An inner look at the graphic design enthusiast’s haven (Somerville Wire) – Tucked away on the Cambridge Line, you may happen upon the Katherine Small Gallery. It’s true to the suggestion of its name—the intimate space once held “standing-room only lectures,” packing as many people as possible into a room, on their feet, too close […]
ARTS WATCH: LESLEY UNIVERSITY
Prof Anthony Apesos teaching Art Institute of Boston (now LUCAD) MFA students in January 2011. Photo by Jason Pramas Alumni, students demand reinstatement of MFA program founder A group of more than 200 alumni and current graduate students have sent a petition to Lesley University’s administration, demanding the reinstatement of Anthony Apesos—a popular professor—to the […]
PARTY POOPERS: BLUE AND RED STALWARTS SHOULD STOP ATTACKING MINOR PARTY SUPPORTERS
July 30, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Blue and Red stalwarts should stop attacking minor party supporters for remaining independent—and start debating ideas The quadrennial whinefest has already begun. The RNC and DNC pageants are barely over, the presidential election is still over three months off, and yet major party stalwarts are already trying to […]
AN INFAMOUS WEST AFRICAN WARLORD’S BAY STATE JAILBREAK
Bill Russell’s Rubber Plantation ←Click here to go back to Part IV: Firestone & Brimstone In 1959, a titan of the Boston Garden’s parquet floor and the frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement traveled to Liberia on a State Department-sponsored tour of Africa. While visiting a school, a student asked the Boston Celtics legend why he […]
CAMBRIDGE UNHOUSED
Introducing Cambridge Unhoused Why are we blanketing one Massachusetts city in particular with focused housing crisis coverage this winter? By Chris Faraone, BINJ Editorial Director Almost everything we cover at the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism ends in homelessness. Environmental injustice. Prison, re-entry, parole. The opioid epidemic. Institutional racism. The affordable housing crisis. When society […]