
Has the city’s complicated, problematic, and historically corrupt liquor licensing process guaranteed that Boston will never have a normal or equitable social life? Could lifting the cap on the number of licenses fix it?
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Written by HALEY HAMILTON Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
Has the city’s complicated, problematic, and historically corrupt liquor licensing process guaranteed that Boston will never have a normal or equitable social life? Could lifting the cap on the number of licenses fix it?
Written by HALEY HAMILTON Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
Boston’s liquor licensing quota was born out of elitism and has fostered a poisonous disparity over the past century. Can lifting the cap break the cycle?
Written by BASIM USMANI Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
For people who are just starting in the Commonwealth, unlicensed frequencies offer programming that can’t be found elsewhere on the dial.
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE, Specials
I was probably nine years old, covered in trash, because back then we played in the dump behind my apartment complex.
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction
The Hub’s nightlife-less squares, at least for the time being, will remain as boozeless as they’ve been for decades.
Written by DIG STAFF Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
The day after thousands waited in the snow and cold for one last glimpse of Mayor Tom Menino, many more returned to Faneuil Hall for his Hizzonner's final send-off. As the media waited for the casket to be carried out, Bostonians scrambled for the few "Thank You Mayor Menino" signs available and rapped with dozens of police getting the route ready.
Written by TAK TOYOSHIMA Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
Sometimes you just have to suspend the fantasy that we live in a Utopian democracy, and bow to the king. Even if that king felt passionately that every individual should play a special role in their community.
Yesterday was such a time. Everyone who flocked to Faneuil Hall for the memorial service ... read more
Written by DIG STAFF Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
With news that Tom Menino passed this morning, Charlie Baker now has a reason to cry, as do millions of Massachusetts residents who the longest-serving mayor in Boston history impacted through the years.
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
But days before historians revealed the big find / They asked how we’ll be recalled by mankind