July 2004

Marathon in Boston

Business Casual

Boston has a lot going for it: 400-plus years of history; a comprehensive and well-funded public transit system; a vibrant downtown; an all-but-completed $14-billion-plus construction project called the Big Dig; and a whole neighborhood full of great Italian restaurants.

Susan Percy

Published: July 2004

Our Towns, Our State

When we prepare our economic development stories, our writers ask two questions: "What are your problems?" and "What are you doing about them?"

Neely Young

Published: July 2004

Bischero: Italian Classic

Art of the Meal

You know something's up when a restaurant inspires passionate debate. But the polarized responses to Athens' eight-month-old Bischero are as extreme as a presidential poll: "It's fantaaaastic," one friend reported, with the languid drawl of the willingly seduced. "I hate that place!" another acquaintance shot back in clipped bullets.

Krista Reese

Published: July 2004