Transit policy has historically focused on expansion through suburban systems—serving White and wealthier constituents more reliably than those living in inner cities.
EDITORIAL: SAVE COMMUNITY MEDIA
Tell the FCC That You Support Your Local Cable Access Station by Dec 14 At DigBoston, my colleagues and I put a lot of effort into working with local community media stations around Greater Boston. Because they are the heart and soul of grassroots democratic public broadcasting in the United States. And because […]
WHEEL OF TUNES: BOMBA ESTÉREO
The Latin poppers talk planting trees, Colombian stereotypes, and dancing with their kids in the kitchen.
FOTOBOM: KHRUANGBIN @ ROYALE
Some bands have a pretty distinct aesthetic when it comes to their music, how it sounds and how it’s presented. Khruangbin have taken that vision and run with it, all the way to the tailor and back. Laying down the most laid-back grooves one can think of, they coolly play a brand of music […]
BOSTON MUSIC AWARDS: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
From who’s nominated to why it’s a big deal, here’s everything you need to know to celebrate the music scene’s biggest night.
SMOOTH OPERATORS: SKINCARE SPLURGES AND SELF-CARE DELIGHTS FOR KINGS AND QUEENS
Blemishes or other dermatological issues can make it easy to please them, in some cases with just a stocking stuffer.
OUR ARBITRARY INDIE GIFT GUIDE
From yule, to fuel, to cool, to school, here’s our first random rhyming list of gifts
HUNTINGTON’S MAN IN THE RING A TOTAL KNOCKOUT
★★★★★ A gentle Caribbean breeze gets caught in a storm of violent masculinity in Man in the Ring, Michael Cristofer’s play about the life of boxer Emile Griffith. In a first-rate production directed by Michael Greif (Dear Evan Hansen; Rent), the legendary prizefighter’s past, present, and future battle it out in an unforgiving […]
LAND HO, SO-SO: TWELFTH NIGHT AND SHIPWRECKED! IN REP AT MOONBOX PRODUCTIONS
★★☆☆☆ If Duke Orsino in Shakespeare’s beloved comedy Twelfth Night has picked up his (sometimes misbegotten) ideas of love from hearing enchanting strains of music, Louis de Rougemont, the self-proclaimed narrator/protagonist/hero/villain of Donald Margulies’ Shipwrecked! An Entertainment has gotten his ideas about adventure from books. The Odyssey, Robinson Caruso, Ten Thousand Leagues Under […]
GRINCH STEALS CHRISTMAS AND SHOW IN WANG THEATRE MUSICAL
The Grinch formulates a plan to steal Christmas from the noisy and cheery Whos by dressing up as Santa Claus and stealing all of their presents and decorations and “the log for their fire” with help from his dog, Max.
