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CURRENT STREET EDITION

DIG 23.02 – 1/28/21

Britni de la Cretaz

SPECIAL FEATURE: FULL SWING

Written by BRITNI DE LA CRETAZ Posted April 4, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, LIFESTYLE, Non-fiction

Most boys will never be major league baseball players. Up until now, though, no woman has ever been one. For men, it’s a long shot. For women, it’s a fantasy, something reinforced by the very name of the camp—a name that can seem both inspiring and insulting at once.

Filed Under: FEATURES, LIFESTYLE, Non-fiction Tagged With: A League of Their Own, baseball, Boston, Britni de la Cretaz, fantasy camp, Florida, Joe Castiglione, Red Sox, Red Sox Nation, women's fantasy camp, women's sports, Yankees

OUR YEAR IN NEWS + FEATURES: FROM HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS, TO THE POLICE STATE, TO TRANSPORTATION

Written by DIG STAFF Posted December 26, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

As we strive to communicate every time our keyboards get clicking, the stories we bring you in DigBoston is either news you aren’t getting elsewhere, or the people’s version of the capitalist rubbish found in mainstream media. And man oh man, we unearthed a lot of those critical hidden nuggets in the past 12 months.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: 2017, BINJ, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Britni de la Cretaz, Carolyn Bick, Daniel DeFraia, Derek Kouyoumjian, DigBoston, Eoin Higgins, intersectional politics, Jonathan Riley, Joshua Eaton, Journalism, Kori Feener, Kylie Obermeier, Laura Kiesel, Maya Shaffer, Sarah Betancourt, Seth Kershner

HANCOCKS, KNOCKERS, AND SHAMROCKS (A GAY BOWL DISPATCH)

Written by BRITNI DE LA CRETAZ Posted October 11, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

Teams with names like Toronto Mounties, Boston Longfellows, and New York Shade huddle up, discussing strategy and formations.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: Bob Kraft, Boston, Boston Longfellows, Britni de la Cretaz, Division, Donald Trump, F(l)ag Football, football, Gay Bowl, Josh Kraft, LGBTQ, New York Rebels, New York Shade, New York Warriors Black, Regan McKendry, Toronto Mounties

LAWMAKERS PUSH TO RENAME THE YAWKEY MBTA STATION

Written by BRITNI DE LA CRETAZ Posted August 17, 2017 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

"I think [the proposed bill] makes perfect sense... I’m confused how it’s named ‘Yawkey’ anyway, in light of what we know about him.”

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, Britni de la Cretaz, Charlottesville, confederate statues, fenway park, lawmakers, legislature, massachusetts state house, MBTA, naacp, racism, Red Sox, station, statues, Yawkey Way, Zineb Curren

THE ‘BIG DIG’ BITES BACK

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted August 2, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm

It was surprising, if not baffling, to watch broadcast news icon Emily Rooney blast the feature on Beat the Press, a local weekly media show that she hosts on the Boston PBS station WGBH.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm Tagged With: Boston Red Sox, Britni de la Cretaz, DigBoston, Emily Rooney, media, media criticism, PBS, The Yawkey Way, WEEI, WGBH

THE BPD CAMERA PILOT PROGRAM HAS BEEN CREATED WITHOUT THE INPUT OR APPROVAL FROM THE VOICES IN THE COMMUNITY WHO KNOW THE MOST ABOUT THE ISSUE

Written by BRITNI DE LA CRETAZ Posted May 12, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical

Another case of a camera shy BPD

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical Tagged With: Boston, BPCAT, BPD, Britni de la Cretaz, law enforcement, police cameras, William Evans

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