It would have been amazing if Matthew Modine crashed into Quincy Market at 4,000 miles per hour last Friday. Talk about stranger things.
BAKER CALLS FOR ‘UNITY RALLY’ INSTEAD OF ‘COUNTER-PROTEST’
Governor says he’ll even show up on Saturday if his schedule is clear
CANNABIS STORIES THAT MASS MEDIA MUST HAVE MISSED
There is a troubling lack of institutional memory among those who report on weed, from the local to the national level.
JUSTIN CLANCY AS HIMSELF
The North Shore artist confesses about sneaking out to break in
A FEW WORDS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY ‘LOVE TRAVELING’
When you say that you “are addicted to traveling,” or something comparably thoughtless and privileged, you are essentially saying that you can’t for the life of you understand why everyone else isn’t as interested in globe-trotting as you are.
INTRODUCING: THE BRAWL FOR CITY HALL
An introduction to our coverage of races in Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, and beyond
THE ‘BIG DIG’ BITES BACK
It was surprising, if not baffling, to watch broadcast news icon Emily Rooney blast the feature on Beat the Press, a local weekly media show that she hosts on the Boston PBS station WGBH.
THOUGHTS ON STANDING UP TO RACISM
I will comment on racism, though. And on the courage it takes to stand up to the mobs still among us who reject multiculturalism and denigrate those who don’t look and act like them.
ON WHY MOST OUTLETS AREN’T EQUIPPED TO COVER THE POTUS
Mainstream journalists have seen some ugly shit. From shootings to bombings, even the most superficial morons on the evening news may need some therapy. At the same time, while they are often numb to conventional horrors, many have reactionary impulses that result in the wrong kind of attention being given to countless issues.
THE SOMERVILLE LANE … AND THE LONG ROAD TO A BIKEABLE BEACON STREET
“The Beacon-Hampshire corridor is the single busiest bike corridor in Massachusetts, and that’s why Somerville is building a protected bike like along a stretch of Beacon Street. That’s where the bike lane is raised a few inches off the street and separated from vehicles by a curb.”
