An especially interesting and timely panel discussion is being held this Friday at First Parish Church in Cambridge. Its title says it all ...
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13 Dec 2010 - 9:41pm
BOSTON/Government Center - Temperatures dropped below freezing at the Government Center, but members of the American Civil Liberties Union and allied groups were out in force on Friday, marking the 47th anniversary of Human Rights Day with a vehement protest against what many view as the tacit c
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6 Dec 2010 - 10:56pm
Many people have stated, as consolation for Councilor Turner's departure from the Boston City Council, the fact that the council is still basically progressive.
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6 Dec 2010 - 10:47pm
A few days ago, I watched Chuck Turner get thrown off of the Boston City Council by a near-unanimous vote of his peers as I took photographs of the sad scene for Open Media Boston.
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6 Dec 2010 - 10:36pm
As construction begins on the first phase of the 199 unit MaxPac housing development in Somerville, about 80 union members and community organizers rallied on Dec. 2 to win union jobs and a commitment to hire local residents.
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6 Dec 2010 - 9:32pm
Naomi Wallace’s The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East, is three one-act plays, set in the Gaza Strip, West Jerusalem, and Baghdad.
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29 Nov 2010 - 11:27pm
BOSTON/Downtown Crossing - Over 300 immigrant students and allies held a rally at St. Paul's Cathedral today in support of the DREAM Act - a federal bill that would provide some undocumented immigrant students a path to legal residency in the US.
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29 Nov 2010 - 11:41am
Wow, time sure does fly. This is Open Media Boston's third Holiday Appeal since we started publishing in March 2008.
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29 Nov 2010 - 9:39am
Recently some of our City Councillors have been complaining about the effect of money in local politics. The topic, of course, was Terry Ragon’s financing of a successful petition to repeal the recent zoning re-write about commercial signs.
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24 Nov 2010 - 5:45pm
The wildlife in the Charles River might be getting a habitat upgrade soon. Mirant Kendall Cogeneration Station, the electric generating plant located in Cambridge at 265 First Street is in the process of modifying its pollution discharge permit.
