Harmony

By Peter Abraham, Globe Staff FORT MYERS, Fla. — There was a funny moment after the game today during Bobby Valentine's post-game press conference. He was asked what he heard about the performance Felix Doubront, who pitched in a minor league game at the same time the major league game was going on. Valentine started scrolling through his iPhone looking for the report that was supposed to be e-mailed to him. But it wasn't there. "He threw 84 pitches," said media relations director Pam Ganley.

An ideal sandwich should deliver a harmonious balance of textures and flavors. The porchetta sandwich ($6.50, bottom right; as a plate at right) at Pennypacker's Food Truck, in the Marine Industrial Park in South Boston, achieves this perfection with succulent pork, crispy skin for a salty crunch, and the seasonal topping — perhaps a bite of broccoli rabe or the slight sweetness of a cherry mostarda (candied in a mustard syrup), all tucked into a chewy Iggy's ciabatta roll. Tuesdays are Taco Day ($2.50 each)

Like couples with nothing in common who fall madly in love, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss make beautiful music together. Last night the iconic rocker and the bluegrass superstar performed songs from their 2007 album "Raising Sand," a collection of American classics both vintage and contemporary, as well as a handful of tunes from each artist's solo catalog. Where the album is painstakingly subdued - a dusky wash of deep tones and muted percussion with nary a shimmer or an edge within earshot - the live show was endlessly dynamic.

By Peter Abraham, Globe Staff FORT MYERS, Fla. — There was a funny moment after the game today during Bobby Valentine's post-game press conference. He was asked what he heard about the performance Felix Doubront, who pitched in a minor league game at the same time the major league game was going on. Valentine started scrolling through his iPhone looking for the report that was supposed to be e-mailed to him. But it wasn't there. "He threw 84 pitches," said media relations director Pam Ganley.

An ideal sandwich should deliver a harmonious balance of textures and flavors. The porchetta sandwich ($6.50, bottom right; as a plate at right) at Pennypacker's Food Truck, in the Marine Industrial Park in South Boston, achieves this perfection with succulent pork, crispy skin for a salty crunch, and the seasonal topping — perhaps a bite of broccoli rabe or the slight sweetness of a cherry mostarda (candied in a mustard syrup), all tucked into a chewy Iggy's ciabatta roll. Tuesdays are Taco Day ($2.50 each)

At the House of Blues Wednesday night Bangles singer-guitarist Susanna Hoffs made a confession that was hard to believe. "I qualify for AARP," the petite and ageless Hoffs sweetly told the crowd after goofing up some background vocals during a "senior moment. " Based on the lively 90-minute display that she and her equally vital bandmates - singer-guitarist Vicki Peterson and singer-drummer Debbi Peterson - put on, there's nothing retiring about the Bangles. The harmonious pop group ran through all of its big '80s hits - from the irresistible treacle of "Eternal...

The town of Hull will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on Sunday at the Bernie King Pavilion at Nantasket Beach. The ceremony will begin at 6:45 p.m. with a performance by the combined choirs of St. Ann and St. Nicholas churches. Former fire chief Nick Russo will be the guest speaker. Lily Sestito and the South Shore Men of Harmony will perform. The program will move to the nearby Mary Jeanette Murray Bathhouse if it rains. - Johanna Seltz

CAMBRIDGE -- At Musica Sacra's Saturday concert of love-struck English and Italian Renaissance madrigals, opposites attracted. The 15th- and 16th-century Englishmen downplayed the melodrama of lovers' laments, placing even the most fraught outbursts within an elegant game of courtship; their Italian counterparts rendered each heartbroken cry with inconsolable sighs and violent clashes of harmony. It's no wonder opera originated on the banks of the Arno and not the Thames. In John Bennet's "Let go, why do you stay me?"

Human rights organization World in Watertown is co-sponsoring the 12th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Unity Breakfast tomorrow at 9 a.m. in the Hellenic Cultural Center, 25 Bigelow Ave. The keynote speaker will be James deWolf Perry, executive director of Watertown-based nonprofit Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies of Slavery. Music groups the Greater Boston Intergenerational Chorus and Chosen Voices of Harmony will perform. The co-sponsors are Survival Education Fund, Inc. and Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice, and the Environment.

