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2023 Feature Archive

March 19, 2023 | Spring Travel

London's Elizabeth Tower, also known as Big Ben.

How to get the most out of a visit to London, before the coronation crowds take over

Practicing a yoga pose by the Stockbridge Bowl, which is also called Lake Mahkeenac.

Learning to relax at the Kripalu retreat in the Berkshires

The town of Myrina, capital of Lemnos island.

Looking for a gorgeous Greek island you can actually afford to visit?

There’s an easy way to retrain the nasty internal voice telling you you’re not good enough

To stay safe on bike trips, we rely on planning and our guardian angels

March 12, 2023 | Spring Arts Preview

Clockwise from top left: A photograph from the Todd Webb in Africa exhibition; Jamez McCorkle in "Omar"; Simone Leigh’s Cupboard IX; a scene from Justin Peck's ballet "Everywhere We Go"; and The Great Mystery by Kent Monkman.

30 of the best dance, theater, book, art, and classical music events in New England this spring

James Tellin and John O’Reilly in a 2017 photograph by Seth David Rubin.

In the ’60s, a gay couple made their Worcester home into a refuge of art and community

An illustration of the Oscar statuette lying on a therapist's couch with a male therapist, with glasses, a balding head, and a black moustache, sitting on a chair behind the statuette's right shoulder taking notes. The illustration is on a white background and the color palette for the drawing is gold, a dark red, and black.

After a bruising 2022 Academy Awards, Oscar could use some professional advice

Front view Oscar award statue isolated on white background. 3D illustration. The base of the statue has been altered to say "Consolation Prize."

Why I reserve special, ornery ire for the ‘we owe you’ Oscar nomination

The writer and two of her Gotland sheep in Western Massachusetts.

Would my new sheep have any wool? Yes sir, three bags full!

March 5, 2023

An alleged drug trafficker, a detective trying to take him down, and the woman caught in the middle

The strange story of the man behind the popularization of ‘resilience thinking’

Pigs on a farm in Illinois.

The thing that could finally get us to eat less meat is — meat

My first meeting with Afghan women when I was deployed with the Air Force gave me hope

February 26, 2023 | Health & Biotech Issue

Health & Biotech

12 conditions from Alzheimer’s to Lyme that Mass. biotechs are developing treatments for now

Dr. Anthony Fauci retired as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the end of 2022.

Why Dr. Anthony Fauci, recently retired, will never retire

Illustration of a female scientist wearing a white lab coat walking toward a double-helix.

Why are we more likely to call men ‘geniuses’?

The writer (left) with his father, Dr. Lionel Zheutlin, and brother, Mike, circa 1958.

When cancer forced my pediatrician dad to close his practice, hundreds of letters followed

February 19, 2023 | Your Home

To help make this bedroom feel like a cozy escape, Heidi Lachapelle lined it in Wandle wallpaper. When Morris designed the pattern in 1884, it would have required 32 blocks to print it.

Designed in the 1800s, William Morris wallpaper is once again on trend — in a big way

A Currey & Co. chandelier hangs in the music room, which opens to a space with reproduction Friedeberg hand chairs.

He likes angles in furniture. She likes curves. Their interior designer gave them both.

A built-in hutch with a countertop hides the microwave and coffee maker.

With a serene Maine lake setting for a cottage, a designer finds inspiration all around

Lee Jofa wallpaper panels by Aerin lend a romantic garden feel to the wife’s office.

A formal center-hall Colonial gets a homey makeover

Marion Westermeyer (pictured in 2006) was a daily swimmer well into his 90s.

When it comes to aging, 90-plus or even 100 might not be ‘extreme’ anymore

The continuing adventures of Wilbur, the dog who loves hot dogs

February 12, 2023

Coretta Scott King kisses Martin Luther King Jr. as he leaves court in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956.

When Martin met Coretta in Boston, he found his match in more ways than one

Visitors to "The Embrace" on the last weekend of January.

The Twitterverse had its say about ‘The Embrace.’ Here’s what real visitors think.

Martin Luther King III and wife Arndrea Waters King carrying on a legacy of Black love.

A legacy of love, faith, and family: Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King

Black Love is a Beautiful Resistance

The beautiful resistance of Black love

We’ve heard a lot about ‘commitment’ to DEI. Where’s the follow-through?

An illustration of a bride and groom on a watch face. There is a light purple strip that runs underneath the watch face like a watch strap.

As a first-time bride at age 53, I knew my husband and I were starting our ‘forever’ late

February 5, 2023 | The Parenting Issue

In the irresistible competition to be the favorite grandparent, all bets are off

We’re too tired to be helicopter parents. Our kids will be happier for it.

The secret talent of kids who swear

My son once taught me a lesson about fatherhood. Here it is, comic-book style.

Breast-feeding and Black moms — why I’m breaking a generational cycle

Now that it’s ending, I can admit it: I loved carpooling my kids

January 29, 2023

Roomba, SharkNinja, and the $3 billion battle of the robot vacuums

Looking down at Crawford Notch from Mount Willard.

Why do hikers keep dying in the White Mountains of New Hampshire?

Carter G. Woodson.

The visionary thinking behind Black History Month

My dad was in and out of my life, until I had a health scare

January 15, 2023

A photo illustration of a large bear standing over a large pile of trash in a landfill.

The big stink: How a proposed landfill is roiling a tiny New Hampshire town

Denied a state job because she was Black, she took a stand. And became a hero.

What I didn’t know about having a miscarriage

Step-grandparenting can be bittersweet — and beautiful

January 8, 2023

In 1848, an enslaved couple fled to Boston in one of history’s most daring escapes

Dr. Jim O’Connell checks on a homeless person on the grounds of the Old West Church in 2017.

‘If you want to solve homelessness in Boston, you’ve got to take a look at the real estate market’

We can fix the housing crisis. But we have to act now.

Charles Fessenden “Fez” Morse III, the writer’s father-in-law, at age 90, near Swan’s Island in Maine.

My father-in-law recently turned 100. His life has been quietly extraordinary.

January 1, 2023

The 23 best photos of 2022 from Boston Globe photographers

Here’s a New Year’s resolution: Stop giving unsolicited advice. Especially to parents.

In Sterling in 1975, the writer (middle) on horseback with her brother, Jimmy, in back and her sister, Jodi, in front as a family friend holds the reins.

My brother was many things to me: hero, rival, co-conspirator, keeper of our shared history

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