THE SOUL SHOP: A RECORDING STUDIO COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE IN A DIGITAL PANDEMIC ...
“What does the music ask you to do? Not the band, not the client, not the producer, not even yourself. What does the music require?” ...
THE SHORT HISTORY OF A TINY (DIY) VENUE
The Tourist Trap has gone back to just being a basement again ...
A NOT-SO-HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
The local restaurant scene one year later, and what the future may hold for dining and drinking spots across the region ...
ONTOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE
Slavoj Zizek and how the pandemic has undermined “the coordinates of our basic access to reality.” ...
HOMEWORK FOR BEACON HILL’S COVID EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & MANAGEMENT COMMIT...
Please tweet all of these articles at Massachusetts lawmakers ...
[UPDATE: WE GOT IT!] WHERE IS THE CONTRACT FOR MASSACHUSETTS’ VACCINE APPOINTMEN...
Following the publication of this article on Monday morning, a state media relations person finally sent us the contract we requested on Feb. 9 ...
WHY ARE HALF OF MASS CORRECTION OFFICERS REFUSING THE COVID VACCINE?
Even as the pandemic rages in prisons, vaccines and masks are seen as “a sign of weakness” ...
INTERVIEW: RAAVI & THE HOUSEPLANTS
On recording remotely during a pandemic and rocking even harder ...
GARMENT RENAISSANCE: SELLING OLD GEMS IN A NEW WORLD
“Together we got through the economic crisis after 9/11 and the financial crash of 2008. With a little luck and perseverance, we will find a way to survive this crisis too.” ...
GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING KEY TO PASSING JOURNALISM COMMISSION LAW
Journalists mounted unusual lobbying effort to help beleaguered local news outlets ...
BOSTON TO INCREASE CAPACITY LIMITS STARTING MONDAY
"Since the start of the pandemic, we've made decisions based on science and data. The data right now tells us things are moving in the right direction," said Mayor Walsh ...
NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING RESIDENTS STRUGGLE TO GET VACCINATIONS
"I have tried to make an appointment for myself, but the system always says there is nothing available." ...
VIDEO: FENWAY BECOMES MASS VACCINATION SITE THIS WEEK
“It’s always great being here at Fenway, maybe for a different reason it would be better.” ...
DESPITE EFFECTIVE SHORT-TERM MEASURES, LONG-TERM HOMELESSNESS PERSISTS IN MASS
Despite effective short-term measures, long-term homelessness persists in Mass ...
BOOK REVIEW: A PANDEMIC NURSE’S DIARY
A straightforward telling of one health worker’s story and her dedication to public health ...
THE END OF THE WORLD IN AN AIRBNB
For many nomadic week-to-week renters, this past year’s been both terrifying and enlightening ...
NEARLY A YEAR INTO PANDEMIC, MASS CATS ARE STILL SHORT ON FOOD
“If they only have food enough supplied for them, [people will] make decisions to feed their own pets over themselves.” ...
HANDLING THE HERD: HOW BOSTON BUILT ITS MASSIVE COVID TESTING APPARATUS
“We were all caught pretty off guard when the pandemic hit, but I think that using the resources that we have available to us we have been able to meet the demand at every step.” ...
VIDEO: MASS VACCINES ADMINISTERED TO MOST VULNERABLE AROUND GREATER BOSTON
“I’m not afraid, whatever happens happens,” Thomas said. “That’s just the way it is.” ...
VIDEO: ARTISTS VS PANDEMIC
Performing artists are facing particularly high unemployment in this COVID-wracked year of 2020. Alison Qu, Jude Torres and Alexa Albanese are Boston local artists who live under this pandemic. These interviews were conducted between September to November. Here is a video for their stories during this unprecedented time ...
IT’S HARDER THAN EVER TO FIND A BATHROOM IN BOSTON. WHAT’S THE CITY ...
“They refuse to respond to this humanitarian crisis where people really need them. We’re just ignoring this problem and it’s getting worse and worse.” ...
GHOST STORY: VIRTUAL KITCHENS APPEAR TO BE THE NEXT BIG THING, BUT AT WHAT COST?
