Baseball fans of different ages munched on buttery popcorn as they listened to Larry Lucchino, chief executive and president of the Boston Red Sox, discuss the relationship between baseball and politics yesterday afternoon at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Last night’s World AIDS Day Rally took both a commemorative and a political tone as more than 100 people gathered in the Boston Common gazebo to honor the millions of lives that have been lost to the disease and to advocate for further funding and support for health care across the globe.

Boston City Councillor Ayanna Pressley has called on a city agency to investigate the shut-down of a party at a Boston nightclub arranged for black alumni and graduate students from Harvard and Yale that ended in allegations of racist conduct on the part of the club’s owner.

The new Doña Betsaida Gutiérrez Housing Cooperative that opened in Jamaica Plain on Saturday is the latest project made possible by the Harvard’s 20/20/2000 Housing Initiative.

The Huntington production suffers from this slow pacing, but otherwise proves to be a sturdy version of an ultimately absorbing show.

During a time when many ballet companies are struggling to stay afloat, Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen is not only preserving ...