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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

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

SWAT INC: THE COMMONWEALTH’S MOST INFAMOUS MILITARIZED POLICE FORCE CONTINUES TO FLOUT RECORDS LAW

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE Posted November 5, 2015 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

After nearly two months, seven in-person visits, numerous phone calls and emails, and a run-in with the Wilmington police, we finally received some of the records we requested.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: ACLU, Andover, andrew quemere, bay state examiner, BINJ, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Boxford, Cambridge, Carlisle, Concord, Dracut, FOIA, freedom of information, Gloucester, Haverhill, Law Enforcement Councils, lawsuit, Lowell, Massachusetts, Maya Shaffer, militarized police, Nahant, NEMLEC, New England. Lynn. Lynnfield, Newburyport, newton, North Shore, records, Rowley, Salem, Secretary of State, SOMERVILLE, Swampscott, SWAT, Tewksbury, Topsfield, Washington Post, Weston, Wilmington

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