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...fictionalized stories of ordinary people whose lives and professions are attached to the city’s far-reaching organized crime problems. There’s Totò, the boy who hides a gun and bag of drugs during a police raid and is rewarded with initiation into a local gang, only to be sucked into the violence of neighborhood gang warfare. Franco is a waste management official who oversees the Camorra’s side business of illegally dumping toxic waste, poisoning the local farmland. And there’s Pasquale, the tailor who incurs the wrath...
Before all other things, what pervades Ruth Lepson’s work is a sense of the artist as perpetually emergent. Lepson, a Massachusetts local and the New England Conservatory’s poet-in-residence, has the liberating aura of a contemporary poet whose work remains relatively unknown. In light of this fact, her new collection of poems, “I Went Looking for You,” enriches a sense of the human experience that is at turns both emotionally resonant and aesthetically restrained.Lepson’s poetry is filled with tender descriptions of places that...
Following Harvard’s decision last month to slow construction of its much-anticipated Allston science complex, local residents have escalated demands for the University to lease its thousands of square feet of vacant properties in the neighborhood...
...Early last week, in reaction to the decision, a local group hung multiple banners—including one that stated in large, red letters, “It’s time for resistance”—on empty Harvard-owned buildings. A few days later, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino responded to Harvard’s announcement by asking it to provide the City with an inventory of current Allston property holdings and their planned uses in a letter to University President Drew G. Faust...
...Some local residents have long said that Harvard’s vacant properties reduce the attractiveness of the neighborhood and harm existing businesses, and that the businesses that have been brought in by the University do not cater to the needs of the community...