"There's no easy solution," Berklee pianist Leo Blanco said. "The only thing I'm celebrating is that one important piece of the chess game was removed. They took a king away."

Thinking about taking a pause from drinking in 2026? Or are you already sober? Come to CitySpace this Friday for a panel and NA bev tasting. I'll be there with author and The Luckiest Club founder Laura McKowen, Dry Humor bottle shop founder CJ Mutti, and Mountainside Treatment Center's Jana Wu.

early 90s, preteen me stumbled over and nearly crashed into spike lee at the black dog

I think this is the actually correct answer bsky.app/profile/eric...

Time for the annual debate: what decade exactly is A Christmas Story supposed to be set in

hosting a party is just cleaning the kitchen again and again until people get here and then you get to clean it again after they leave

it’s wild living with two predators in my house, honestly

I like to say this guy is all thoughts, no vibes. He’d be happier if he were dumber

in this house we cherish the holiday classics 🎄

holy cats this wind

This has been such dark week for news, my word

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

If Disney was going to do a movie centered on the villain of a beloved Disney franchise... it should have been Ursula. Nobody gives a fuck about Gaston.

This is a great listen — Lisa Mullins’ interview on WBUR’s All Things Considered with Ana Hebra Flaster, who’s written about her life as a Cuban immigrant. She came to America as a refugee aboard the U.S.-sponsored Freedom Flights, which began 60 years ago this month. www.wbur.org/upnext/2025/...

Today I made my @wbur.org social video debut talking about my favorite story: Nova Scotia's annual gift of a Christmas Tree to Boston. Check it out. Huge thanks to producer, editor, and generally awesome human @meghanbkelly.bsky.social who did all the hard work. youtube.com/shorts/nsO9h...

My work pal @dgquovadimus.bsky.social made his debut on @wbur.org's video stream today by bringing you the story of why Boston gets a Christmas tree from Nova Scotia every year: youtube.com/shorts/nsO9h...

nothing makes me feel crankier and more like andy rooney than an ios update

ok as far as I’m concerned this is officially canon

This is a great article about a rare hummingbird being seen on Martha's Vineyard but I can't get over the fact that it was seen by a guy name Harry Beach. Who lives by the beach.

are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson

Nuzzi is THIRTY TWO. She left girlhood long ago!!

pro tip: if you are coming to the U.S. to watch a World Cup game please be aware that Gillette Stadium is NOT in Boston; it is in Foxborough, which is about 45-60 mins from Boston by car. Which this article does not mention once.

Monday starting off strong with this dramatic sentence from the local Facebook group: "To visit Market Basket on a Sunday is to witness the collapse of human civilization into complete anarchy and chaos" (He is not wrong)

The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991. From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

lol listened to the niamos chandrilian mix from andor so much this year I got a special video from nicholas britell

MA Rep. Seth Moulton said he would continue to press ICE to improve conditions at Burlington, adding "there's no excuse that they have not had sleeping mats from June until now." @wbur.org @moulton.house.gov www.wbur.org/news/2025/12...

family lore says that my grandfather tried to get into the Cocoanut Grove on that night but was turned away because his shoes weren't nice enough

The newsletters will continue until morale improves

It's almost time!

White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt now has a family connection to an ICE arrest: the mother of her nephew was detained in Revere, Mass. @wbur.org @simonfrios.bsky.social www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...

Every American should have this in their wallet:

Another good reason to avoid being on X is that Isaac Chotiner could start asking you questions there at any time

no one is safe!!

once we (husband and I) made cranberry sauce (i.e. not out of a can) and I thought my family was going to riot

idk why you guys are dunking on Bari Weiss’s thing about Dershowitz, my teens come home every day and ask for the latest news about “The Dersh” (that’s what the kids call him these days)

On Monday, in response to reporters, Wu said she's "not interested in a bromance with the federal regime."

Boston's @mayorwu.boston.gov says no thanks to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social-style 'bromance' with Trump www.wbur.org/news/2025/11... @wbur.org @evezuckoff.bsky.social

I liked rogue one until I saw andor and now I think rogue one is actually bad

he says "like" more than my teenage girl self did in 1994

There are some nice wooded trails near me I simply do not take my dog to anymore because of all the unleashed dogs - despite the signs saying dogs need to be leashed. We’ve been chased and charged by “friendly” dogs way too many times & people get VERY salty when I remind them it’s a leashed area!

I appreciate past me looking out for future me

I'm having wicked dreams of leaving Tennessee Hear Santa Monica, I swear it's calling me Won't make my mama proud, it's gonna cause a scene She sees her baby girl, I know she's gonna scream

My mom saw an ad in the actual newspaper that the paper itself was looking for an editorial assistant and she suggested I apply. And now I here I am, making videos for a device and platforms that didn’t even exist when I started in journalism

All of Bluesky this morning:

I have been working in some capacity as a journalist for about the last 20 years and I don't know if any other journalists feel this way but this past year has been the most insane news cycle I've ever experienced outside of covid/2020 election. I'm exhausted.

I was in Derry, Northern Ireland, and my professor at the time got us into some really serious and historical hearings about Bloody Sunday. I, however, was like third-most hungover I'd ever been so I spent most of my time in the bathroom, completely losing my guts

Massachusetts health officials are scrubbing links to federal health data from their web pages after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week promoted the debunked claim that vaccines cause autism.

The best thing about having a cat is that when things go missing or seem awry you can just blame it on the kitty and half the time it’s because of them anyway