Amid news that Boston has suffered worse inflation than other U.S. cities, we've also learned that the income gap in Massachusetts is getting bigger. The two phenomena are locked in a vicious cycle: as rich people spend more money, the cost of living goes up for the rest of us, who find it harder to send our children (or ourselves) to school, which limits our chances to earn greater incomes. It sucks for the rest......

Continuing its tradition of pukey puff pieces devoted to slavering over rich folks with ridiculous dilemmas, the Globe comes at us today with a lamentation on the difficulty of staying with friends. Rich people with summer houses, hosting their perhaps slightly less rich (they don't have their own summer homes, after all) friends, run into all sorts of trouble with towels, rugs, and even--of all things--scallions. It's enough to make you never vacation again. It......

Boston-born Sumner Redstone is everywhere, from The Colbert Report to MGH. Just recently, the Viacom chair made a $35-million-dollar donation to the MGH burn center. Rich people make donations all the time, but there's a reason for the mogul's gift. We knew that the 1979 Copley Plaza Hotel fire damaged Redstone's hand, the appearance of which gave rise to much speculation over at Gawker. The injuries he sustained in that fire nearly killed him, as......

When her fancy vacation home is featured in the New York Times, and she's pilloried on Slate.com for having the gumption to show off that home, of course. Susan Orlean, New Yorker regular and a Boston resident since 1982 (and former Globe and Phoenix staffer), lately had her upstate New York weekend pad featured in the Times's impossibly bourgie "House Proud" section (in which people much richer than Bostonist demurely share details about their......