Boston Magazine

OUT TODAY: Our October issue is on newsstands and in your mailboxes.

On the cover: Massachusetts is No. 1! 61 reasons we're better than everyone.

Also inside:⁠
🛣️ 🦞New England Travel Awards
🦷🪥Top Dentists 2026
🥣🦪 Clam chowder

Illustration by Comrade (@comradehq)

All new: We crunched the numbers to come up with the region’s top-performing public high schools. bostonmagazine.com/news/best-publ…

Tonight, author @MarlonJames5 appears at the @brattletheatre. The New York Times just called his new book, "The Disappearers," “the novel of the decade, if not the century.” Details, and more things to do this week, here: bostonmagazine.com/things-to-do/w…

Tiffani Faison just announced she's closing Sweet Cheeks, her Best of Boston-winning barbecue restaurant in the Fenway, this November. Revisit Scott Kearnan's 2019 profile of the Top Chef here: bit.ly/4qf4CmL

Portrait from 2019 by Ken Richardson

Things to do this week in Boston: John Turturro and Paul Giamatti in "Rhinoceros" at A.R.T.; indie-rock duo Fat Creeps reunite at Deep Cuts; the Dominican Parade and Festival takes place at Franklin Park; Otis Kane headlines Warehouse XI and more: bostonmagazine.com/things-to-do/w…