PBS documentary revisits ‘trauma’ of the busing eraThe history starts with a dream and becomes a nightmare, only to reawaken as a halting voice of trauma or equanimity steeped in regret…Sep 18, 2023Sep 18, 2023
The Road to the Reporter: Before starting this newspaper, Ed and Mary Forry published yearbooksYou can never know Dorchester well enough, especially on deadline.Jun 17, 2023Jun 17, 2023
Gateway or Barrier? Unpacking the Exam School MystiqueAnyone who applies to a Boston exam school must know something about inequality.Nov 24, 2022Nov 24, 2022
End of the Line for Dirty Old BostonTo live in Boston is to straddle a sometimes very thin line between the historic and the instantaneous. That’s where I found myself the…Nov 24, 2022Nov 24, 2022
Blundering Through Boston’s BoundariesNote: these thoughts on the mapping of Boston were provoked by an editorial in this week’s Dorchester Reporter and an article in the…Nov 24, 2022Nov 24, 2022
From Vargas Llosa to Dorchester AvenueI finally got around to reading an English translation of Mario Vargas Llosa’s Conversación en La Catedral a few years ago. The thick…Nov 24, 2022Nov 24, 2022
Quiet City: Hopper’s Reticent LandscapeWhen the nighthawks come to roost, everyone else is supposedly asleep. As Edward Hopper shows them perched by a counter, their glassed-in…Nov 24, 2022Nov 24, 2022
Jazzfest returns to Dudley Street roots as the Woodards, father and son, play onAs the sun goes down on a hot Wednesday in July, members of the Fred Woodard Collective make their way through the backyard for a basement…Nov 20, 2022Nov 20, 2022
The Dorchester Day Parade: History On The MoveEditor’s note: Dorchester Day is traditionally observed on the first Sunday in June. However, the 2020 Dorchester Day Parade was cancelled…Nov 20, 2022Nov 20, 2022
