Roasted half guinea hen at Tavern Road.

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Roasted half guinea hen at Tavern Road.

In Fort Point, roasts and revelry at the uneven Tavern Road

The restaurant’s energy can lead to good food, but the elements that promise to make a dish interesting are often too sparse. By Devra First

Cheap Eats

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The voluminous menu of American Chinese and Sichuan favorites — created by executive chef Paul Mustacchio — reflects ambitious thinking.

Boston restaurateurs dish about rude customers
The Inn by the Bandstand has nine guest rooms with period woodwork and plush furnishings. Seven have working fireplaces.

A TANK AWAY

Exeter, N.H., is a fine place to declare your independence
Using only dark meat helps keep these turkey burgers from becoming dry; Worcestershire and soy sauce don't hurt, either.

Burgers for the grill. Hold the beef.
Using his food background, Andris Lagsdin (top right) of Stoughton Steel in Hanover created steel baking sheets ideal for making Neapolitan-style pizzas.

For pizza cooks, the last word in a crisp crust

Andris Lagsdin’s Baking Steel produces a crust so crunchy, chewy, and charred, you’d think it came out of a blazing wood-fired oven.

“I noticed that movie after movie rated G or PG had one important female character, at most,” says Geena Davis on what led her to found the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.

Q & A

Geena Davis talks of gender roles in media

Oscar-winner Geena Davis returns to Boston to raise awareness of gender disparity in media programming aimed at young children.

Devon Wiley of Hingham, who is nearsighted, uses ortho-k contacts, an alternative to Lasik and glasses. The lenses reshape the cornea and improve a patient’s vision.

Health and wellness

New treatment for nearsighted

A treatment known as ortho-k, in which patients wear contact lenses only at night, is increasingly being used to treat nearsightedness.

fashion

Boston’s newest dandy: Brady

This year, the signs of spring include well-lacquered hair and pink Brooks Brothers suits, pointing to the undeniable fact that we are approaching the Summer of the Dandy.

Solome Nakimuli and Sarah Eustache of Cambridge Rindge and Latin celebrated after Eustache's performance in the preliminary round of the Louder Than a Bomb competition.

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Solome Nakimuli and Sarah Eustache of Cambridge Rindge and Latin celebrated after Eustache's performance in the preliminary round of the Louder Than a Bomb competition.

Maddie Payne from Cambridge Ringe and Latin performed. The poetry slam competition draws its name from a 1988 Public Enemy song.

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Maddie Payne from Cambridge Ringe and Latin performed. The poetry slam competition draws its name from a 1988 Public Enemy song.

Rebecca Blaustein of Newburyport High School performed in the preliminary round.

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Rebecca Blaustein of Newburyport High School performed in the preliminary round.

Sam Given, Becca Blaustein, Aisha Chodat, and Blake Quintal from Newburyport High School performed.

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Sam Given, Becca Blaustein, Aisha Chodat, and Blake Quintal from Newburyport High School performed.

Porsha Olayiwola, a Codman Academy team coach, worked with student Ogechi Okwologu before the competition.

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Porsha Olayiwola, a Codman Academy team coach, worked with student Ogechi Okwologu before the competition.

Codman Academy student Shaheem Durham during practice. The concept behind the competition is that words can foster healing.

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Codman Academy student Shaheem Durham during practice. The concept behind the competition is that words can foster healing.

“Once you’re labeled as a poet,” said Codman Academy’s Shawntell Usher, “there’s pride in knowing that people know what your talent is.”

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“Once you’re labeled as a poet,” said Codman Academy’s Shawntell Usher, “there’s pride in knowing that people know what your talent is.”

The Codman Academy poetry slam team at its rehearsal.

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The Codman Academy poetry slam team at its rehearsal.

G Cover

Poetry slam fosters hope

Students participating in the “Louder Than a Bomb” poetry slam competition find words — even raw, emotional words — can heal.

UMass Special Section

UMass Special Section

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/04/20/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/umass150-357.jpg UMass’s 150th anniversary

An encyclopedia of 150 years at the University of Massachusetts. Check out the Globe’s UMass A-to-Z celebration.