Police say four bodies have been found inside a central Maine home hours after gunshots were reported fired. Maine State Police spokesman Steve McCausland says the bodies of a man, a woman and two children were found Monday afternoon in a Shore Road home in Dexter. He didn’t identify the victims. Police surrounded the home Monday morning after reports of gunfire when a Dexter officer went to check on a family living there when the woman didn’t show up to work and the children didn’t arrive at school.

Human rights organization World in Watertown is co-sponsoring the 12th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Unity Breakfast tomorrow at 9 a.m. in the Hellenic Cultural Center, 25 Bigelow Ave. The keynote speaker will be James deWolf Perry, executive director of Watertown-based nonprofit Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies of Slavery. Music groups the Greater Boston Intergenerational Chorus and Chosen Voices of Harmony will perform. The co-sponsors are Survival Education Fund, Inc. and Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice, and the Environment.

CAIRO - The leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group expected to dominate the country's next Parliament, said it does not seek to get into a power struggle with the ruling military council over the formation of the next government. Egypt's military, which took control of the country from Hosni Mubarak upon his ouster in February, is insisting that it - not the Parliament - will choose the next prime minister and his Cabinet, setting the stage for a contest over who will chart the nation's course.

The average Occupy Boston protester is 34 years old and more likely to be a man than a woman. There is a 50-50 chance the protester has a job. Chances are he or she sleeps overnight at the encampment on Dewey Square, where many of them have lived for at least a month. A survey of some 60 protesters at the Occupy Boston site, conducted by the Globe on Monday, sketches a portrait of a resilient, dedicated group drawn from surprisingly varied walks of life. Half of the Occupy Boston protesters surveyed said they are unemployed, and two-thirds...

AIN"T MISBEHAVIN" The Fats Waller Musical Music by: Thomas "Fats"" Waller Conceived by: Richard Maltby Jr. and Murray Horwitz Directed and choreographed by Josie Bray Musical direction by Catherine Stornetta Set, David Towlun. Lighting, Franklin Meissner Jr. Costumes, Mallory Frers. At Lyric Stage Company of Boston. Through Dec. 17. Tickets: $25-$60. 617-585-5678, www.lyricstage.com ‘Ain't Misbehavin' " is a toe-tapping tribute to the music and atmosphere of 1930s and '40s Harlem, as...

Architecture isn't only about important buildings, or about the highly publicized so-called "starchitects" who design them. Architecture is the art we all live in. For better or worse, it shapes our ordinary lives, our homes and streets and neighborhoods. You might not even notice, walking or driving by, the new apartment building at 691 Massachusetts Ave. in the South End. That's because it fits so beautifully into its historic neighborhood. But take a second look, and you realize that this building isn't just deferential to its surroundings.

VARUJAN BOGHOSIAN At: Victoria Munroe Fine Art, 161 Newbury St., through Oct. 29. 617-523-0661, www.victoriamunroefineart.com CANDY COLORS, BUT NOT JUST FOR FUN At: "Listed,"" Studio No. 1, 1140 Washington St., Oct. 13-15. 617-875-7380. ELLEN BANKS: Musical Manifestations: Compositions in Wax, Paper, and Yarn At: Sherman Gallery, Boston University, 775 Commonwealth Ave., through Oct. 30. 617-358-0295, www.bu.edu/cfa/visual-arts VARUJAN BOGHOSIAN At: Victoria Munroe Fine Art, 161 Newbury St.,...

For many years, Reba McEntire made albums, toured, and did an occasional movie. But in the last few years she spread her wings and sang on Broadway in "Annie Get Your Gun," then starred in a popular sitcom, "Reba," on the WB Network. She needed "Room to Breathe," hence the title of this new album, her first studio disc in four years. It marks a welcome return to country music for McEntire. She touches on country/R&B in the Tanya Tucker-like "Love Revival. " She delves into gospel on "Sky Full of Angels" and into a mournful country ballad, "If I Had Any Sense at All. " She teams up with mountain music diva...

SOMERVILLE -- "Here is a song of teenage angst and brandy-induced, suicidal stupidity," a grinning Stephen Stills told an audience that had sold out the Somerville Theatre Tuesday evening. "I saved myself hundreds of thousands of dollars in therapy. " The tune, "4+20," was from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 1970 album, "Deja Vu. " Most telling about the moment was that, despite the romantic fatalism of the song's message, its now 61-year-old author was still around to sing it to packed houses.