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BOSTON COUNCILORS EQUATE POT DISPENSARIES TO METHADONE CLINICS, AND WORSE!!!
If I gave a damn how cops and public health officials felt about weed, I would have stopped puffing in plain sight years ago and sought a city job that tests my pee. Nevertheless, I wasted nearly...
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DIG THIS: WEDNESDAY 3.12.14 – WEDNESDAY 3.19.14
mixed media by enamel kingdom (ryan lombardi) show at distillery gallery. reception 3.15. WED 3.12 Carousel stripped-down Traditionally a performance fit for spectacle, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s...
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SPECIAL FEATURE & DIGFOGRAPHIC: THIS SPRING, THE HUB GOES UNDER THE KNIFE
There’s a lot of hope that Mayor Marty Walsh will make good use of his building trade experience in spurring smart growth across the board. The prediction makes sense; during his campaign, the former...
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THIS IS WHAT BOSTON’S COMMUNITIES OF COLOR HAVE TO GO THROUGH TO GET LIQUOR...
For municipal officials in Boston, it’s unfortunately fitting for City Hall to be physically situated at the foot of Beacon Hill, awkwardly wedged under the legislature’s heel. The metaphor is spot-on,...
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SPECIAL FEATURE: ANATOMY OF THE NEW MASS CHARTER SCHOOL BATTLEGROUND
Photos by Chris Faraone TUESDAY, MARCH 25 For a couple of minutes, right around the time their rally is supposed to start, there are fewer than half-a-dozen charter school opponents clamoring outside...
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DIG THIS AWARDS 2014: EDITOR’S PICKS
ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT BEST MULTIMEDIA FESTIVAL Together Boston Rehashing the awesome time we’ve had at the city’s premier music, art, and technology festival while composing this entry is just a cruel...
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DIG THIS AWARDS 2014
For weeks now, there have been rumblings of some kind of grand democratic voting gesture in play, involving sex shops, BBQ joints, art galleries, local book stores, food trucks, pizza huts, and, well,...
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FOTOBOM: 2014 DIG THIS AWARDS PARTY
YUENGLING BEER + DISTRICT HALL + DIG THIS WINNERS = FOTOBOM REALNESS ENJOY. Next Page › ‹ Previous Page photos by derek kouyoumjian
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FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE OF THE FERDINAND: MUCH MORE THAN A COFFEE WAR
It’s a Friday afternoon at Haley House Bakery Cafe in Roxbury, and the place is hopping. The scene screams community; at a table close to the counter, a well-known local hip-hop activist and his...
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COFFEE MASH UPS
With this being the coffee issue and all, we decided to round up a few of our favorite coffee shop mashups – those particular cafes to get jittery at while taking advantage of something novel they...
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SUMMER BLIGHT-SEEING: AN ABRIDGED TOUR THROUGH PRE-REDEVELOPED BOSTON
While urban blight is wrong and sad and hideous for several reasons, it can also be exhilarating to ogle. Consider the voyeuristic tourism of Detroit’s former factories, and every last photographer’s...
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BOB-B-Q SAUCE
New Edition member and Roxbury native Bobby Brown needs no introduction. But the fact that the 90′s New Jack Swing artist and lover of personal prerogatives is launching a line of barbecue sauces,...
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THE FLOORLORDS CELEBRATE THEIR 33RD ANNIVERSARY
Of all the things you’d expect to see in the hallways of an MIT campus building, a dance rehearsal is pretty far down on the list. But on a hot Tuesday afternoon in Cambridge, a group of about 12 young...
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DIG THIS: SEXY SHAKESPEARE, ‘GANSETT TALL BOYS + TERRIBLE TRAILERS
Photo By Zoe Mylonas WED 7.16 Sexyback: or what you will voila viola Before you check out Shakespeare’s classic at Boston Common’s Bandstand next week, see Touch Performance Art’s “Twelfth...
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DJ SET OF THE WEEK: INTERVIEW W/ BOB DIESEL
Boston DJ Bob Diesel has been spinning since the early years of house music, when I was merely a twinkle in my mom’s favorite pair of roller skates. After a decade of DJ residencies at New York City...
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THE DEARBORN HIJACK: FACED WITH LOSING A NEW $70 MILLION SCHOOL, ROXBURY...
It’s crazy that in 2014, in one of the most prosperous cities in America, another fall semester looms in which the hope of every Boston Public student having a computer remains a pipe dream. Even worse...
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ALUMNI EDITION: WHAT WE WISH WE KNEW
Your pals here at DigBoston have assembled a wise ragtag team of Boston’s art-minded denizens to give you your first lesson this academic year. Namely, that the kind of things we wish knew about when...
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WHEN THE MOB RAN RAP MUSIC IN BOSTON: TDS MOB WAS THE HUB’S FIRST HUGE...
A couple months ago, veteran Boston MC Kool Gee stepped on stage at the legendary Wally’s Cafe on Mass Ave. Back in his old neighborhood and decked in a black Adidas running suit and a Kangol with a...
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LAWTOWN’S FINEST: THE LYRICAL RISE AND TRAGIC DEATH OF MASS RAP LEGEND...
Two decades ago, a promising MC from small post-industrial Lawrence dropped some of the most tragically slept-on rap gems of the ’90s, in the Bay State or anyplace else. The critical album was called...
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SPECIAL: THE UNTOLD STORIES OF HUB HIP-HOP
Illustration by Chris Visions Every year or so, an aspiring music writer, typically new to the city, pens a painfully trite screed about how Boston hip-hop hasn’t made it, often hinting at a bitterness...
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