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June 18, 2023

Catherine T. Morris is is the founder and artistic director of Boston Arts & Music Soul Festival, better known as BAMS Fest.

‘It’s a seed I’m planting’: How Catherine Morris willed BAMS Fest into life

Now in its fifth year, the city’s festival of Black music and culture is not only persisting, it is expanding. Morris wouldn’t have it any other way.

Plus: Five must-see events and things to do at BAMS Fest 2023

The author fly fishes on Neponset Reservoir in Foxborough in April 2022.

My father and brother are gone. I hoped fishing could help me grieve.

On Neponset Reservoir in Foxborough, I return to the places we once fished and where the memories are still strong.

The latest advice

No one measures up to my former fiancée

This week's daters: Rebekah and Jonas

Blind date: ‘Her eyes stood out — they were a very deep blue’

How to handle awkward situations with an older relative who repeats herself

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This week's columns

Zoning in the Boston suburbs is stacked against families with children

Decisions based on hundreds of local zoning laws add up to a glaring injustice overdue for redress.

My father retired as an investigator. Then he began investigating our family tree.

Dad assigned himself an infinite case: tracing our family lineage.

Yogurt-Roasted Carrots With Warm Spices

Recipes: Make the most of local carrots in a soup, salad, or by roasting

This is a great time of year to take care of their sweeter, more aromatic flavor.

The blue-gray cabinetry “avoids the modern farmhouse cliche,” designer Jill Wheeler says.

Slate blue cabinets and a touch of gold give a kitchen a fresh feel

With the rest of their home decorated in neutral colors, the owners were open to using some color in the kitchen.

Your Week ahead
Five things to do around Boston, June 19-25
Celebrate the summer solstice, eat lots and lots of pizza, and more.

On the Block
For sale: Boston condos near popular playgrounds
With favorite playgrounds nearby, these units in Roslindale and Fort Point are well located for fatherly fun.

CommentsLetters to the editor of the Globe Magazine
Readers share their picks for road-trip worthy food and share appreciation for a story about the Aleutian Islands and more.

Past Perspectives

A home health aide steadies her client as he exercises at home.

Finding a home health aide to care for sick loved ones shouldn’t be this hard. (Not here.)

We need to better regulate our banks. Even the father of capitalism thought so.

I spent $900 on Taylor Swift tickets and won’t even get inside Gillette

Everyone has pandemic amnesia. But we’re not ready for the next big one.

June 11, 2023 | Your Home: Summer Living

The owners recently screened in the covered porch at the back of the home.

After renting a designer’s Vermont vacation home, they decided to buy their own

Designer Jess Cooney jumps off the dock behind her house, newly stained dark green to blend with the trees, on Lake Garfield in the Berkshires.

Floor-to-ceiling windows with a lake view persuade a designer to rehab a Berkshires home

Dark green Blu Dot chairs add color to the screened porch.

A widower builds a net-zero home in Maine to gather with his grown children

June 4, 2023

I went searching for a relative who escaped the Holocaust. I found a secret some want to forget.

My decades-long quest to find the lone survivor of a massacre that wiped out a branch of our Jewish family in Poland — and the hidden truth about the killers. By Judy Rakowsky

Thomas, the moray eel.

What it’s like to dive in the New England Aquarium’s giant tank (watch out for Thomas the eel)

I’ve always wondered what it would be like to dive inside the Giant Ocean Tank. Finally I got to find out.

May 21, 2023

The French King Bridge, opened in 1932, spans the Connecticut River between Erving and Gill.

This bridge needed lifesaving barriers. It took a grieving mother to get them.

The author with his older sister and grandfather, who are wearing hanbok, traditional Korean clothing, on New Year’s Day in 1984.

I struggled with my Korean-American name. Now I realize it was a gift.

Recommended reads

Smugglers dumped millions in drugs off Maine’s coast. Struggling fishermen saw a jackpot.

The fishermen called the illicit haul “sea hash.” But what would they do with it?

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

A colorful illustration of some popular foods of summer. From left to right: a lobster, a soft serve ice cream cone, a cup of Del's frozen lemonade, a hotdog and a cheeseburger.

24 perfect foods worth a New England road trip this summer

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

Did you miss any 2022 features? Explore our story archive.

Catch up on features you may have missed in 2021

Look back at the magazine's feature stories from 2020

A collage of historic front pages from The Boston Globe from over its 150 year history.

150 years of The Boston Globe

We're marking the Globe's 150th year with a look back through 15 decades of coverage. Explore 150 of the most significant front pages, revisit classic sports moments, try a crossword from 1917, and more.

Special Projects

Meet the most influential people in Greater Boston’s tech industry

The Boston Globe’s second annual Tech Power Players list tells the story of New England innovation in a challenging economic climate.

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston 2023

A guide to 36 communities where home buyers are flocking — and prices are surging.

Bostonian of the Year 2022

In the face of the ugliest adversity, legendary Celtic Bill Russell fought for and lived a beautiful life for himself and for us. A champion of basketball and human rights, Bill Russell is the 2022 Bostonian of the Year. Read six tributes to No. 6.

Find out who received an Honorable Mention, and explore the full special issue.

The 2022 Top Places to Work in Massachusetts

After a couple of long, weird years, companies are pulling out all the stops to keep employees happy.

An in-camera double-exposure photograph of Kate Price overlaid with the woods of a Pennsylvania rest area, where she remembers being taken as a child.

Kate Price remembers something terrible

An authority on child sex trafficking, she spent decades trying to understand whether the unthinkable happened to her, too.

Women & Power 2022

The Women’s Edge and Globe Magazine celebrate the state’s leading companies and nonprofits run by women.

Tyrone Anthony Figueroa teaching at East Boston High School.

My NFL dream didn’t pan out. But now that I’m a teacher and coach, I know I’ve ‘made it.’