
They thought we were just a bunch of fuckin’ scumbags putting out a paper, having a good time, smoking a bunch of pot. But they couldn’t give up that ultimate control and let us go nuts.
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Written by BARRY THOMPSON Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
They thought we were just a bunch of fuckin’ scumbags putting out a paper, having a good time, smoking a bunch of pot. But they couldn’t give up that ultimate control and let us go nuts.
Written by BARRY THOMPSON Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
"I have one regret from my Dig time, and it’s the story I never wrote."
Written by BARRY THOMPSON Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
“Sure! I’ll run into an abandoned subway tunnel for a freelancer I just met! No problem!”
Written by BARRY THOMPSON Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
"It was kind of a perfect storm moment. Gay marriage was on the ballot. When you get a cover like that, it sticks with you for a while."
Written by BARRY THOMPSON Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
I asked Billy Joel fans questions that a fundamentalist Christian would ask after a Marilyn Manson concert in 1997, swapping the names “Billy Joel” for “Marilyn Manson.”
Written by BARRY THOMPSON Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
The intern wrote something like, “The ’80s! It’s fun! Dance party!” I looked at that and said, “No, this is too earnest. I will destroy it.”
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: Dear Reader, NEWS+OPINIONS
Here at the Dig, along with our partners from the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, we are busy working on multiple investigations—you know, the kind that critics who don’t know the first thing about independent media in 2018 keep alleging that papers like ours have stopped producing.