Researchers say more than 4,000 mild, moderate, and severe "lost" gas leaks "vanished from public utility company data" between 2014 and 2015 despite no record of being repaired.
Archives for August 2016
ENDORSEMENT: WE LIKE MIKE
There is phenomenal news for Bernie Sanders supporters in the 26th Middlesex House District, which covers significant swaths of Cambridge and Somerville.
DISSENTING OPINION: SMITH COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL WORK STUDENT PROTESTERS RESPOND TO CRITICAL BOSTON GLOBE EDITORIAL
A recent op-ed in the Boston Globe suggests that student activism at Smith College’s School for Social Work is “overwrought,” and advises us as organizers that “not every dispute warrants a social-justice crusade.”
THE STRANGERER
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? NUTS
COMMUTE OF THE LIVING DEAD: MULTI-TASKING
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE: HAITI, DANCE, AND HEALING WITH JEAN APPOLON
“It’s been 25 years and I feel like I never made peace with my dad’s tragedy, but somehow my soul got healed through dance.”
SCHOOL OF ROCK: PILE AND WILD PAINTING SWAP LESSONS
Local rock act and newfound synthpop group talk age differences, music education, and the pros of Boston.
7th ANNUAL MASS BREWERS FEST
Locals Only
IN COMES COMPANY
The cast of COMPANY gets lyrical
BRIGHT SCREENS, BIG CITY: ON “FILMS AT THE GATE” AND BOSTON’S OUTDOOR MOVIE PROGRAMS
On Films at the Gate and Boston’s many other outdoor movie programs
DEAR READER: 8/25/2016
Letters from us and you
LONG ISLAND, LONGER STRUGGLE
In the interest of reminding readers that the promise of Long Island is still a life or death issue, some cogent testimonies from Monday’s Boston Homeless Solidarity Committee speakout
THE BOSTON GLOBE AND JOHN OLIVER: WHICH ONE IS FULL OF CRAP ABOUT CHARTER SCHOOLS?
He’s a shameless mouthpiece for the businesspeople aiming to shift more public dollars toward institutions that are not accountable to taxpayers.
APPARENT HORIZON: CABLE JEOPARDY
Now that broadband internet is a public utility, both cable companies and telephone companies need to pay for public access television — not try to defund it
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? CRACK IS WACK
THE STRANGERER
COMMUTE OF THE LIVING DEAD: HYDRATE
FOTOBOM: BLINK-182 @ XFINITY CENTER
Pop-punk icons Blink-182 return to Xfinity Center in Mansfield, MA with Matt Skiba in tow for a night of nonstop energy.
CALL THE FUZZ: A BREAKDOWN OF FUZZSTIVAL ACCORDING TO YOUR FAVORITE BANDS
Everything you need to know about Boston’s best garage and psych rock festival according to the bands you love.
ETERNAL SCULPTURES
The first major US exhibition of Della Robbia at the MFA
BLASPHEMY AND BANALITY: AN OLD FILM BY JOHN WATERS, A NEW ONE FROM SETH ROGEN
On an old release from John Waters, and a new one from Seth Rogen
FORGE ICE CREAM BAR
A Sweet New Somerville Flavor
DEAR READER: 8/18/2016
Letters from us and you
BROKEN RECORDS: THE GALL OF GALVIN
Secretary of the Commonwealth shames independents (but should instead be ashamed of himself)
FOTOBOM: BRYAN FERRY @ BLUE HILLS BANK PAVILION
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? GEESE
THE STRANGERER
FEEDING FRENZY: ANIMAL-SLASHER CINEMA, POST-AMITY ISLAND
Jaws rip-offs sighted at 12 o’clock
FETE FORWARD FRESHENS UP THE HUB’S FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE
"Being from Boston, there’s no other way to put this: there’s a suppression of [some] hip-hop and other events put on by people of color and those on the margins that has always gone on."