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September 24, 2023 | Your Home: Make It Modern

Interior designer Rachel Dunham chose comfy leather seats by Ethnicraft for the sunroom because they are easy to move for different situations. Northe Woodworking made the walnut desk, which has a track for the folding partition embedded into the top. “The accordion window can be pulled across the desk to cut down on sound without blocking light,” says Dan Hisel of Hisel Flynn Architects.

Their home taste was traditional. Then they moved to Peacock Farm.

The statement staircase, which doubles as a lightwell, provided opportunity for a tiered garden wall. The couple were adamant about using cold-rolled steel for the structure; they love its industrial look with spots of rust. Glass-panel guardrails for the stairs to the basement, where there’s a playroom and guest room, keep the room airy.

In a workers cottage, a modern suspended stairway lets in light

Architect Bill Boehm dressed up the garage facade with new siding that extends beyond the roofline for a more modern silhouette. The left portion of the second-story addition is set back from the primary bedroom portion on the right so the design doesn’t look too blocky.

Hints of midcentury modern bring a ranch back to the future

How a cramped city condo became modern and airy, in nine steps

The family of three who live in the home found the interior choppy, so the designers worked to make it more efficient.

Advice

‘I see’ is his stock response to everything. She finds it frustrating.

This week's daters: Hannah and Lane.

Blind date: ‘We both have unique jobs so it was interesting hearing about hers’

A relative gives me the same gift every year but I don’t use it. How do I stop it?

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This week's columns

The number of Americans living to 100 is exploding. But there’s a glaring problem.

The rise in centenarians in the US is a good thing for many. But the realm of super-aging isn’t open to all.

The writer and his dad after the writer made a hole-in-one in 2012.

I used to dread being dragged to the golf course by my dad. Then he got sick.

When my dad told me to spread his ashes on the third green, I knew what he meant.

Potato Gnocchi

Add potato gnocchi to your cooking repertoire with an easy-to-follow recipe

A little potato prep work is key to making light, fluffy gnocchi at home.

The owners of this Newton house will soon be empty nesters, so they decided to refresh their home.

A concrete fireplace surround and shelves of family treasures star in this living room makeover

The soon-to-be empty nesters didn’t want to move, so they decided to refresh their well-loved home.

Your Week ahead
Five things to do around Boston, Sept. 25 - Oct. 1
Marvel at the wonders of the Cambridge Science Festival, celebrate the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, and more.

On the Block
For sale: Homes built in the Roaring Twenties
In honor of F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on Sept. 24, 1896, we tour two houses from the decade he immortalized in “The Great Gatsby.”

CommentsLetters to the editor of the Globe Magazine
Readers respond to stories about a lost cat, movie intermissions, injuries to women soccer players, and more.

Past Perspectives

A Mexican worker loads a conveyor belt with hay at a Vermont dairy farm.

When will we make sure the people who work our farms and cook our food are well fed?

Patients still discriminate against health care workers of color. Why don’t more hospitals ban it?

Hollywood: Bring intermissions back to summer blockbusters. Do it for our kidneys!

My parents bought our family burial plots years ago. But my plans might change.

September 10, 2023 | Fall Travel

From left: Anthony Bourdain, chef Pepe Blázquez, and the writer at dinner at Casa Salvador in 2010.

A Madrid restaurant was near its end. Then Anthony Bourdain arrived.

10 train trips to experience New England’s fall foliage in style

Fall foliage in 2021 in Wallingford, Vermont.

A meteorologist’s guide to New England’s best leaf peeping this fall

September 17, 2023 | My Boston History

Amplify LatinX: Honoring 100 change-making leaders across Massachusetts

Meet six leaders from Amplify LatinX's ALX100

In 2016, El Oriental owner Nobel Garcia poured cider at the news of Fidel Castro’s death.

Marcela García

What does it mean to lose special places where Latinos gather in Boston?

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Jorge Arroyo behind the scenes at the Booth Theatre at Boston University.

A lighting designer shines a spotlight on the lack of diversity backstage

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Dancing at Havana Club

My night at Havana Club, the heart of salsa and bachata dancing in Cambridge

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Mónica Solares, owner of Rincón Guatemalteco in Waltham.

Ahead of Central American Independence Day in Boston, I went searching for a taste of home

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August 27, 2023

Pot prices have tanked. Dispensaries are closing. Is a great crash coming?

Ysabel Garcia at her happy place, The Artist Cafe in Springfield.

Ysabel Garcia knows the danger of a mental health crisis. She has a lifesaving message.

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Recommended reads

He was caught trying to defraud a COVID relief fund. Then he vanished.

Charged in the first such case in the nation, he seemingly abandoned his SUV in Quincy and walked into the Atlantic. But as with much in his life, the truth wasn’t what it seemed.

A man who goes by the alias Zero struts down the runway during a clothing-optional gun show at Body Freedom Village, on the fourth day of the Porcupine Freedom Festival, an annual event held by the Free State Project.

These libertarians want to take over New Hampshire. But first, a clothing-optional gun show.

The Cars in 1979, from left: Benjamin Orr, Greg Hawkes, Ric Ocasek, Elliot Easton, and David Robinson

How a WBCN deejay and a Harvard dining hall concert helped The Cars get their big break

Frank Smith was locked up for eight decades, likely longer than anyone alive.

Frank Smith was locked up for eight decades. At 98, what would it mean to be free?

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150 years of The Boston Globe

We're marking the Globe's 150th year with a look back through 15 decades of coverage. Explore 150 of the most significant front pages, revisit classic sports moments, try a crossword from 1917, and more.

Special Projects

Meet the most influential people in Greater Boston’s tech industry

The Boston Globe’s second annual Tech Power Players list tells the story of New England innovation in a challenging economic climate.

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston 2023

A guide to 36 communities where home buyers are flocking — and prices are surging.

Bostonian of the Year 2022

In the face of the ugliest adversity, legendary Celtic Bill Russell fought for and lived a beautiful life for himself and for us. A champion of basketball and human rights, Bill Russell is the 2022 Bostonian of the Year. Read six tributes to No. 6.

Find out who received an Honorable Mention, and explore the full special issue.

The 2022 Top Places to Work in Massachusetts

After a couple of long, weird years, companies are pulling out all the stops to keep employees happy.

An in-camera double-exposure photograph of Kate Price overlaid with the woods of a Pennsylvania rest area, where she remembers being taken as a child.

Kate Price remembers something terrible

An authority on child sex trafficking, she spent decades trying to understand whether the unthinkable happened to her, too.

Women & Power 2022

The Women’s Edge and Globe Magazine celebrate the state’s leading companies and nonprofits run by women.

Tyrone Anthony Figueroa teaching at East Boston High School.

My NFL dream didn’t pan out. But now that I’m a teacher and coach, I know I’ve ‘made it.’