When rapper MaceyOMaze from Fields Corner released “Father’d A Child” this spring, the song carried the weight of three generations. He conceived it as a tribute to his father, who had been raised without a dad, but he also crafted it to a beat by Boston legend Edo.G, whose 1991 rallying cry for men to step up as parents, “Be a Father to Your Child,” helped put the Boston rap scene on the map.
By Jacquinn Sinclair, WBUR.
The use of outright deception doesn’t seem like a winning recipe for love, but in William Shakespeare’s tale “As You Like It,” somehow, despite it, true devotion prevails.
Charlie Harris isn’t happy with what he sees as left- and right-wing polarization in Boston
A new opera, “White Raven, Black Dove,” which is scheduled for a three-day run at the Strand Theater this weekend (Sept. 26-28), tells the story of the segregated Silvers and Onyx, who are faced with building a new world.
VietAID has filed plans to replace a single-family home at 190 Bowdoin St. between Dever and Olney streets with a 4-story, 33-unit apartment building in which all of the suites will be rented to people making no more than 60 percent of the Boston area median income.
The recent District 7 preliminary was a perfect reminder of why we need Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) in our city elections, writes Ed Shoemaker.
By Jeff Klein You can be forgiven if you never heard about the Democratic Party state convention in Springfield on September 13. After all, the major media, including the Boston Globe, did not deem it newsworthy when the party representing
In an aggressive move, the federal government has rescinded $22 million in transportation grants for Mattapan and Roxbury, two historically underserved neighborhoods with high traffic collision numbers due, in large part, to outdated streetscapes.
Boston Legacy Football Club, the pro women’s soccer team that will use Franklin Park’s White Stadium as its home playing field, says it has secured $100 million in financing from Bank of America needed to advance and complete renovations to the facility— clearing a major hurdle for a project that has become a top priority for the Wu administration.
Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins will relinquish his official duties while extortion charges against him move along in federal court and a deputy will assume control of the department, the governor and attorney general announced last week.
The Cedar Grove Civic Association, in its first meeting of the fall season, last week gave its support to the Landmark Public House’s application for a 2 a.m. liquor license after listening to its owners’ plea for competitive fairness in Adams Corner, Neponset, and Lower Mills.
One hundred newly sworn-in Boston Police officers began their assignments in districts across the city last Monday (Sept. 8) including at Area C-11 and Area B-3, the two largest districts covering Dorchester and Mattapan. Police commanders say the reinforcements are a welcome addition to a street force that has been slimmed down by retirements and promotions in recent months.
Tre Johnson, author of the critically acclaimed new book “Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy,” will visit Dorchester’s Just-Bookish in Fields Corner next week for an in-store reading and conversation.
Some 150 gravestones of early Boston notables and just folks inside Dorchester’s North Burying Ground on Columbia Road and Stoughton Street will be repaired and buffed up, thanks to a $157,650 grant from the National Park Service and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Total numbers from Boston’s Sept. 9 preliminary election reaffirm the time-tested advantage for an incumbent mayor, but a closer look at vote counts and campaign funding gives rise to a less familiar story.