What did you accomplish during the Year Of No Live Music? Did you put your time and effort into a specific project, or did you just try to keep your head above water and cope from day to day?
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“I’M NOT HOLDING YOUR COAT”: HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER PENS MASS MOSH PIT MEMOIR
"Punk also reminds me to show my students how they can use the power of words to communicate and to change the world."
OLD-SCHOOL MASSACHUSETTS VENUES: A LOVE STORY
About 5% of the rich history of performance venues in our lovely, funky, fractured city.
OPINION: ENTERTAINMENT / POLITICAL BLEED-THROUGH
Some might say that the success of bringing the ethic of entertainment into news reporting is its own justification and what’s wrong with that, anyway? I say that while it might be over-drawing the case to say that Ed Ansin’s style of news broadcasting led us to the Trump presidency, there’s no question they dovetail nicely.
OPINION: ENTERTAINMENT/POLITICAL BLEED-THROUGH
Some might say that the success of bringing the ethic of entertainment into news reporting is its own justification and what’s wrong with that, anyway? I say that while it might be over-drawing the case to say that Ed Ansin’s style of news broadcasting led us to the Trump presidency, there’s no question they dovetail nicely.
“END SANCTIONS, SAVE LIVES”: MAY DAY CARAVAN ROLLS PAST STATE HOUSE
“The impact of the [COVID-19] pandemic has been overwhelming in our country. ... It has been especially devastating for the poor and for Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. At the same time, wealthy elites value their profits more than lives."
A NOTE ON THE CURRENT ANTI-WAR PROTESTS
Following the US assassination of a high-ranking Iranian commander
SPECIAL EXCERPT: TRUMP, ALT-RIGHT, SADO-POPULISM, AND APOCALYPTIC NEOFASCISM
Donald Trump is the product of a childhood immersed in White racist nationalism, hyper-masculinist misogyny, and the sneering elitism of the wealthiest 1%. His years as a teenager at New York Military Academy honed his authoritarianism and militarism.
FOTOBOM: THE NATIONAL @ AGGANIS ARENA
I said it when I last caught up with The National, headlining two nights at a New York City festival of their own curation last year, and it bears repeating now: it’s still a little weird for this band, of all bands, ...
AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE DIG: VOL. II, EPISODE 5
"The effect that Jeff’s nipples had on me is similar to if you look at an eclipse for 30 seconds, and then you just see it in your eyes for the rest of your life."