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Hammonasset Beach State Park in Connecticut.

Your Summer Beach Bag

The best New England beaches for kids, foodies, accessibility and more

Whether you’re a surfer, foodie, or dog lover, the region offers a beach to suit your needs.

Food bank, health clinic team again post-pandemic
The infectious disease clinic at Cambridge Health Alliance and Food for Free have renewed a longstanding partnership that had been put on hold during COVID.

QUICK BITE
When in Dorchester ... eat at Via Cannuccia
At this neighborhood trattoria, Italian chef Stefano Quaresima serves Roman-style dishes and bountiful brunch pastries.

Gillette Stadium to open new beer hall in field-level space
Celebration Beer Hall, a new ticketed premium space with field-level views of the game, is scheduled to open in September before the start of the 2023 season.

If you swallow your pride and ask to join someone else's trip, you and a new friend can ride camels into a Morocco sunrise.

TRAVEL

Traveling while old(er)*

Worries are infinite. Time is not. If you want to travel, just start. Here's what this traveler has learned about life, loss, and the joy of just getting out there.

New gear for new prioritiesMore from the Globe's travel section

A 94-year-old artist is ordered to leave Provincetown dune shack after 77 years
Despite protests and petitions, the National Park Service has told Salvatore Del Deo that an occupancy arrangement he's had since 1946 is no longer valid and he must vacate it.

TABLES
Monica Glass and Ken Oringer will team up for Verveine Cafe & Bakery; Dumpling Daughter heads to Southie
Plus, Bar ‘Cino comes to Watertown.

SUMMER IN THE CITY
Boston cream pie: A love letter to our official state dessert
We headed out into the city to taste test all it has to offer. About 50 forkfuls of pastry cream and 10 trillion calories later, here’s what we found.

Culture & Lifestyle

Edvard Munch, "Separation," 1896, oil on canvas.

ART REVIEW

In ‘Trembling Earth’ at the Clark, Munch’s prescient view of nature in peril

Edvard Munch wasn’t the first to use landscape as a mirror to the soul. But has anyone ever done it so vividly, and with such conviction?

Don Was, the namesake of WasFest, curated the weekend-long music series at the Boch Center.

At Boch Center’s eclectic WasFest, whatever happens, happens

Curated by record executive and producer Don Was, the weekend shows will feature the Dark Star Orchestra, Robert Glasper, Meshell Ndegeocello, Lettuce, Steel Pulse, the Julian Lage Quartet, and the Gerald Clayton Quintet.

Michael Maso, the founding managing director of the Huntington, is retiring at the end of the month after four decades at the theater.

The Huntington’s Michael Maso exits the stage

A leader at the Huntington since its founding four decades ago, Maso, 71, ranks as one of the most consequential figures in Boston theater history.

Willy DeVille in New York City, March 1977.

With ‘Heaven Stood Still,’ Willy DeVille isn’t being overlooked any longer

Larry Locke’s documentary about the underappreciated singer will be screened at the Regent Theatre in Arlington on June 29.

Parenting unfiltered

Boston's Tanya Nixon-Silberg brings art, theater, and play to racial justice education.

With Little Uprisings, Tanya Nixon-Silberg brings play, joy, and hope to racial justice education

"Once you start to realize that you can talk about racial justice and joy at the same time, I think it’s a life-changing phenomena for adults."

That time I went on Meredith Goldstein’s ‘Love Letters’ to talk about money and marriage

How to organize a food drive with your kids

Your A-to-Z guide to family-friendly dining in the Boston area

Dr. Nawal Nour, chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, on maternal health equity

Sign Up for Parenting Unfiltered, a weekly newsletter from The Boston Globe

Back to Boston

Where to eat, what to do, what to see, and more

Looking for something to do? Check out our Back to Boston project, where you can use an interactive map to explore all the city has to offer.

An illustration of the Boston Common and Public Garden.

How well do you know Boston? Test your knowledge with this quiz and scavenger hunt.

Get to know the Boston Common and Public Garden by exploring this interactive map. After that, test your knowledge. How well do you know Boston’s oldest parks?

Runners along the Charles River with the Boston downtown skyline in the background. Here are other things to do on your perfect Boston weekend.

How to spend a perfect weekend in Boston

When friends and relatives (or even strangers) come to Boston and ask for recommendations about what they should do, where do you send them? Let travel writer Chris Muther be your guide.

