Apparently we can't handle the heat and should get out of the kitchen: brush fires are breaking out across the state. [WBZTV]

Maybe we can use our tax refunds to buy ourselves a summer wardrobe. Or maybe to help out Roslindale. [Globe/AP]

The Patriots have some hot draft day plans, but they don't need them. Because Tom Brady is enough hotness for any team. [WBZTV]

Oh, poor Harvard. First Normie's steamy letters, now a cool hundred mil donation from D-Rock. What's a school to do when it's already drowning in money? Give it to us, maybe? [Globe]

Somervillians will be less sweaty in a couple of years. The Green Line extension is funded and will make it easier for Somerville and Medford residents to get where they're going without walking as far. [Somerville News]

Things are heating up at Simmons, where President Susan C. Scrimshaw has just announced she's stepping down. Helen Drinan will step up from chairing the board of directors to serve as interim president. Can she take the heat? [Simmons/Inside Higher Ed]

Superhot fire photo from Flickr user peasap