The Boston Globe Magazine | October 29, 2017

Illustration by Gail Anderson and Joe Newton for The Boston Globe

Women & Power

The 2017 top 100 women-led businesses in Massachusetts

The Commonwealth Institute and the Globe Magazine partner to name the most noteworthy companies and nonprofits helmed by women.

Boston Rocks

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/06/15/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/xref0611cover.jpg When Boston rocked

Take a tour of your youth with this ode to the gritty clubs, home-grown talent, and visiting acts that made Boston’s music scene so mesmerizing in the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s.

North End guide

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/20/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/northend0129web_lede.jpg Where to eat and what to order in Boston’s North End

15 of the neighborhood’s best restaurants, from elegant hideaways to buzzy trattorias to (lots of) incredible pizza.

Airport security

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/12/01/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/OpeningImage1211TSA.jpg Do airport security lines have to be so awful? A rare look inside TSA.

With a history of dysfunction and new calls to privatize, can the agency’s big plans to make airport security less miserable get off the ground?

College & Money

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/05/03/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/opener0522collegedebt.jpg The college debt crisis is even worse than you think

We tell students they need a bachelor’s degree to get ahead. But for too many, the numbers no longer add up.

Anti-immigration

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/01/18/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/07102010_711oped_loth2-7651819.jpg Trump’s anti-immigration playbook was written 100 years ago. In Boston.

How a trio of Harvard-educated blue bloods led a crusade to keep the “undesirables” out and make America great again.

Love Letters

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/24/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/Meredith_Goldstein_NewLogo.jpg He ignored me for a day, and I may have overreacted

She responded to his silence with some immature breakup texts. Is there any coming back from it?

Dinner With Cupid

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/24/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/102917cupid.jpg Blind date: ‘I immediately thought, “Yep. She’s way out of my league” ’

Will these daters fly high or crash and burn?

Miss Conduct

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/27/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/vaca-2893.jpg Advice: His mother is tagging along on their honeymoon

The husband-to-be doesn’t object. How can a poor bride save her romantic getaway?

Miss Conduct

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/23/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/miss%20conduct-2840.jpg Advice: Should I call out an old friend for insulting my kid?

He made a stupid comment that hurt my daughter’s feelings. And now I have to decide whether to confront him.

Cooking | Magazine

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/27/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/web1029cooking.jpg Recipes for rustic, hearty Italian soups

Skip the candy corn and warm up with a traditional northern Italian dish that combines pork and chickpeas.

Style Watch

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/23/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/_J7A3194%20(1).jpg Hand-painted fabric brings quiet tranquility to a master bedroom

In a Wellesley home, creamy color and refined details lend a serene feel.

On the Block

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/23/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/DSC_0326.jpg For sale: homes with window seats

Curl up with a book in these built-in nooks.

Kevin Whipple

Connections | Magazine

Sharing the parenting spotlight

My husband is the “good cop” with our daughters, and that’s not fair — to me or him.

Your Week Ahead

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/10/23/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/GettyImages-517623176.jpg Five things to do, Oct. 30-Nov. 5

Janet Jackson at the TD Garden, “Peter and the Wolf” at Symphony Hall, cheese in Somerville, and more.

Comments

Letters to the editor of the Globe Magazine

Readers weigh in on our education issue, a noisy Miss Conduct, and more.

Game Changers

Special section | Game Changers

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2017/05/11/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/gamechangershoriz-6383.jpg 51 bright ideas and breakthroughs for 2017

In a revolutionary place like Boston, innovators and innovations are as common as bad drivers. See who made our annual list.

Special section

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/11/18/BostonGlobe.com/Magazine/Images/WORK%20CROP.jpg 2016 Top Places to Work

Read the full list of winners and more stories about worker happiness.

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