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A 94-year-old artist is ordered to leave Provincetown dune shack after 77 years

The best New England beaches for kids, foodies, accessibility and more

On Cape Cod, it’s the question of the summer: Why are so many vacation rentals empty?

A couple enjoys sunset at Pleasure Bay Beach in South Boston.

Movies in the park, beaches, rooftop bars, and more of Christopher Muther’s favorite Boston summertime things

We asked Globe readers to tell us their favorite summer spots. Here are some highlights.

You like the Harborwalk, the zoo, free music, and dining al fresco in the North End. And there are other places you hope to check out, too. 12:37 p.m.

SUMMER IN THE CITY

Georges Island is a popular summer hangout for children, geese, and Globies.

Globe staffers share their favorite summer spots in Boston

There’s a lot of love for the Harbor islands, Castle Island, people-watching, and ice cream. And don’t you dare forget about Charlestown. 12:37 p.m.

SUMMER IN THE CITY

Movies in the park, beaches, rooftop bars, and more of Christopher Muther’s favorite Boston summertime things

Can someone please explain the fascination with getting out of Boston for the summer? There is so much here to love this time of year. 12:36 p.m.

TRAVEL TROUBLESHOOTER

My brother died. Can I get a refund for my airline tickets?

After Debbie Schembri’s brother dies, she cancels her Alaska vacation. Can she get a refund for her airline tickets? 10:00 a.m.

THE VIP LOUNGE

When she’s not expanding her movie studio space, she’s expanding her horizons

We caught up with Marina Cappi, a film producer and founder of Marina Studios in Quincy, to talk about all things travel. 10:00 a.m.

HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE

Special packages are offered at the Cambria Old Port, a new-build 102-room hotel in Portland, Maine.

Portland hotel packages, seatback organizers, and folding hangers

Travel news you can use. 10:00 a.m.

LOVE LETTERS

After a good start, she ghosted me

Two days of no texting turned into a week. 9:36 a.m.

BLOCK ISLAND

Ballard’s Beach Resort owner makes changes after last year’s Block Island Ferry brawls: ‘no excuses here’

Owner Steve Filippi says things will be different at his venue this year. More family-oriented, instead of the alcohol-fueled party atmosphere many associate with the resort. 6:00 a.m.

Ayo Edebiri posed in the IMDB Portrait Studio at SXSW 2023 in Austin, Texas.

How Ayo Edebiri, a shy, serious kid from Dorchester, became a breakout star on ‘The Bear’

Widely acclaimed for her performance as a smart but insecure young chef, Edebiri doesn't seem too impressed with her success. The actress credits her upbringing in Boston with giving her perspective. 4:31 p.m.

Actors Jennifer Lawrence and Andrew Barth Feldman arrive for the "No Hard Feelings" premiere in New York City on Tuesday.

Jennifer Lawrence’s new co-star took a leave from Harvard to film ‘No Hard Feelings’

When 21-year-old Andrew Barth Feldman first auditioned for the raunchy comedy, he was a perfect fit for the part, Lawrence said Tuesday at the film’s premiere in New York City. 4:12 p.m.

Globe Magazine

Martin's Park opened in 2019 near Boston Children's Museum.

Seven of the best playgrounds around Boston, kid tested and expert approved

What is it that elevates a play area from being merely entertaining to exceptional? We sought out some playground designers and researchers to weigh in. 2:46 p.m.

A prepared dish of Good Meat's cultivated chicken.

US approves chicken made from cultivated cells, the nation’s first ‘lab-grown’ meat

Chicken grown from animal cells, not from slaughtered birds, can now be sold in the US. 11:42 a.m.

ADDRESS

Dirty chrome shower head with limescale that should be cleaned and mold on tiles. Calcified shower due to hard water. Calcium mineral buildup.

Ask the Remodeler: Reader’s water leaves rust stains

Plus, is a plaster finish on Sheetrock just a New England thing? 10:25 a.m.

ADDRESS

The kitchen features sleek-front cabinets and a peninsula with a waterfall edge.

Home of the Week: Energy savings and a top-floor perch in Newton

Two-year-old condo comes with three bedrooms, two full baths, two balconies, and garage parking. 10:24 a.m.

ADDRESS

See Eileen Woods for emailed permission from Maggie Hunt.