Style Magazine

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Artists, entrepreneurs, an activist, and an actress all made the Globe’s eighth annual list of tastemakers.

Globe e-book

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20 recipes to satisfy your sweet tooth.

Globe Magazine

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The best places to get your heart racing with biking or rafting, explore off-the-grid, and more destinations for Boston travelers.

Inside Arts & Lifestyle

The Book of Mormon.

‘Book of Mormon’ coming back to Boston

my Instagram

Instagram fashion: Jessye Aibel

FRAME BY FRAME

Seeing firsthand how life could be fragmented

events

Boston-area to do list

ALBUM REVIEW | Electronic/dance

Daft Punk make an impact with latest

Tables

Tables: Craft beer in Newton and sausages in Somerville
The bedroom at Blantyre (left) and the appetizer of grilled foie gras at Wheatleigh.

Travel

Berkshires inns offer high quality, higher costs

An inflatable rubber tank weighing 93 pounds.

Television Review

When wartime appearances were deceiving by design
Jeff Anthony (left) and David Iscove in the EMI vault at Iron Mountain.

Preserving troves of entertainment
Annie “Londonderry” Kopchovsky in 1894 with the Columbia bicycle she rode from Boston to Chicago.

Festival kicks off with tale of local legend
From left: Becki Newton, T.J. Miller, and Scott Foley in “The Goodwin Games.”

Television Review

‘Goodwin Games’: Dead show walking
Mel Brooks starred in and directed the 1991 comedy-drama, “Life Stinks.”

Television review

Mel Brooks in PBS spotlight

Living Longer, Living Better

living longer, living better

After their children moved out, Christine and Shawn Corr downsized from a Colonial in Concord to a condo in Charlestown.

Empty nesters enjoy the freedom of downsizing

A growing number of empty nesters are finding the challenges, strain, and sometimes elation of dismantling homes they have lived in for decades.

Food & dining

short order

Among the many products at Bee’s Knees Supply Co. are charcuterie, farmstead cheeses, and pyramid chocolates with caramel filling.

Bee’s Knees opens in Fort Point with charcuterie, cheeses galore

At Bee’s Knees Supply Co. you can choose from almost 300 farmstead cheeses, dairy products, butcher-shop meats, and pastries.

Health & wellness

Daily Dose

Prevent kidney stones: drink coffee but not cola?

Researchers have found that people who consume certain drinks have an increased risk of developing kidney stones.

Style

the one thing

Ted Baker blue floral dress.

Fresh as a daisy

This pretty, floral-printed pleated dress, complete with skinny belt and demure cap sleeves, is the perfect go-to for spring and summer affairs.

Travel

The exterior of the Mark Twain House & Museum, featured on the “Hidden Gems on New England” tour.

Filmmakers, tour company launch N.E. ‘Hidden Gems’ trip

The eight-day itinerary includes stops in Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, highlighting New England in all its unexpected variety.

House and home

HOME

“Mombasa” chair, $129.95 at Pier 1 Imports, Brookline

Patio Perfect

The weather is fine and your deck beckons, so pull up a chair, crack open a cold one, and relax.

Names

“Behind the Candelabra” costar Matt Damon signs autographs Tuesday at the Cannes Film Festival.

Names

Matt Damon out hyping HBO’s ‘Candelabra’

The initial reviews of “Behind the Candelabra,” the biopic about Liberace and boy toy Scott Thorson, have been lukewarm.

From left: actress Geena Davis, Madeline DiNonno, executive director of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, and Louise Kuhlman, Winship Elementary School principal.

Names

Geena Davis visits Brighton school

The Oscar winner is trying to draw attention to gender disparity in the media programming aimed at children.

Meredith Goldstein

Lifestyle columnist

Goldstein is a columnist and author of the Love Letters blog.

Magazine

The cover for the May 19 2013 issue

10 best amusement and theme parks in New England
The cover for the May 12 2013 issue

Restart: The future of the Marathon
The cover for the May 5 2013 issue

Greater Boston’s top spots to live
The cover for the April 28 2013 issue

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