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We’re revitalizing our arts & lifestyle coverage.

This January, The Boston Globe's daily Living/Arts coverage is getting a makeover. We're taking our "g" section and transforming it into a bigger, bolder, daily broadsheet section with a fresh design and collection of new compelling features, columns, and stories that will revolve around daily themes. Start exploring our new sections below.

For advertising opportunities, contact

Jeff Hurley at 617-929-3438 or [email protected].

Special features:

  • Parenting column
  • Pets column
  • Mini reviews of recent children’s picture books
  • Family quiz, with educational element
  • Arts features, reviews

Special features:

  • Match Book, book advice column in which readers submit books they’ve loved plus personal details, and editor suggests books they should read next
  • Clickworthy, feature on noteworthy apps, websites, viral videos
  • Big Shot, feature highlighting new photography/art coffee-table books or graphic novels
  • Behind the Charts, tales of big and breaking musical artists
  • Big Picture photo essay.

Special features:

  • Celebrity food column
  • Arts features and reviews, book review, travel features

Special features:

  • Celebrity column “Out With…” from Mark Shanahan, appearing monthly
  • Plated, chef interview on what he/she is doing that week
  • Dining Decor, feature highlighting eye-catching restaurant design
  • At the Bar, column on cocktails and wine
  • Restaurant capsule reviews
  • Bottles column, book review, arts features and reviews, Week Ahead critics’ picks
  • In the works:

    CityScapes -- Urban photography then-and-now feature, linked to online mapped archives

Special features:

  • Culture column from Ty Burr
  • Laugh Lines, joke from a comic performing around Boston
  • How they did it, spotlight explaining technical or performance feat on local stages

Special features:

  • Deep Breath, column on handling stress
  • My Workout, highlighting routine of local celebrity, politician, or business/civic leader
  • The Social Media, column on apps and how they change the way we live in society
  • What You Eat, news on the latest in nutrition and wellness
  • Love Letters column, From the Archives photo feature, book review, arts features and reviews.

For advertising opportunities, contact

Jeff Hurley at 617-929-3438 or [email protected].