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June 13, 2025

Welcome back to The Big To-Do. Stop me if you’ve heard this before: the weekend forecast has clouds and rain in it. This is extremely unlikely to extinguish enthusiasm for Saturday’s Pride parade, but it might make that Father’s Day round of golf a little squishier than you were expecting. And at the moment, the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill on Tuesday — that parade is Sunday — looks more gray than red, white, and blue. If you’re staying in, the focus of this week’s streaming suggestions is as sharp as a shark’s tooth. With “Jaws” turning 50 next week, the Globe’s Matt Juul spotlights the original “and all of its not quite as beloved sequels.”

Boston Pride

Marchers celebrated during the Boston Pride for the People parade and festival last year. Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff

Boston’s 2025 Pride parade starts at 11 a.m. Saturday. The attendant celebrations run all day — indeed, all month (scroll down) — with thousands expected to throng the parade route. “Part of what we are doing is giving people the space to experience joy in who they are and in the community,” Gary Daffin, a Boston Pride organizer, tells Globe correspondent Jade Lozada.

Sister Lida Christ and the other Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are “ubiquitous in June.” The practice of the “areligious order of queer nuns” is “focused on ministry, activism, education, entertainment, and service.” The Globe’s Craig F. Walker and Mark Shanahan offer a look at Sister Lida transforming “from middle-aged dude to ‘sacred clown’” and, in her words, “creating a superhero.”

Film & Movies

A scene from “How To Train Your Dragon.” Universal Pictures

The live-action remake of “How to Train Your Dragon” earns 2½ stars from Globe film critic Odie Henderson. Yes, it’s the latest in a series of “unnecessary and cynical cash grabs.” Henderson describes himself as “torn between being happy this film was nowhere near as bad as I’d expected and being frustrated that I sat through a carbon copy [of the 2010 original].”

Is Celine Song’s “Materialists,” starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans, “a light romantic comedy and date movie”? It is not, Henderson writes in a 1½-star review. “I don’t know why any fan of rom-coms would want to see ‘Materialists.’ It’s designed to punish you for liking what you like, so why waste your money?”

Transcending “overwrought” and “overly familiar” storytelling, “Echo Valley” rallies as it goes, delivering “energy and occasional playfulness.” As a widowed rancher and her troubled daughter, Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney “are both strong performers,” writes Globe correspondent Josh Bell. But Domhnall Gleeson’s turn as a drug dealer is what you’ll remember.

The Provincetown International Film Festival runs through Sunday. The schedule includes 80-plus narrative features, documentaries, and shorts by “first-time filmmakers, New England locals, and international directors,” Globe correspondent Jeffrey Kelly reports.

TV & Streaming

Patience (Ella Maisy Purvis) and Bea (Laura Fraser) on "Patience." Eagle Eye Drama / Toon Aerts

“Patience” is a PBS police procedural with a twist: the lead character is autistic. Patience (Ella Maisy Purvis) is a civilian employee roped into working with the York, England, homicide squad. “The show is deliberate in its depiction of Patience’s neurodivergent status,” writes the Globe’s Lisa Weidenfeld. But its “very earnestness sometimes strains credulity.”

Starring Matthew Goode as a Scottish police detective, “Dept. Q” “feels engineered, in the best possible way, to become Netflix’s next world-spanning hit.” The series “has an American creator, a Scottish setting, and a varied UK cast,” writes Globe correspondent Chris Vognar. What’s more, “It’s based on a Danish novel.”

The Big Day

Kayak founder Paul English and Rachel Cohen wed in a long-weekend bash at Adare Manor in County Limerick, Ireland. Christina Brosnan

The Globe’s weddings column, The Big Day, tells stories of how couples found each other, fell in love, and said “I do.” Rachel Cohen and Paul English matched on Bumble shortly before the pandemic and got to know each other virtually. “It felt very quickly like Rachel was my best friend,” Paul tells Globe correspondent Rachel Kim Raczka. They soon began traveling extensively, and their April wedding involved an international flight — to Ireland.

To apply to be featured, recently married and engaged couples (vow renewals and commitment ceremonies, too!) with ties to New England can click here for the application form.

