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Earlier this month, Marc Sneider stepped down as Dig Media Group publisher to pursue other projects. Dig Media Group is the owner of DigBoston.
The company’s board of directors then elected Business Manager (and former Associate Publisher) John Loftus to be the new publisher—effective ...
A funny thing that I’ve learned as a lesbian is that the dominance of heteronormativity in society is always assumed—whether it’s above or below the waists of people or puppets.
Local family-run Riverrun Gardens still fighting for a license
It’s unlikely that you’re reading this in order to find out if Hamilton is any good or not, but rather how good.
So let’s get this out of the way: Yes, it’s every bit as good as its hype and impossible-to-get tickets suggest.
Lin-Manuel ...
Given the choice of to be or not to be, Hamnet Shakespeare can’t fathom why anyone would ever choose not to be. And being that he’s had over 400 years to think about it, I guess you could say the boy’s given the matter some thought.
Hamnet, only son ...
I was looking and looking for a quote that I thought was from the philosopher Wittgenstein about how difficult—how structurally impossible it is—to analyze a cultural phenomenon from inside of it, but I was never able to find the quote and am now not ...
Improvising from Chicago, to Britain, to a Mousetrap near you
A day-by-day breakdown of psych rock must sees as the local music festival returns for its sixth year.
"The participating state agencies sought proposals from makers and distributors of everything from practice ammo and targets, to handguns, silencers, tasers, tear gas, chemical munitions, pepperball launchers, dart guns, gas masks, and ballistic blankets."
Many people have taken to loudly bemoaning the supposedly sudden arrival of “fake news” since the 2016 presidential election… while becoming belatedly aware of the accompanying slow decline of print newspapers that are—whatever else one might say ...
Cube competition in Boston attracts world’s best
A mellow and very eclectic spot that’s deep under the radar
"It makes us happier knowing that we have a finite time; we begin to put more importance on what we do with our time with our relationship, how we treat others, how we treat ourselves.”
"If the Boston Globe isn’t gonna profile artists in this city, I’m fine with BV doing it. Maybe it shows outlets staffed by humans that there’s value in that sort of thing."
The rising glitch rapper talks shocking news, his love for Mass Effect, and the biggest misunderstandings about what it's like to be in the Air Force.
“If Blue Dream is in high demand, but is unavailable, we can network”
Como una pandemia de mandrágoras de los históricos ahorcados, bajo los árboles, cubriendo las colinas y las explanadas del Common, como una manta cannábica sobre la yerba del parque, miles de jóvenes y adultos fumaban marihuana en porros, pinchos, vaporizadores, pipas y toda clase de parafernalia.
Boston’s low-key electronic music festival returns bigger and brighter, so we asked several acts to share advice on maximizing your experience there.
Check below for all the BMA noms for this year, and don't forget to check the BMA site for voting, more info on preparties, and tickets to the announcement bash at the House of Blues on December 12. Major props to Dig Music Editor Nina Corcoran, not only for her great ear and for having written about more than half of the nominees over the past couple of years, but also for being one of this year's noms in the first-ever Music Journalist of the Year category. Also congrats to Dig contributors Arielle Gray and G. Valentino Ball on their nominations, as well as to ace photographer Tim Bugbee. Oh, and to us, since we are up for Music Publication of the Year. Go vote!
New Repertory Theatre has kicked off its new season with a play that is a welcome but surprising choice for the sleepy Watertown theater company. Straight White Men, a provocative ...
Of all of theater’s enduring comedies, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest has stood the test of time remarkably well; Wilde’s wit all these hundred-plus years later is still legitimately funny and razor sharp.
But it’s a mystery why ...
On the cable set in Somerville in August, Elsa Riot is doing her damndest to sync up an impromptu rendition of the herky-jerky Beach Blanket Bingo routine with a ruthless sonic pummeling by way of a group of apparent Motörhead adherents.
Columbia has spent in excess of half a million dollars lobbying in Mass over the past five years, while execs at Eversource, which Baker tapped to save the day, have pumped more than $40,000 into Baker and Polito’s war chests since 2015.
"It took a lot of patience. It wasn’t an easy three years to get the records I wanted before I could start making the actual mix."
If you’re a beer nerd in the Greater Boston region, then you may have made a pilgrimage to Mystic Brewing on a Friday afternoon or evening. The place can get quite nuts ...
