'I work two jobs not by choice but because I don’t receive enough hours at either job to cover my basic needs to support my family. With each paycheck that I earn I have to stretch.'
GUEST COLUMN: ‘THIS LABOR DAY I’M GOING ON STRIKE…’
Archives for August 2017
HAYLEY THOMPSON-KING: BOSTON’S SOUTHERN SINGER OPENS UP ABOUT EMOTIONAL PURGING
The Boston country singer talks biblical feminists, psychotic melancholia, and singing as a form of inspirational purging.
FOTOBOM: GREEN DAY, CATFISH AND THE BOTTLEMEN @ XFINITY CENTER, 28AUG17
I’d reckon that a vast majority of the throngs that filled the seats and lawn of Xfinity Center for Monday’s show featuring Green Day would give you a top shelf Keanu Reeves blank stare if you mention Neurosis. ...
MAMA’S GONNA SHOW IT TO YOU
Bertone, of course, is correct. Gypsy’s script is iron-clad and is generally thought of as the finest example of book writing in all of musical theater. There are other things, too, to consider when thinking about Gypsy’s significance in the grand scheme of things.
BANALITIES, ABSURDITIES, AND ANXIETIES
"She’s a very astute student of the history of art and, particularly, the history of painting. I think she’s one of the leading figures who is revitalizing the medium today."
“HE REALLY BELIEVES IN THE SOCIAL MISSION OF FILM”: LOUIS BLACK ON RICHARD LINKLATER
A South by Southwest founder discusses his new American Masters doc about the noted Texas filmmaker
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: THAT TERRIBLY SCARY DATA GRAB STORY CONTINUES
This is after the Trump Department of Justice has had the chance to view personal information from thousands of people who did no more than send an email to an address associated with the site.
LO KEY ENDORSEMENT
Why would Somerville Mayor Curtatone be seen with this guy?
BRAWL FOR CITY HALL: SOCIALIST MOMENTUM
"There is a sense in which we understand that resistance to Trump needs to be rooted in resistance against a neoliberal economic and political system that is rotten at every level."
AMERICAN BANDSTAND: A CALL ‘TO BETTER BALANCE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS WITH SECURITY NEEDS’
Among the many to weigh in on these issues, the New England First Amendment Coalition (NEFAC) has released a compelling statement... It’s on the money, and so informative and forward-looking that we thought it was our duty to excerpt it here...
SOMETHING POSITIVE (FOR CHANGE)
I have been wanting to share thoughts along these lines for weeks now, but it’s never the right time. Either white supremacists are rumored to be coming into Boston, or President Not-See himself says something insanely hurtful or ignorant. Or both.
TERMS OF SERVICE: STILL THIRSTY
If you think Boston has enough liquor licenses, you must live in a neighborhood that has a bunch.
STONEWALLED: MEET THE ACTIVISTS AND BUSINESSPEOPLE BACKING #DISOWNSTONE IN BOSTON
“Roger Stone coming to the city of Boston is another indicator of racism, misogyny, and sexism being accepted in this city by people in power."
THE POSSIBILITARIANS: HEADS UP FOR BREAD AND PUPPET’S INSURRECTION CIRCUS
"I think the show is meant to shake city slickers and country cornstalks alike out of their complacency in the face of the destruction of the planet and the political and economic tyranny under which we all live."
IN WHICH A KITTY LEGEND INTERVIEWS THE ACRO-CATS
We really do know Keyboard Cat by proxy, and the interview below is absolutely the closest thing you are going to get to an actual celebrity cat-on-cat interview.
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD
The line connecting Yeats to Didion to us: The center cannot hold. The election should have shown us that clearly. The majority lost and we elected an authoritarian entirely uninterested in compromise.
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? PANTING
THE STRANGERER
BABY BOOMING: HOW INDIE POPPER BABY! FOUND A NEW HOME IN BOSTON
After leaving Florida, Kaley Honeycutt found a new home for her surf pop band Baby! right here in Boston.
HOW THE MEDIA FOLLOWED TRUMP IN COVERING #FIGHTSUPREMACY
Commercial media needed to pin a medal on somebody, and that person wasn’t going to come from any of the many groups that peaceably managed tens of thousands of people.
WHITE SUPREMACY, MONUMENTS, AND POWER
He was filmed and photographed beating a black man, Deandre Harris, by what looks like the Village People of racists—one with a Nazi helmet, another like a construction, one in a polo, and another, like this guy, with beard and baseball hat.
MEZZO MARE, HULL
A less-beachy beachside option south of Boston
BOXING THE MONOLITH
Esh swings hard with latest. Trust me, I’ve felt the punches.
GOOD TIMES, GREAT FACES: ON THE SAFDIE BROTHERS’ REALITY FEATURES
"I wanted to do a movie that takes place in this milieu—about the American criminal, about the prison ethos in America, about what’s going on in America in 2017. And the only other person I want to be in it is Buddy Duress.”
WE CAME, WE SAW, WE COVERED (A #FIGHTSUPREMACY COMPOSITE RETROSPECT)
Between the protesters, the counterprotesters, the media, the cops, and a handful of trolls, countless stories unfolded in Boston last weekend. These are several we encountered…
THAT ‘FREE SPEECH’ THING
Photo by Kori Feener
Mayor Walsh and various police agencies were no friends of civil liberties at Boston’s monster protests against the ultra right
Despite the “mission accomplished” happy talk ...
HOW THE ‘FREE SPEECH’ RALLY ORGANIZERS AND THE BOSTON GLOBE GOT ME FALSELY BRANDED AS A WHITE SUPREMACIST
The panicked calls came from my friends and family—including my poor old mother, who was afraid I would be shot—right around the time that I arrived on Boston Common on Saturday.
THE UNION OF SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
I helped organize a suburban Mass Guitar Center. Here’s what I learned.
I SAW MORE FURRIES THAN FRIENDS OF THE FUHRER IN BOSTON THIS WEEKEND
Where were these nazis anyway? Where were they coming from? Did they take Uber?
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? FBI
