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Massachusetts

ELIZABETH PLESE

Local Boston Iranians Are Divided About The War Back Home

“All human beings are members of one frame/ Since all, at first, from the same essence came./ When time afflicts a limb with pain./ The other limbs cannot at rest remain./ If thou feel not for other’s misery./ A human being is no name for thee.”  – A poem by

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ELIZABETH PLESE April 15, 2026
JASON PRAMAS

Editor’s Note: On Local News Day, Sign Up For the BINJ.News Newsletter!

Today is Local News Day, a new holiday of sorts being celebrated for the first time this year. Its aim is to help make the general public more aware of all the mostly small news outlets that are trying to keep local and regional journalism in the public interest going

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JASON PRAMAS April 9, 2026
JASON PRAMAS

IndyMass: April 9, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #57. ARTS Classical Music Commentary: Boston’s Lost Opportunity — How the BSO Board Chose Charles Munch over Leonard Bernstein The Arts Fuse (Somerville) A really interesting deep historical look at

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JASON PRAMAS April 9, 2026
DANA ALBALA

Caffè Dello Sport Keeps Italian Culture Alive In Boston’s North End

A warm, strong scent of fresh Italian coffee welcomes clients to Caffè Dello Sport. It’s an unusual, comforting greeting for a sports bar. At one table, a group of six men banters in a foreign language, as an Italian soccer match plays on the flat-screen TV. To their right, a

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DANA ALBALA April 2, 2026
JASON PRAMAS

IndyMass: March 27, 2026

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

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JASON PRAMAS March 27, 2026
JASON PRAMAS

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

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JASON PRAMAS March 13, 2026
JASON PRAMAS

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

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JASON PRAMAS March 12, 2026
PARIS HUGLEY

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

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PARIS HUGLEY March 5, 2026
JASON PRAMAS

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

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JASON PRAMAS February 27, 2026
JASON PRAMAS

IndyMass: February 27, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #54. ARTS Somerville gets a cabinet-level arts czar in addition to a new leader for Arts Council in mayor’s plan Cambridge-Somerville Independent My first post from the newest news outlet

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JASON PRAMAS February 27, 2026
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