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WIN-WIN FOR WYNN: THE SHOW WILL GO ON IN EVERETT
Photo by Brynne Quinlan The Steve Wynn sexual harassment scandal is for sure salacious. But all the anti-gaming haters should probably hit the brakes now on talk that it’s going to have an impact on...
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EXCLUSIVE BOOK EXCERPT: ICE BUCKETS AND EDIBLES
The following chapter has been excerpted from ‘Ice Bucket Challenge: Pete Frates and the Fight against ALS’ by Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge Pete was soon placed on an experimental “compassionate...
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COVERING DESTRUCTION: A BOSTON WRITER REFLECTS ON FATEFUL ASSIGNMENT 15 YEARS...
After graduating Boston College in the mid-‘90s, I spent the better part of 20 years covering crime, including 14 years at the Boston Herald. Serial killers, gangland slayings, horrible domestic...
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LET’S DO THE VANS WARPED TOUR AGAIN
Photo by Matthew Vincent Nostalgia is a funny thing. Some people consider it a dirty word. Others unashamedly embrace it and simply revel in their past, perhaps in hopes of reliving a moment from...
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ASKING ALEXANDRIA
Maybe it’s YouTube. Or the Mark Wahlberg movie Rock Star. Whichever it is, it seems more rock bands looking for new singers these days are turning to fans. The latest to do so is British...
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LIVE REVIEW: CANNIBAL CORPSE @ PARADISE ROCK CLUB
Boston frequently loses some of the best metal shows to Worcester, but when a great bill does come through, it’s often a must-see. Such was the case at the Paradise Thursday night when death metal...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: VULVATRON, GWAR’S MURDEROUS SEX GODDESS
"I was summoned back to Earth to alter the course of the future battle. GWAR really fucked up and I felt the need as a commander of the forces in the future to navigate back to the present time to...
View ArticleNOW YOU SEE THEM: ON UNMASKING THE METAL MEN OF GHOST
Swedish metal band Ghost almost show us what's beneath their masks: social phobias, booze gargling, and a lot of love for KISS.
View ArticlePAPAL VISIT: CARLOS ARREDONDO TO MEET WITH POPE FRANCIS ON BEHALF OF MARATHON...
“I feel a responsibility to the survivors, my family, my sons, Alex and Brian, and the church here in Roslindale,” Carlos Arredondo said.
View ArticleMETAL MAYHEM: SLAYER TALK DEATH AND DESTRUCTION
Prepare yourself. Their secret show at The Sinclair has nothing on the new live show's setup.
View ArticleREVIEW: BEHEMOTH + CANNIBAL CORPSE @ HOUSE OF BLUES
The undisputed dark lords occupying the throne and horrorcore humorists double down for death metal.
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE EXCERPT FROM THE NEW BOOK “BOSTON STRONG”
This legal Ping-Pong game will continue to go back and forth through his trial. Meanwhile, Dzhokhar sits in his cell, living off meals of chicken and rice and allowed to make only one phone call, write...
View ArticleAT ACARO’S FINAL SHOW, EMOTIONS WERE AS INTENSE AS THE MUSIC
In life, it's really hard to walk away from something you're passionate about. And perhaps nowhere is it tougher than in the music biz.
View ArticleREVIEW: BEHEMOTH + CANNIBAL CORPSE @ HOUSE OF BLUES
The undisputed dark lords occupying the throne and horrorcore humorists double down for death metal.
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE EXCERPT FROM THE NEW BOOK “BOSTON STRONG”
This legal Ping-Pong game will continue to go back and forth through his trial. Meanwhile, Dzhokhar sits in his cell, living off meals of chicken and rice and allowed to make only one phone call, write...
View ArticleAT ACARO’S FINAL SHOW, EMOTIONS WERE AS INTENSE AS THE MUSIC
In life, it's really hard to walk away from something you're passionate about. And perhaps nowhere is it tougher than in the music biz.
View ArticleREVIEW: BEHEMOTH + CANNIBAL CORPSE @ HOUSE OF BLUES
The undisputed dark lords occupying the throne and horrorcore humorists double down for death metal.
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE EXCERPT FROM THE NEW BOOK “BOSTON STRONG”
This legal Ping-Pong game will continue to go back and forth through his trial. Meanwhile, Dzhokhar sits in his cell, living off meals of chicken and rice and allowed to make only one phone call, write...
View ArticleAT ACARO’S FINAL SHOW, EMOTIONS WERE AS INTENSE AS THE MUSIC
In life, it's really hard to walk away from something you're passionate about. And perhaps nowhere is it tougher than in the music biz.
View ArticleMY TIME WITH TOM: REFLECTIONS ON 14 YEARS COVERING MAYOR TOM MENINO
I covered his administration. I would often stalk him by his black SUV in the horseshoe driveway in back of City Hall to press him on the news of the day. Some days, he’d be furious with me about...
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