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Best of Boston 2025: Arts & City Life

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How the Karen Read Case Turned a Neighborhood Bar Into a True Crime Landmark

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The Rise of ‘Elite Speak’: Why Do Smart People Sound So Dumb?

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Does Boston Still Drink?


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Sal’s Pal Faces a Slap on the Wrist

Cognos and one of its lobbyists, Richard McDonough, failed to disclose their relationship until Secretary of State Bill Galvin demanded an explanation as to why […]

What’s News

Your condensed guide to today’s daily papers. At least someone is hiring: The City of Boston’s payroll grew 25 percent in the past four years. […]

The Last Word

Your long day of corporate drudgery is over. Get out and enjoy the city! Here are a few ideas to get you started, lovingly picked […]

News

A Holiday the MBTA Can’t Afford to Take

Lately it seems that the MBTA has become the redheaded stepchild of financially troubled quasi-public agencies. While the Turnpike Authority is offered bailouts, the public […]

Arroyo-Watch 2008 Continues

If it take an apple a day to keep the doctor away, what exactly do you need to keep Mayor Tom Menino at a safe […]

This Week in Genius

We live in Boston, home to really smart people. So many, in fact, that sometimes their otherwise brilliant ideas are swallowed whole by the sea […]


In This Section

The Best Public High Schools in Greater Boston

The Best Public High Schools in Greater Boston

We crunched the numbers to come up with our annual guide to the top-performing schools in the region.

The 150 Most Influential Bostonians

The 150 Most Influential Bostonians

Through countless conversations and a year’s worth of observation, we’ve found leaders who don’t just ride the wave of the zeitgeist—they create it.


News

Kevin Convey Explains ‘Grotesquely Endowed’

We thought we’d learned all the euphemisms for the male anatomy from reading Cosmopolitan. There’s the somewhat graphic “member,” the cutesy “package,” and the generic […]

Spanning the Web

Taking you around the Internet for your afternoon enjoyment. You’d think he’d know better than to stand between a constituent and his medium regular: An […]

The Red Sox Are Hiring a New Green Monster

In this troubled economy, it’s hard to find any job, let alone a position with a well-known local company. So we’re delighted to inform you […]

News

Four-Day Work Week? Sold!

Our favorite thing about our job (aside from you, dear readers) is summer hours. Every Friday between early July and Labor Day, we leave Boston […]

Tri-Cornered Hats and Muskets?

This morning, the Globe introduces us to salvia, the latest substance kids are using to get high. It’s currently legal, but as with all drugs […]

The Karen Read Case

The Karen Read Case

The Fractured, Surprising, and Sobering Truth About Kids and Smartphones

The Fractured, Surprising, and Sobering Truth About Kids and Smartphones

A special report on our Tiktok-scrolling, Snapchat-loving, sleep-deprived teens—and what to know to keep kids safe.


What’s News

Your condensed guide to today’s daily papers. Don’t book a venue just yet: Members of the House are angry with Speaker Sal DiMasi. They don’t […]

The Last Word

Your long day of corporate drudgery is over. Get out and enjoy the city! Here are a few ideas to get you started, lovingly picked […]

Nigel Barker’s Experience at Oak Bluffs

Late last week, we learned that noted fashion photographer Nigel Barker would attend the Oak Bluffs Monster Shark Tournament to photograph the event for the […]

News

Arroyo? Arroyo? Arroyo?

The Monday after a nice summer weekend is always the worst. You crawl to your desk, chugging cup after cup of lukewarm communal office coffee, […]

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