Democracy in Action=Putting Your Two Feet In
The part of democracy that’s about participating in the larger community, specifically helping to make the process of community (not a verb, yet an active entity) function, always gives me a thrill. I feel it even when I am in despair about the politics of the...
Stage Struck: Reversal of Fortune
In The Arabian Nights, Princess Scheherazade subverts a debauched king’s nightly ritual of rape and murder by telling him stories. As Mark Vecchio interprets the tale, “The kingdom was becoming a wasteland, nothing had any meaning anymore. Her storytelling...
StageStruck: Wrestling With Demons
Before the audience are even all seated, a burly, bearded man in dirty fatigues shuffles onstage, unrolls a sleeping bag, lies down and wearily closes his eyes. He’s soon disturbed by a scruffy street musician who plugs his Stratocaster into a rolling amp and...Greening Pains
The commonwealth’s new Green Communities program has been off to a remarkably successful start, even better than organizers had hoped for: earlier this year, 35 municipalities across Massachusetts qualified for a “Green Community” designation, which...E-Edition
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