Our modern Republican Party has quite obviously and transparently become a party that seeks out racist votes and appeals to prejudiced whites.
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28 Aug 2012 - 2:44am
On August 5, six people were killed by a gunman in Wisconsin in a Gurdwara and a police officer was seriously wounded. On August 6, a Mosque was burned down in Joplin, Missouri. People all across the country have condemned these acts and have come together in solidarity and unity.
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21 Aug 2012 - 12:00am
There have been a couple of related alarums sounded in the Boston press over the last few weeks. The first is that our fair city has crazy high rents. True, this is not precisely news to anyone that lives here.
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19 Aug 2012 - 12:00am
BOSTON/Park Street - The progressive organizing space encuentro 5 is moving. After six years at 33 Harrison Avenue in Chinatown, they've pulled up stakes and set up anew in a more central location in the Park Street area.
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19 Aug 2012 - 12:00am
On one of these dog days of summer, treat yourself with a refreshing visit to the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, for a dip into the featured exhibition: Ansel Adams: At The Water’s Edge.
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7 Aug 2012 - 11:21pm
The lovely Berkshires town of Stockbridge is home to the Norman Rockwell Museum as well as his work studio, moved from Main Street after his death in compliance with a stipulation in his will.
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7 Aug 2012 - 11:14pm
Temp workers rights took a step forward last week with the passage of House Bill 4304 "The Temporary Workers' Right to Know Act" - sponsored by Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry (D - Dorchester) and Sen. Jack Hart (D - Boston) - into law by the Massachusetts legislature and Gov. Deval Patrick.
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7 Aug 2012 - 11:08pm
Somerville, Mass.
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6 Aug 2012 - 11:49pm
Within an hour of my arrival to The Berkshires, I rush out to Jacob’s Pillow, the unique dance campus that has been declared a National Historic Landmark. To celebrate its 80th anniversary, it is mounting an enlightening photo display tracing decades of performances and featuring such luminaries as Mark Morris and Alvin Ailey when they were very young dancers. The dominant subjects of these photos, though, are Ted Shawn, the founder of Jacob’s Pillow, and his troupe called “Men Dancers,” usually shirtless and leaping with homoerotic abandon in the late 1930s.
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5 Aug 2012 - 11:50pm
Shakespeare and Company is a remarkable multi-theater complex in Lenox. Founded in 1978 by an Englishwoman Tina Packer, it was at first housed in Edith Wharton’s home, The Mount,.
