“It’s an Andy Warhol world, and Vermin has grafted himself into the public psyche as the world’s greatest boot-headed dictator, even if you don’t know it yet.”
THE TOPPLING OF KING CULLEN
For a fraud like Cullen, whose pieces are Rockwellian minus the milkshakes, it’s fiction whether it is truly fabricated or if it’s a romanticized account of a thing that really happened.
ONE-HIT WONDER: SILVER STICK IS SOMETHING SPECIAL
It can take some head-shop hopping to find just the right one with a bowl that’s not too deep, a stem that isn’t too thin to clear with a paperclip, and a girth that doesn’t crowd your lips or keep your one-hitter from sliding in your dugout.
JOINING JOYNER
Not like one of the most hardworking successful rappers out of Mass in years needs the approval of an aging hip-hop head in dad jeans, but I’m going to stand firmly behind Joyner Lucas on this one.
PROPS FOR THE SHOP THAT DROPPED UBER COP
In the past two weeks alone, the Dig has been excited to see several stories that we first dug into, in some cases with help from the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, that have since been picked up by the larger mainstream media.
SHARING IS CARING (AND MOST OF YOU SOCIAL MEDIA RATS DO NEITHER)
Why do so many folks shy away from sharing articles about controversial topics, or at least ones that have yet to be reduced and cheapened to a meme or blog post farted out by some venture-backed national news aggregator?
A MESSAGE TO BIZ OWNERS ABOUT PUBLICISTS
If you think that Facebook is the leading culprit in the case of Who Killed Journalism?, then I may just know a Russian bot or two who’s in the process of selling your digits off to dogs.
THE IMPORTANT STORY LEADING UP TO BILL MCKIBBEN’S VIRAL TWEET ABOUT THE BOSTON PIPELINE PROTESTERS
Residents in Dedham and West Roxbury are up in arms about what many see as a legitimate threat to their health and safety. Beyond the possibility of an explosion, there are other terrifying potential side effects of having the line run through a residential area.
HIGH THERE: A NOTE TO READERS ON THE EVE OF NECANN
More than 100 towns and cities across the Commonwealth are dragging their feet making decisions about whether to permit recreational cannabis activity, and placing moratoriums to stall the industry from popping up, or banning rec altogether through rushed referendums that draw prohibitionists.
ENSEMBLE MIK NAWOOJ: BOOM BAP SYMPHONY EPIPHANY
“It’s not quite hip-hop, as we don’t follow conventional 16-bar structures nor do we have 808 or drum machines, but also not classical—definitely not classical.”
