight to the public, on the pedestrian blocks. Downtown Crossing is on the Orange and Red Lines, both still stopping there that weekend. | The 21st year of Somerville’s tribute to Marshmallow Fluff, which was invented in the square: Fluff-based food, contests, games and live music, with more than 100 local businesses and vendors taking part. The rain date is Sunday, Sept 20. | The ninth year, with more than 30 pizzerias from around New England and Italy on the plaza. Entry is ticketed and includes two slices. Government Center has no Green Line trains that weekend, but the Blue Line still stops there. |
| Local The state’s highest court ruled that the town was within its rights to take 12.5 undeveloped acres on East Point by eminent domain, which it moved to do in 2021 to stop Northeastern building a 55,000-square-foot addition to its Marine Science Center. The decision reverses a 2024 appeals court ruling for the university and ends an eight-year fight. Justice Elizabeth Dewar wrote that preserving the scenic character of an area is a valid public purpose; a Northeastern spokesperson said the university was deeply disappointed. Per the Globe, via Boston.com. Read more → | Local About 2,200 workers who push wheelchairs, handle bags and clean cabins at Logan are employed by contractors the airlines hire, not by Massport. They rallied outside its East Boston headquarters and testified at Thursday’s board meeting, asking it to set an airport-wide standard for employer-paid health care. A report from their union, 32BJ SEIU, and the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center found 30 percent of surveyed unionized airport employees uninsured. Massport’s answer: take benefits concerns to the employers. Per GBH News. Read more → | Politics With nearly $300,000 in state money, the town is spending nine months on a 500-property zone along its shoreline that is vulnerable to sea level rise. InnSure, a Cambridge nonprofit, is building a tool that shows how raising homes, fortified roofs or a new marsh would change insurance costs, building on a pilot it ran in Salem last year. The aim, as InnSure’s Steve Brandt puts it, is to put the community in control of its own insurability. Per CommonWealth Beacon. Read more → | The six-acre block at 314-420 Dorchester Ave., between Broadway and Andrew stations, went to a foreclosure auction in March, where the lender was the only bidder, at $75 million. HYM, working with New York’s Extell Development, is proposing housing, retail and restaurants, but the land is still zoned for manufacturing, so the team will seek a Planned Development Area approval. Per Banker & Tradesman. Read more → |
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