“The belief was always that this told a story about social change and people speaking up for what is right. If it was just about Boston, it would have a limited appeal, so really from the beginning we looked at how ’BCN in fact had a much broader influence, and then we tried to tell that story.”
SPECIAL EXCERPT: MAFIA SPIES
Johnny Roselli was one of two top gangsters recruited by the CIA to try and kill Fidel Castro. But Roselli had a life-long secret that this bold assassination plot threatened to reveal.
ANJAN BISWAS AND THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF COMEDY AND PUZZLES
“A large chunk of escape room clientele is corporate team building, so every day I meet people my age with mortgages and 401Ks while my coworkers and I bonk each other on the head with plastic swords and talk about weird online sex communities.”
WILL BOSTON SET A NEW REGIONAL PRECEDENT AND FINALLY PAY RECYCLING WORKERS A LIVING WAGE?
For the first time in the city’s history, Boston’s living wage ordinance might finally get applied to low-paid workers sorting the city’s recycling …
‘I DO POETRY ALL THE TIME’
Meet Boston’s new Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola It’s March 12 at Emerson College’s Paramount Theater, and the City of Boston is holding its official celebration of its newest and third poet laureate, Porsha Olayiwola. A poet laureate’s main task is to raise a city’s valuation of poetry, but this does not feel […]
STRANGE OASIS: SIX YEARS OF DEEP THOUGHTS IN JAMAICA PLAIN
A pet pig would not be entirely out of place at Deep Thoughts. The store is idiosyncratic.
HOW AMERICA’S FIRST MUSLIM SUPERHERO SURFACED IN BOSTON AFTER 70 YEARS IN RETIREMENT
Kismet, Man of Fate, is almost the exact opposite of the Hollywood manufactured Boston caricature.
THE MUM FUND: TOUGH QUESTIONS FOLLOWING AN AUDIT OF A CHARITY MEANT TO HELP BOSTONIANS IN NEED
“Insufficient and ineffective utilization of the fund may risk the Charitable Trust not meeting its mission and objectives to assist City of Boston residents in need.”
DAVID SEDARIS DOESN’T DO IT FOR THE STORY
An interview with David Sedaris Calypso, humorist David Sedaris’ tenth book, was released last May to rave reviews. A (reliably) hilarious collection of essays, it’s notable for its darker outlook – still funny, but not blind to the realities of growing old in the Trump era. I caught up with Sedaris as he […]
BOSTON’S ‘RADICAL BLACK GIRL’ BUILDS ARTISTIC PLATFORMS WHERE THEY DIDN’T EXIST
“I teach with the intention of helping other people enjoy being in their bodies.”
