
Recompose perfected a process where the recently deceased body is cleaned, wrapped in a shroud, and placed in a tube on a soft bed of wood chips, straw, nitrogen, and alfalfa sprouts.
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Written by DAVID RABINOVITZ Filed Under: COLUMNS, LIFESTYLE, Talking Joints Memo
Recompose perfected a process where the recently deceased body is cleaned, wrapped in a shroud, and placed in a tube on a soft bed of wood chips, straw, nitrogen, and alfalfa sprouts.
Written by COLE ROSENGREN Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
Despite a relative win for recycling workers, living wage advocates pledge to keep on fighting
Written by COLE ROSENGREN Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction
For the first time in the city’s history, Boston’s living wage ordinance might finally get applied to low-paid workers sorting the city’s recycling ...
Written by NINA CORCORAN Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC
The indie rock icons talk Japanese typhoons, personal invites from the Cure, and that strange sadness that arrives just in time for fall.
Written by COLE ROSENGREN Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
Boston is aiming to achieve “zero waste,” which some say can create more living-wage jobs. Is part of this lofty goal rooted in the region’s dirtiest hypocrisy?
Written by NINA CORCORAN Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC
For our reoccurring interview series, the far-out jazz rock group talks Star Trek, bad dates, and getting blackout drunk at 14.
Written by DIG STAFF Filed Under: FEATURES, Interviews, MUSIC, Non-fiction
The movement (and concert) against that damn awful free trade agreement comes to Boston
Written by NINA CORCORAN Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC
Seattle act Tacocat dish on their new album, feminism, and recording Cartoon Network’s newest theme song.
Written by NINA CORCORAN Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC
S frontwoman and ex-Carissa's Wierd member Jenn Champion talks about the dangers of perpetuating racial stereotypes through nicknames and beyond.
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
"At the end of the day, the lesson will be that none of us really can live on $10 a day."