Music

Pat Wells at her home in Grantham, N.H., with a copy of her album that was released in 1978. Jim Davis for The Boston Globe

“We love using undiscovered vintage catalog,” says the music supervisor for the Netflix series “Sirens.” And that, in a nutshell, is how a 71-year-old retired day-care operator returned to her singer-songwriter roots. Globe correspondent James Sullivan has the story of Pat Wells and her 1978 album, “Hometown Lady,” and it’s an absolute treat.

Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, who died this week at 82, “leaves behind an oceanic legacy.” “Thousands of bands have taken cues from Wilson’s orchestral aspirations and his rapturously arranged contrapuntal melodies,” James Sullivan writes in an appreciation. And the Globe staff chimes in with a list of 10 of Brian Wilson’s greatest songs.

“Michael Angelakos Is Passion Pit” isn’t just a residency — it’s a workshop. The band’s fifth album is in the works, and it’s “being worked out because of these live shows,” including four in Boston, the frontman tells Globe correspondent James Sullivan. “Nine Times Your Torch Song” will include new material “and reworked versions of the indie hits Passion Pit became known for.”

Theater

Deb Martin, who plays Zocha, and Ryan Czerwonko, who plays Zygmunt, during rehearsal for the show "Our Class," from the Arlekin Players in the Maso Studio at the Huntington Theater. Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff

Based on a true story, “Our Class” explores “how easy it is for people to shift from a gray area of humanity to super dark and violent.” Says director Igor Golyak, “We can’t take in the horror unless we see the mundane details of their lives and recognize these people as longtime friends.” Globe correspondent Terry Byrne previews the Arlekin Players Theater’s production, opening next week.

The theater world may still be nursing a hangover from the year’s biggest party, the Tony Awards. In case you missed it, relive the starry evening with a selection of highlights assembled by the Globe’s Matt Juul.

Museums & Visual Art

Nicholas Galanin, "Aáni yéi xat duwasáakw (I am called Land)," 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York. (Mel Taing) Mel Taing

Two pieces by Indigenous artist Nicholas Galanin are on view in the Fenway. “I think it goes like this (pick yourself up),” “a bronze sculpture of a blocky, patchwork Tlingit totem pole, is one of the marquee offerings of the Boston Public Art Triennial,” writes Globe art critic Murray Whyte. It’s “sly; ... Galanin’s piece implies a complicated future of adaptation and reinvention, again and again."

Pipe organs incorporate “architecture, art, carpentry, acoustics, and engineering.” Models, photographs, and other objects associated with the instruments make up “Breath of Life,” at the Cape Ann Museum. It’s “the rare exhibition where visitors could forgo explanation and, simply gawking at what’s on display, do so with pleasure and edification,” writes the Globe’s Mark Feeney.

The performance and exhibition “Where Does It Hurt?” puts health care workers on the spot — and in the role of model. In 15-minute appointments, they sit for portraits created by this week’s Working Artists, Mary Lacy (drawings) and Hugo Hernandez (strategy). Globe correspondent Cate McQuaid asked Lacy what she makes. “Conversations,” she responded.

The inaugural Arrival Art Fair comes to North Adams this weekend. “A lot of exhibitors intentionally wanted to come and do Arrival because they know so much about the strength of the museums in Massachusetts, and also the curators,” cofounder Yng-Ru Chen tells McQuaid, who has a preview.

“The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is “abundant and abundantly miscellaneous.” Portraits predominate, alongside “still lifes, landscapes, nature studies, charming bits of bizarrerie,” Feeney writes from New York. “The show’s abundance makes it all the more important that it be mounted with skill and imagination, which it is.”

Books

Geoff Dyer and the cover to “Homework: A Memoir.” Guy Drayton/Canongate Books

Geoff Dyer’s memoir, “Homework,” is “a vibrant trip down memory lane.” The “richly versatile” nonfiction writer shines as he turns his attention to himself and “his humble, private, and resolutely unbookish parents,” writes Globe reviewer Malcolm Forbes. “The result is both a captivating portrait of the artist as a young man and an insightful snapshot of postwar Britain.”

The Nantucket Book Festival is underway. Given the weather forecast, curling up with some fun reading probably sounds great about now. Whether you’re already there or planning on the fly, Globe correspondent Haley Clough has the lowdown on the “award-winning and best-selling authors, journalists, and speakers” on the schedule.

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