“I honestly thought that the most challenging thing would be to create this narrative of a city that doesn’t exist anymore purely with raw materials that everyone considers trash. Ads are cutting room floor. It’s like when you make a pie and you have extra dough and you make snickerdoodles out of it.”
PUBLIC TRANSIT IN BOSTON HASN’T GOTTEN VERY FAR IN 130 YEARS
We pulled more than 1,000 words from the episode’s transcript, replaced (a minimal number of) dated terms like “horses” with more neutral or contemporary ones, and excerpted it below for you to have a good laugh (and/or cry) as you read this on an un-air-conditioned Red Line on the hottest day of the summer.
AROUND MY WAY: THE PULL UP
The latest quarterly expression of their mutual affection, the Pull Up, will showcase the area’s emerging and established talent. But for this unique crew, it’s not just about seeing artists perform live—it’s about the building of community that comes from regular connections, and fixing systems that for too long have denied people an equal shot.
JOB PROMISES, THEN AND NOW
From textiles to technology, and the American House to Amazon
CURL TO ACTION
The legacy of Massachusetts curling clubs and the making of a Paralympian
10 WELCOME BACK WALKS
Hikes that will help you get to know Boston better
REMEMBERING THE HUB’S ADORABLE AND EXPLOITED NEWSIES
Through the warts and beauty of it all (but mostly the warts), street photographer, sociologist, and activist Lewis Wickes Hine focused on the seedy underworld of child news distribution
SPECIAL FEATURE: THE LAND BOSTON FORGOT
Hundreds of Allston residents fought in the streets to save their neighborhood. Now, after a series of land swaps, Harvard’s ivy vines are creeping in again. This is for those who fought, and who fight, for their homes.
ON THE GRID: CLIMBING THE DORCHESTER GAS TANK IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE AND ART
In 1971, artist and former activist nun Corita Kent was commissioned to tackle the largest copyrighted work in the world: the freestanding Rainbow Swash gas tank towering above the Southeast Expressway off I-93, overlooking Dorchester Bay under the Hub skyline.
MEDIA FARM: WITH NEW BOOK, FORMER MAYOR MENINO FINALLY GETS TO WRITE THE HEADLINES
Menino presents a version of the past four decades of local politics that’s absolutely entertaining, but should be taken with a pound of salt.
