“When you hear this young man’s story and you hear him choke with emotion, it’s hard for anyone to say, Oh, this is just an opportunist coming to America to steal American jobs.”
BACKSTAGE WITH “STORIES FROM THE STAGE”
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EDITORIAL: PERSONAE NON GRATAE
GBH needs to start inviting Dig and BINJ reporters to appear on its local news and public affairs shows
SELF-MADE: THE DEDICATION OF BOSTON DIRECTOR DEMANE DAVIS
DeMane Davis, Self-Made, Madam C.J. Walker, Netflix, Ava DuVernay, Shonda Rhimes, Shondaland, Blair Underwood, Octavia Spencer, Boston, Daniel Laurent, Roxbury
THANKSGIVING FICTION: WE LIVE IN THE UNIVERSE WHERE THE BAD GUYS WON
"Americans today live in a very real universe where the functional equivalent of Nazis—European colonists—committed genocide against Native American peoples..."
TV SPECIAL: THE BOSTON MASTERS
Meet the MasterChef Season 8 contestants from Mass
LION CHEF: TV COOK AND MC DANIEL PONTES-MACEDO BRINGS VICTORY HOME TO BOSTON
Just like Exposition handled stages, Daniel owns the cameras trained on his stovetop performances. Over the past several weeks, he’s also demonstrated the same kind of endurance that Audible brought.
THE NATURALS: STARTUP BOSTON CRIME DRAMA AIMS TO KILL WITHOUT CLICHES
“The Naturals” takes the traditionally hypermasculine crime genre and turns it on its head, placing a queer female lead at its center and making her the driver of the action.
SPECIAL GUEST COLUMN: THE RIP OFF
As I wrote the script, I truly felt that it was going to be something big. What I didn’t know was that the story would go far, but without me or my consent.
HOW RORY GILMORE FAILED LOCAL MEDIA
This is not a review of the new Gilmore Girls ... just my cheap personal gripe that seemed worth sharing
