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BATTLE OF THE CENTURY

Photos by Kori Feener Nearly 100 years old, Frances Crowe is every polluter’s worst nightmare In June, Frances Crowe was arrested with seven others in Sandisfield, a small town in the Berkshires, for protesting the Connecticut Expansion Pipeline, a 10-plus-mile natural gas loop planned to run through three states, including

KORI FEENER September 5, 2017

WE CAME, WE SAW, WE COVERED (A #FIGHTSUPREMACY COMPOSITE RETROSPECT)

Photo by Derek Kouyoumjian Between the protesters, the counterprotesters, the media, the cops, and a handful of trolls, countless stories unfolded in Boston last weekend. These are several we encountered… PHOTOS, WORDS, AND REPORTING BY SARAH BETANCOURT, BRITNI DE LA CRETAZ, CHRIS FARAONE, KORI FEENER, NATE HOMAN, ZACK HUFFMAN, DEREK

MULTIPLE AUTHORS August 22, 2017

THE YAWKEY WAY

From ignoramus radio talkers to bigoted fans and a checkered past, Boston baseball has a race problem Kalek Briscoe worked as a bartender in the State Street Pavilion inside Fenway Park for a decade. When he heard in May that Baltimore Orioles player Adam Jones told Boston media that a

BRITNI DE LA CRETAZ July 20, 2017

WATCHING BOSTON

The true beginning of a false narrative: an investigation into the Hub’s Neighborhood Watch Eight days after 16-year-old Norman Hawkesworth shot and killed Stephen Lanigan, John Winston found the murder weapon — a .22 caliber long pistol — while jogging in West Roxbury and contacted the police. According to Suffolk County court documents, Hawkesworth had

DANIEL DEFRAIA July 11, 2017

THE BALLAD OF BIKING IN BOSTON

Dispatches from my daily dance with death en route to work I edge off the sidewalk. I look left and then right. Then left and then right again. One more time to be sure. I merge towards the rightmost edge of the street, but there is no bike lane so I teeter

KATIE CAMPISI July 9, 2017

CONDEMBTA

A visual essay on public transportation infrastructure and priorities in Greater Boston It’s often noted that the trains which pump through tunnels underneath our feet downtown and barrel over bridges into Cambridge, Quincy, and beyond belong to the most ancient subterranean transit matrix in America. Aside from being a great historical

DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN June 14, 2017

INTERSECTIONAL POLITICS (A CRASH-NOT-ACCIDENT REPORT)

When it comes to bike safety and infrastructure in Greater Boston, there’s a dangerous gap between the promises that cities make and the reality where rubber meets the road Of all the places for a cyclist or pedestrian to be killed, the intersection of Mass Ave and Somerville Ave in

KYLIE OBERMEIER June 7, 2017

IT’S ART, IT’S QUEER. IT’S HERE TO STAY

From “Momentum” at Kayafas Gallery | Photo by Nathaniel J. Fink Inclusivity (finally) hits Boston’s art scene, plans for longevity BLAA’s planning committee meets, as many of Boston’s most interesting (read DIY) arts organizations do, in the living room of one of its members. May’s monthly meeting gets underway at

HEATHER KAPPLOW June 7, 2017

LOBOTOMASS

From mind control experiments to taxpayer-funded black magic to housing Nazi scientists in Boston Harbor, the Commonwealth has an unparalleled dark side to its noted innovation legacy — with many shadows leading to today’s technological titans. Massachusetts, with its concentration of colleges and the presence of elite institutions like Harvard and MIT,

JONATHAN RILEY May 30, 2017

HOW TO BUILD A NATURAL GAS PIPELINE IN MASS …

… In four easy steps In 2014, natural gas giant Kinder Morgan came to Sandisfield, a small town in Western Mass, to propose its Connecticut Expansion Project (CT Expansion), an approximately 13-mile loop through Albany County (New York), Hartford County (Connecticut), and Berkshire and Hampden counties (Massachusetts). In the process, the Houston-based

KORI FEENER May 10, 2017