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“Together, we have and will continue to take on the big challenges we were told would be impossible—from passing paid parental leave to standing up to big corporations to protect rental housing.”
An interview with social equity activist and entrepreneur Devin Alexander
Psych Drama Company Founder Wendy Lippe on her company’s two ambitious new audio productions
I may be a cynical prick, but I’m also somewhat of an optimist, at least when it comes to the commercialization of cannabis.
“We need to bring in people who know better than we do, that’s kind of been our success model.”
“Unlike folkloric BU admin dicks, the last thing I want to do is cause irrational alarm over relatively small threats.”
“We didn’t anticipate how many people were going to actually show up, so we only made 100 bags. Then a bus came.”
“It’s never over. I just have to be careful that I don’t slip back into the world of the troll.”
Jef Czekaj on the collision of picture books for kids and grown-up weirdo music
The producer’s producer steers away from hoppy IPAs
Dig film shows in the evening. Proceeds to benefit the Chelmsford Food Pantry.
For this particular issue, we went a little overboard, I will concede.
Supercharged newfangled beers that honor the brewery’s North Shore homebase
Read this before sharing that dancing robot meme your mom sent to you
"With four nominations this year, we’re one of the standout papers nationally."
Are you one of those people who insists that travelers venture outside of downtown? I certainly do.
“My lyrics became more and more about characters I’d create, or situations, vignettes, plots.”
“I thought maybe I could just talk to people for two years and report back about what happened, but then I started seeing all this research and it started to explain why I enjoyed having these interactions.”
“I basically put myself in the shoes of those who I’ve known that have spent time out there and told a few of the stories that just aren’t getting told.”
I’m not sure what it will take to stop the rich from getting wealthier at the expense of everyone else, but considering the battle at hand I am excited to flank and collaborate with the Corporate Behavior Index
"This column isn’t just about the powers of pickleball, though, but rather friendly competitive sports of most kinds."
“Where political careers are built on favors and rewards, recriminations and reprisals, it is natural that the political career should attach only secondary importance to the merits of issues.”
"It is absolutely critical that Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville maintain malleable minds around the issues of restaurant licensing and public consumption in general."
“Whether you like my raps or not, you’re smiling.”
The alleged organizers of “cannaBOS,” aka “Boston's First Cannabis Festival,” are promising “Great Live Music,” “Cold Beer,” “Giveaways,” and “Cannabis Related brands … on site!”
Investigators may never locate the Gardner paintings, but Governor Baker might be able to retrieve this missing sculpture for Mass with a phone call
An opportunity for those who read us to see who we are and get a glimpse of why we do what we do, plus a little bit of how we do it.
“My administration is doubling down on our work to stand up the Boston Office of Police Accountability and Transparency.”
“We’re not going to survive for 20 more years if we don’t do this [expansion].”
From violations of the residency requirement, to cops caught with their hands in the overtime kitty, to domestic violence and drug possession, to the wholesale beating of protesters, it never ends.
