Category: Boston

Business The huge grocery chain and other megastores like it have revolutionized the way many Asian Americans shop and eat. Shoppers browse the extensive seafood section at an H Mart location in Little Ferry, New Jersey, April 14, 2021. Lanna Apisukh / The New York Times NEW YORK — At the H Mart on Broadway…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Bruins are gearing up for the postseason – and on Tuesday night, that means many of the club’s regulars will be sitting out the regular-season finale against the Washington Capitals at Capital One Arena. With nothing on the line in the standings after clinching the third seed in the East Division…

Steven Senne/Associated PressThe Miami Heat earned a 130-124 win over the Boston Celtics on Sunday in a key battle for seeding in the Eastern Conference.  Both teams are hoping to finish inside the top six in the standings to avoid the play-in tournament, but the latest win gives the Heat (37-31) a two-game lead over the Celtics…

Welcome back to our simulated dynasty with the Western Illinois Leathernecks in College Hoops 2K8. You can find a full explanation of this project + spoiler-free links to previous seasons here. Check out the introduction to this series from early April for full context. As a reminder, we simulate every game in this series and…

In March 2020, just weeks into the covid-19 pandemic, the incident command center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston was scrambling to understand this deadly new disease. It appeared to be killing more Black and brown patients than whites. For Latinos, there was an additional warning sign: language. Patients who didn’t speak much, or…

Earlier this week, Florida Republicans enacted a law they claimed would prevent riots in the state. Its real purpose, of course, was to discourage protesting and punish demonstrators. One of the bill’s provisions has received a fair amount of national attention, as it seems to give Floridians permission to attack protesters with their cars. The…

Casual-Dining Restaurant Franchise Reports Outstanding Development Returns Thanks to Franchisee Resiliency, Non-Traditional Opportunities and Continued Innovations Dallas, TX  (RestaurantNews.com)  Despite the economic challenges of last year and the enormous impact they left on the restaurant industry as a whole, Boston’s Pizza Restaurant & Sports Bar announced its franchise system still achieved an outstanding 20% new…

Picture this: You’re ready to sprint into action and set a new PR, but instead of wearing your go-to moisture-wicking running shirt and lightweight 5-inch workout shorts, you’re wearing heavy sweats that’ll weigh you down as you perspire and a ratty T-shirt made of questionable material that’s bound to fuel some serious nipple-chafing nightmares. No,…

BOSTON — The Chicago White Sox needed a starter for the second game of Sunday’s split doubleheader against the Boston Red Sox. Michael Kopech was ready for the assignment. The hard-throwing right-hander allowed one run on one hit with four strikeouts and one walk in three-plus innings in his first start in 31 months, and…

BOSTON (AP) — The sprawling hacking campaign deemed a grave threat to U.S. national security came to be known as SolarWinds, for the company whose software update was seeded by Russian intelligence agents with malware to penetrate sensitive government and private networks.Yet it was Microsoft whose code the cyber spies persistently abused in the campaign’s…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In the raw aftermath of another killing of a Black man by police in Minnesota, there was no place for pro sports in the Twin Cities on Monday.The Minnesota Twins, Wild and Timberwolves all postponed their games a day after the shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright following a traffic stop in a…

Here’s a collection of some of the sights and events taking place in and around Boston from 1970 to 1979. Below, images of the blizzard of 1978, a victory parade for the Bruins after they won the 1970 Stanley Cup, enforcement and opposition to school segregation by busing, a Celtics game in Boston Garden, urban…