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CREATIVE DESTRUCTION
The rise and (imminent) fall of Boston’s only graffiti park Rosa Parks, Mr. Miyagi, and the Incredible Hulk gaze down from the wall, their faces nearly big enough to drive a bus through. A giraffe in...
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NEWS TO US: DUDLEY DO RIGHT
Derek Lumpkins of Discover Roxbury on the heart of the Hub Photo credit: Mona Maruyama Recent articles mentioning Roxbury during the mayoral campaign offer excitement about our voices being heard and...
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FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE OF THE FERDINAND: MUCH MORE THAN A COFFEE WAR
It’s a Friday afternoon at Haley House Bakery Cafe in Roxbury, and the place is hopping. The scene screams community; at a table close to the counter, a well-known local hip-hop activist and his...
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SUMMER BLIGHT-SEEING: AN ABRIDGED TOUR THROUGH PRE-REDEVELOPED BOSTON
While urban blight is wrong and sad and hideous for several reasons, it can also be exhilarating to ogle. Consider the voyeuristic tourism of Detroit’s former factories, and every last photographer’s...
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DIG THIS: SEXY SHAKESPEARE, ‘GANSETT TALL BOYS + TERRIBLE TRAILERS
Photo By Zoe Mylonas WED 7.16 Sexyback: or what you will voila viola Before you check out Shakespeare’s classic at Boston Common’s Bandstand next week, see Touch Performance Art’s “Twelfth...
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WHEN THE MOB RAN RAP MUSIC IN BOSTON: TDS MOB WAS THE HUB’S FIRST HUGE...
A couple months ago, veteran Boston MC Kool Gee stepped on stage at the legendary Wally’s Cafe on Mass Ave. Back in his old neighborhood and decked in a black Adidas running suit and a Kangol with a...
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LAWTOWN’S FINEST: THE LYRICAL RISE AND TRAGIC DEATH OF MASS RAP LEGEND...
Two decades ago, a promising MC from small post-industrial Lawrence dropped some of the most tragically slept-on rap gems of the ’90s, in the Bay State or anyplace else. The critical album was called...
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SPECIAL: THE UNTOLD STORIES OF HUB HIP-HOP
Illustration by Chris Visions Every year or so, an aspiring music writer, typically new to the city, pens a painfully trite screed about how Boston hip-hop hasn’t made it, often hinting at a bitterness...
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YOUTH ACTION: ‘WE DON’T CALL THEM DROPOUTS; WE CALL THEM PUSHOUTS, BECAUSE...
If you’re an adult who has been out of grade school for in excess of a decade, then you probably have no clue how much has been done this century to convert learning institutions into prisons. That...
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SNAP TO IT
Photo By Kaleigh O’Keefe Born at the longstanding Haley House Bakery Cafe this summer, the House Slam is already making waves in the area’s tight-knit community of poets. Self-proclaimed and...
View ArticleYOUTH ACTION: CALL THEM PUSHOUTS, NOT DROPOUTS
“A school is not a jail. It should be a loving place.”
View ArticleTHE UNTOLD STORIES OF HUB HIP-HOP
Like so much history about communities of color, the narrative of Boston hip-hop has been largely buried, ignored, forgotten. Thankfully, there remain innumerable artists, writers, fans, and even...
View ArticleLAWTOWN’S FINEST: THE LYRICAL RISE AND TRAGIC DEATH OF MASS RAP LEGEND...
"He was gone before his time ... People didn’t really get to experience his full potential like we did … He was right on the cusp of doing some even bigger stuff musically [that] could have been...
View ArticleWHEN THE MOB RAN RAP MUSIC IN BOSTON: TDS MOB WAS THE HUB’S FIRST HUGE...
I interviewed Kool Gee the day after he rocked Wally’s. At his request, we met at the place where the TDS Mob story begins—the stoop of the old Tower Records on the corner of Newbury Street and Mass...
View ArticleREAL DEAL: GOLDEN-ERA BARBERSHOP LIFE IS ALIVE AND WELL IN ROXBURY
“A man never forgets his first barbershop,” Allah says. “The smells, the sounds, the imagery. That’s what I do."
View ArticleTHE FIGHT CONTINUES FOR LIQUOR LICENSES IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR
The Hub’s nightlife-less squares, at least for the time being, will remain as boozeless as they’ve been for decades.
View ArticleREAL DEAL: GOLDEN-ERA BARBERSHOP LIFE IS ALIVE AND WELL IN ROXBURY
“A man never forgets his first barbershop,” Allah says. “The smells, the sounds, the imagery. That’s what I do."
View ArticleTHE FIGHT CONTINUES FOR LIQUOR LICENSES IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR
The Hub’s nightlife-less squares, at least for the time being, will remain as boozeless as they’ve been for decades.
View ArticleWHEN THE MOB RAN RAP MUSIC IN BOSTON: TDS MOB WAS THE HUB’S FIRST HUGE...
I interviewed Kool Gee the day after he rocked Wally’s. At his request, we met at the place where the TDS Mob story begins—the stoop of the old Tower Records on the corner of Newbury Street and Mass...
View ArticleLAWTOWN’S FINEST: THE LYRICAL RISE AND TRAGIC DEATH OF MASS RAP LEGEND...
"He was gone before his time ... People didn’t really get to experience his full potential like we did … He was right on the cusp of doing some even bigger stuff musically [that] could have been...
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