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January 2009
Cover Story
The 50 Best Restaurants
Ranked like you've never seen restaurants ranked before.
Amy Traverso & Jolyon Helterman
 

Forecast: January

The month in preview.
 
 

Going Once! Going Twice! Going… for the First Time?

The Enlightened Auction-Goer: The top local sales, first-timer strategies, and how to turn your junk into someone else's treasure.
Rachel Levitt
 

The Consumer Index

What the Connoisseur staff is buying, wearing, eating, watching, reading, coveting, craving, fetishizing, and otherwise obsessing over this month.*
 
 

The Haunt: Where Everybody Knows Your Byline

Joe Keohane raises a glass to the South End's J.J. Foley's.
Joe Keohane
 

Genius, Explained: Masterpieces-by-the-Numbers

Mass MoCA's epic Sol LeWitt show pays tribute to the art of delegation.
Matthew Reed Baker
 
 

Maven: Esther Nelson, Medieval Maestro

The Boston Lyric Opera's new chief knows from Mozart and Puccini. She's also a part-time expert on Teutonic culture. (Having...
Brittany Jasnoff
 

Omnivore

Learning To Sing (More or Less) Online
Matthew Reed Baker
 
 
 
 

The Schwartz Factor: Donny Marshall

The new C's color man educates Jason Schwartz on the difference between Tommy Points and the Marshall Plan.
Jason Schwartz
 
 
 

Making Pictures

Boston photographer John Goodman has earned a national reputation with his striking, revelatory portraits. In this portfolio of highlights spanning...
Rebecca G. Dorr
 
 

A Question of the Art

With the city's graffiti artists targeted for extinction, beauty is in the eye of the Bostonian.


Jason Schwartz, Photos by Lisa...
 

Record Hype

A Harvard-bred band hits it big...while barely playing a note.


Lauren Nikodemos
 
 
 
 
 
January 2009
Cover: The 50 Best Restaurants
December 2008
Cover: Top Docs 2008: The Enlightened Patient
November 2008
Cover: The Food Fanatic's Shopping Guide
October 2008
Cover: The Envy Issue
 
Boston Buzzworthy

Best of Boston® Party Pics

See online party pics from the following Best of Boston® events: North, South, West, Dining, and Style.
 
 
 
 

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