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...blocks that usually go dark by 11 p.m., skyscraper lights burned into the wee hours with "Go Sox" signs flashing in their windows. On Michigan Avenue, the city's main drag, cars full of whooping, face-painted fans slowed traffic to a crawl. In the blue-collar Southside Bridgeport neighborhood, Sox home turf, giddy mobs of grown-ups in Sox regalia (a few of whom appeared old enough to have been around for the last Sox win) descended on the closed Cellular Field, where they used brooms to sweep away Texas toast and hoisted signs reading "Houston...
Fingleton grew up in a small neighborhood of Brisbane where most of the men made their weekly earnings working on the wharves and spent those earnings in the pubs. His film illustrates a childhood saturated with pain: his father and brother were alcoholics, his mother attempted suicide, his family struggled with poverty, he competed with his brother to the point of estrangement, and his father abused all of them, psychologically and physically...
Fingleton escaped from his domestic problems in the cool waters of the neighborhood pool. Near his home was an indoor swimming pool that cost only a penny for admission, and in the hot Australian summers, he and his brothers and sister often found themselves there...
...election—incumbents and challengers alike—listed housing affordability, taxes, and education as top local issues at a candidates’ forum last night. Challengers sharply criticized incumbents’ stances on these issues and others at the event, which was hosted by the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association (MCNA) at the Cambridge Senior Center in Central Square. Eighteen candidates are vying for the council’s nine spots in the Nov. 8 election. This includes all nine current council members. Critical challengers denounced the current council for failing to involve citizens in city government, calling...
...some of our own dreams, should struggle beside those who never really were given the chance to dream in the first place?What if, for example, we all spent at least a few years trying to do some good as a teacher or community organizer in an at-risk neighborhood instead of going off to the elite firm? What if, to take it to another level, we committed our lives to eliminating “at-risk neighborhoods” altogether, to changing the odds so poor kids don’t have to beat them? That would be true...