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☆ Michael Dell Asks $35 Million for Penthouse Atop Boston’s Tallest Condo Tower
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( E.B. Solomont | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Domingo Germán Proves Perfection Can Come at Any Time
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Tyler Kepner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The threadbare A’s are baseball’s worst team, already 40 games under .500, consumed by their vision of a new home in Las Vegas. Yet they have endured many dreadful seasons, and this was the first perfect game against the franchise since 1904, when Boston’s Cy Young did it to the Philadelphia Athletics. When Larsen did it, the feat had not been accomplished since 1922, by a nondescript Chicago White Sox rookie named Charlie Robertson. Yu Darvish, Yusmeiro Petit and Max Scherzer each lost a bid when the 27th batter reached base. The Yankees’ Carlos Rodón — as a member of the White Sox in 2021 — lost his attempt when a slider nicked the top of a batter’s shoe in the ninth inning.

Persons: Boston’s Cy Young, Connie Mack —, —, Larsen, Charlie Robertson, Germán’s, Hernández, Yu Darvish, Yusmeiro Petit, Max Scherzer, Carlos Rodón —, ” Rodón Organizations: Philadelphia Athletics, Chicago White Sox, Yankees, White Sox Locations: Las Vegas

☆ US flight delays: Severe storms snarl airlines' schedules
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

United Airlines was once again faring the worst of the American domestic airlines. Republic Airways, which operates short-haul flights for American Airlines, Delta and United, had 17% of its schedule canceled (153 flights) but few delays. More than 40 million people in the Northeast and Central Plains are at risk of severe storms on Tuesday. United CEO blames FAA staffing for “unprecedented” weekend delaysTuesday’s travel troubles are the fourth day in the row of delays and cancellations. The airline canceled 461 flights this past Saturday and Sunday and delayed another 1,972 flights, according to data from flight tracking site FlightAware.

Persons: that’s, John F, Kennedy, Boston’s Logan, ”, “, Scott Kirby, Kirby, ” Kirby, Department of Transportation “, it’s Organizations: New, New York CNN, United Airlines, Republic Airways, American Airlines, Jersey’s Newark Liberty, Storm Prediction, United, Federal Aviation Administration, CNN, FAA, Newark Liberty International Airport, Department of Transportation Locations: New York, United States, Delta, United, LaGuardia, Northeast, Central Plains, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Kansas, Oklahoma, Wichita, Tulsa, New York , Delaware, Pennsylvania

☆ Only 1% of US wineries are Black-owned. These entrepreneurs want to change that
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Jeremy Harlan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

It’s a problem that the guests at the Black on Black dinner, and many others, hope to change. “What we’re trying to do is change what leadership looks like and bring more people into the wine industry. Ikimi Dubose-Woodson leads The Roots Fund, a non-profit working to create opportunities for minorities to have successful careers in the wine industry. “The amount of money and wealth that’s generated in the wine and spirits industry is never talked about,” said Burston. Connection and communicationA lack of communication between the predominantly White-owned wine industry and minority communities has also slowed diversity efforts, several dinner guests agreed.

Persons: Channing Frye, CJ McCollum, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade, Damian Jones, Marcus Samuelsson, “, Alicia Towns Franken, ” Franken, Franken, Jeremy Harlan, CNN Franken, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, ”, Ikimi Dubose, Woodson, “ It’s, ” Dubose, Donae Burston, Burston, I’m, Dubose, Nathan Lefebvre, Frye, Jay, we’ve, ’, ” Frye, Amir Shafii, you’re Organizations: Aspen, Colorado CNN, NBA, Wine Co, Association of African, CNN, Wine, Roots Fund, Fund, Blacks, La, Cleveland Cavaliers Locations: Colorado, Caribbean, Chicago, Aspen , Colorado, Holstein

☆ A New Front in Reparations and More: The Week in Reporter Reads
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In fairness, this forklift operator had no idea that the crate he tossed into his car trunk contained a Picasso until he opened its casing. In fairness, he didn’t care much for it; he preferred realism. agents were hot on the trail of a hot Picasso unavailable for public viewing, as it was hidden in Rummel’s hallway closet. Back before the much more notorious theft of 13 works of art from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. Back, in a sense, to a time before Picasso had even painted the piece in question.

