Some of the most ignorant quotes you’ll ever read
Marty Walsh
SPECIAL FEATURE: TWO-THOUSAND MIFF’TEEN
We assume this is the first roundup of 2015, since it’s only June ...
BREAKING BAPTIST
There’s a bigger story behind the case of accused killer Dean Shaun Harrison than is being told. Here’s some of it …
WEST COAST DISPATCH: TURNS OUT WE ARE THE HUB OF THE UNIVERSE
I was unpacking in my hotel room when the local five o’clock news came on and—bam—there was Mayor Marty Walsh giving a press conference about parking during snow storms.
ANOTHER WEEK OF BOSTON 2024 BULLSHIT AND QUARTER-TRUTHS
Still a few questions remain, namely: Is that other entity also private? Is the city involved? The state?
BOSTON’S OLYMPIC NIGHTMARE IS ONLY BEGINNING
To hell with any bullshit that Olympic planners have said about how their process is "just getting started."
BLUNT TRUTH: REISSUING A CHALLENGE FOR GOV-ELECT BAKER, WHO IS TEAMING UP WITH MAYOR WALSH TO FIGHT THE INEVITABLE
Image by Tak Toyoshima
About halfway through November, MassLive reported that Charlie Baker will campaign against an expected marijuana legalization initiative in 2016. As justification, ...
MAYOR’S OFFICE ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF ‘FENWAY’S 30-SECOND CINEMA’
The Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics and the Boston Art Commission announced the winners of “Fenway’s ...
DIRTY OLD BOSTON: CANDIDS FROM EVERY NOOK IN THE HUB
Old Dirty Boston skips over the safe stuff and picturesque renditions of the Freedom Trail. As Botticelli explains in the intro, his book conjures “a place where you could find a parking spot if you needed it.”
BOSTON’S STRANGE AND PROBLEMATIC NEW APPROACH TO CURBING PROSTITUTION (AND ADDRESSING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN)
The conflation of sex work and sex trafficking is common. It’s also troubling.