Faces + Places

Tuscan Village Salem Holds Grand Opening Memorial Day Weekend

Learn to kayak on Lake Park with L.L. Bean, take a hands-on cooking class at La Scuola Culinaria at Tuscan Market and Williams Sonoma, and order ...

Arts + Culture

View Alexis Rockman’s Shipwrecks Now Through May 31 at PEM

This spring, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents an exhibition of large-scale, hallucinatory paintings that tackle pressing ecological issues...

Eat + Drink

Bird & Wolf Restaurant Opens in North Andover

While Bird & Wolf café and bakehouse opened a couple months ago, the brand's fine dining restaurant concept just opened on May 5, serving an elev...

Faces + Places

Maine’s Quisisana Resort Combines Nature, Seclusion, and Live Music

Guests of Quisisana Resort, a 56-acre retreat at the eastern edge of the White Mountains, are a devoted bunch. Many return on the same week, year aft...

Eat + Drink

Where to Order Mother’s Day Brunch North of Boston

This Sunday, May 9, it’s time to celebrate mom and everything she does. Take her out to brunch for an afternoon filled with specialty cocktails, loca...

Eat + Drink

4 North Shore Wine Experts’ Spring Rosé Picks

There’s a certain skip in our step as the first shades of spring take hold, and everywhere a spectacle of color comes to life. The purple crocuse...

Arts + Culture

Experience the “Perfect Breath” at PEM’s New Exhibit

Three years ago, artist Zarah Hussain could hardly breathe.  “I was coughing, I was having trouble walking uphill, and I just wasn’t getting enoug...

Faces + Places

How to Spend a Day in Haverhill, MA

Too often, urban redevelopment projects polish places to such a shine that one neighborhood is indistinguishable from the next. But that’s not happen...

Arts + Culture

Artisans at Essex’s Bubble Factory Turn Sand Into Glass

Glass is a fickle medium, as anyone who has watched the hit Netflix reality show Blown Away can attest. In an instant, even an expert artisan can...

Eat + Drink

Personal Chef Jenn Hanley Knight Creates Healthy, Custom Meals

For Chef Jenn Hanley Knight, “home” has been a variety of places over the years, from the West Coast to Amsterdam to her North Shore hometown of Merr...