Persons: Picasso, Merrill Rummel, Sam, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Organizations: Logan International Airport, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Locations: Boston

☆ Opinion | Juneteenth Is Different Out West
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Tiya Miles | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

The location of this small event, it turned out, was an old Black neighborhood that was changing over time as residents from different racial backgrounds and income levels moved in for the river views. Juneteenth festivities have long represented tucked-away spaces, deeply local, somewhat surprising and fitted to the variances of Black life in America. In other parts of the country, Black communities celebrated what they called Emancipation Day, keyed to a different historical timestamp. Many Black communities along the Atlantic seaboard celebrated Emancipation Day. There, Juneteenth will be celebrated in the historic building of another African Meeting House, which will have a bicentennial anniversary in 2025.

Persons: General Gordon Granger’s, Jacqueline Jones, ”, Juneteenth Organizations: Black University of Michigan, West Indies, Atlantic, of, House, American, Heritage, Fund, National Trust for Historic Preservation Locations: boardinghouses, America, Galveston , Texas, West, Massachusetts, Caribbean, Black, Beacon Hill, Nantucket, Cape Cod, MAAH, New Guinea

☆ Hey Dad, Can You Help Me Return the Picasso I Stole?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Dan Barry | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It was a pain in our butt.”Fortunately, Rummel knew a guy. The Case of the Missing Picasso, revealed here for the first time, goes back. Back before the much more notorious theft of 13 works of art from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. Back, in a sense, to a time before Picasso had even painted the piece in question. Back to the 1950s of Waterville, Maine, where the Rummel boys — Bill and his younger brother, Whit — were testing their hometown’s Yankee forbearance.

Persons: ”, Rummel, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner, Picasso, Bill, Whit — Organizations: Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Yankee Locations: Waterville , Maine, Woolworth’s

CNN —The Miami Heat closed out the Boston Celtics in the NBA’s Eastern Conference Finals on Monday, winning a deciding Game 7 103-84 to advance to the NBA Finals against the Denver Nuggets. The Nuggets have not played a game in a week after sweeping the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference Finals last Monday. 1-seeded Milwaukee Bucks in the first round, before winning a war of attrition against the Knicks in the Eastern Conference semis. This brought the Heat and the Celtics together in the Eastern Conference Finals. Back-to-back blowouts meant that Boston took the series back to Miami for Game 6 – the most crucial game of the series so far.

☆ As Boston’s New Mayor Seeks Big Changes, Old Power Brokers Push Back
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( Jenna Russell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Mayor Michelle Wu cracked down on outdoor dining in Boston’s congested North End neighborhood last year, appeasing residents beleaguered by crowds, trash and blocked sidewalks, restaurant owners made their displeasure known, protesting at City Hall and filing a lawsuit. In another era, their pressure campaign might have worked. For decades, the city’s mayors were Boston natives, men of Italian or Irish descent who were tight with local business owners and powerful unions. She made a few minor concessions to the restaurants and moved on — but not before threatening to end outdoor dining altogether if they found her compromise unacceptable. True to her workhorse reputation, Ms. Wu is trying to avoid distractions as she hammers away at her campaign agenda, focused on “racial, economic and climate justice.” And true to Boston’s reputation, some old-school power brokers are pushing back against their loss of influence.

☆ Justice Department wins lawsuit to end JetBlue and American Airlines alliance
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —American Airlines and JetBlue Airways have to break up their alliance on Northeast US flight routes, a US District Court judge ordered Friday. US District Judge Leo Sorokin ruled in favor of the the Justice Department, giving the Biden administration a victory in its years-long lawsuit against the airlines’ collaboration. The airlines have 30 days to end their partnership, Sorokin ruled – just as the busy summer travel season kicks off. The Justice Department also alleged the two airlines shared revenues earned at these airports, eliminating their incentives to compete with one another. CNN has reached out to American Airlines, JetBlue and the Justice Department for comment.

In midsized metros Metros with 250,000 to one million residents. An Emerging Divide Mobility has risen for college-educated workers, even as it has fallen for workers without a degree. College-educated workers leaving the most expensive parts of the country are also not spreading out equally everywhere — or even going to parts of the country that are struggling. Net migration among college graduates Loss Gain Among the 12 most expensive metros, net college migration has generally declined or turned negative. “Consumer cities,” as she puts it, are increasingly replacing “producer cities” as the places where college graduates want to live.

