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Best of Boston 2025: Arts & City Life

We’re gonna need a bigger magazine.


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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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Blood Feuds: The Fight Over Who Gets to Be Native American

A Rhode Island tribe’s quest for state recognition has sparked a bitter fight among Native Americans over who can claim Indigenous heritage, how to prove it—and who gets to decide.

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Best of Boston 2025: Readers’ Poll Winners

You have spoken, and you have feelings about coffee shops, politicians, and bagels.

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Best of Boston 2025 Is Here

With more than 250 winners in nine categories, here’s your annual guide to everything worth your time and money right now.

Humor

Sporting Goods Stores Are No Fun Zones

One dad braves the escalators, endless aisles, and ceiling-mounted merchandise at Dick’s Sporting Goods—and survives to tell the tale.

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Did We Ruin Summer Camp by Making It Safe?

Parent complaints and post-pandemic anxiety have transformed summer camp from a lawless paradise into a supervised safe space. The kids are all right—but are they missing out?

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Boston’s Best Residential Beekeepers: 60 Minutes with a Bee Doctor

Diagnosing a Cambridge hive with Best Bees’ Ronald “Ronnie” Thompson III.


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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.


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Boston’s Best Style Icon: 60 Minutes with Yolanda Cellucci

Hanging fabulously with the 90-year-old glamazon at the Burlington Mall.

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How Ted Kennedy and Tip O’Neill Got Boxing Legend Marvin Hagler a Title Shot

Brockton’s “Marvelous Marvin” battled the sport’s gatekeepers with unexpected allies by his side.

Humor

Is There Anything Too Rude for Boston’s Nastiest Drivers?

Boston drivers are notorious jerks. We race through red lights and honk at people while stuck in gridlock. But are there any moves so bad that even the nastiest local motorist would say, “No. Unacceptable.”?

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

The region’s most sensational murder trial made Canton’s Waterfall Bar & Grille into an unwitting supporting character in the mystery of John O’Keefe’s death.

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Has Boston Business Lost Its Juice?

The city’s corporate class once saved Boston from bankruptcy. Now, with a fiscal crisis and mayoral showdown looming, the business community faces its biggest test yet—and Boston’s future hangs in the balance.

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.


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

Told someone lately that you’d “circle back”? Bemoaned all the “emotional labor” you’re doing? Corporate jargon and academic buzzwords have created an almost impenetrable dialect. Given the current political reality, is it time for, well, a pivot?

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Boston Has Worms (The Good Kind!)

Inside Longwood’s most elite scientific social club, geneticists trade glowing worms, pin up worm-themed office art, and tell worm jokes over bagels. But will federal budget cuts turn this Nobel Prize–winning party into a wake?

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The Taylor Swift Eras Tour of Science Comes to Boston

World-renowned professor Brian Cox sheds light on the mysteries of the universe at the Boch Center Shubert Theatre.

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Does Boston Still Drink?

In the city where everyone (in the bar) once knew your name, will anyone be there to remember it?

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