Marella Gayla
The Boston Globe
Cambridge, MA, United States
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Meet Claire Saffitz, the Internet’s favorite pastry chef
The real pleasure of Bon Appetit’s “Gourmet Makes” video series is watching Saffitz — a Harvard-educated perfectionist with a baker’s eye for detail — struggle through many failed attempts. → Read More
In ‘Good Boys,’ sixth grade just isn’t what it used to be
It’s in the adolescent-party-odyssey tradition of “Superbad” and “Booksmart.” → Read More
These campers will sing for their supper — and for the chefs who are opening their eyes to a whole new world of food
Kelli Scott and Nui Grube have cooked for all kinds of venues — fast food joints, high-end restaurants, and even the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club. But nowhere quite like Alford Lake, a summer camp for girls in Maine. → Read More
In ‘Them That Follow,’ there will be blood
Alice Englert and Olivia Colman star in this drama about faith as emotional violence. → Read More
Aziz Ansari and our #MeToo ambivalence
That gray, foggy feeling isn’t confusion — did he or didn’t he? — but conflicted certainty: We know he did, so how should we feel about it? → Read More
Harvard student manages to compete in ‘MasterChef’ cooking show and graduate, all in one very surreal spring
Nick DiGiovanni of Milton is going strong on this season of Fox’s reality cooking competition that pits home chefs against one another. → Read More
In Somerville, a powerhouse of custom costume-making for Boston and beyond
In an inconspicuous brick building on a side street in Somerville, the staff at Costume Works creates elaborate, often fantastical costumes for theater, opera, dance, and other companies. → Read More
Putting together the pieces of Toni Morrison
The Nobel Prize-winning novelist is the subject of a new documentary. → Read More
When This Old House was new
The classic home improvement show, hosted by Bob Vila, turns 40 this week → Read More
Remembering Al Vento and Franco’s Italian Army
It’s not uncommon for Steelers players to become celebrities. It is uncommon, however, to get famous for being a fan. Al Vento and Tony Stagno in 1972. Al Vento, who died Tuesday, was the owner of the decades-old Vento’s Pizza in East Liberty and a founding member of one of Pittsburgh’s most iconic fan clubs: Franco’s Italian Army. In 1972, Vento and Tony Stagno, another East Liberty business… → Read More
Antwon Rose II and the mothers who bury their sons
I see mothers bury their sons I want my mom to never feel that pain Antwon Rose II wrote those lines for his 10th grade honors English class in 2016. Last Tuesday, Antwon, 17, was fatally shot by East Pittsburgh police Officer Michael Rosfeld. The poem, titled “I Am Not What You Think!” and publicized by the Woodland Hills School District after his death, now reads with an eerie prescience. The… → Read More
Picturing the drug raids of the ‘Just Say No’ era
If there’s one thing all middle-schoolers learn in health class, it’s that you don’t have to do drugs to be cool. Richard Nixon declared that drugs were “public enemy number one” in 1971, but anti-drug education really hit its stride during the ’80s and early ’90s, thanks to programs like D.A.R.E. and Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign. As incarceration for drug offenses skyrocketed, teachers… → Read More