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City Life

The Interview: Black Economic Council of Massachusetts Head Nicole Obi

Armed with a pair of degrees from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Nicole Obi burst onto Boston’s business scene as a serial entrepreneur, founding and […]

City Life

The Real, Essential Backstory of ‘the Embrace’

The ceremony that took place before the monument to Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, was revealed had all the hallmarks […]

Restaurants

Boston Beer Innovator Rhonda Kallman Brings Her Craft Brew Experience to Liquor

You would think Rhonda Kallman had hit the height of her career after founding Boston Beer Company with James Koch in 1984, but in fact, […]

City Life

Inside the New SoWa Art + Design Center in the South End

Boston’s SoWa district is known for the scores of artist studios and galleries that fill its former factories, not to mention weekly markets that draw […]

City Life

The Case Against Trying To ‘Have It All’

Walt Disney once said that if you can visualize it and if you can dream it, there’s a way to do it. Yet this was […]

Arts & Entertainment

What the Boston Athenaeum’s $17 Million Renovation Looks Like

The Boston Athenaeum isn’t the inner sanctum you may think it is—although it did start out that way. Among the nation’s largest independent membership libraries […]

Home & Property

A Former Lenox Days Inn Is Now a Modern Lodge-Like Hotel

Set in the rolling Berkshire Hills of the westernmost part of Massachusetts, Life House, Berkshires occupies a former Days Inn constructed in the 1970s that […]

Travel

The Battle for New Hampshire’s Gunstock Mountain Resort

“Wow,” I said. I was reading the Laconia Daily Sun one day last July when our family was visiting with my sister’s brood at their […]

Arts & Entertainment

The Interview: Novelist Hank Phillippi Ryan

Hank Phillippi Ryan has a confession to make: She’s tried to get away with murder 14 times so far. Mind you, she’s not talking literally: […]

City Life

To Jeep, or Not to Jeep, That is the Question

It was the first week of May 2022, and I was thinking about my car, specifically how long it was going to last. My hope […]