January 2015 Issue
The Top 12 Spa Escapes in New England
From historical properties to contemporary seaside escapes, New England has no shortage of resorts with first-rate spas.
Feature
Ioannis Miaoulis Wants to Get You Hooked on Science
(But first he wants to cook you dinner.)
Boston Isn’t Strong. Boston Is Scared Sh*tless.
So says journalist Russ Baker, who thinks we’ve got the marathon bombings all wrong.
Department
Would You Let This Boy Play Football?
With all the news about concussions and football, I assumed I’d never let my kids play. But when they finally asked, saying no was harder than I’d thought.
The End of the Anthropocene
What do you do when you’re over 80 and still at the top of your game?
Fashion + Style
Singular Sensations
Rock the season’s asymmetrical-earring trend with these major statement pieces.
To the Manor Born
This 1897 Fisher Hill manse, straight out of the English Renaissance, just came on the market.
Neighborhood Watch: Beacon Hill
Charles Street continues to draw some of the city’s best boutiques.
Restaurants
New Year, New Booze
Here’s a cartload of ways to get your buzz on while lowering your carbon footprint.
Small Bite: Chef Chang’s on Back Bay
It’s a bit of cognitive dissonance to dine on, but it’s a quirk that only makes the place more charming.
Dining Out: Bastille Kitchen
Mistral’s Seth Greenberg strikes again with a Fort Point brasserie that’s a stunning, ambitious, and often uneven ride.
First Bite: Liquid Art House
It’s all about appearances at this Back Bay restaurant-gallery hybrid.
Pay to Play?
To manage the cost of canceled reservations, high-end restaurants are asking diners to pony up in advance.
The Maine Idea
The groundbreaking Portland restaurant Vinland remains entirely locally sourced—even in the dead of winter.
Family Ties
Sally Ling’s specialized in white-tablecloth, banquet-style fare, Dumpling Daughter focuses on the “classic, Chinese comfort home food”.
News
Clean Living
A new Charlestown real estate development was designed to solve a few problems you didn’t know you had.
The GOP’s Charlie Card
We just might be in for a genuine resurgence of the Massachusetts Republican Party.
The Cannabis Connection
This month, the first Boston marijuana exhibition aims to help the medical marijuana system.
The Power of Ideas: Hashim Sarkis
The new dean of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning wants to find new ways to talk about urban space.
Health
Nine Healthier Resolutions That’ll Stick
We pored over a plethora of local studies to pinpoint the lifestyle habits that will make us happier all year long.
Arts + Entertainment
