

In Allston-Brighton and around the region, progressives mount unprecedented challenges against longtime incumbents
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Written by MAX L. CHAPNICK Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
In Allston-Brighton and around the region, progressives mount unprecedented challenges against longtime incumbents
Written by MAX L. CHAPNICK Filed Under: A+E, Books, Interviews
“A People’s Guide to Greater Boston,” out now from the University of California Press, is a very readable text but one that’s hard to define. A guide book with a historical, left-wing perspective, it is both thoroughly well-researched and pleasing to the eye: a high-production-value text and a far-reaching survey of important sites in and around the city.
Written by MAX L. CHAPNICK Filed Under: A+E, Books, COVID
One pandemic event had attendees from Germany, South Africa, and Hawaii: “people were up at like three in the morning to come here, or a version of coming, to hear this author.”
Written by MAX L. CHAPNICK Filed Under: A+E, Drinks, Eats, FEATURES, LIFESTYLE, MUSIC, Non-fiction, Performing Arts
Besides the voices, the sound effects, like wind or foot-stomps and the open-tuned guitars, Bodkin introduces his shows with the sort of accessible yet scholarly lore that eases listeners into his worlds.
Written by MAX L. CHAPNICK Filed Under: A+E, Books, Poetry
Back in the fall of 2013, before Trump and #MeToo, I first encountered Olivia Gatwood’s poetry at a Lower East Side poetry slam, which she won. To someone with a newly minted degree in English from a small liberal arts school isolated from a flourishing ... read more
Written by MAX L. CHAPNICK Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
“For me, my story and why I’m running are so intertwined. My story is that I’m a survivor, I’m an immigrant, I’m a Wall Street regulator, I’m a mother,” she says. These experiences “compelled” her, to use her word, to run for office.
Written by MAX L. CHAPNICK Filed Under: A+E, Books
Written by MAX L. CHAPNICK Filed Under: A+E, Books
Written by MAX L. CHAPNICK Filed Under: A+E, Books
Ludwig Boltzmann was an excruciatingly anxious person and also one of the best scientific minds of his generation. Boltzmann’s revolutionary work on entropy paved the way for Einstein’s quantum revolution of the early 20th century, and yet he still spent ... read more
Written by MAX L. CHAPNICK Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
"The wealth gap, the income gap in our society has gotten to the point where it is starting to drag us backwards. And it’s going to really start dragging us backwards if government doesn’t step in to address it."