3+ week, 2+ day ago   (824+ words) Eighty years in, ‘The Big Sleep’ still proves you don’t need all the answers in a great movie The Boston Globe Eighty years in, ‘The Big Sleep’ still proves you don’t need all the answers in a great movie In…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (695+ words) In 2015, former Fox News talk show host Geraldo Rivera said that hip-hop was “destructive” and had “done more damage to Black and brown people than racism” in recent years. Rivera is one of many who have scapegoated hip-hop for violence,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (366+ words) Barbara Wallraff is a writer and editor in Cambridge. She writes The Wordshop on Substack. Last time, we sought a word for “the phenomenon where dogs and their owners have an eerily strong resemblance,” which researchers recently concluded is not…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (195+ words) The Boston Globe Seniors from an assisted living facility in Chelsea enjoy the water using floating beach wheelchairs An inside look the Copley Station repairs during the Green Line shutdown The Great Elephant Migration makes its way to Boston Lindsay…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1262+ words) On a recent sweaty summer night, Ashiqur Rahman Alif, a nuclear engineer and researcher, was out for a run when he passed a spectacle at Copley Square. In front of him were more than 30 bobbing dancers and a brass band....

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (592+ words) Over their four decades, Indigo Girls’ harmonies and songs have been a staple of concerts and campfire singalongs. But earlier this year, the duo of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers explained that they were facing a new reality. In a…...

4+ week, 20+ hour ago   (462+ words) Stephen O’Connor is a writer from Lowell. As the years roll by, I’ve begun to wonder what to keep and what to throw out or give away. For example, I passed my youth in a world before email. Consequently, I…...