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A close-up illustration of a man's face partially obscured by a chessboard pattern. The man wears round glasses and holds a pencil near his mouth. The chessboard squares are in shades of light and dark wood, with chess pawn pieces depicted along the top row.
Arts & Entertainment

A Chess Cheating Scandal, Emma Stone, and My Next Book

It began, as it usually did, as an unsettling feeling in the pit of my stomach. Not painful, really, but vaguely unpleasant—as though something was […]

Life & Style

Remembering Boston Fashion Icon Doris Yaffe

“You don’t know what you’re talking about; I was in fashion for 37 years.” With that, Doris Yaffe would settle an argument with me and […]

Arts & Entertainment

Meet the People Who Make Boston Movies Happen

Angela Peri and Lisa Lobel Casting directors and co-owners, Boston Casting Who they are: Peri, a Cambridge native, founded New England’s largest casting agency in […]