Why Mark Merren is rounding up the coolest rising rappers for one of the biggest nights in Boston hip-hop.
BRANDED AUTHENTIC: THE TIDAL WAVE OF BOSTON HIP-HOP
Archives for August 2018
IN SUFFOLK DA’S RACE, VOTERS HAVE A CHANCE TO REWIRE PROSECUTORIAL APPARATUS
Whatever you do in the booth, if you want to help steer Suffolk County clear of yet another reign in which people of color are presumed to be guilty and cops are assumed to be just, then by all means do not pull for candidate Greg Henning.
POLITICAL GAMESMANSHIP: WHO SAID IT BEST?
The most accurate way to determine which of their hearts is closer to one’s own, it seems, is to cast aside whatever prejudicial love or hate one has for either candidate, and evaluate them without attribution. So we extracted these quotes, categorized below, for you to peruse blindly and thus perhaps determine who you agree with more.
COMMUNITY DISPATCH: ‘WE NEED TO STOP BEING STUCK ON REPLAY’
“[In] our neighborhoods, it feels like … luxury apartments [are being built] faster than Donald Trump tweets ... JP, Roslindale, Roxbury, and Mattapan … rent prices are going up. Homelessness is still a huge issue in our city. We are getting kicked out."
HOUSE PARTY: A MASS CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARY PRIMER
Newly active voters, insurgent outsiders, political unrest, and targeted incumbents in Mass congressional races make for one of the most interesting battlegrounds in America
FOTOBOM: HUICHICA EAST
While Folk Yeah has been putting on Huichica West for a solid decade, their efforts on the eastern side of the country are relatively new. This past weekend was the third event held at the amazingly bucolic setting of Chaseholm Farm, nestled in the rolling fields and scattered forests of the ...
VOTING AS A SOCIALIST IS STILL HARD (IN THE MASSACHUSETTS OF 2018)
Plus an endorsement for Michael Capuano for Congress (MA 7th District)
It’s never easy being a socialist in the United States. And at no time is it more difficult then come ...
GUEST OPINION: RAYTHEON BOMB THREAT
The bombs and aircraft killing innocent civilians in Yemen come from America. Raytheon, headquartered in Waltham and maintaining several facilities in the Commonwealth, has sold billions of dollars worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia in the last decade.
CASH CABERNET: BEN BAILEY ROLLS THROUGH CITY WINERY
Have you ever crashed the cab? Have you ever been robbed in the cab? What’s the weirdest thing that ever happened? Did anyone ever throw up in the cab? I get that last one often.
DEPTHS OF DEPRAVITY DEPT.
Does the GOP have a cutoff point for racist fearmongering?
THE ART WORLD LOST SOME LIGHT: A COMMUNITY REMEMBERS ROBERT TODD
On Friday, Aug 17, I went on Facebook and saw former colleagues, classmates, and friends from the Boston film community and Emerson College frantically posting a missing poster of prolific experimental filmmaker and Emerson College professor Robert Todd.
PET FOX: THREE HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE
How the technical musicians of Ovlov, Palehound, Grass Is Green, and Flat Swamp learned to lean into pop simplicity.
THE WAY WE WEREN’T
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? HUMPTY DUMPTY
TOMATO TIME: SEEING RED AT WILSON FARM IN LEXINGTON
"Tomato Fest is one of our favorite events because we are able to highlight the 20 different varieties of tomatoes we grow every year. The festival allows for our shoppers to sample an assortment of our fantastic heirlooms and taste the subtle differences between each of them."
FIRST LOOK: BATES BAR & GRILL
Setups such as these also tend to indicate that dining might be taking a backseat to drinking, but this spot does seem to put a little more emphasis on food, so the atmosphere leans just a touch more toward subdued than rowdy.
BLUE CRACK: WHAT’S IN A STRAIN NAME (BESIDES INSENSITIVITY AND PERHAPS ACCURACY)?
Blue Crack should be a go-to for everyday workers and artists alike. That’s my primary reason for writing this, though I’m also hoping to spur some discussion about the name.
SIX PACKS AND DISCO BALLS: MAMMA MIA! AT NORTH SHORE MUSIC THEATRE
★★☆☆☆
“Have the time of your life!” say the posters for North Shore Music Theatre’s production of Mamma Mia!
It seems like a lofty promise, but there are instances where I can imagine that that might be true. Take someone who is marooned on a deserted ...
WHEEL OF TUNES: THIN LIPS
The Philly pop punkers talk oujia boards, lavender weed, and being weirded out by vaginas when they were growing up.
THE LAST CHAPTER: IS THE HARVEST CO-OP FINISHED?
Will Harvest members have to rejoin to be in this new co-op? What rights will members have under the bylaws of the new co-op? Will Harvest’s old debts to small and local vendors be honored? Will there be layoffs?
FOTOBOM: PAUL RODGERS, JEFF BECK, ANN WILSON @ BLUE HILLS BANK PAVILION
Age is just a number. It’s a cliché, but like most clichés there is sometimes more than a kernel of truth to it and tonight, this trio of 70s FM radio warriors came together as The Stars Align tour and provided compelling evidence that the number of times they’ve circled the sun ...
PREVIEW: HUICHICA EAST
Summer is a great time to escape the stifling heat and crowds of the city, and many Bostonians do precisely that. Often the directions heading out of the city are southward to the Cape, or perhaps north, either to the stony coastline of Maine or the mountains of New Hampshire or Vermont. This ...
UNRESPONSIVE: THE MASSACHUSETTS PUBLIC RECORDS LAW FAILS THREE OUT OF THREE TIMES
That’s what’s happening with all three agencies in this case, with each one putting their own unique spin on how to circumvent the rules.
TOOTS TALKS: A REGGAE HERO REFLECTS BACK ON HALF A CENTURY OF TOURING
The fact that he’s still jamming and flexing his legendary smooth but rugged vocals isn’t merely remarkable because he is 75 years old, but also because five years ago, it looked like he would never sing in public again.
HERALD READERS RESPOND TO ANTIFA COVERAGE
Spoiler alert: anti-nazis are somehow nazis
On Saturday, a few hundred left-wing activists showed up to protest a tiny ultra-right wing protest ...
AIN’T NOTHIN’ NORMAL: NIGHT SHIFT + DESTIHL = BOYSENBERRY BLISS
This limited exclusive number is so consummately tart that we’ve been cracking cans and sipping water between gulps, trying to preserve as much of a terrific tongue rush as we got on our first tilt...
CITY OF PRESIDENTS APA: WIDOWMAKER POURS A CLASSIC IN COLLABORATION WITH QUINCY, FOUNDING FATHERS
In its words, the brewer brands this pale ale as “a complex, easy-drinking all-American craft beer.” On one hand, that description sells it short, since there are several nuanced notes to be appreciated; at the same time, it’s accurate, since it really has cleverly twisted some classic ideas.
THIS IS WHAT WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
The Catholic Church is the most vile institution on the planet, a pedophilic cesspool years beyond potential rehabilitation.
GUEST OPINION: COUNTDOWN TO DOOMSDAY
Addressing the US’s complicitness in maintaining the nuclear status quo
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? HELICOPTER PARENTING
