The Heights

Parklets: It’s Time to Share Your Space

Madeleine D’Angelo • August 31, 2016

And just as forgetting a foreign language occurs almost immediately once you stop speaking it, forgetting how to compromise with people you live with (but aren’t related to) happens all too quickly. Or, at least, it’s something that I forget.

Let Them Eat Cake: Lady M Brings Elegance to Newbury Street

Madeleine D’Angelo • August 31, 2016

Made famous by their hand-crafted mille crepe cakes, Lady M Cakes opened their first Boston location on Newbury Street early last June.

Experimental Pop-up Plaza Springs Up In Downtown Crossing

Madeleine D’Angelo • August 31, 2016

From 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., temporary planters and fencing extended the sidewalk, allowing city officials to fill the new space with tables, chairs, and umbrellas available to any passerby.

Agoro’s to Replace Roggie’s in Cleveland Circle

Joanna Yuelys • August 31, 2016

“We’re food-driven first,” Dimitrios said. “We care about making people happy and if the food is great everything else will follow suit.”

Harvard and MIT Alumni Open Coffee Shop, Workspace in Kendall Square

Keaton Beams • August 31, 2016

Although home might sound like the ideal office, working from home is often lonely, demotivating, and distracting. Actual offices, on the other hand, can be demoralizing and expensive, while good workspaces, like coffee shops, are nearly impossible to find consistently in cities.

How Boston Has Become a Real Soccer City

Juan Olavarria • August 31, 2016

When we say the words 'Boston sports,' they mean one thing: the Sox and their historic ground, Fenway Park. At least, that’s how it used to be.

Walk it Out: The Extra Effort is Worth the Benefits

Juan Olavarria • May 5, 2016

I tried the method on a whim. I was sitting in a café by one of the canals in Venice, Italy, when I got the idea. I got up from my seat, looked around where I was standing and began spinning. I’m sure there were many who thought I had lost my mind at that exact moment, but that’s beside the point. I picked a direction and began walking.

Finding Spring in the City: The Blooming of the Pom-pom Tree

Madeleine D’Angelo • May 4, 2016

Some big and others rather small, the pom-poms were all the colors of the rainbow and then some. Each one of them stood out vividly against the dull Boston sky, creating pops of color and contrast within the still bare and stick-like branches of the tree.