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PETER ROBERGE

DIRTY OLD BOSTON: THE RISE AND RAGE OF BOSTON PUNK IN THE ’70S, ON FILM

Written by PETER ROBERGE Posted November 2, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

Most subterranean icons never got much recognition in their day, but there have been some consolations in the decades since, in part thanks to Boys From Nowhere: The Story of Boston’s Garage Punk Uprising.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: 1970s, Boston, Boys from Nowhere, Chris Parcellin, Dirty Old Boston, history, Lenny Scolletta, movies, Music, Punk, Sugar Shack, the rat, WBCN

DIRTY OLD BOSTON: THE HUB’S WAR ON SATAN

Written by PETER ROBERGE Posted October 11, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

Looking through old newspapers, it’s clear that there have always been unscrupulous cult leaders in Mass. For the most part, they’ve worked for Christian churches.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: Boston, Dirty Old Boston, Frank Sandford, Globe, Halloween, history, Holy Ghost and Us Society, Salem, Satan, Satanists, throwback, witches

SOUL SURVIVORS: A DEEP LOOK AT THE HUB’S OBSCURE DISCO SCENE

Written by PETER ROBERGE Posted September 19, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

"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."

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: Berklee, Boston Disco, Boston Goes Disco, Cojo, Dirty Old Boston, Larry Wu, Sugar Shack, throwback

THROWBACK: IS HOMELESSNESS WORSE IN BOSTON NOW THAN IT WAS A CENTURY AGO?

Written by PETER ROBERGE Posted August 1, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

Boston’s most infamous homeless shelter was established only a few years later, in 1915, under Mayor James Michael Curley, who was as well known for his corruption as he was for being a friend, however superficially, to the downtrodden.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: Boston, Brockton, Dirty Old Boston, homelessness, Long Island, Marty Walsh, Quincy, throwback

DIRTY OLD BOSTON: HOW HUB MEDIA COVERED KOREA 100 YEARS AGO

Written by PETER ROBERGE Posted June 12, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

But even before North Korea was ruled by some certifiable madman or another, back when the North and South were united, the intrigue coming from the West—including here in Boston—was of a similar fashion, underlined by apprehension over perceived threats, however valid.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: Boston, Dirty Old Boston, history, media, negotiations, North Korea, throwback, Trump

REMEMBERING THE MAY DAY RIOTS

Written by PETER ROBERGE Posted May 1, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

As tensions grew between authorities and socialist types, one infamous standoff in Roxbury in 1919 showed just how grisly things could get. At Monroe Avenue and Humboldt Street, activists and Boston cops fought hand to hand until police backup led to more than 100 arrests.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: 1919, Boston, Boston Police, Dirty Old Boston, labor, May Day, May Day Riots, protests, throwback, unrest

WAKE UP THE EARTH: A SHORT HISTORY OF BOSTON RESILIENCE AND CELEBRATION

Written by PETER ROBERGE Posted April 18, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, DigThis, Dirty Old Boston

In order to make such a corridor for motor vehicles possible, housing would have had to be demolished. As the city saw in the West End and other neighborhoods, “the consequential displacement would affect thousands of longtime residents,” Vrabel said.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, DigThis, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: Activism, Boston, Dirty Old Boston, Festival, I-95, Jamaica Plain, throwback, Wake Up the Earth, WUTE

JOB PROMISES, THEN AND NOW

Written by PETER ROBERGE Posted March 13, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

From textiles to technology, and the American House to Amazon

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: 1918, Boston History, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Dirty Old Boston, history, labor, Massachusetts History, throwback, workers

GET A GRIPPE: THE FLU HIT BOSTON EXTREMELY HARD 100 YEARS AGO

Written by PETER ROBERGE Posted February 19, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Flash back to 100 years ago, when the Spanish flu epidemic was similarly worrying Americans. With vaccine developments not nearly as ubiquitous as they are in 2018, many Boston-area doctors relied on pseudoscience and, out of both desperation and ignorance, said and did whatever they could to tame an ongoing public outrage about flu deaths.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Dirty Old Boston, flu, history, influenza, Massachusetts, throwback

DIRTY OLD BOSTON: HEROIN DAZE

Written by PETER ROBERGE Posted February 1, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

An abridged trudge through Boston’s long, repetitive history of opiate abuse

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: Boston, Dirty Old Boston, Heroin, history, opiates, throwbacks

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