CONVENTION 2004

A historic city reinvents
itself in surprising ways

Not your father's Boston

(By Brian McGrory, Globe Staff, 7/26/04)

Let's cut right to it: You don't think much of us, do you? You think we're Norm, or maybe Cliff. You view Boston as unfashionable and anachronistic, a sitcom trying to survive real life.

The new Bostonians

(By Monica Rhor, Globe Staff, 7/26/04)

The faces of the city have changed dramatically in recent years. Once predominantly Yankee and Irish, a majority of the city is now nonwhite. Once provincial, it is now polyglot.

THE PEOPLE OF BOSTON SEEN ALONG THE FREEDOM TRAIL

Refresh to see another face

Building outside
the box

(By Robert Campbell, Globe Staff)

Boston is often called the most European -- meaning the most traditional -- of American cities. While that may be true, it is also true that we have often been at the cutting edge in architecture.

Sports crazy

(By Charles P. Pierce, Globe Staff)

Boston has spent the past three years as the admired epicenter of professional football. This comes as a shock to longtime residents for whom the universe has at its center the Boston Red Sox

Boston, unlike Chicago, is not a city of broad shoulders. To state the obvious, its claim to fame has been its intellectual capital, which has not always matched its towering intellectual pretentions. Still, it is a city of smarties.

THE INNOVATORS | In classrooms, labs, and hospitals, they're inventing the future.

BY RAJA MISHRA

Into the fifth dimension

It's a small world

Sculpting life

A vaccine for cancer?

Defying dogma

From idea to marketplace

FOREVER YOUNG | The city scene by those in the know. In their own words.

BY BELLA ENGLISH

The night owl

Match maker

The college crowd

Hip hop artist

New hire

The perpetual student

A Boston almanac

(By John Powers, Globe Staff, 7/26/04)

You still can have the sweetbreads at Locke-Ober, just as your great-grandfather did (if your great-grandfather was named Saltonstall). But you can also get a salad of strawberry papaya and lobster on Kentucky Bibb lettuce with poppy seed dressing.

A historic city reinventsitself in surprising ways