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THAT N-WORD AGAIN
A short history of rationalization, hate, and debate Pizza mogul “Papa” John Schnatter is only the latest public figure to use the n-word and then (kind of) apologize. Because Schnatter blurted...
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DIRTY OLD BOSTON: THE HUB’S WAR ON SATAN
When Boston’s war against the Antichrist was raging The Satanic Temple, a self-described group of “politically aware, Civic-minded Satanists” based out of Salem, recently made waves in Arkansas,...
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DIRTY OLD BOSTON: THE RISE AND RAGE OF BOSTON PUNK IN THE ’70S, ON FILM
DMZ As millenials (like me) are learning in these increasingly nostalgia-hungry times, Boston was insanely different in the 1970s. From the crap economy, to Vietnam shock, to the Nixon presidency,...
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HALEY HOUSE TO SUSPEND CAFE OPERATIONS, PLANS TO REVIEW CONCEPT AND REOPEN...
We were extremely sad to learn late yesterday that Haley House is temporarily suspending operations at its cafe in Dudley Square. With that said, as you will see in the extensive oral history of the...
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WHY GATEHOUSE’S BOSTON ‘MEGACLUSTER’ IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY
No corporation should own most newspapers in a region In last week’s Apparent Horizon, “GateHouse Editorial Flacks for Mass Retailers,” I dissected an editorial, “The benefits of a teen minimum...
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RADIO DAYS: HOW BILL LICHTENSTEIN GOT THE BAND BACK TOGETHER FOR A CRITICAL...
Photo of WBCN Airstaff circa 1970 in record library at 312 Stuart Street studios in Boston by Peter Simon At 39 years old I’ve come to terms with the fact that I missed out. Despite having protested...
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EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT GUNS IN MASS (BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK)
Gun laws, limits, and licensing in Mass—in perception and reality By Minh Do, Chris Faraone, Noel Gasca, Olin Hayes, James Kwon, Abigail Noyes, Alisha Parikh, Autumn Pattison, Selah Pomeranitz,...
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DIRTY OLD BOSTON: THAT FUNKY SQUARE
Remembering the Tasty and “bohemian free-for-alls” Harvard Square has forever been a durable destination with a significant variety of coffee shops, bars, diners, boutiques, and music venues, not...
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SPECIAL FEATURE: THE NEW POLLUTANTS
A growing body of research suggests that, in and around traffic, what you can’t see may be killing you Every rush hour, thousands of cars belch out an invisible fog. Whenever a piston fires, a...
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THERE’S MUCH MORE TO THE MASS STATE POLICE SCANDAL THAN IS BEING REPORTED
News broke this morning, via the Department of Justice US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, that “former President of the State Police Association of Massachusetts (SPAM) [Dana...
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WHY REPARATIONS: AMERICA NEEDS TO PAY UP AND PAY FORWARD
Photo by Rowland Scherman via National Archives A year before the Mayflower arrived in 1620, the first group of enslaved Africans depicted as “20 and odd Negroes” arrived sometime during the final...
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EXCERPT: FROM ‘BLACK LIVES, NATIVE LANDS, WHITE WORLDS: A HISTORY OF SLAVERY...
15 GEORGE STREET Standing in the middle of a modern residential neighborhood in suburban Boston is an eighteenth-century Georgian mansion. These are not an uncommon site in New England, a region...
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’80S GLORY DAYS AND THE GORY DEMISE OF THE CHANNEL
A legendary venue, 1980s glory days, and the gory demise of Boston’s live music mecca For 12 glorious years covering all of the ’80s, misfits and music fans looking for vibrant and diverse...
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CONSULTANTS TOLD STATE POLICE HOW TO AVOID TURMOIL. THE DEPARTMENT IGNORED...
Image via the Leslie Jones Collection / Boston Public Library Consultants told Mass State Police how to avoid turmoil. The department ignored the advice and spent the following two decades spiraling...
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EXCERPT: EVERYBODY NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT MARIA BALDWIN
The Cambridge icon played a major role in Black New England and the fight for racial justice BY KATHLEEN WEILER (Excerpted from Maria Baldwin’s Worlds: A Story of Black New England and the Fight for...
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BOSTON RADIO ICON CHARLES LAQUIDARA RAPS HUB HISTORY AHEAD OF FAREWELL...
Photo by Dan Busler If you grew up anywhere in earshot to Boston rock, or went to school in these parts and had a radio sometime between the Vietnam quagmire and the US military’s march into...
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IN FEAR OF LOSING THEIR VOICES, BOSTON FREEDOM TRAIL GUIDES UNITE AND SPEAK...
Dressed in full-on 18th-century-style tricorn hats and bonnets, Freedom Trail tour guides can look out of place amid Boston’s skyscrapers and bumper-to-bumper traffic. They keep the city’s...
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STILL SPINNING: HUB VINYL ICON SKIPPY WHITE AND THE TUNES BOSTON HAS HUMMED...
Photos courtesy of Brian Coleman When the news came out last month that longtime Boston vinyl seller Skippy White was closing his last in a long line of Hub record shops, many well-meaning music...
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WHEN MASSACHUSETTS WAS SOCIALIST
Harper’s Magazine, August 11, 1877, Blockade of Engines at Martinsburg, West Virginia Experiments in co-operative economics started in the colonial era Sometimes I despair over the lack of social...
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FUNDAMENTAL CIVICS: HOW A BOSTON TEEN CHANGED THE WAY TEACHERS APPROACH...
In the summer of 2017, before her senior year of high school, Isabelle Doerre-Torres met Carlos,* a Salvadoran immigrant on the verge of deportation. Doerre-Torres was an intern at a legal rights...
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