This is indeed a banger and correct on all counts but I resent that the Globe got name-dropped while WBUR is merely "the city's public-radio station" (there are two of us ok??) bsky.app/profile/hels...

“I am feeling disappointed, you know why? Because I [have] worked at Harvard 13 years,” said Newton Christian DeJesus, who lives in Medford and was at Harvard Yard Monday morning. “I have a family, I have a wife, I have a daughter. I have to do this.” https://bit.ly/3X3gfPY

"Inside the Norman Rockwell Museum — and the distortions of his art" November 14, 2025 By Amelia Mason, @shmabelia.bsky.social www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...

huge improvement. I've always been suspicious of the concept of equality bsky.app/profile/nytd...

The Boston Palestine Film Festival is all this week. Tomorrow, they are screening a documentary about Fatma Hassona, a young Gazan photojournalist who was killed in an Israeli airstrike earlier this year, right before the film premiered at Cannes. My latest: www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

I'm very proud of this year's crop of Makers. These are local artists of color whose work engages with the natural environment, asking tough questions about climate change, sustainability and justice. I was lucky to get to profile two visionaries: @jakeblount.com and Andre StrongBearHeart

The town of Burlington has repeatedly attempted to gain access to the ICE facility there to do an inspection and has been repeatedly denied, including their latest attempt a few days ago. If you've read anything about the conditions there, you know what ICE is trying to hide. (h/t @srossmktg.com)

Excited to share this interview @wbur.org chatting about my new album, the early 2000s, the challenge of finding focus in a burning world, that kinda thing. Thanks so much for the fun convo @shmabelia.bsky.social ! Hope to see folks at the release party Sept 20! www.wbur.org/news/2025/09...

Thinking about the public media family at GBH right now www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Which local Tiny Desk Contest entry do you think deserves the glory? Voting for the Massachusetts Fan Favorite closes this Thursday, June 5 at 11:59pm! www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

Lupe Fiasco's latest hip-hop collaborator? MIT www.wbur.org/news/2025/05... via @wbur.org @shmabelia.bsky.social

Boston’s own Eph See was featured on @npr.org Music's Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf! NPR’s Robin Hilton said Eph See’s song “Malachi the Uber Driver” is the Tiny Desk entry he is most excited about this year. Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWcZ...

“ Museums are an incredible treasure trove of what people create and what mattered to us, right? What mattered to us: our inner lives, our outer lives, our political lives, our social lives.” -- Jill Medvedow @icaboston.bsky.social www.wbur.org/news/2025/03...

How Jill Medvedow transformed the ‘scrappy’ ICA into a Boston institution www.wbur.org/news/2025/03... via @shmabelia.bsky.social

Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election. She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”

A Harvard Law School graduate on the verge of joining the faculty at the nation’s most prestigious historically Black law school was killed in the D.C. plane collision.

"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks" www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...

In the era of segregation, Black actors and filmmakers made their own movies for their own audiences. On Sunday, the Somerville Theatre is screening one of the rare surviving examples. A reminder that art flourishes in even the most adverse conditions: www.wbur.org/news/2025/01...

OK YES that was an earthquake, says USGS -- right off York Harbor in Maine. More to come: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

“Our food is our stories ... It's our sovereignty. And without food, without the stories, there wouldn't be language.” - Chef Sherry Pocknett www.wbur.org/news/2024/11...

Did you know there are all kinds of geniuses you've never heard of quietly making brilliant music all over New England??? Melo Green is the just the latest to hit my radar. Please check out my feature on his deep, weird, beautiful album.

Pleased to announce I have taught a major international artist about the great Boston pastime of “Storrowing.” He is fascinated. “Why don’t you fix the bridges?” He asked. Then there would be no more Storrowing,”I explained.

Rose Art Museum has a wild new exhibit. “The unsettling combination of threatening and alluring is on dizzying display throughout the Rose’s survey of Hayden’s prolific last decade: a baby’s crib lined with thorns, basketball hoops woven from human-like hair …” — @shmabelia.bsky.social

Wild chart here. "Abortions were up 37% in Mass. last year, driven by patients from other states" www.wbur.org/news/2024/11...