☆ The Broken Fingers and Busted Eyes of the Boston Celtics’…Coaches
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Robert O Connell | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Boston’s 126-102 win over the Houston Rockets, on Dec. 27, was a laugher, with the Celtics’ All-Star duo of Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum racking up 39 and 38 points, respectively. The more intense competition had come hours earlier, on the same parquet floor at TD Garden. There, the Celtics’ coaching staff conducted a vicious, valorizing ritual. They played pickup basketball—or, rather, something like it.

☆ Boston Reconnects With the Art of the Choke
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Joshua Robinson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

From right to left, David Pastrnak, Garnet Hathaway and Charlie McAvoy of the Boston Bruins react after losing in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Photo: Maddie Meyer/Getty ImagesThe city of Boston’s sports teams had spent more than two decades performing a mass exorcism before Sunday night. Heroics from the likes of Tom Brady, Johnny Damon, and Kevin Garnett had laid a reputation for choking to rest. After 12 Boston championships across four major sports in the 21st century, who could argue with them? Then the Bruins brought all that painful history rushing back to the ice.

☆ Dennis Lehane’s Latest Depicts Boston’s Desegregation Battles
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( J. Courtney Sullivan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The night she disappears, a young Black man is found dead at a subway station in South Boston, an area so homogeneous in 1974 that the mere presence of a Black person there confounds everyone. Mary Pat has been taught that the residents of Southie can count on only one another. But as her search for her daughter becomes increasingly desperate, she is met with silence from her community. Ultimately, alone and with nothing left to lose, she is willing to fight anyone, confront anyone, even Butler himself, to uncover the truth. The take-no-prisoners hero of this novel is a pissed-off middle-aged mom and it is a thrill to watch her burn it all down.

☆ Saadiyat: The 'island of happiness' just off Abu Dhabi
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Chris Dwyer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Jon Arnold Images Ltd/Alamy Stock PhotoWhile Abu Dhabi itself is home to bombastic contemporary architecture, Saadiyat – an easy 20-minute drive from downtown and Abu Dhabi International Airport – is a natural wonderland, edged by small sand dunes. Elevated boardwalks protect them from beachgoers – part of a conservation project led by Jumeirah at Saadiyat Island Resort and its inhouse marine biologist. Department of Culture and Tourism Abu DhabiOpen year-round, Saadiyat Beach Golf Club is home to a Gary Player signature 18-hole golf course. Luc Castel/Getty ImagesInaugurated in 2017, The Louvre Abu Dhabi is France’s largest cultural project abroad. Louvre Abu Dhabi isn’t the only highbrow place on Saadiyat – behind the dunes there are two world-class educational institutions, too.

☆ Premarket stocks: From Wile E. Coyote to edibles: Recession forecasts are getting weird
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

And for the US economy, it could likely mean a “Wile E. Coyote moment,” Summers said — if we run off the cliff, gravity will eventually win out. AntibioticsWhen describing the state of the economy, Summers doesn’t just rely on Looney Tunes. “Will working people be better off if we just walk away from our jobs and inflation remains 5% or 6%?” Powell replied. Before the Bell: Is it necessary to increase the unemployment rate to successfully fight inflation? In a related action, the government shut down Signature Bank, a regional bank that was teetering on the brink of collapse in recent days.

☆ The Boston Bruins Can’t Stop Winning—but No One Gets a Day Off
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Laine Higgins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

In a game against the New York Islanders last month, a hockey puck deflected squarely into the face of Boston Bruins captain Patrice Bergeron. He lumbered off the ice and into the locker room, blood pouring from his nose. The following night at Madison Square Garden, he scored Boston’s second goal in a win over the New York Rangers. “Anything he can play through, or push to play through, he will,” teammate Brad Marchand said. “He could easily walk away from that and rest up for the next one.”

☆ Load Management? What’s That? No Days Off for Hockey’s Winningest Team
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Laine Higgins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Tyre Nichols video showed how ‘culture of policing’ and ‘ancient’ procedures were on display, ex-officers say
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Antonio Planas | Antonio Planas Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

Memphis authorities on Friday released videos from multiple vantage points showing the aftermath of the traffic stop. Five Memphis police officers were fired and charged with second-degree murder, and other crimes, including aggravated assault and kidnapping. Georgetown Law professor and NBC News legal analyst Paul Butler appeared on MSNBC Saturday to discuss the release of the Nichols video. Video shows Nichols escaped while on the ground and an officer shot a stun gun at him. “The bottom line is there were sufficient number of officers to do as such and to get him corralled and handcuffed at that traffic stop.

