The Dig - Greater Boston's Alternative News Source
Boston politics—in both its state and local variants—seems to consist largely of backroom deals between government officials and major corporations punctuated by rituals of representative democracy that are increasingly put on just for show. Perhaps ...
Their “Dear Jeff” apple bob was a pathetic cornucopia of thick yellowish liquid produced in infected tissue, bubbling with rhetorical bacteria and mayonnaise.
There are myriad practical reasons why Boston should walk away from the Amazon headquarters sweepstakes: an out-of-control real estate and rental market, chronic transit and traffic problems, and an overheated tech sector, which is exacerbating inequality. But ...
At least 17 Massachusetts cities and towns are now preparing to do battle with each other—and hundreds more municipalities nationwide—for the dubious “honor” ...
Sketch of the Merrimack Valley Works plant at North Andover while under construction in 1955
A couple of weeks ago, I criticized the possibility of an Amazon ...
Fresh off of throwing tens of millions of dollars at General Electric, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Massachusetts Gov. Charlie ...
"It turns out that I’m super-regimented in the face of a serious deadline like this one, even though the hysteria and panic linger close to the surface."
Part of a draft of The Pale King was written in a notebook with a character from the animated TV series Rugrats on the cover, another in one featuring a photo of kittens.
An actor by trade who lives in LA, Jack Maxwell has been preparing for a gig that involves bouncing around the globe to share exotic (and sometimes ceremonial or religious) hooch amid colorful stories with locals since boyhood.
Maxwell, a Boston native who grew up in the Southie projects as an ...
