Funding 100 local news articles covering Boston area communities during the coronavirus crisis
ANNOUNCING THE BINJ PANDEMIC DEMOCRACY PROJECT
SOMERVILLE
SOMERVILLE NEWS GARDEN MOVING FORWARD
Launching new programs to help revive local journalism
FIRST LOOK: ELM STREET TAPROOM
Elm Street Taproom—which is not a brewery, by the way—is so scarily like Democracy Brewing in look and feel that the two appear to be like doppelgangers, almost like beer-based versions of, say, Larry David and Bernie Sanders.
CAMBRIDGE, SOMERVILLE RESIDENTS TALK ENVIRONMENT AT MARKEY TOWN HALL
“What we did in this resolution is to lay out what should happen … in every sector of the American economy. Because they can all be transformed with new technologies, with new strategies, new conservation techniques, and in a very brief period of time.”
HOT TOPIC: WHY IS SOMERVILLE STILL INSTALLING TURF FIELDS IN INCREASINGLY HOT CLIMATES?
The “Living With Heat Report” explains that Somerville is especially vulnerable to urban heat island impacts because of our excessive pavement and lack of tree canopy and open spaces.
THOTBOT HOTSPOT: HOW A GLITCH TEST BEGAT A TRANSMEDIA NARRATIVE
"Perspective, belief, memory, social class, education—among many other things—all play a role in shaping how we see and act in the world, but ultimately we are the creators."
REST IN YEAST (FOR NOW AT LEAST): A LANDMARK BAKERY SAYS GOODBYE TO ITS CAMBERVILLE HOME
Two days before New Year’s Eve, the company’s 12 staffers woke up unemployed. Still, in hope of reinventing their venture somewhere else, Andrew and Greta are taking everything with them
MEET THE NEW SPOTS… SAME AS THE OLD SPOTS
Longtime institutions are closing, but could a new batch be primed to replace them?
READER INPUT: WHAT’S WRONG WITH BOSTON?
We were happy to receive several dozen responses—many of which echoed each other, one of which was a poem, and some of which hit on subjects that we don’t think or write about enough around here.
TOP 10 MOST VIEWED DIG ARTICLES OF 2019
From investigative reports to music and arts writing, we killed it yet again. Long live alt-weeklies!
