BOSTON/Dorchester - Over 1,000 people crowded into the Firefighters' Florian Hall in Dorchester last Friday to honor Jerry "Judgie" Leary who passed away after a valiant battle against cancer and give support to his bereaved family.
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2 Feb 2010 - 4:29pm
It is difficult to peruse any avenue of pop culture these days without running across a video, a review, or at least some commentary on Lady Gaga. She’s everywhere. Granted she scored five top ten singles in 2009.
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2 Feb 2010 - 12:00am
There are too many good people passing away recently. I just participated in a memorial for my colleague Tim Costello yesterday, and now I find myself sitting down to write a brief note about famed historian and progressive activist Howard Zinn.
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1 Feb 2010 - 12:00am
BOSTON/State House - After successfully pushing a reform bill through the Mass. Senate last year, over 125 advocates of changes to the state Criminal Offender Record Information system held a rally in State House Hearing Room B-2 Wednesday before lobbying key legislators that can help move the House version of the bill towards passage this year. The event was organized by the Commonwealth CORI Coalition - which represents over 90 organizations in support of CORI reform.
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30 Jan 2010 - 3:28am
With a promise of puppets, dancing, political subversion and free bread, Bread & Puppet Theater’s fourth annual installment of their Boston residency attracted a crowd Friday, the second night of the “Tear Open the Door of Heaven” performance.
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27 Jan 2010 - 6:38pm
BOSTON/South End - This week, for the fourth winter in a row at the Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama, the Glover, VT based Bread and Puppet Theater troupe present their subversively entertaining brand of politics and punditry.
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26 Jan 2010 - 11:05pm
There has been much talk in the media about how a left-leaning state like Massachusetts could elect a conservative Republican to fill Ted Kennedy's Senate seat in last week's special election.
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24 Jan 2010 - 11:41pm
This week saw significant updates to two of Open Media Boston's favorite applications—Firefox and the Transmission bittorrent client—and continued development on the recently reviewed BetterTouchTool Mac multitouch utility. Read on for highlights of the most important updates.
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24 Jan 2010 - 9:21am
Unimaginable a few short weeks ago: Ted Kennedy's Senate seat in Massachusetts was won by a Republican. Two months ago, Martha Coakley had a 31 percentage-point lead in polls over the obscure Republican state senator Scott Brown.
