BUFF 2026 Returns With Bob Odenkirk And ‘Superorganism’ Of Independent Cinema
From opening night action to midnight screenings, Boston’s premier underground film fest promises a five-day dive into the unseen and the absurd
More Antiwar Culture Is Needed To Build A Powerful Antiwar Movement
In a BINJ.News editorial last week, I found myself doing a fast analysis of the various factions I see that are for or against the US and Israeli war on Iran. My purpose was to invite people active in those factions to send in opinion articles reviewing why they have arrived at the positions they […]
IndyMass: March 13, 2026
Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #55. CIVIL LIBERTIES Lexington Chamber of Commerce moves fundraiser location due to ICE ties The Lexington Observer Turns out the old school Cafe Escadrille restaurant in Burlington is owned by the guy who owns the […]
Watch: ‘King Of Pop Culture’ Gary Sohmers On BINJ Live
Legendary appraiser talks retro and collectibles, alternative press, and music history
BINJ Ed Director Talks Massachusetts Opioid Settlement Coverage At NICAR
Chris Faraone joined cohort from Data-Driven Reporting Project at Northwestern University
Photos: 27th Maple Boil Down at the Somerville Growing Center
Somerville, Mass. – Last Saturday, volunteers joined staff members of the Somerville Growing Center for the 27th Maple Boil Down of its Somerville Maple Syrup project. Sap tapped from maple trees at Tufts University was boiled down into “pre-syrup” over the course of a few hours. A second boil at a local culinary facility is […]
Public Health Officials Holding Opioid Remediation Fund Listening Sessions In Western Mass
With tens of millions still unspent, Massachusetts is soliciting public input on how to use money meant to mitigate damage wrought by the opioid epidemic
Organizers, Community Debate Success Of Black Lives Matter
Cambridge, Mass. – On February 24, as Black History Month came to a close, a Cambridge-based civic organization reflected on one of the most defining and divisive movements of the digital era. Years after the Black Lives Matter movement’s 2020 peak—when protests swept through cities across the United States and around the globe—organizers of the […]
Editorial: BINJ.News Seeks Opinion Articles From Iran War Street Protest Groups
On the latest episode of our weekly BINJ Live show on YouTube, Chris Faraone and I unpacked our thinking about covering various actions against the Iran War around Massachusetts being something we can reasonably do as local news publishers with no “boots on the ground” in any countries directly affected by the conflict … so […]
Gov. Healey Should Bet On Beneficial Tech, Not So-Called ‘AI’
Perhaps I’d be less concerned about Gov. Maura Healey’s recent cheerleading for so-called “AI” if she would join a growing camp of experts in dropping the PR misnomer “artificial intelligence” when describing evolutionary improvements in dozens of areas of computing technology. Tech which does many discrete things—some very well, some pretty well, and some quite […]