No corporation should own most newspapers in a region In last week’s Apparent Horizon, “GateHouse Editorial Flacks for Mass Retailers,” I dissected an editorial, “The benefits of a teen minimum wage,” calling for a subminimum wage for Bay State teenage workers that turned out to have run in over two dozen eastern Mass […]
HALEY HOUSE TO SUSPEND CAFE OPERATIONS, PLANS TO REVIEW CONCEPT AND REOPEN LATER THIS YEAR
“While the Cafe’s restaurant operations are paused, our catering and wholesale baking operations will continue, as well as our Take Back the Kitchen Program.”
DIRTY OLD BOSTON: THE RISE AND RAGE OF BOSTON PUNK IN THE ’70S, ON FILM
Most subterranean icons never got much recognition in their day, but there have been some consolations in the decades since, in part thanks to Boys From Nowhere: The Story of Boston’s Garage Punk Uprising.
DIRTY OLD BOSTON: THE HUB’S WAR ON SATAN
Looking through old newspapers, it’s clear that there have always been unscrupulous cult leaders in Mass. For the most part, they’ve worked for Christian churches.
THAT N-WORD AGAIN
A short history of rationalization, hate, and debate
PUBLIC TRANSIT IN BOSTON HASN’T GOTTEN VERY FAR IN 130 YEARS
We pulled more than 1,000 words from the episode’s transcript, replaced (a minimal number of) dated terms like “horses” with more neutral or contemporary ones, and excerpted it below for you to have a good laugh (and/or cry) as you read this on an un-air-conditioned Red Line on the hottest day of the summer.
DIRTY OLD BOSTON: HOW HUB MEDIA COVERED KOREA 100 YEARS AGO
But even before North Korea was ruled by some certifiable madman or another, back when the North and South were united, the intrigue coming from the West—including here in Boston—was of a similar fashion, underlined by apprehension over perceived threats, however valid.
POINT OF POWER: STATE POLICE TRAINING INCLUDED ‘HATEFUL, TERRIFYING’ SLIDE SHAMING PROTESTER
“For them to use a hateful meme of me in what is supposedly training material is just terrifying,” Sullivan wrote. “It shows just how openly they condone harassment campaigns against anti-racist protesters.”
MLK’S ASSASSINATION REMINDS NATION OF UNADDRESSED GUN VIOLENCE
“By our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim, by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing, by allowing all these developments, we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes.”
JOB PROMISES, THEN AND NOW
From textiles to technology, and the American House to Amazon
