Best of Boston
Best Comeback
Harkertown
Boston
Boston lost many restaurants to COVID, but few closings caused more anguish for local foodies than the loss of Garrett Harker’s Kenmore Square trio: beloved [...] read more»
2002 Best Comeback
Mission of Burma
Art-punk heroes and alterna-rock granddaddies Mission of Burma, whose original 1979-83 run influenced R.E.M. and the Pixies, roared back with a handful of high-decibel concerts [...] read more»
2002 Best Comeback
Globe Spotlight Team
The Boston Globe Spotlight Team, whose Pulitzer Prize-worthy coverage of the archdiocesan sex scandal was earth-shattering journalism at its and a return to the kind [...] read more»
2002 Best Comeback, Game
Celtics
The Celtics, for the biggest fourth-quarter comeback in NBA playoff history, making up a 21-point deficit to beat the New Jersey Nets in game three [...] read more»
2001 Best Comeback
Mike Barnicle
—especially if money is how you're keeping score. The former Globe columnist now has a daily talk show on WTKK, a column in the New [...] read more»
1999 Best Comeback, by a Local Band
The Gigolo Aunts
After five years without a release, the Gigolo Aunts burst back onto the music scene with Minor Chords and Major Themes, a disc so infused [...] read more»
1995 Best Comeback
Digital Equipment
Sure, the company itself is half as big as it used to be. Sure, the sales of its once-popular VAX computers are still plummeting. But [...] read more»
1993 Best Comeback
Aimee Mann
Her 'Til Tuesday days behind her, she has released, at long last, a solo album, Whatever, that is thoughtful, inventive—in a word, stunning. Don't make [...] read more»
1987 Best Comeback, Album
Third Stage
The new album by the synthetic-rock group Boston was six years in the making and worth the wait. read more»