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As Carol Johnson prepares to step down after six tumultuous years as Boston’s superintendent of schools, her job performance has become a central issue in the city’s first competitive mayoral race in a generation. Critics portray her as an ineffective steward, while her admirers say she’s been a compassionate leader. So how’d she do, really?

Snobs from Los Angeles or Austin may disagree, but Boston’s Mexican food scene is on fire–thanks to classic and adventurous spots serving everything from grilled […]

WATCH Your Name Screening Start off your month with a free screening of the critically acclaimed animated Japanese film, Your Name. The screening is a celebration of […]

This post originally appeared on Vanyaland. At this point in the evolution of electronic music, remixes don’t have to mean club-thumping, strobe-ready rehashes of popular […]

The First Church Unitarian Universalist in Leominster expected 200 people this drizzly morning, but only 50 or so have shuffled into the semicircular pews. It's […]

Boston’s 25 most sensational, notorious, infamous, and sometimes just downright weird crimes of all time.

Boston’s James Beard Award–winning baker dishes on her expanding culinary empire and why it’s so darn hard for her to be mean.

I'd heard the rumors whispered at cocktail parties and wine bars, and bandied about in e-mails ever since I'd moved back to Boston from the […]

Elegy for an It Girl

From the median strip at the top of upper Massachusetts Avenue near Porter Square, things appear very straight and narrow. Nondescript, low-lying buildings close in […]

When a new apartment building springs up in Boston, there’s a good chance you don’t even bat an eye. After all, most of us can’t […]

Family-Friendly Boston Frog Pond Pumpkin Float: Bring the whole family to the fourth annual Pumpkin Float right in the heart of the city. If you […]

We all know that Bostonians are fit, but current drop-in class rates hitting $20 or higher can price out even the most loyal fitness enthusiast. We scoured […]

An extended version of the interview with Malcolm Rogers: curator, fundraiser, rabble-rouser, and director of the Museum of Fine Arts.

LISTEN Berklee Summer in the City From five-string fiddling to jazzy Caribbean beats, the talented future stars of Berklee College of Music are putting on […]