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EYEHATEGOD AT WONDERLAND BALLROOM
If you are doom metal fan in the Boston-Revere area, chances are you were as thrilled as I was that the southerners of EyeHateGod would be gracing The Hub soil once again with a performance at the...
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FREE FOR ALL: REVERE BEACH
Revere Beach So it’s hot as fuck, you don’t have an air conditioner, and even the thought of another day spent drinking the heat away makes your liver ache. The only options left appear to be standing...
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BILL’S BOOK CORNER: BILL GETS A VAN
Bill here. All this recent talk about money and wars has gotten me to thinking, How cheap is suicide? I mean, I know there some expensive ways, like with lasers, but what about the cheapest ways? And...
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NO RESPECT: HOW COME PEOPLE AREN’T TALKIN’‘BOUT THE REVOLUTION?
Boston is one of the country’s biggest sports markets, and soccer is the world’s biggest sport. So why are the New England Revolution still an afterthought? Illustration by Scott Murry | @hotdogtaco...
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NEWS TO US: CAMBRIDGE BLOCKS BIG BROTHER
How one Mass city watches the watchers, and how others should follow suit On February 2, 2009, the Cambridge City Council voted in unanimous opposition to the installation of eight Department of...
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URBAN SHIELD DISPATCH: FIRST RESPONDERS NEED AN ICE CREAM SOCIAL
Photo above by Imara Chew. Other images by Chris Faraone. I read a fascinating Boston Globe story last week en route to a press conference in South Boston. It was about a congressional hearing in...
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CASINOS IN THE COMMONWEALTH: DOES ANYBODY UNDER 40 GIVE A FUCK?
Image by Scott Murry Boston Mayor Marty Walsh signed an agreement last week with Mohegan Sun, the company hoping to build a casino in Revere, which would require the developer to invest $300 million...
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POP PUNK FROM A POSSE OF SWEATY SPACE COWBOYS
Even before releasing any music, Boston-based pop punk band Yeehaw! had a pretty decent following on social media. That might be because of their “otherworldly” talents or the fact that they’ve already...
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“We started this band when a few of our other bands were playing a show on Mars and we got in a fender bender with our spaceships. We all became really good friends very fast. No jokes ever.”
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SPECIAL REJECTION: ELECTION OFFICIALS CAN’T STOP THIS EAST BOSTON ACTIVIST...
When nine-year First Suffolk and Middlesex State Sen. Anthony Petruccelli announced his resignation last December, Latino voters in the lawmaker’s disjointed district—which includes slices of...
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MAKE SOME WAVES: WHY ZUMIX RADIO NEEDS YOUR HELP
Radio isn’t dead, but it’s having a rebirth anyway. Youth and community radio station ZUMIX Radio has been pumping up the jams as a web stream since 2005. Two years ago, the East Boston...
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THE VERIZON SHUFFLE
Why the telecom company’s FiOS promise to Boston is a bait-and-switch In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call from Boston to Cambridgeport. While the early 1900s saw...
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NEW DEAL FRUIT, REVERE
Photos by Marc Hurwitz An Italian market with some of the region’s best subs The Greater Boston area has no shortage of neighborhood Italian food markets, and while many—if not most—are worth...
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AMAZON OCTAGON
Mass pols stand ready to fight each other for the right to bribe a multinational At least 17 Massachusetts cities and towns are now preparing to do battle with each other—and hundreds more...
View ArticleSPECIAL REJECTION: ELECTION OFFICIALS CAN’T STOP THIS EAST BOSTON ACTIVIST...
“As immigrants, as a working community, every day is a challenge for us—whether with work, or with school, or anything else. It’s always a battle.”
View ArticleMAKE SOME WAVES: WHY ZUMIX RADIO NEEDS YOUR HELP
Help keep multi-generational radio on air as it moves to a dial near you.
View ArticleTHE VERIZON SHUFFLE
Why the telecom company’s FiOS promise to Boston is a bait-and-switch
View ArticleAMAZON OCTAGON
Mass pols stand ready to fight each other for the right to bribe a multinational At least 17 Massachusetts cities and towns are now preparing to do battle with each other—and hundreds more...
View ArticleSUMMER SANDS: ESSENTIAL GREATER BOSTON BEACH DEETS
How to do the whole sun and fun thing, whether you head north or south of downtown
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