boston globe magazine
July 5, 2009

Editor's Note

The Globe Magazine will not publish July Fourth weekend. But please look for us when we return on July 12, as we're excited to bring you our annual Green Issue. This time, we're focusing on water –- you'll learn, for example, surprising ways you can conserve it at home and important details about the safety of tap water and seafood. As always, thank you for reading.
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The food issue

Food finds

Tasty, satisfying, fun, yummy, surprising, finger-licking, scrumptious, enticing nearby treasures.
Looking for a few good men

Looking for a few good men

"Dinner with Cupid," our popular new dating column, is seeking men for free dates. Apply now!

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Issue highlights

coupling: stories about relationships

Can you hear me now?

Yes, I love my wife, but my female pen pal in the Midwest has become the sounding board I need.
dinner with cupid

Blue crush?

He's into scuba. She likes to surf. Where will the waves take them?
miss conduct's ettiquette column

Dinner plate tectonics

Addressing eruptions over overeager busboys, plus mooching in-laws.
pierced column

A little dig

The North End's $300,000 toilet.
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A taste of things to come

A taste of things to come

Cheaper, simpler, homier, fresher. The new breed of Boston restaurant has nothing to do with status and everything to do with what's growing in our backyard.
A bitter reality
Perspective

A bitter reality

Choose local food for the taste? Sure. But if you're convinced you're saving the world, think again.
chocolate and cherry
Cooking

Double yum

There's nothing quite like the sophisticated taste of cherries with chocolate.

More in this issue

First Person
Teen dreams
With her third indie film, Still Green, now in limited release, local producer Andrea Ajemian, 33, has high hopes that her fourth, We Got the Beat, will open wide.
On the Block
Oh say can you see...
These condos offer a perch to view Boston's July Fourth fireworks.
Tales from the City
The picture of bliss
A tourist asks a reader to snap a photo while he proposes to his girlfriend.
Fashion Snapshot
Get your kicks
Men's sneakers go high-style.
Kitchen Aide
Juice in your eye
How to pick the right cherry pitter.
Designing
Top of the rock
A Martha's Vineyard home has Caribbean flavor and views for miles.
Parenting Traps
Why is this mom naked?
Can a clothing-optional policy teach her young girls to be comfortable as women?
Letters to the magazine editor
Readers weigh in on buying American.

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Best of the new 2009

Best of the new 2009

Here's to 128 of our favorite arrivals last year — and long may they run.
Summer in N.E.

Summer in N.E.

No need to venture far afield — New England offers warm weather fun for everyone.