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July 14, 2019

Globe Magazine

Sharks on Cape Cod: Just how scared should we be?

The odds of an attack are low, experts say, yet their advice today is not to go into the ocean above your waist. Are our carefree swimming days over? By Neil Swidey
What to do if you spot a shark: Answers to 6 safety questions
Perspective

Come on Boston, let’s pick up the pace on building bike lanes

The city has a good vision for creating safer commutes for bicyclists, but it’s been vexingly slow to build them.
photo finish

Scenes from the last weekend of horse racing at Suffolk Downs

The Globe's Stan Grossfeld captures the last days of live racing at the storied East Boston track.
Love Letters

She asked for my number 10 days ago — but hasn’t used it

Miss Conduct

Does this boyfriend make me look fat?

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do in and around Boston, July 15-21

On the Block

For sale: Homes with a French accent in Lynn and Dorchester

Comments

Letters to the editor of the Boston Globe Magazine

Connections

After a bad breakup, I skipped dating apps and downloaded Petfinder

My bruised heart needed unconditional love. I found it on my phone, but not quite where I expected.
Dinner With Cupid

Blind date: ‘I appreciated her asking if the 10-year age difference bothered me’

Cooking

Recipes: Three new ways to love grains

Style Watch

A designer new to Boston makes the most of a small rental in an old church

July 7, 2019

Cover story

15 things to love and 11 things to loathe about Boston

Magazine

Learning to love the world’s ugliest building

Perspective

Could private buses solve Boston's nightmarish commutes?


Top stories on BostonGlobe.com

  1. Gerry Callahan’s ouster finally gives WEEI a face lift
  2. ‘I am my dog’s emotional support animal’
  3. The long, sordid history behind Trump’s ‘go back’ to your country comments
  4. 13 thoughts about the Celtics’ summer league run
  5. Chappaquiddick at 50: Ted Kennedy’s long life in public service was a privilege of different times
  6. Class-action suit alleges Encore Boston Harbor cheats gamblers
  7. Encore Boston Harbor took in $16.9 million in gaming revenue during opening week
  8. Red Sox slug their way past Blue Jays
  9. Riding along on Sam Mewis’s whirlwind World Cup victory tour
  10. Burned out? You’re not alone. And the world is finally paying attention
Losing Laura

Help was just a few feet away

How could a woman be left to die outside an emergency room?
Globe Magazine

The 37 best new restaurants in Boston and the suburbs

Dozens of inventive new spots to try, including fast-casual and top picks north, west, and south of the city.
Top Spots to Live

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

The 16 communities seeing the biggest leaps in house prices north, south, and west of Boston, plus in the city itself.

Top spots to live 2019: Boston neighborhoods

I’m from the North Shore and moved to a foreign land: the South Shore

Top spots to live 2019: South of Boston

Top spots to live 2019: West of Boston

Top spots to live 2019: North of Boston

Five tips for first-time home buyers in the Boston area

June 23, 2019

Alex & Leo Update

This boy came to Boston for healing. You won’t believe his life now

Decision reached on asylum request by burn vicitm's guardian
zombie buildings

Why have these buildings sat empty for years and even decades?

A golf fanatic picks the 18 best holes to play in New England

Your Home | Summer Living

On the coast of Maine, designing a casual, livable place to retire

A Maine lake house gives three generations both togetherness and privacy

Trees made them fall in love with this house in Milton

Millennials decorate their Newport home with a touch of beachy glam

June 16, 2019 | Your Money

The 7 stupidest things we do with money

Rich or poor, people tend to make the same money-wasting errors again and again. It doesn’t have to be that way.

Meet the extreme savers, on a mission to retire early

When should kids learn to manage their own money?

How to turn your hobby into a side hustle

A cartoonist envisions the next recession

June 9, 2019

cover story

Can a year-round arts scene and a giant model train museum save Western Mass.?

How Fenway Park’s chief groundskeeper overcame PTSD after two freak accidents

In the age of Uber and Snapchat, how do you get teens excited to drive?

June 2, 2019

2019 Weekend Fun Guide

The 34 best ways to enjoy your summer weekends

2019 Weekend Fun Guide

Ten great ice cream shops to try this summer

2019 Weekend Fun Guide

Five things to do around New England any old time

2018 Bostonians of the Year

Meet the 2018 Bostonians of the Year: Ayanna Pressley and Alex Cora

The flutist who sued the Boston Symphony Orchestra for equal pay

The teenager who leads the local fight for gun law reforms

Best-selling author Celeste Ng speaks out on sexual harassment and racism

Aly Raisman isn’t done fighting for sexual assault survivors

The ordinary people who rushed to help when catastrophe struck the Merrimack Valley

The scientists who helped build the basis for immunotherapy

The Massachusetts politicians who actually got something big done: Paid family leave

Ayanna Pressley: ‘The American people are looking for us to act and to be bold’

Alex Cora talks about his dad’s influence, and the pivotal moment in the World Series

2018 Women & Power

10 of Massachusetts’ top women executives share their tips for success

The 2018 Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts

5 ways to erase the gender gap at work

How the 2017 Women’s March woke ‘the old girls’ network’

How to be a good male colleague in the age of #MeToo

How female breadwinners (really) make it work

Why women fall into the negative feedback trap

The bottom line on women in the corner office