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January 23, 2022

The 30 best comfort foods you’ll find at Boston area restaurants

When temperatures drop and New Year’s resolutions fall by the wayside, we all need something to warm our souls. Here are 30 great comfort foods and where to find them. (You'll be glad you did!)

For small restaurants, Guy Fieri and ‘Triple D’ are ‘the gift that keeps on giving’

When the frosted-tip celebrity chef rolls up for a segment of ‘Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,’ restaurant owners buckle up for a wild ride.

The latest Advice

Three of us are crushing on the same girl. It’s getting weird.

This week's daters: Johnny and Tarah.

Blind date: ‘My mom has tried to set me up on blind dates. That has not quite worked out.’

My husband gave me a present and I gave it away

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This week's columns

The power of having a great role model, whether you’re 9 or 99

No matter our age, we should keep asking ourselves, “How do I keep growing into the person I would like to become?”

Dumplings the author made for the Chinese New Year in 2019 following her mom's recipe.

My mom’s dumplings were the perfect therapy as I underwent chemo

Steamed Fish With Ginger and Shiitake Mushrooms

Recipes: Four ways to use ginger with fish, beef, pork, and chicken

Before it was redesigned, this primary bedroom in a historic Mission Hill brownstone had too much brown furniture and too little ambiance.

A bland bedroom becomes a refuge

This Quincy home features a standalone, climate-controlled office or writer’s retreat.

For sale: Homes with standout spaces for folks who work from home

Five things to do in and around Boston, Jan. 24-30
Check out Grammy-winning a capella group Ladysmith Black Mambazo in Somerville, gaze at the Wolf Moon, and more.

Letters to the editor of the Globe Magazine

Essays on pandemic driving habits and Quebec’s Winter Carnival have readers sharing their observations.

Past Perspectives

What reformed extremists taught me about preventing another Capitol insurrection

2021 was so weird, that big UFO news totally went over our heads

We’re all feeling fine. We really are. Except we’re not.

Devin McCourty and Ruben DaSilva.

Devin McCourty and Tito SantosSilva: We have the ability to end gang violence in Boston now

January 9, 2022

It's been 50 years since the groundbreaking kids' show "Zoom" debuted on WGBH.

50 years ago, 'Zoom' took over TV with Ubbi Dubbi and that ZIP code song

An oral history of the first show for kids by kids, from nearly two dozen cast members and creators.

The untold story of roller-skating heroes who fought racism in Victorian-era Boston

Denied entry to a roller-skating rink in 1885 because of their race, Edward Everett Brown and George Freeman decided to take a stand.

January 2, 2022

The best photos of 2021 from Boston Globe photographers.

The 24 best photos of the year by Boston Globe photographers

The top 12 most popular Globe Magazine stories of 2021

December 26, 2021

Dave Barry looks back at the newsmakers of 2021.

Dave Barry’s 2021 Year in Review: A variant of 2020, so to speak

Jonathan Way plays with two coyotes he helped raise at the Stone Zoo in Stoneham in 2004.

This scientist bottle-fed and bayed with coyotes. Was he sidelined for loving them too much?

December 19, 2021

Immunlologist Kizzmekia Corbett and Boston's new mayor, Michelle Wu, on the cover of the Globe Magazine's 2021 Bostonians of the Year issue.

The 2021 Bostonians of the Year

Meet the pioneering scientist, the trailblazing mayor, and other standouts whose drive, ingenuity, and compassion are getting vaccines in arms and giving us a shot at a just future for all.

Recommended reads

The case of the Martha’s Vineyard heiress and the Florida psychic who took her for millions

Dan Shaughnessy presents Larry Bird with the Globe’s Jack Barry Award in April of 1984 at the Boston Garden.

The time Larry Bird hustled me out of $160, and other Celtics stories

Alia Cusolito, a sophomore at Old Rochester Regional High School in Mattapoisett.

‘A very scary thing to tell someone’: The debate over gender pronouns in schools, explained

A portrait of writer Jack Thomas at work in the Globe city room in 1979, taken by his colleague Stan Grossfeld.

I just learned I only have months to live. This is what I want to say

Special Projects

2021 Top Places to Work in Massachusetts

The Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts

Spotlight: 50 years of groundbreaking journalism

15 Spotlight investigations that made a big differenceExplore the special issue

Catch up on features you may have missed in 2021

Look back at the magazine's feature stories from 2020

Check out our 2019 archive to catch up on features you may have missed

The 2020 Top Places to Work in Mass.

The 2019 Top Places to Work in Mass.

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2021

Top Spots to Live: Boston NeighborhoodsTop Spots to Live: West of BostonTop Spots to Live: North of BostonTop Spots to Live: South of Boston

What are the top places around Greater Boston to buy a home?

What are the top places around Greater Boston to buy a home?

The Gratitude Issue

THANK YOU

To those striving to save lives. To those keeping us going. To those fighting for a better future.

Health care workers at St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford photographed as part of #thefrontstepsproject.

See the full list from the Gratitude Issue →

2020 Bostonians of the Year

2020 BOSTONIANS OF THE YEAR

The Front Line

The Front Line

In 2020, they stood up to fight the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice. Meet the people leading us through a harrowing year.

THE COVID SCIENTISTS

Stacey Gabriel and the Broad Institute, plus Galit Alter, Lindsey Baden, and Ashish Jha

THE SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCATES

Monica Cannon-Grant, Queen-Cheyenne Wade, Segun Idowu, and Sofia Meadows

SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCATES

THE COMMUNITY LEADERS

Gladys Vega and La Colaborativa

THE ESSENTIAL WORKERS

Health care workers, grocery store employees, delivery drivers, and so many more

ESSENTIAL WORKERS

THE HUNGER FIGHTERS

Erin McAleer and Project Bread

THE ROLE MODEL

Jaylen Brown, activist and athlete

2019 Bostonians of the Year

Andrew Lelling, the US attorney for Massachusetts, and Rachael Rollins, the Suffolk County district attorney.

Meet the 2019 Bostonians of the Year: Andrew Lelling and Rachael Rollins

From writing op-ed columns to messages on his sneakers, Celtics center Enes Kanter has been a voice of conscience in promoting freedom, no matter the cost.

The Celtics’ Enes Kanter stands tall for human rights

Samantha Savitz sits on her father Raphael’s lap, next to her mother, Glenda, as they and and more than two dozen
neighbors sign the word “friend.”

This neighborhood learned signed language for one little girl

From left: Economists Michael
Kremer, Esther Duflo, and Abhijit Banerjee developed methods
that changed the global fight against poverty.

These economists are finding new ways to fight global poverty