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January 2015 Issue

Wellness

The Top 12 Spa Escapes in New England

From historical properties to contemporary seaside escapes, New England has no shortage of resorts with first-rate spas.

Feature

Restaurants

Ioannis Miaoulis Wants to Get You Hooked on Science

(But first he wants to cook you dinner.)

Restaurants

Wasted

How the craft-beer movement abandoned Jim Koch (and his beloved Sam Adams).

City Life

Boston Strong

An excerpt from the forthcoming book by Dave Wedge and Casey Sherman.

City Life

Boston Isn’t Strong. Boston Is Scared Sh*tless.

So says journalist Russ Baker, who thinks we’ve got the marathon bombings all wrong.

Department

City Life

Would You Let This Boy Play Football?

With all the news about concussions and football, I assumed I’d never let my kids play. But when they finally asked, saying no was harder than I’d thought.

City Life

The End of the Anthropocene

What do you do when you’re over 80 and still at the top of your game?

Fashion + Style

Style

Hot Seat

A closer look at the powder-coated-steel-and-leather chair from Showroom.

Style

Singular Sensations

Rock the season’s asymmetrical-earring trend with these major statement pieces.

Home & Property

To the Manor Born

This 1897 Fisher Hill manse, straight out of the English Renaissance, just came on the market.

Style

Neighborhood Watch: Beacon Hill

Charles Street continues to draw some of the city’s best boutiques.

Style

What a Jewel

Holly Golightly’s favorite boutique touches down on Newbury Street.

Restaurants

Restaurants

New Year, New Booze

Here’s a cartload of ways to get your buzz on while lowering your carbon footprint.

Restaurants

Small Bite: Chef Chang’s on Back Bay

It’s a bit of cognitive dissonance to dine on, but it’s a quirk that only makes the place more charming.

Restaurants

Dining Out: Bastille Kitchen

Mistral’s Seth Greenberg strikes again with a Fort Point brasserie that’s a stunning, ambitious, and often uneven ride.

Restaurants

First Bite: Liquid Art House

It’s all about appearances at this Back Bay restaurant-gallery hybrid.

Restaurants

Seeing Green

When it comes to texture, brine, and appearance, olives vary widely.

Restaurants

Pay to Play?

To manage the cost of canceled reservations, high-end restaurants are asking diners to pony up in advance.

Restaurants

The Maine Idea

The groundbreaking Portland restaurant Vinland remains entirely locally sourced—even in the dead of winter.

Restaurants

Family Ties

Sally Ling’s specialized in white-tablecloth, banquet-style fare, Dumpling Daughter focuses on the “classic, Chinese comfort home food”.

Restaurants

Fried and True

Three inspired upgrades on the fried-food icon, chicken nuggets.

News

City Life

Ring in the New Year

Local notables share their resolutions for 2015.

City Life

Clean Living

A new Charlestown real estate development was designed to solve a few problems you didn’t know you had.

City Life

The GOP’s Charlie Card

We just might be in for a genuine resurgence of the Massachusetts Republican Party.

City Life

Cindy and Barb’s Wedding: Boston, 1986

A photo tribute.

City Life

The Cannabis Connection

This month, the first Boston marijuana exhibition aims to help the medical marijuana system.

City Life

The Power of Ideas: Hashim Sarkis

The new dean of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning wants to find new ways to talk about urban space.

Health

Wellness

Nine Healthier Resolutions That’ll Stick

We pored over a plethora of local studies to pinpoint the lifestyle habits that will make us happier all year long.

Arts + Entertainment

Arts & Entertainment

Culture Calendar

Your monthly guide to this month’s events.