Milton seems unprepared, partly because of the fast-moving pace of legal action and mostly because town officials are as divided as the town they represent.
Arts and Culture
A first for Old Ironsides
“I fight and drive ships and lead sailors,” said Commander Billie JU. Farrell.. “And so that’s what I’ve done for the past 20 years. I’m very fortunate that I’ve worked with a bunch of great commanding officers.
Embrace Boston looking to build two new monuments
The first monument, Paris Jeffries hopes, will be at the site of the former Emancipation statue and involve rotating interpretations of what emancipation means. Another will go at the promised King center in Roxbury.
Bust of Frederick Douglass unveiled in Senate chamber
The Douglass bust is the first to be added to the Senate Chamber’s permanent collection since 1898. It now it sits in an alcove near his quote — “Truth, justice, liberty, and humanity will ultimately prevail” — which adorns the chamber.
Book bans are bad for democracy
Massachusetts must fight against the national tide of intolerance promoting book bans, which post a particular threat to marginalized communities.
Boston’s free museum plan leaves out thousands of kids
Under a new seven-month pilot program, on the first two Sundays of every month, Boston Public Schools students and up to three family members will have free admission to several Boston arts and cultural institutions. But the free admission program doesn’t apply to all young people in the city.
Holding a mirror up to our stereotypes
The new film “American Fiction” is not merely a piece of entertainment; it is a profound commentary on the state of our cultural and media landscapes.
The ‘frantic paddling’ of Boston’s food scene
Boston’s ever-changing food scene is now on the front edge of another era, one driven by the pandemic and marked not just by evolution in outdoor dining or cocktails to go, but labor unrest.
For the ‘canna-curious,’ a new way to buy and ‘drink weed’
Theory Wellness, opening the state’s first drink-only cannabis dispensary in Medford, is betting on the growing cannabis beverage market and looking to make the process of buying and drinking marijuana look a lot more like the process of buying and drinking beer or the ever-more-popular spiked seltzer.
Contemporations may work better than reparations
While reparations are typically linked to slavery or historic discrimination, contemporations focus on contemporary discrimination. With contemporations, there is no need to determine the responsible parties’ intention, only the impact of their decisions and actions on community and personal wealth.