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Plus, WBUR arts and culture reporter Cristela Guerra joins us to talk about a variety of fun and safe activities to do in Boston this weekend.

As an upgraded 5G gets rolled out, 3G is getting rolled back.

But the road from the Attorney General's office to the Governorship hasn't been an easy one historically. Can Maura Healey buck the trend?

Musician, composer, and author Rob Kapilow is re-upping his work with Celebrity Series of Boston in What Makes It Great this weekend, highlighting the work of songwriting duo Lerner and Loewe.

Plus, a conversation with musician, composer and author Rob Kapilow about his new digital performance this week.

Massachusetts malls are increasingly empty as the pandemic, e-commerce and even revitalized town centers move in on their territory. But what if malls could help solve our housing crunch?

Plus, could strip malls help solve the housing crisis? And we talk with author and Emerson College writing professor Jabari Asim about his new book, "Yonder," a brutal telling of struggle, love, toil, and freedom.

In his new book called Yonder, Jabari Asim tells the stories of six men and women, five of them enslaved, and the plantation owners who "stole" them, in the words of the book. It is a brutal telling of struggle, love, toil and freedom.

After two years of masking, isolating, vaccinating and anxiously wondering, have we finally reached a turning point in the way we should be thinking about the pandemic? We ask Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University's School of Public Health.

A 2017 case about a request to briefly fly a Christian flag in front of City Hall has reached the Supreme Court.