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“We Will Finish the Race”: The Making of Boston’s Iconic Marathon Shoes Cover

Moments after the bombings rocked Boylston Street, and with less than a week until the presses rolled, Boston magazine’s staff knew they needed to create a new cover image for its May 2013 issue that captured the spirit of the city. The rest is literally history. Here’s how they did it.


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Boston Received 16 National City and Regional Magazine Award Nominations for 2022

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A New Glossier Store Is Opening on Newbury Street

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Boston Deserves Better than Fenway Park. Sorry Not Sorry.


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How to Get Around without the Orange Line During the Shutdown

Thanks to a monthlong disruption starting August 19, you’ll need to plan ahead.

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Bill Russell Changed What It Meant to Be an Activist Athlete

The Boston Celtics legend leaves a legacy just as impressive off the court as on it.

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Newbury Street Will Go Car-Free for Six Straight Sundays Starting This Month

We love to see it. Keep it coming.

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One Reporter’s Foolproof TikTok Strategy: Let Boston Speak

His word-on-the-street videos have become a sensation online.

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Q&A: Dart Adams on Why Danish Rapper Sleiman’s Life Story Is One We Need to Hear

The Boston writer says Instead We Became Evil, which he co-wrote with the artist, breaks the mold.

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Can This Woman Bring Tourists Back to Boston?

After the pandemic tanked tourism in this town, Martha Sheridan is now leading a multimillion-dollar effort to lure visitors everywhere from Nubian Square to the Freedom Trail. Is she revolutionary enough to get the job done?


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From senators eyeing the presidency to a mayor ruling over a changing city, here’s what our politicians are up to.

Our 10 Most-Popular Longform Stories in 2022

Our 10 Most-Popular Longform Stories in 2022

In a year of Boston icons (old and new), scandals, and purpling politics, here’s what you loved reading the most from us.

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Pointe of No Return

When multiple young women accused a Boston Ballet prima ballerina and her husband of subjecting them to sexual violence almost too lurid to believe, it made headlines around the world. Then the accused lashed back at their protégées with an eye-popping defense tailor-made for tabloids. Behind the curtain of Boston’s most outrageous ballet scandal.

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Whales, the Newest Scourge of Seafaring Bay Staters, Are Not the Enemy

Fear not these blubbery beasts (but try to stay out of their way).

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Massachusetts Has a Public Beach Access Problem

One way to alleviate the problem: intertidal zone access.

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Don’t Do It, Charlie: The Happy Hour Bill the Governor Shouldn’t Veto

It might really happen this time. Don’t get in the way.

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Seeing Purple

The true-blue Democratic establishment has long had a lock on Massachusetts politics. Talk to voters, though, and you’ll hear stories of alienation and frustration over a whole range of issues. Inside the making of a purpling Massachusetts.

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Policy

Marijuana legalization, healthcare changes, and all the other referendums shaking up Mass.

Our Top 20 Stories in 2022

Our Top 20 Stories in 2022

What you clicked on the most last year.

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Why Are We So Obsessed with the Orange Line Bridge Diver?

An act of sheer athleticism in the midst of a crisis has caught everyone’s attention.

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Chaos, Again, on the Orange Line

Passengers fled a burning train in Somerville atop a bridge Thursday morning.

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The British Are Coming to Boston—Prince William, That Is

He’ll be here to award the 2022 Earthshot Prize, he just announced.

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In Boston, Is It Polite To Wave at People You Don’t Know?

At least part of our aversion to ingratiating behavior can be attributed to regional identity.

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