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The Daily Free Press

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Bring Back The Dudes: Titus Andronicus and The So So Glos at the Middle East

Daily Free Press Admin May 1, 2013

Titus Andronicus and The So So Glos brought their unique brands of Brooklyn DIY music to the Middle East Club in Cambridge  Monday. As Titus Andronicus leader Patrick Stickles told me, their friendship...

After 8 days, residents, businesses back in Copley

Daily Free Press Admin April 24, 2013

Just more than a week after the Boston Marathon bombings and the subsequent investigation began, Boston officials reopened Copley Square Tuesday, allowing employees to return to their businesses and...

Boston poetry festival brings together local and established authors

Daily Free Press Admin April 9, 2013

More than 60 local, professional and emerging poets read their work Saturday at the Boston Public Library as part of the 13th annual Boston National Poetry Month Festival. “We started the festival...

Coakley supports bill banning for-profit schools from advertising with federal funds

Daily Free Press Admin March 24, 2013

Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley announced official support for proposed legislation prohibiting for-profit colleges and universities from using federal funding for advertising, marketing and recruiting,...

Sec. of State Kerry offers Egyptian aid amid sequestration

Daily Free Press Admin March 7, 2013

John Kerry announced Sunday the United States would be extending an additional $250 million in aid to Egypt, marking his first major action as U.S. Secretary of State amid major sequestration cuts for...

Blogger documents the trials, tribulations of riding T with humor

Daily Free Press Admin February 12, 2013

Sit around any bus or train stop in Boston and you are sure to here the usual complaints about The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority — the trains are always late, the infrastructure outdated,...

Locals, developers debate green apt. complex in Allston

Daily Free Press Admin January 31, 2013

The Boston Redevelopment Authority held a town hall meeting on Wednesday concerning “The Icon” — the third and final new housing development in The Mount Vernon Company’s Green District in Allston...

Boston hospital developing promising Alzheimer drug

Daily Free Press Admin January 28, 2013

A new drug is being developed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital that could slow or even halt the development of Alzheimer’s disease in patients. The Center for Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment at...

MBTA fare evasion citations increase by 40 percent

Daily Free Press Admin January 17, 2013

Although overall crime committed in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority system has diminished, the MBTA reported a 40-percent increase in the number of citations given for fare evasions in...

Protesters call for social security program protection before ‘fiscal cliff’

Daily Free Press Admin December 11, 2012

Calling for “Jobs, not cuts,” dozens of protesters lined up outside U.S.  Sen. John Kerry’s Boston office Monday calling for the protection of social programs in the face of the upcoming “fiscal...

Writers’ Room gives Boston authors space to breathe

Daily Free Press Admin December 4, 2012

When writer Anne Gray Fischer was in graduate school with a 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. job, she applied for a fellowship to the Writers’ Room — a cornerstone of Boston’s writing community that allows aspiring...

Street teams raise not only money, but support

Daily Free Press Admin November 13, 2012

Students hurrying to class along the streets of Boston might see street canvassers as a nuisance, but organizations such as the American Red Cross and Greenpeace reap substantial benefits from street canvassing,...

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