Category: WBUR
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New plan for a resurrected Great Scott comes with housing
Allston’s atrophied “Rock City” might get its beating heart back — and Bostonians seem to be all in. Legendary live music club Great Scott, shuttered by the pandemic since May 2020, is being reimagined down the street from its original…
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Protesters demand Tufts student’s release following arrest by immigration officials
More than a thousand people gathered at Powder House Square near the Tufts University campus Wednesday evening to protest the arrest and possible deportation of graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk. Ozturk was arrested Tuesday and is now being held in a…
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Mass. federal workers still unsure about future, despite reinstatement
When Michelle Huntoon got an email last Monday night reinstating her at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, she laughed. The email, which overturned her immediate termination just over a month prior, felt like a “long, pointless joke.” When…
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Meet Clube Desportivo Faialense, the amateur Mass. soccer team headed to the U.S. Open Cup
The best team in the Bay State Soccer League doesn’t hold tryouts. Clube Desportivo Faialense, the back-to-back victor of the league’s Division I championships, builds out its bench by word of mouth, a vetting process that players say safeguards the…
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Pro-Palestinian protesters rally in Boston Common as bombings in Gaza resume
Scores of people gathered on Boston Common Tuesday afternoon to protest Israel’s renewed bombing in Gaza and demand that the U.S. stop supplying weapons to the Israeli government. Several protesters also held signs demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a…
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Mass. fair housing center says it can’t take new cases after HUD funding cuts
Calls to the Massachusetts Fair Housing Center’s main line have gone to voicemail since March 5. Clients are directed to dial the extension of the person they’re working with, but those looking to open a new case with the nonprofit…
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How Boston-area cinemas snagged ‘No Other Land’
A still from the documentary “No Other Land.” (Courtesy Antipode films) If you don’t want to see it, don’t come. That’s Katherine Tallman’s philosophy about “No Other Land,” the divisive, Oscar-winning documentary showing at Brookline’s Coolidge Corner Theatre, where she…