☆ You Call That Snow?! See How This Winter Stacks Up.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Francesca Paris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

If so, you’re not alone: It has been a dreary winter for children hoping for snow days and grown-up snow enthusiasts alike on the East Coast. More than 50 years of snowfall in … Interactive line chart showing cumulative snowfall for each winter season over 50 years, as well as the median snowfall for all seasons. Line chart showing Philadelphia’s cumulative snowfall for each winter season over 50 years. Loading dataLine chart showing Boston’s cumulative snowfall for each winter season over 50 years. Milwaukee Pittsburgh Providence, R.I. Pueblo, Colo. Richmond, Va. Rockford, Ill. St. Louis Topeka, Kan. About normal snow Anchorage Boise, Idaho Colorado Springs Columbia, Mo.

Massachusetts prosecutors issued a warrant for Brian Walshe for the murder of his wife, Ana Walshe, who disappeared from a wealthy Boston suburb around New Year's Day. Brian Walshe was previously arrested on suspicion of misleading the investigation and is still in police custody. Ana Walshe. via Cohasset PoliceBrian Walshe is expected to be arraigned Wednesday, where more details in support of the charge may be provided, Morrissey said. Ana Walshe was allegedly last seen in her home early Sunday before she allegedly took a ride share from her Cohasset home to Boston’s Logan Airport.

☆ Ana Walshe disappearance: Key moments in the search for the Massachusetts mother
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

Her husband, Brian Walshe, 47, was arrested and accused of misleading officials and lying about his whereabouts on Jan. 1 and 2. “Our hearts go out to her family and especially to her young children, who deserve to be reunited with their mother.”Key moments in the case:39-year-old Ana Walshe. via Cohasset PoliceJan. 1: Ana Walshe reportedly headed to airportCohasset police say Ana Walshe was at her home on Chief Justice Cushing Highway shortly after midnight before she allegedly took a ride share to Boston’s Logan Airport for a flight to Washington, D.C., to attend to a work emergency. Jan. 5: Search for Ana Walshe goes publicPolice announced their search for Ana Walshe, urging the public to contact them if they have any information on her whereabouts. The testing of the unspecified items will "determine if they are of evidentiary value" in Ana Walshe's disappearance, the DA's office said.

☆ ‘The Good Life’ Review: The Habit of Happiness
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Richard J. Mcnally | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

What constitutes a life well-lived? In their captivating book “The Good Life: Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness,” the psychiatrist Robert Waldinger and the clinical psychologist Marc Schulz convey key lessons that arise from studying the lifetimes of hundreds of individuals across the 20th and 21st centuries. Dr. Waldinger teaches at Harvard Medical School; Mr. Schulz at Bryn Mawr. They are the current directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, an investigation now in its 85th year of data collection. The purpose of both studies, long since merged, was to identify predictors of health, happiness and flourishing in young adulthood and beyond.

Last year, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy organization, the Human Rights Campaign, labeled 2021 the “worst year” for LGBTQ rights in modern U.S. history, citing a record number of anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in state legislatures across the country. “The LGBTQ+ community is really under siege right now,” said Ricardo Martinez, CEO of LGBTQ advocacy group Equality Texas. One bill that was successfully implemented, and gained national headlines for months, was Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law, or what critics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. The word “grooming” has long been associated with mischaracterizing LGBTQ people, particularly gay men and transgender women, as child sex abusers. Those losses came after some conservative groups ramped up misleading or inflammatory campaign ads targeting transgender rights.

☆ ‘Batman’ Is There When the Celtics Need Him
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Robert O'Connell | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

By the seventh game of the Eastern Conference semifinal series last May, nobody could say Grant Williams hadn’t done his share. Despite severe disadvantages in height, weight and renown, the Boston Celtics’ third-year forward had spent much of the series matching up against the Milwaukee Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo. For two weeks, he set his chest against the two-time MVP’s post-ups and planted his feet in the path of his drives. Then the team asked still more of Williams. “We all told him, ‘You have to shoot these shots,’” Boston assistant coach Ben Sullivan said.

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