Mark Shanahan

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Mark Shanahan

I was on our patio when I heard it — the shriek of distorted guitar followed by a prolonged crash, as if someone were falling down the stairs with cymbals. It was a Wednesday afternoon in April 2023 and I’d stepped outside to clear my head. A story due the next day wasn’t coming together and I was pacing, panicked that I’d have to tell my editor I couldn’t do it. I knew instantly what the ruckus was: kids in a nearby basement with instruments they barely knew how to play.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Mark Shanahan

Despite his familiar surname, Robert Owen Lehman Jr. never figured prominently in the family business. “Robin,” as he’s known, was not a bigwig at Lehman Brothers, the global financial services firm founded nearly two centuries ago by his great grandfather. Instead, his focus has been art – collecting it and making it.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Mark Shanahan

Members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation are asking the acting chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities to explain the agency’s recent decision to cancel NEH grants in Massachusetts and across the country.

4 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Mark Shanahan

You didn’t think late-night hosts were just going to ignore President Donald Trump’s tiff with Harvard, did you? Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and Comedy Central’s Ronny Chieng all took aim Tuesday at the Trump administration’s decision to freeze $2.2 billion in federal grants because Harvard has refused to acquiesce to White House demands that it overhaul its hiring, admissions, and curriculum.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Mark Shanahan

The Los Angeles Dodgers – including Mookie Betts – paid a visit to the White House Monday, which struck Jimmy Kimmel as odd. “This is disappointing,” the late-night host said during Monday’s monologue. “Our World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers met the draft-dodger-in-chief at the White House. “It was a unique opportunity for the franchise that signed Jackie Robinson to meet the president who had him removed from our government websites,” Kimmel said.