In 2010, we asked Tom and Ray Magliozzi, NPR’s popular “Click & Clack, the Tappet Brothers”… After all these years, how do you keep yourselves inspired?
boston
View Susan Cole Kelly’s slide show on YankeeMagazine.com/! Foliage season is more than half over, and the color is slowly migrating from northern to southern New England. The maples turned golden early enough so that there was a buzz about an early season, but it just didn’t happen. This year’s warm weather continued into October, […]
Yankee
Boston’s Best
Boston tends to have an inferiority complex when it comes to art. One of the world’s great college towns, it’s a great place to learn to be an artist, but not always a great place to pursue a career in art, existing as it does in the long shadow of New York City, one of […]
New England
Tour Boston on a Bike with Urban AdvenTours
Back in 2004, Andrew Prescott decided to stop working as an accountant. He founded Urban AdvenTours, a Boston bike tour company. Today, Urban AdvenTours, located in Boston’s North End near the New England Aquarium and Faneuil Hall, operates a full-service bike shop with bike rentals for all ages, and hosts a myriad of themed bike […]
Maine
Maine Modern
Carol A. Wilson is the only architect in Maine who is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. She is also the state’s finest practitioner and proselytizer of “modern” architecture, that much bandied about term that sometimes refers to the current and contemporary but actually has more to do with style than time. In […]
SLIDESHOW: Wellesley’s Luminary Night As a child growing up in Darien, Connecticut, Carrie McGraw learned the value of a tight-knit community, especially when the holidays rolled around.That was when her hometown, and several others surrounding it, came together for “Luminary Night,” an event that saw thousands of homeowners line their driveways and yards with glowing […]
Okay, I’ll admit it. I know nothing about Japanese anime (animated films) and manga (comics). And I know even less about their influence on contemporary American art. I’m guessing a lot of New England art lovers are in the same boat. That’s why I’m so impressed that the pioneering Portsmouth Museum of Art has seen […]
For me, listening to music is a live-out-loud experience. That’s why my iPod often sits idle, gathering dust and losing its charge. I usually forgo its technical isolation, preferring instead to turn the knob, sink into a chair, and assume the full weight of music with my whole being. At times it pours out heavy […]
Cooking Advice
Gourmet Kitchen Supplies | New England’s Finest
Stock up on artisan-crafted kitchen basics and gourmet staples. 1. You could use this family-size cherrywood salad bowl ($79) every night and it would still last a lifetime; mini wooden bowls (set of four $12) have endless practical uses. New Hampshire Bowl and Board, Contoocook, NH. 603-648-9566; newhampshirebowlandboard.com 2. Pewter fruit-blossom measuring spoons ($48) by […]
Desserts
Best 5: Holiday Pies
When you need a rest from holiday cooking, why not buy a homemade pie? These five New England bakeries make all their pies from scratch. No matter how you slice it, there’s sweet satisfaction here. We asked Victoria Abbott Riccardi, a Boston-based food, travel, and nutrition writer and author of Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary […]
Magazine
Santa’s Home | Mary’s Farm
Downstairs in the farmhouse here, I have a small furnished apartment that I sometimes rent out. Last year I rented it to Santa. A portly man in his fifties, he was serious about this Santa business. No fake beard and rented suit for him. He had a full, bushy, pure-white beard that flowed to his […]
I love to bike in the fall. Just last weekend, I spent a day in Vermont, and from atop my bike, from one rolling hill to another, I saw real life versions of Sabra Field’s prints. Imagine spending a couple days or more biking through Vermont, with overnight stays at lovely inns. Richard First, founder […]