At estate sales, everything but the kitchen sink — and the rhino head

On any given week, more than a dozen homes in the Boston area open up to the public for estate sales, the objects inside tagged and ready for haggling, from fine china to art to taxidermy collections. 10:22 a.m.

RI FOOD & DINING

Estelle T. Barada, a historic re-enactor, portrays Duchess Quamino, at 18th-century enslaved woman known as the "pastry queen of Rhode Island," at Hearthside House Museum in Lincoln, R.I.

Tracing the legend of the R.I. ‘pastry queen’ who baked her way to freedom

"I tell people all the time, when I'm cooking I don't necessarily have to measure anything," says Shae Williams-Adams. "I just sprinkle until my ancestors tell me to stop." 9:24 a.m.

Ask Amy

Alzheimer’s disclosure is met with … silence

An aunt nervously greets her niece

Grandmother’s long-term patience pays off

Sister ponders going no-contact

Teenager should learn to be here now

Bird Sightings

Bird sightings from Mass Audubon

At Suffolk County, three white-rumped sandpipers at Winthrop Beach, an alder flycatcher at the Arnold Arboretum, and a mourning warbler at the Winthrop section of the Mary Ellen Welch Greenway.

Bird sightings on Cape Cod

Recent sightings as reported by Mass Audubon.

The best New England beaches for kids, foodies, accessibility and more

Food bank, health clinic team again post-pandemicThe infectious disease clinic at Cambridge Health Alliance and Food for Free have renewed a longstanding partnership that had been put on hold during COVID.

QUICK BITEWhen in Dorchester ... eat at Via CannucciaAt this neighborhood trattoria, Italian chef Stefano Quaresima serves Roman-style dishes and bountiful brunch pastries.

Gillette Stadium to open new beer hall in field-level space Celebration Beer Hall, a new ticketed premium space with field-level views of the game, is scheduled to open in September before the start of the 2023 season.

Traveling while old(er)*

A 94-year-old artist is ordered to leave Provincetown dune shack after 77 yearsDespite protests and petitions, the National Park Service has told Salvatore Del Deo that an occupancy arrangement he's had since 1946 is no longer valid and he must vacate it.

TABLESMonica Glass and Ken Oringer will team up for Verveine Cafe & Bakery; Dumpling Daughter heads to SouthiePlus, Bar ‘Cino comes to Watertown.

SUMMER IN THE CITYBoston cream pie: A love letter to our official state dessertWe headed out into the city to taste test all it has to offer. About 50 forkfuls of pastry cream and 10 trillion calories later, here’s what we found.

Culture & Lifestyle

In ‘Trembling Earth’ at the Clark, Munch’s prescient view of nature in peril

At Boch Center’s eclectic WasFest, whatever happens, happens

The Huntington’s Michael Maso exits the stage

With ‘Heaven Stood Still,’ Willy DeVille isn’t being overlooked any longer

Parenting unfiltered

With Little Uprisings, Tanya Nixon-Silberg brings play, joy, and hope to racial justice education

That time I went on Meredith Goldstein’s ‘Love Letters’ to talk about money and marriage

How to organize a food drive with your kids

Your A-to-Z guide to family-friendly dining in the Boston area

Dr. Nawal Nour, chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, on maternal health equity

Sign Up for Parenting Unfiltered, a weekly newsletter from The Boston Globe

Back to Boston

Where to eat, what to do, what to see, and more

How well do you know Boston? Test your knowledge with this quiz and scavenger hunt.

How to spend a perfect weekend in Boston

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When in Dorchester ... eat at Via Cannuccia
At this neighborhood trattoria, Italian chef Stefano Quaresima serves Roman-style dishes and bountiful brunch pastries.

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Celebration Beer Hall, a new ticketed premium space with field-level views of the game, is scheduled to open in September before the start of the 2023 season.

A 94-year-old artist is ordered to leave Provincetown dune shack after 77 years
Despite protests and petitions, the National Park Service has told Salvatore Del Deo that an occupancy arrangement he's had since 1946 is no longer valid and he must vacate it.

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Monica Glass and Ken Oringer will team up for Verveine Cafe & Bakery; Dumpling Daughter heads to Southie
Plus, Bar ‘Cino comes to Watertown.

SUMMER IN THE CITY
Boston cream pie: A love letter to our official state dessert
We headed out into the city to taste test all it has to offer. About 50 forkfuls of pastry cream and 10 trillion calories later, here’s what we found.