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Take That, ChatGPT!
“God help you, you’re a writer.” This is what my cousin, Richard Frede, told me long ago. Richard was a successful novelist. His book, The […]
Boston Deserves Better than Fenway Park. Sorry Not Sorry.
The end of this month will be Opening Day at Fenway Park, a time of big hopes and slight delusions. It’s when we act as […]
The Interview: Black Economic Council of Massachusetts Head Nicole Obi
Armed with a pair of degrees from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Nicole Obi burst onto Boston’s business scene as a serial entrepreneur, founding and […]
The Real, Essential Backstory of ‘the Embrace’
The ceremony that took place before the monument to Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, was revealed had all the hallmarks […]
Boston Beer Innovator Rhonda Kallman Brings Her Craft Brew Experience to Liquor
You would think Rhonda Kallman had hit the height of her career after founding Boston Beer Company with James Koch in 1984, but in fact, […]
Inside the New SoWa Art + Design Center in the South End
Boston’s SoWa district is known for the scores of artist studios and galleries that fill its former factories, not to mention weekly markets that draw […]
The Case Against Trying To ‘Have It All’
Walt Disney once said that if you can visualize it and if you can dream it, there’s a way to do it. Yet this was […]
What the Boston Athenaeum’s $17 Million Renovation Looks Like
The Boston Athenaeum isn’t the inner sanctum you may think it is—although it did start out that way. Among the nation’s largest independent membership libraries […]
A Former Lenox Days Inn Is Now a Modern Lodge-Like Hotel
Set in the rolling Berkshire Hills of the westernmost part of Massachusetts, Life House, Berkshires occupies a former Days Inn constructed in the 1970s that […]
The Battle for New Hampshire’s Gunstock Mountain Resort
“Wow,” I said. I was reading the Laconia Daily Sun one day last July when our family was visiting with my sister’s brood at their […]