A letter from the group Demand Abolition in response to last week's DigBoston feature story
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COUNTER SERVICE: EXPERIMENTAL DINING SPACE LOOKING TO OPEN IN EARLY 2015
Tasting Counter will be 20 seats wrapping around three sides of the kitchen, with a tiny back of house area and everything else stored out in the dining room (see: dry goods, perishables, etc.). The goal is to bring the guest as close as possible to the origin of the food being produced, cooked, and plated. In short, the whole space is basically one big “chef’s table.”
THIRD WHEELS ROLLING: THE ARC OF INDEPENDENT PARTY PROSPERITY IN MASS IS LONG, BUT IT BENDS TOWARD JUSTICE
Whether you participated or not, the good news is that there may be a chance of douching the State House free of at least some poisonous elements.
TRANSLATING THE GLOBE’S ARTICLE ON BOSTON’S MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY
First the good news: We're finally getting medical cannabis in Boston …
STEVIE WONDER VS. WILL SMITH: “I WISH / WILD, WILD WEST”
For someone in his 60s, Stevie Wonder is more than an American icon. He's a prodigy. Will Smith knew that and didn't even try to play with the original. Instead, he got as ridiculous as it gets.
DANCING AT THE DISCOTHEQUE WITH STARS
"People who fell in love with Funeral and You Forgot It In People were having sex for the first time and getting stoned for the first time and wanting to move out of their house and realizing that life sucks -- aka growing up. We happened to be lucky enough to be there."
A FINAL TOM MENINO ROUNDUP FOR GOOD MEASURE
We thought we’d take the opportunity to lovingly acknowledge some of Menino's rifts with alternative media you haven’t heard much about in the past week.
SPECIAL FEATURE: BOSTON’S STRANGE AND PROBLEMATIC NEW APPROACH TO CURBING PROSTITUTION (AND ADDRESSING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN)
The conflation of sex work and sex trafficking is common. It’s also troubling.
THE BRA CONSPIRACY AGAINST MEDICAL MARIJUANA
Another reason medical cannabis is doomed in the City of Boston
BOSTON’S STRANGE AND PROBLEMATIC NEW APPROACH TO CURBING PROSTITUTION (AND ADDRESSING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN)
The conflation of sex work and sex trafficking is common. It’s also troubling.