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Truth: Boston doesn’t have just one award-worthy bagel place, it has six. We know because we’ve eaten a lot of bagels. And noodles. And pizza. And we’ve gone to soccer bars, festivals, specialty ...

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T here will come a day, likely very soon, when baseball’s new automated ball-strike challenge system will decide the outcome of a game and purists will bemoan the rise of robot umpires. Don’t worry, ...

T he late-morning sun was already high and hot over the brownstones in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood when a sleek bus pulled to a stop at a mostly deserted street corner. Five dozen people emerged ...

As she kicks off her campaign for re-election, Governor Maura Healey on Thursday delivered her annual state of the Commonwealth address. Speaking from the State House, Healey outlined her priorities ...

Folded into an Adirondack chair too small for his 6 foot, 6 inch frame, Jackson Dawson gazed across Sarasota Bay, a century-old marble mansion at his back. Life at New College of Florida has been good ...

A lexa Arena, a 35-year-old college-educated professional, moved in with her parents to save on rent. Though she works full time, the classic trappings of a middle-class life — the kind she had ...

Yes, those parking lots sat on filled-in mud flats just barely above sea level. Even in the 1980s, there were worries about storms and floods and melting ice caps, but the effects seemed far in the ...

I t was time for school, and the road to get there was underwater. Ryan Murphy’s wife, Eva, called him from the car. She and their then-7-year-old son had been stuck on Morrissey Boulevard for over an ...