Jonathan Soroff

1 week ago | bostonmagazine.com | Jonathan Soroff

What do you listen to in your car or at home? This is the most boring answer ever. I don’t listen to music in the background. I can’t do it. If it’s soft, I keep trying to hear what it is, and if it’s loud, it honestly just makes my skin crawl. I’m fine with loud music when I’m actually part of the cause. But when I’m in the car by myself, it’s a lot of NPR. You can’t listen to beautiful classical music in the car anyway, because the environment isn’t quiet enough to hear the incredible dynamic range.

3 weeks ago | bostonmagazine.com | Jonathan Soroff

What does it feel like to be a Trump appointee in Massachusetts, where he’s clearly not popular? I’m a prosecutor, not a politician. I’ve lived in Cambridge for 20 years, so I’ve always kind of felt like I’m in the minority when it comes to my political views, but I also know from those 20 years that with some of my closest friends, we have very little commonality when it comes to politics. The same thing is true for this office.

3 weeks ago | bostonmagazine.com | Jonathan Soroff

Guides This posh North Atlantic island just a hop, skip, and a two-hour plane ride from Boston. From one end to the other, this tiny island gives Oz a run for its money. Just 600 miles off the coast of North Carolina, the 21-mile-long, fishhook-shaped paradise has the super-saturated colors of the tropics without the hassle of traveling to the Caribbean.

4 weeks ago | bostonmagazine.com | Jonathan Soroff

Fashion for Every BodyJust because someone’s missing a limb doesn’t mean they’re missing a sense of style, which was the raison d’être behind clothing designer Joe Malaika’s runway show Excessive Fashion for Amputees, held at the Sheraton Boston. Highlighting designs that celebrate people with prosthetic limbs, the event supported the A Leg Forever Charitable Foundation and Malaika’s Amputee Self Help Network Uganda, and featured models who have lost limbs.

1 month ago | bostonmagazine.com | Jonathan Soroff

A welcome departure from the standard gala fare of vulcanized chicken, the Spaghetti Dinner for the Women’s Lunch Place was held at the Fairmont Copley Plaza and featured a lively cocktail party with a massive silent auction in the Venetian Room, followed by a delicious, family-style Italian dinner in the Grand Ballroom.Front and center were such worthies as TV producer Stan Leven; polo-playing tech guru Dean Goodermote and his equally equestrian other half, Diane Arnold; cigar and golf...