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TRAVEL

A coastal Maine tip: Don’t bypass Belfast

This often-bypassed coastal town is a hip little enclave, with a rich maritime history, cleaned-up waterfront, and a compact, walkable downtown filled with boutique shops, galleries, and restaurants.

TRAVEL TROUBLESHOOTER

ITA Airways lost my luggage. Why won’t it cover my expenses?

Jacqueline Bartolini spends $992 after ITA Airways loses her luggage. It wants to reimburse her for just $733, but she wants the airline to cover everything. Who’s right?

THE VIP LOUNGE

Brandon Lee Harris on his role in ‘MJ: The Musical’ and the beauty of road trips

We caught up with the actor, singer, and dancer to talk about all things travel.

TRAVEL

Shall thee visit this museum on a summer’s day? For the love of Bard, yes.

We took a tour of the re-imagined Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill. With the largest collection of Shakespeare works in the world, it opened June 21 after a four-year, $80.5 million update that is nothing short of astonishing.

HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE

A good time blooms on the Cape, fun in the Fundy Isles, and lightweight beach accessories

Travel news you can use.

TABLES

Le Mari opens on Newbury Street; Mamaleh’s plans another deli location, with pickles and pickleball

Plus, new restaurants at the InterContinental.

Josh Gad and the Berkowitz brothers talk penning ‘The Writer,’ a Boston-set comic book rooted in Jewish folklore

The creators explain how Massachusetts and Indiana Jones inspired their new comic-book miniseries.

MISS CONDUCT

My niece is marrying ‘the jerk.’ Do I have to go to their wedding?

We haven’t spoken since she moved out of my house. Plus, what a neighbor overhears from the day care next door concerns them.


Can a marriage survive a gender transition? Yes, and even thrive. How these couples make it work.

Marriages in which a partner undergoes a gender transition can not only survive, but also thrive under the light of new honesty.

Mediterranean diet or not, eating seasonally can be good for you

It’s been years since scientists established that the Mediterranean diet really is good for you.

Gleaming monolith pops up in Nevada desert, the latest in a series of quickly vanishing structures

Las Vegas police said that members of its search and rescue unit found the otherworldly object over the weekend near Gass Peak, part of the vast Desert National Wildlife Refuge.

ADDRESS

Ask the Garden Guy: What is wrong with these plants and trees?

Send your gardening questions to Address@globe.com.

LOVE LETTERS

My partner’s family secrets are driving a wedge between us

I suspect he’s keeping information about an inheritance from his siblings, and I feel complicit.

Globe Magazine

Why librarians at Harvard and elsewhere are racing to save vintage porn

Research libraries in Cambridge and across the country are hurrying to collect sexual ephemera from Americans’ pasts, before it’s too late.

THE FOOD CLUB NEWSLETTER

‘James Beard loved to eat... And he was always broke’: Jacques Pépin remembers one of America’s most influential food figures

The man for whom the awards and foundation are named was considered the foremost American food authority. But ”he wasn’t a chef, and he would be the first one to tell you," Pépin told the Globe.

For local chefs and foodies, Juneteenth flavors are as wide as Boston’s African diaspora

Three local chefs show how the holiday transcends cultures and generations.