Ghost kitchens simply don’t have a need for hosts, servers, bartenders, bussers … What happens to those jobs if virtual kitchens continue to flourish? ...
HOW TO DEFEAT THE HARD RIGHT
Some thoughts on the Capitol attack and building a more democratic nation ...
RECAP: BOSTON CITY COUNCIL HEARING ON CREATION OF SANCTUARY SAFE SPACES
“Those specifically that don't have status, yet they’re also contributing every single day.” ...
RESTAURANTS PERSEVERE WHILE HANGING ON A THREAD
There may be light at the end of the rollback thanks to vaccines, but is it too late for some? ...
VIDEO: LONGEST NIGHT MEMORIAL FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE WHO PASSED IN 2020
The 31-year-old service is dedicated to homeless people who died during the past 12 months, and is always held on Dec. 21—the longest night of the year ...
NEWS THROWBACK: CHALLENGING A MISINFORMED ANTI-VAXXER MOVEMENT, THEN AND NOW
In Jacobson, the Supreme Court 'looked at it and said, well, there are times we have individual freedoms and we have to balance that against the public good.' ...
THE ‘GUINEA PIG PHASE’: WHY HISTORY SPURS SOME TO QUESTION VACCINES
“Fauci recognized our distrust in the medical system but assured the audience that the speed of the vaccine does not compromise its safety nor scientific integrity.” ...
BETTER BOSTON ARTS: MICHAEL LEWY
Being “paid with exposure” does not work. “You can die of exposure.” ...
PUBLIC ART HOLDS VALUE DURING PANDEMIC TIMES
Panelists addressed the role of art in this unprecedented period ...
STOP COMCAST DATA CAPS
Heavy pressure will have to be put on the Biden administration to regulate broadband providers ...
WHAT THANKSGIVING AND THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC SHARE
[B]oth the holiday’s development and epidemiological reasons for its present-day decline are rooted in a settler colonial project centered on the pursuit of wealth and ecological exploitation ...
BOSTON’S MURKY WORLD OF OPEN-SOURCE COVID-19 VACCINE RESEARCH
The RaDVaC collective claims to have a COVID-19 vaccine you can make and take at home. With mainstream vaccines close to approval, the project raises puzzling questions about the politics and ethics of scientific research ...
STRANDED: MBTA CUTS, PLUS CABBIES CALL IT QUITS FROM CAMBRIDGE TO CALI
"Transportation as we know it is going to be changing." ...
SHOW LOVE: UPDATES ON THE FIGHT TO SAVE MUSIC VENUES
Grants available for professional musicians in New England and New York’s Upper Hudson Valley ...
THANKS, SOCIOPATHS!
More Mass residents have died from COVID-19 than all the Mass soldiers killed in WWII, but let’s “get back to normal,” right? ...
BETTER BOSTON ARTS: SUMEYA ALI
Addressing the lack of representation of young Black and Brown artists ...
AYANNA PRESSLEY CALLS FOR RELEASE OF PRISONERS FOLLOWING COVID SPIKE
Unsanitary conditions put incarcerated at risk ...
PANDEMIC PAYDAY: CONNECTED MA CONSULTANTS SECURE LARGE COVID ED CONTRACTS
Baker crony and former BPD commish among recipients of no-bid contracts ...
HALLOWEEN TOUR FRIGHTENS THE MASK ONTO YOU
“Ghosts and Gravestones” tour shows corpse to ward off unsafe pandemic practices ...
STATE WIRE: MASS COMPANY ANALYZES WASTEWATER FOR EARLY COVID DETECTION
The company has found it is able to detect COVID levels in an area about a week before human testing catches up ...
IN NATIONWIDE PANDEMIC BIKE SHORTAGE, OPPORTUNITY POPS A WHEELIE AROUND BOSTON
“People need to reimagine what’s possible in terms of exercising outside, riding to work when it’s colder.” ...
FENWAY DARK: AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE, BUT WITH GLIMMERS OF OPTIMISM
“You could feel people were energized about their return and wanted to watch their games.” ...
CITY COUNCILOR MICHELLE WU REVEALS FOOD JUSTICE POLICY PLAN
The plan aims to dismantle inequities illuminated by the coronavirus ...