Longtime restaurant owner Patrick Mendoza and neighbor Rocco Giovanello may not be big-name celebs, but around the rapidly changing North End, their decades-long blood feud—which culminated outside Modern Pastry—is the stuff of legend. A molto dolce legend.

Following the death of George Floyd, Lee Pelton’s essay “America Is on Fire” went viral. But for his latest mission—fixing the city’s shameful racial wealth gap—the recently installed president of the Boston Foundation knows it’ll take a lot more than words.

Looking for a dependable lawyer in Greater Boston? Discover the region’s 979 top attorneys, as chosen by their peers, in our annual directory.

Once nearly extinct, the birds today are everywhere, strutting around town like they run the place—and not just on Thanksgiving. It’s time to talk…well, you know.

In the age of book bans and digital technology, a case for why we should love libraries now more than ever.

Dispatches from the premiere of Ben Mezrich’s GameStop-Reddit movie, the Camp Harbor View Beach Ball and more.

Favorite player? Sudden comebacks? Elusive championship No. 18? The Celtics lead owner has an opinion—and he’s not holding back.

Almost halfway through her inaugural term, the city’s youngest modern mayor is winning fans, battling critics and marking the days. Can the Harvard-educated leader make a better, more equitable Boston before time runs out?

Bill Cushing, the heroic animal’s K9 unit partner, helped unveil the bronze sculpture at an emotional ceremony in Braintree.

After a career-threatening injury, professional dancer Isaac Akiba decided to break out of the performing arts’ insular bubble. Here’s what he learned by finally joining the real world.

Birds are loud, aggressive, and disruptive to sleep. They also may have saved Jonathan Soroff’s life.

Dispatches from the city’s swankiest events: ParkArts’ Rose Garden Party, our very own Best of Boston awards party and Room to Grow’s Power of Play: The Magic of Reading.

After his iconic brasserie, Eastern Standard, shuttered during the pandemic, Boston’s consummate hospitality wiz is reopening the restaurant this month—and putting everything on the line that lightning will strike twice.

Did a successful South Shore woman really kill her police officer boyfriend? Or, as she claims, did a slew of dirty cops frame her? Inside the simmering tabloid drama dividing this tight-knit suburb.

The head of local cybersecurity firm Rapid7 talks espionage, the corrosiveness of TikTok, and the failed promise of Back to the Future: “I still want my hoverboard.”