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4 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Diane Bair |Pamela Wright
“Burlington’s food scene punches well above its weight,” says Jeff Lawson, director of Hello Burlington, the region’s destination marketing initiative. We’re perched between Montreal, Boston, and New York, so it stays dialed into the cutting edge while we keep our roots in local farms and Green Mountain flavor. “In a way, we were farm-to-table before farm-to-table was a thing,” he continued.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Diane Bair |Pamela Wright
“Really, you don’t have to do anything!” she says, but we know better. It’s time to show the world’s best mom or mother figure in your life just how much you appreciate her. Cards, flowers, Sunday brunch, and maybe dinner at her favorite restaurant are all perfectly fine, and she’d love any one of those. But this year, why not go the extra mile and surprise her with the gift of travel?
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Diane Bair |Pamela Wright
What measures 30,000 square feet, makes a thwack-thwack sound, and is coming to the Seaport this summer? That would be Ballers, a new social-and-sports concept featuring outdoor pickleball and padel courts, a bar and café with a noted chef, and community events like tournaments and theme nights. Come winter, the plan is to convert the pickleball courts to an ice rink. (Heaters and hot toddies should keep things comfy.) Courts and social spaces will be open to all.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Diane Bair |Pamela Wright
New Hampshire is home to several famous and award-winning authors. The New Hampshire Literary Hall of Fame includes Robert Frost, John Irving, Ernest Thompson, Donald Hall, Grace Metalious, Harriet E. Wilson, Tomie dePaola, Maxine Kumin, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, Charles Simic, Anita Shreve, David McPhail, and Donald M. Murray.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Diane Bair |Pamela Wright
Assuming you haven’t married someone from that country (citizenship by marriage), or weren’t born there (citizenship by birthright), there are three ways to go about it: By descent, by residency (naturalization), and by investment. A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Descent is pretty straightforward. If one or more of your ancestors came from a country that grants it, you can get citizenship through lineage.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Diane Bair |Pamela Wright
NEWPORT, R.I. — Spring is sprouting in Newport, and we’re here for it. “It’s so close to home, but it has that vacation vibe,” says Dr. Seth Jones of Marstons Mills, who recently headed there for a quick family getaway. Never mind that it’s not quite sailing-and-al fresco-oyster-slurping-season — it will be soon. Year after year, this seaport city charms everyone from bachelorette parties to tennis buffs to mansion mavens.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Diane Bair |Pamela Wright
Back in the ’90s, Jo Johnston, a busy professional living in Dallas, took her first big cruise, and really enjoyed it. Fast forward: Johnston retired, sold her home and her car, and now spends 10 months or more out of the year on back-to-back, long-range cruises aboard Holland America, her preferred cruise line. She’s gone on three of their 120+ day Grand World Voyages, and several 30 to 50-plus day cruises. In all, she estimates that she’s spent more than 1,100 days cruising with Holland America.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Diane Bair |Pamela Wright
MONTREAL — ”Fries and cheese and gravy. What’s not to like?” said our server at Poutineville. Indeed. In honor of National Poutine Day, April 11, we visited our northerly neighbor to celebrate all things poutine. OK, we’re lying. We just wanted an excuse to eat French fries, and lots of ‘em. For work. Plus, Montréal! We love Montreal. We’d always thought of poutine, one of Canada’s national dishes and a standard in Quebec cuisine, as the ultimate hangover food, or a late-night nosh.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Diane Bair |Pamela Wright
It’s cheap, filling, tasty, and indulgent, but where did poutine, the iconic dish of Quebec, come from? The Montréal tourism website shares this information: There are two competing claims about the origin of poutine. As one story goes, in 1957, a regular at a restaurant called Le Lutin Qui Rit in Warwick asked for cheese curds with his order of fries.
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2 months ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Diane Bair |Pamela Wright
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — “We’re starting to get our vibe back,” said Nikki Stewart, director of sales for The Radical hotel. It was nearly five months after Hurricane Helene struck the city and surrounding mountain towns, causing catastrophic damage: power lines were down; city water lines were destroyed, and buildings, homes, roads, and bridges taken out. We’d seen the apocalyptic photos, saddened by the devastation to one of our favorite American cities. And yet.
