Retail

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Small Business

BOStoday’s 2025 holiday gift guide: 90+ finds for everyone you love

Including gifts for significant others, retirees, holiday parties, young people, and gifts that ship fast.

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City

🚒 Place your bid on a 2001 firetruck

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Fitness

Flow at these Boston yoga studios

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October 6, 2023

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Food

Boston Public Market’s new vendor is fresh out of the oven

Hearth & Hug Bakery will be serving fresh pastries, cakes, and breads this month.

September 26, 2023

Jessica Burton

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Culture

Your guide to 48 hours in the Witch City

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Business

How to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day around Boston

📚 We rounded up four local book events to attend on Independent Bookstore Day (Saturday, April 29).

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City

Fastest growing companies in Boston

Meet some of the 2023 fastest growing local companies in Boston featured on Inc. 5000’s list.

August 16, 2023

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Culture

Mobiles businesses are on a roll around Boston

These local businesses are making moves around our city. We’re rounding up some wheel-y cool ones.

August 2, 2023

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A rendering of the future grand staircase in the Fenway Corners development.

City

BPDA to play ball with Fenway Corners development

This new development will bring eight new buildings to the historic Fenway neighborhood.

July 14, 2023

Jessica Burton

City

West Roxbury Centre Street’s road diet

The City of Boston’s Complete Streets program will focus on improving pedestrian and bicyclist safety with a new road diet design.

July 6, 2023

Jessica Burton

The exterior of the new More Than Words Mobile bookstore.

Business

More Than Words is more than a bookshop

More Than Words is debuting a mobile book shop to attend more community events around Boston.

May 15, 2023

Jessica Burton

The Buy

Seasonal

This holiday gift will actually get use + it’s $15

December 12, 2025
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The Buy

Simultaneously invest in your health and wardrobe with this smart ring

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The Buy

Learning guitar doesn’t have to feel overwhelming

December 11, 2025
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