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Sweating the Small Beer
In my contributor’s blurb in this month’s Boston Magazine, I lob a tomato at the City of Boston for cracking down on hair salons serving free drinks to customers without a license. The popular stereotype of Boston in the world at large is that we’re stodgy, uptight, schoolmarmish, anti-fun, and usually dressed to match. The […]
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Cashed Out, in this month’s Boston Magazine
November 1, 2011
After seven years in the tall grass, my byline returns to the city in grand style. Locals, be sure to check out the print edition for the AWESOME two-page art by Miguel Navarro.
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Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn You
October 6, 2011
Yours truly, three months ago: That being said, fuck the Post Office, or as I call it, the garbage delivery service…. I receive virtually nothing in the mail other than Boston Globe coupon circulars, offers for high-interest credit cards, and Fingerhut catalogs. Every day, a pound or so of mail goes straight from the mailbox […]
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Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party
October 2, 2011
When the Occupy Boston protest crested last night in front of the Federal Reserve building downtown, they were only a few blocks from where most historians think an earlier generation of hooligans boarded British merchant ships and tossed their cargoes of tea overboard. Today, you would be hard-pressed to find two movements which would instinctively […]
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The Unfinished Business of 9/11
September 9, 2011
When I think of, and back to 9/11, I have many swirling thoughts, but what sticks with me still is a sense of lingering bitterness over the many unsettled bills left on the table that day. Most of all, 9/11 represents the single greatest institutional failure in the history of our government to perform its […]
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Well, which is it?
August 21, 2011
In this NYT story, Second Recession in U.S. Could Be Worse Than First, readers are treated to this astonishing bit of rhetorical whiplash: Even those Americans who are working are generally working less; the typical private sector worker has a shorter workweek today than four years ago. Employers shed all the extra work shifts and […]
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Charlie on the Hubway
August 19, 2011
Am I the only person utterly perplexed by Hubway? My long-standing feelings about bicycles aside, I just don’t get the point. The one bona fide use case would seem to be a trip where you take the subway as close to your destination as you can, then pick up a bike for the remainder. I […]
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November 2, 2011
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