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ONES 2 WATCH: LORD FELIX

Written by Posted April 18, 2019 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

Behind the visor with the Brockton hip-hop artist behind ‘Nothing’

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: BMAs, Boston Music Awards, Brockton, hip hop, hojoko, Lord Felix

CANNABIS CHAMPIONS: AN UPDATE ON THE BROCKTON FRONT

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted September 2, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Talking Joints Memo

While Brockton drags its feet on cannabis, an entrepreneur perseveres in spite of prohibitionists

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Talking Joints Memo Tagged With: #mapoli, Brockton, cannabis, Cannabis Business Association, Cannabis Control Commission, CBA, Commonwealth, Gary Leonard, Mass, Massachusetts, medical marijuana, MMA, Natural Agricultural Products, politics CCC, Steven Hoffman, weed

THROWBACK: IS HOMELESSNESS WORSE IN BOSTON NOW THAN IT WAS A CENTURY AGO?

Written by PETER ROBERGE Posted August 1, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

Boston’s most infamous homeless shelter was established only a few years later, in 1915, under Mayor James Michael Curley, who was as well known for his corruption as he was for being a friend, however superficially, to the downtrodden.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: Boston, Brockton, Dirty Old Boston, homelessness, Long Island, Marty Walsh, Quincy, throwback

JUDGE DREAD: SINCE YOU’RE ALREADY WORRYING ABOUT TRUMP’S APPOINTMENTS …

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted October 18, 2016 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Baker’s judicial picks include a corporate lawyer and a star DUI attorney

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, Arthur Garrity Jr., Beacon Hill, Braintree, Brockton, Charlie Baker, Donald Trump, dui, Ed Sharkansky, Governor's Council, JNC, judgeship, Judicial Nominating Commission, Plymouth County, SCOTUS. POTUS. Karen F. Green, Supreme Judicial Court

BRIEFS: MASS DISPENSARY UPDATE FAQ

Written by DIG STAFF Posted May 5, 2015 Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Last Monday, a judge in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston officially noted what we have all known for a while ...

Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Brockton, Charlie Baker, Delahunt, Department of Public Health, Deval Patrick, DPH, Mashpee, Mass Dispensaries, Massachusetts Marijuana, medical marijuana, prohibition

A GUY NAMED JASON WALKS INTO A BAR…

Written by SUSANNA JACKSON Posted November 20, 2014 Filed Under: Performing Arts

“People come in expecting leprechauns and rainbows, the sort of American and phony version of Irish culture,” says McCool on the misconceptions surrounding Irish theater. “Instead, they get a piece set in a meat plant in Belfast with prostitutes and drug dealers. Very gritty and very real.”

Filed Under: Performing Arts Tagged With: Access The Arts, affordable arts, Boston, boston arts, boston university, Brockton, D.C., Dennis Houlihan, Dig Boston, DigBoston, Dublin, Fishamble Theatre, Great Artists Steal, Guinness, Hatem Addel, Irish arts, Jason McCool, Jim O’Hanlon, Marina Carr, McCool, Nationals, nonprofit, Owen McCafferty, Scenes from The Big Picture, Seamus Collins, Sean Maguire, Solas Nua, stage readings, The Buddhist of Castleknock, The Burren, tweed, Washington

ACCESS THE ARTS: ENJOY ALL THE SCENE HAS TO OFFER

Written by SUSANNA JACKSON Posted November 20, 2014 Filed Under: Visual Arts

If you're a student who blew through your semester’s savings by the end of September, someone who hands over each paycheck directly to their landlord, or someone busy working to find work, sneezing next to one of greater Boston's many arts institutions can feel like an overdraft threat to your bank account. That should’t be the case, and in many instances, it’s not.

Filed Under: Visual Arts Tagged With: 35 Below Wrap Parties, A.R.T., Access The Arts, affordable arts, Ai Weiwei, All Cramped Up, american repertory theater, artist, Bad Habit Productions, BCA, Boston, boston arts, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston Public Library, Boston Symphony Orchestra, boston university, Brockton, BSO, BSO 101: Are You Listening? Variations on Variations, BSO For Dummies, Burlesque, Busch-Reisinger, cantab, Cheap Seats, Chinese jade, Columbus Park, Company One Theater, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Museum, Copley square, courtyard, D.C., Dennis Houlihan, Dig Boston, DigBoston, Dinah DeVille, Dinah DeVille and The Bloodstains, Dublin, Dudley Square, Eve Ensler, Facebook, Fishamble Theatre, Flying Books Under Black Rain Painting, Fogg, fort point, Free, Gauguin, Great Artists Steal, Guinness, Haley House, Haley House Bakery café, Harvard Art Museums, harvard square, Hatem Addel, homophobia, House Slam, huntington theatre company, Irish arts, Janae JOhnson, Jason McCool, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jim O’Hanlon, John Kuntz, lizard lounge, Lowell, Lyric Stage Company, Marina Carr, McCool, Merrimack, middle east downstairs, Midway, Nationals, Necessary Monsters, nonprofit, O.P.C., O’Keefe, Olivia Thirlby, Owen McCafferty, Pat Falco, piazza, poetry, poets, Porsha Olayiwola, public art, Punk Rockin’ + Pastie Poppin’, racism, Rebecca Horn, Renzo Piano, residency, Roxbury, Scenes from The Big Picture, Seamus Collins, Sean Maguire, sexism, Shephard Fairey, Shockheaded Peter, Slainte!, Solas Nua, south end, SpeakEasy Stage, spoken word, stage readings, student deals, Student Rush, subversive art, The Buddhist of Castleknock, The Burren, The Hub Theater Co. of Boston, THE REAL THING, the Sackler, The Tale of The Allergist’s Wife, Tom Stoppard, transphobia, tweed, Untitled November, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, veteran discounts, Vincent van Gogh, visual art, Washington

CATEGORY IMPERATIVE: SOME HANDSOME LEATHER FOOTWEAR FROM A GUY WITH ROOTS IN THE LOCAL SHOE BIZ

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted October 13, 2014 Filed Under: LIFESTYLE, Shop

His grandfather opened and operated a shoe component manufacturing company in Brockton 30 years ago. After buying a standard pair of boat shoes in college, Shuman came to the realization that things in the leathery foot sheath world had gotten stale for fellas over the years. In his eyes, the solution lay with the Millennials.

Filed Under: LIFESTYLE, Shop Tagged With: boat shoes, Brockton, Category 5, Clark's, DigBoston, Gore-Tex, leather shoes, LOAFERS, millennials, puma, shoe, shoes, Sperry Top Sider, Sperry's, Subury

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