2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (225+ words) Two-time Boston Globe editor Brian McGrory will not return to Boston University, making permanent the leave of absence he took to return to the paper last year. "It feels to me, and I hope to many of you, that we…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (72+ words) WBUR Here & Now's Indira Lakshmanan talks with tennis journalist Christopher Clarey about all the excitement at the U.S. Open leading into the semifinals. Four Americans — Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe — will play Thursday and Friday night with…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (872+ words) At the end of August, the Providence musician Jake Blount posted an unusual announcement to his Instagram account. His upcoming album, “Single-Footing Horse,” he wrote, would be his first recording of Appalachian old-time stringband music since his 2020 breakout “Spider Tales…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (616+ words) Sam Darnold left the game injured, the offense was stagnant and sloppy mistakes put Seattle in a hole through three quarters. Then the Dark Side defense took over, Drew Lock made a few big plays and the Seahawks capped a…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (85+ words) wbur.org Though Curt Columbus retired from Providence, Rhode Island's Trinity Repertory Company in August after a 20-year tenure, he's returned to direct the world premiere of "The Getaway Driver," which opens Wednesday night. Columbus speaks with longtime friend and…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (535+ words) UMass Boston Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, who began to lead the campus as the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S., plans to step down on Feb. 1 after seven years in the job. Suárez-Orozco immigrated to the U.S. as an Argentine teenager…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (314+ words) The benches cleared in Friday night's game between the Baltimore Orioles and Boston Red Sox when Luis Robert Jr. grounded into a double play to end the eighth inning and after Blaze Alexander’s hard slide into second base. With Boston…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (603+ words) WBUR There's a pretty promising Labor Day weekend forecast on the other side of today's rain. Danielle Noyes has the day-by-day outlook here for your barbecue planning purposes. But first, let's get to the news: Bettor beware: Massachusetts is moving…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (67+ words) WBUR With one week until the NFL season kicks off, Here & Now’s Scott Tong talks with The Wall Street Journal’s Andrew Beaton about how much NFL quarterbacks are worth. The numbers are staggering, and not all quarterbacks are happy with…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (863+ words) A little over two weeks ago, I made a memory with my 6-year-old daughter that I hope we’ll always look back on with pride: I took her to her first women’s professional basketball game. Because for me, women’s sports are…...