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A VISION FOR PIER 5 IN CHARLESTOWN (AND FOR THE FUTURE OF BOSTON)

Written by CHRISTOPHER NICODEMUS Posted June 22, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Many of us are interested in waterfront accessibility for the general population, attention to social justice, and continuing to provide amenities to disadvantaged community members.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: charlestown, navy yard, news, opinion

FOOD IN THE PUBLICK INTEREST: A TALE OF TWO VERY DIFFERENT COLONIAL RESTAURANTS

Written by MARC HURWITZ Posted February 26, 2020 Filed Under: Drinks, Eats, GTFO, LIFESTYLE

While the Wayside Inn has the feel of a special-occasion place, the Warren Tavern is a completely different animal, instead being a rather small watering hole located in one of the most congested neighborhoods in Boston, though also one of its most beautiful.

Filed Under: Drinks, Eats, GTFO, LIFESTYLE Tagged With: BBBB, Beer, charlestown, colonial restaurants, eats, Food, GTFO, Massachusetts, tourism, Warren Tavern, Wayside Inn

LOCAL MOVIE, MAJOR THEATER: HOW FILMMAKER JOHNNY HICKEY GETS HIS MASS FLICKS ON THE BIG SCREEN

Written by DIG STAFF Posted October 17, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Film

"You go to these different places and you’re not Hollywood, you’re a local guy. It was really hard the first time, but Oxy Morons earned me credit in that world—a lot of people I became connected with really came to believe in what I am doing."

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: Boston, Brittany Baldi, charlestown, Chris "C.T." Tamburello, drugs, EDM, Emilee Fitzpatrick, F.I.G.H.T. Opiates, fentanyl, films, Foxboro, Gloucester, Habit, Habitual, horror, independent films, Johnny Hickey, Mood Swing productions, movies, North Shore, Oxy Morons, Oxycontin, Real World, Showcase Cinema d Lux, Stiz Grimey

RECYCLING FOLLOW-UP: THE ROAD TO ZERO

Written by COLE ROSENGREN Posted July 2, 2019 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Despite a relative win for recycling workers, living wage advocates pledge to keep on fighting

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACE, ACORN, Activism, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Cambridge, casella, charlestown, curbside recycling, Dorothy Kelly Gay, Fight For 15, Fighting for a Living Wage, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, Joe Curtatone, KTI Recycling, labor, living wage, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, MassCOSH, mayor curtatone, mayor Marty Walsh, menino, New York, OSHA, recology, recyclable, recycling, Seattle, SOMERVILLE, Stephanie Luce, Teamsters, union, wages, workplace safety, zero waste

WILL BOSTON SET A NEW REGIONAL PRECEDENT AND FINALLY PAY RECYCLING WORKERS A LIVING WAGE?

Written by COLE ROSENGREN Posted April 12, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

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 ...

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: ACE, ACORN, Activism, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Cambridge, casella, charlestown, curbside recycling, Dorothy Kelly Gay, Fight For 15, Fighting for a Living Wage, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, Joe Curtatone, KTI Recycling, labor, living wage, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, MassCOSH, mayor curtatone, mayor Marty Walsh, menino, New York, OSHA, recology, recyclable, recycling, Seattle, SOMERVILLE, Stephanie Luce, Teamsters, union, wages, workplace safety, zero waste

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: LIVING ON SCRAPS

Written by COLE ROSENGREN Posted July 12, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

Boston is aiming to achieve “zero waste,” which some say can create more living-wage jobs. Is part of this lofty goal rooted in the region’s dirtiest hypocrisy?

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: ACE, ACORN, Activism, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Cambridge, casella, charlestown, curbside recycling, Dorothy Kelly Gay, Fight For 15, Fighting for a Living Wage, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, Joe Curtatone, KTI Recycling, labor, living wage, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, MassCOSH, mayor curtatone, mayor Marty Walsh, menino, New York, OSHA, recology, recyclable, recycling, Seattle, SOMERVILLE, Stephanie Luce, Teamsters, union, wages, workplace safety, zero waste

MACRO AGGRESSIONS: TRUMP FLAGS, RIGHT-WING MEMES LINE WALLS AT BOSTON COMPANY, WORKERS BE DAMNED

Written by EOIN HIGGINS Posted December 20, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

Incendiary Pepe the Frog memes, printed out and hung around the office. A Trump Make America Great Again flag covering a large portion of a workspace wall. An image of Bernie Sanders with the word “Cuck” printed over his chest.

Filed Under: FEATURES, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: Boston, charlestown, Donald Trump, employees, Employment, harassment, memes, Pepe the Frog, SimpliSafe, workplace

HALLOWEEN READ: ROOM WITH A BOO

Written by SAM BALTRUSIS Posted October 18, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

New England’s hotels where guests check in… but don’t check out?

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: 13 Most Haunted Hotels & Inns of New England, Back Bay, Boston, charlestown, Connecticut, Destination America’s Haunted Towns, Fall River, Lizzie Borden, Preston, Salem, Sam Baltrusis, travel channel

DEAR READER: I GUESS THIS TURNED INTO OUR ANTI-OPIATE ISSUE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted January 11, 2017 Filed Under: Dear Reader, NEWS+OPINIONS

All these years later, it’s absolutely unbelievable what has become of this mess.

Filed Under: Dear Reader, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Brittany Baldi, charlestown, drugs, EDM, Emilee Fitzpatrick, Gloucester, Habit, horror, independent films, Johnny Hickey, Mood Swing productions, movies, Oxy Morons, Oxycontin, Real World

EXCLUSIVE: HICKEY’S NEW HABIT

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted January 11, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, Film, Non-fiction

Oxy Morons writer-director returns with a drug-addled North Shore gore fest

Filed Under: FEATURES, Film, Non-fiction Tagged With: Brittany Baldi, charlestown, drugs, EDM, Emilee Fitzpatrick, Gloucester, Habit, horror, independent films, Johnny Hickey, Mood Swing productions, movies, Oxy Morons, Oxycontin, Real World

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