The Dig - Greater Boston's Alternative News Source
In 2011, thousands of New Englanders occupied an obscure slice of Boston and became leaders in a national movement against greed. Five years later, we asked some of those activists to reflect on their radical protest camp experiment.
Australia's folk star talks Fiona Apple, classical singing, and why the industry overwhelms her.
The way forward, it seems, is not yet to be found on our shores.
Omar Robinson stars in ASP’s hotly anticipated Hamlet
Are craft brewers pining for more supply?
The overriding concern here is that the BPD once again proved itself masterful at misrepresenting facts, and of presenting officers in a positive media light.
Even though it has been 18 years since digital tolling debuted on the Pike, there is still not even a data retention policy.
I actually can’t believe the Boston Symphony is putting on this opera in concert. It’s so massive. The cast, everything about it.
This name-changing charade is insulting, and only possible because so many residents either don’t know—or don’t give a damn—about how Boston is the last major metropolis in America with an urban renewal agency.
A bar in Winchester worth visiting
A look inside the costumes of Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Letters from us and you
Musicians talk activism and gun violence before a protest show with Bill Janovitz, Tanya Donelly, Mike Gent, and more this Sunday.
In last week’s preview of the Somerville Theatre’s 70mm & Widescreen Film Festival, I wrote about the old canard that the big screen is inherently better suited for large-canvas movies. Within the narrow viewpoint of my own personal ...
Dirty Dishes, Funeral Advantage, Daephne, Black Beach, and more headline the return of Fitz Fest.
With legalization looming, another glorious bonanza
Drafting these regulations was an opportunity to clarify vague and troubling language, but Galvin’s office has failed to address several issues left by state lawmakers.
An update on the persecution of a beloved Mass cannabis activist
The city should pull out of this incipient arrangement.
Because there’s nothing more terrifying than choosing to be joyful in a world that constantly berates you with reasons not to be.
Rising trio Miss Geo bring the focus back to dreampop and shining synth with the release of their debut LP.
“Our movement is awareness. We’re talking for the people who you aren’t going to hear elsewhere."
On the Somerville Theatre’s enormously exciting 70mm film festival
Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals at the PEM
Letters from us and you
"There’s so much to be gained from cannabis, why ruin lives over it?"
