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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

RESOLUTION #19: HOW WE PLEDGE TO BE BETTER BOSTONIANS IN THE NEW YEAR

Written by DIG STAFF Posted December 27, 2018 Filed Under: Drinks, Eats, FEATURES, GTFO, LIFESTYLE, Non-fiction

Instead of trying to get ripped next year, we have some far more sensible ideas for how to improve our city, selves, and community while having loads of fun.

Filed Under: Drinks, Eats, FEATURES, GTFO, LIFESTYLE, Non-fiction Tagged With: Bates Bar & Grill, Beer, beer hall, Blue Hills, Boston, Braintree, Brookline, Brother Brookline, Cambridge, cannabis, Chili Square, corn, eats, elote, Grape Leaf, Harpoon, Hilltop, Italo, jp, Medford, newton, North Shore, Quincy, Route 1, Saugus, SOMERVILLE, Weymouth

HICKEY AND THE HABIT

Written by JACOB SCHICK Posted October 23, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Film

With his premiere on the enormous 80-foot screen at Jordan’s Imax Theater in Reading on Oct 30, just in time for Halloween, we spoke to the actor and director about his latest.

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: asylum, FIGHT Opiates, horror, IMAX, Johnny Hickey, Moodswing, North Shore, Oxy Morons, Reading, The Habit

MAROULIS AND DEGARMO KEEP JEKYLL & HYDE AFLOAT

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted October 4, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Constantine Maroulis as Dr. Henry Jekyll. Photo by Paul Lyden.

 

★★★☆☆

 

The musical theater elite turned their noses up at Jekyll & Hyde when it premiered on Broadway in 1997 and, well, we’re still doing it now two decades later, even if Frank Wildhorn’s poperatic score has become something of a guilty pleasure.

 

Wildhorn, ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Beverly, Constantine Maroulis, Diana DeGarmo, Frank Wildhorn, Leslie Bricusse, North Shore, Robert Cuccioli

CHECKING OUT SANTARPIO’S PIZZA, PEABODY

Written by MARC HURWITZ Posted April 24, 2018 Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE

A quick look at the “other” Santarp’s

Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE Tagged With: boseats, Boston, North Shore, Peabody, pizza, Santarpio's

SKAMPA, CAMBRIDGE: A LITTLE TASTE OF THE NORTH SHORE ONE MILE FROM DOWNTOWN BOSTON

Written by MARC HURWITZ Posted November 23, 2017 Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE

The junior, large, and super beef sandwiches here rival the best that the North Shore has to offer, with the thinly sliced meat being slightly warm, the onion rolls being soft and fresh-tasting, and the BBQ sauce having a rich flavor but not so much as to overwhelm the other ingredients.

Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE Tagged With: Cambridge, eats, hidden eats, North Shore, roast beef, Skampa

EVITA SO WHITE

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted September 27, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Constantine Maroulis (Che) and the cast of “Evita” at North Shore Music Theatre thru October 8, 2017. Photos©Paul Lyden

 

Amid accusations of whitewashing and brownface, North Shore Music Theatre opens Evita

 

With the announcement of North Shore Music Theatre’s cast for Evita ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: actor, casting, controversy, Debate, Evita, Latina, latino, Latinx, Music, North Shore, NSMT, racism, theater

JUSTIN CLANCY AS HIMSELF

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted August 9, 2017 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

The North Shore artist confesses about sneaking out to break in

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: Boston, Cambridge, Cassidy, hip hop, Justin Clancy, Music, North Shore, opiates, Peabody, Recovery, sobriety, Sonia

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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