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Dig This: ManRay Nightclub Oral History At Cambridge Public Library

Written by DIG STAFF Posted April 26, 2022 Filed Under: A+E, Books

“Central to It All: A Look at Central Square, the Nightclub ManRay, and Twenty Years of Change”

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: arts, books, Boston History, nightclubs

Dig This: Rights Along the Shore At Boston Center for the Arts

Written by DIG STAFF Posted April 25, 2022 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

New exhibition highlights struggles to desegregate public beaches and pools

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: arts, Boston History, Photography, throwback

WORKSHOPPING HUB HISTORY: AN A+ FOR BOSTON MUSIC ICON FRED TAYLOR’S NEW A-LIST MEMOIR

Written by DOUG HALL Posted December 30, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Books, Interviews

"Taylor developed and maintained relationships with musicians that lasted a lifetime."

Filed Under: A+E, Books, Interviews Tagged With: arts, books, Boston History, local books, music venues

SPECIAL BOSTON THROWBACK: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF HAKIM JAMAL

Written by GEORGE HASSETT Posted February 18, 2020 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

Friday marks 55 years since the assassination of Malcolm X, and the complexities of his life and his death are increasingly being examined from different angles. A lesser-known but fascinating character in Malcolm X’s life is Hakim Jamal, his “cousin” who, like Malcolm X, transformed from a Roxbury hoodlum to an author and activist.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: Activism, Black History, black panthers, Boston, Boston History, Dead Level, Detroit Red, Hakim Jamal, Heroin, Louis X, Malcolm Little, malcolm x, Michael X, Roxbury, throwback, throwbacks

MUSIC SPECIAL: ROCK AGAINST RACISM TURNS 40

Written by C. SHARDAE JOBSON Posted November 20, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Interviews, MUSIC, Non-fiction

Here, five individuals associated with RAR share their memories of Boston back then, what they gained from having RAR in their lives, and how, in 2019, we can continue to honor the groundwork RAR laid for a better Boston.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Interviews, MUSIC, Non-fiction Tagged With: 1980s, 1984, bboys, bgirls, Boston, Boston Hip Hop, Boston History, Boston rap, BPS, breakdancing, breaking, Dorchester, hip hop, HONK!, Madison Park, oral histories, oral history, race, racism, Rapperteers, Reebee Garofalo, Rock Against Racism, Roxbury, Spiun City Rockers, UMass, UMASS-Boston

DIRTY OLD BOSTON: THAT FUNKY SQUARE

Written by Posted May 12, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston, Eats

Taken from this world in the late ’90s and turned into an Abercrombie & Fitch—a development that till this day peeves many square vets, the loss being one of those perfect early symbols of accelerated gentrification in retrospect—the Tasty was a one-room diner that was about 30 feet long and a quarter that wide.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston, Eats Tagged With: Boston History, Cambridge, Cambridge history, Dirty Old Boston, harvard square, history, old Harvard Square, The tasty

DIRTY OLD BOSTON: MISSING JIMMY’S

Written by Posted March 30, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

Jimmy’s, which first opened as the Liberty Cafe and was eventually renamed after its owner, had little competition until 1963, when Anthony’s Pier 4 was opened by restaurateur Anthony Athanas.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: Anthony’s Pier 4, Boston History, brother cleve, cocktails, Dirty Old Boston, Jimmy's Harborside, Legal Seafood, Ninth Ward, Seafood, South Boston, throwback, Ward 8, waterfront

THE EERILY FAMILIAR TALE OF SHADRACH MINKINS AND THE CENTURIES-OLD FEDERAL THREAT TO THE COMMONWEALTH

Written by ZACK HUFFMAN Posted March 7, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

The guards prepared to fight any slave hunters who entered Boston, and specifically patrolled the streets of the West End and the northern slope of Beacon Hill, which at the time was home to the majority of the city’s black population.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Boston History, Fugitive Slave Act, Journalism, Shadrach Minkins, slavery, throwback, throwbacks

BUY ME, BOSTON: CLASSIC ADVERTISEMENT PATCHWORK PROVIDES VAST PORTRAIT OF MASS CULTURAL HISTORY

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted November 7, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Books, FEATURES, Non-fiction

"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."

Filed Under: A+E, Books, FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: books, Boston History, Boston magazines, Boston Media, Brian Coleman, Buy Me Boston, Dirty Old Boston, media, throwback Rathskeller Brattle Theatre

PUBLIC TRANSIT IN BOSTON HASN’T GOTTEN VERY FAR IN 130 YEARS

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted July 17, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

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.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: American Experience, Boston History, congestion, Dirty Old Boston, history, MBTA, shortcuts, subway, throwback, traffic

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