You will never see my ass on one of those fucking buses again.
IN THE QUEER: LESBIAN DATING AND COMMUNITY APP LAUNCHES IN BOSTON
“It’s got all the lesbians, and everything that connects the lesbian community online.”
RUN FOR COVER: DIANE CLUCK VS. DM STITH: “EASY TO BE AROUND”
The most casual, out-of-touch listener can find comfort in the soft tones and easy strumming that make folk the most accessible backdrop music.
INTERVIEW: SCOTT MCCLOUD ON SUPERHERO POWERS, COMMUNICATION, AND RETURNING TO COMICS
With each revision, it became about excavating what was below the crap. Seeing the shape of the story of what it wanted to be and pull that story out.
THE YEAR IN LOCAL PROTEST: FROM TRANSPORTATION TO MILITARIZATION
Mass unrest, like the Black Lives Matter demonstrations, doesn’t erupt randomly.
RUN FOR COVER: ELLIOTT SMITH VS. MADELEINE PEYROUX: “BETWEEN THE BARS”
Run For Cover is a weekly music column comparing cover songs to the original version. Prepare for a major bending of rules as we hear musicians throw around genres, tempos, style, and intent. Whether they’re picking up another’s song out of respect or boredom, the results have impressed us. There are a dozen quotes […]
FREE RADICAL: SOME WHITE PROTESTERS STILL DON’T GET IT
“All it takes is one push.” The police were out numbered many times over last week, and that’s all it would have taken to push past them and lead the masses onto an on-ramp and beyond. The two men having this conversation, in a way pleading those surrounding them to nudge ahead, were angry. […]
DISPATCH & ANALYSIS: #ENOUGHISENOUGH WAS LARGEST HUB PROTEST IN 10 YEARS, AND MAYBE EVEN BOSTON’S BIGGEST ANTI-RACISM ACTION IN DECADES
Images by Chris Faraone You should probably ignore any individual or lone reporter who attempts to inform you about the demonstrations that snaked through Boston, Cambridge, and even a few corners of Somerville last night. Like me, those folks may have witnessed segments of the protests; perhaps your source was on Tremont Street […]
RUN FOR COVER: INTERPOL VS. AZEALIA BANKS: “SLOW HANDS”
Run For Cover is a weekly music column comparing cover songs to the original version. Prepare for a major bending of rules as we hear musicians throw around genres, tempos, style, and intent. Whether they’re picking up another’s song out of respect or boredom, the results have impressed us. To live in New York […]
ALL ABOUT DAPHNA: BOSTON CONSERVATORY ALUMNA TALKS HER LATEST ROLE IN “BAD JEWS”
Three weeks into rehearsals of Josh Harmon’s “Bad Jews”—a dark comedy that has raised eyebrows for its name and received critical acclaim for its previous runs—Alison McCartan sits with her back to a cluttered studio apartment set and explains her discovery of the play while selling merch in New York City, and how she got from there to landing the role of the ever-abrasive Daphna Feygenbaum herself.
