Matthew Reed Baker

Then & Now The Combat Zone

Then & Now: The Combat Zone

A photography exhibit remembers the city’s red-light district, while a new generation of Hub photographers shoots its cleaned-up streets.

By Matthew Reed Baker
Juicing the Bottom Line

Juicing The Bottom Line

How the “Straight from the Bog” ad campaign revived Ocean Spray and made cranberry farmers cultural icons.

By Matthew Reed Baker

Living History, Part 1

Ted Kennedy, remembered.

By Francis Storrs (With additional reporting by Ian Aldrich, Matthew Reed Baker, Rebecca G. Dorr, Paul McMorrow, Jason Schwartz, and and Brigid Sweeney)

$1,000 for an office chair? Why some wheeled wonders are worth their extravagant price tags.

Caped Creators

By day, they’re some of our most talented painters, sculptors, and mixed-media virtuosos. By night (actually, one late afternoon on the Southie waterfront), Boston’s self-appointed Superheroes of Art turn themselves into masked warriors, out to avenge a New Yorker’s put-down and win the city’s creative scene the respect it deserves.

By Matthew Reed Baker