I’m all for people having their dreams, but color me unconvinced that a tapas restaurant in the lower South End will have "Hispanics, blacks, gays, yuppies, suburbanites all socializing" together. Or rather, there seems to be some foodie medium-is-the-message fallacy here, namely that "the point of tapas is to socialize over interestingly flavored morsels" and […]
Wait, Ted Kennedy paints?
From the tireless journalists at CBS4.
Source: Boston Globe
From back in 2003, when the consent decree ordering some affirmative action measure for the Boston Fire Department was lifted:
[I]n March, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed Stearns, finding that the fire department’s affirmative action policy requiring the hiring of one minority firefighter for every white one was […]
I expected more insider perspective from the Phoenix article on the Boston Film Festival, but the lede pretty much says it all:
The Boston Film Festival made it to adulthood — barely. Taking over from Mark Diamond and Susan Fraine, who had kept it alive and occasionally kicking since 1993, is Robin Dawson, head of […]
I’m not sure why the Globe touts the "First in a series of occasional articles about blacks and Latinos living in metro Boston." But the feature on one local African-American woman and her diagnosis of Boston’s racial barriers is quite good. More than the falsely quantitative study of the Harvard Civil Rights Project that caused […]
The Third Decade’s Derek takes me to task for writing about arcane tax policy while ignoring a recently released study by the Harvard Civil Rights Project on racial discrimination in Boston. Let me just say that a) I think there is a place for arcane policy matters in blogging and it’s something I enjoy writing […]
Well, this week has demonstrated that Boston just doesn’t function well after a blizzard. There’s been confusion from various authorities, but the biggest problem is that the city can’t handle the number of cars and transit commuters it needs to in order to function even at 2/3 speed. As a T rider, I like many […]
In the midst of the frivolity that this blog has become lately, let me give a minute of remembrance for local columnist David Nyhan, who died shoveling snow on Sunday. Dan Kennedy has a nice post over at Media Log. One thing that’s striking is that for a political columnist, Nyhan’s instincts at predicting political […]
From the Globe comes word of an odd development: South Boston residents are now feeling the need to lock their doors given the rise of burglaries. Odd if only because it hasn’t happened earlier, that the neighborhood was able to get through the 20th century with a tradition of keeping front doors unlocked. This is […]
I know it’s quite vulgar Marxist to suggest something so simplistic as the notion that murder rates in a city correlate to its economic health and the unemployment rate. I just wish the evidence would stop playing along.
While the upstart Herald trying to gain a steady market share from the hegemonic Globe has garnered a bit of attention, Steve Bailey discusses the other newspaper war in town: the challenge the Weekly Dig is mounting against the Phoenix.
Can a soon-to-be-40 alternative paper continue to connect with its twentysomething audience?
Others have tried to […]
Those following the fate of the Chinatown bus should read Steve Bailey’s column this week:
What Southwest Airlines did to the economics of air fares, Liang’s little bus line, Fung Wah Bus, is now doing to the established order of the I-95 bus business. And in an era of overpaid chief executives, Liang, who speaks little […]