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New Addition
Boston Public Market
No wonder crowds have been a constant at the year-round indoor farmers market that houses dozens of local vendors above the Haymarket T station...
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Champions
The Boston Pride
The Pride more than lived up to the city’s Titletown rep in the first season of the NWHL...
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College Athlete
Jimmy Vesey
The 6-foot-3 Harvard forward became the third straight Boston athlete to win the Hobey Baker Award, given to the country’s best college hockey player...
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College Professor
John Leonard of MIT
Bill Belichick took a crack at it. A seventh-grader from Lynn did as well. ...
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Creative Use of Space
Lynch Family Skatepark
The term “rad” might be a little outdated, but it sums up our feelings about one of the city’s newest attractions...
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Food Pornographer
Chocolate for Basil
If the title of Jerrelle Guy and Eric Harrison’s blog is enough to make your mouth water, then the food pics will send your appetite into overdrive...
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Mind Bender
Le Laboratoire Cambridge
Founded by Harvard inventor David Edwards, Le Lab Cambridge is the first outpost of Edwards’ Paris cultural lab, and it’ll certainly get your head spinning...
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Pop Art
The Justin Bieber mural
Six months before Justin Bieber wandered barefoot around the Common, feeding squirrels and spending some time reflecting in a tree, he generated buzz with a little art in Jamaica Plain...
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Reason to Cry
Somerville’s Pity Party
Local artist and writer Greg Cook came up with the brilliant idea for a collective Pity Party, aiming to turn sadness into a less solo experience, and made us all crack a smile...
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Screen Time
Spotlight Wins Best Picture
The Catholic Church’s sex-abuse scandal is an all-too-well known story in Boston, so it’s a credit to director/co-writer Tom McCarthy that the movie about The Boston Globe’s reporting still felt fresh...
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Staycation Excuse
New Hotels Across the City
Staycations were “in” out of necessity during the penny-pinching days of the Great Recession, but all the sleek new options in town are providing enticement now...
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Trend
Destination Shipping Containers
Shipping containers are finding second lives, providing flexible spaces that chefs, artists and even a barber have made their own...
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Vigilante Chef
Jason Santos
The blue-haired toque made a name for himself on Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen, but hell hath no fury like Santos...
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Wild Animals
Charles River Seals
For decades environmentalists have been advocating for a swimmable and fishable Charles River, and this spring one critter gave its seal of approval...