Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #56.
ARTS
Opera Review: Odyssey Opera’s “The Last Savage” Finds Wit and Warmth in Menotti’s Madcap Satire
The Arts Fuse (Somerville)
A work by the “populist” mid-20th-century librettist Gian Carlo Menotti is staged at Boston’s Huntington Avenue Theater.
Ipswich High alum celebrates ‘surreal’ Oscar win after making Hollywood debut
The Local News (Ipswich)
Two opera-related pieces in one issue of IndyMass?! I, too, am shocked, but this one is a national story.
DEVELOPMENT
Community members express ire over city’s White Stadium plans
The Flipside (Boston)
The stadium slugfest continues.
FOOD
Cheesecake as an act of meditation with Duly Lee of Korean Momma
Cambridge-Somerville Independent
We’re seeing something of a Basque cheesecake wave in the Boston area, produced by Asian bakers—since I recently had a great slice of black sesame Basque cheesecake at the Thai-owned Maprang Bakery in Union Square, Somerville. Let it be known that I am here for it.
HEALTH
Judge allows class-action suit against Baystate Health to proceed
The Shoestring (Western Mass)
Sneakily sharing patients’ website activity with Meta and Google could cost a nonprofit hospital system big.
LOCAL HISTORY
Must Have Done The Trick
Worcester Sucks and I Love It
Bill Shaner exposes an absolutely wild local connection to world-changing political developments in 1980.
POLICE STATE
100 SUVs delivered to garage near Burlington ICE office
The Lexington Observer
ICE just can’t get enough of those black SUVs. Kind of ironic, if you think about it.
SO-CALLED “AI”
LS English Teachers Discuss AI in the Classroom
Sudbury Weekly
Very nice to see my colleagues in Sudbury publish timely work by their high school counterparts.
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