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That question still echoes around France in the wake of the explosions of violence that has rocked the country's blighted suburban housing projects for three weeks - even reaching places like Blois, which few would ever equate with gritty urban strife. But if it took this month's fury to...
This is a story about two houses, one made of concrete and glass that looms imposingly over the Charles, and another made of wood and brick that sits among similar buildings along Mt. Auburn Street. In the last four years, I’ve been privileged enough to live, or...
French jihad? Algeria's revenge? Intifada-sur-Seine? Forget all that. The riots currently rocking France have far more in common with the violence that shook Watts, Cleveland, and Harlem in the mid-1960s than they do with the Islamist extremism behind 9/11 or the attacks in Madrid and London...
Pundits pretending otherwise have conveniently short memories of Islamist evolution, or woefully poor understanding of France's urban morass. The decrepit housing projects now hosting pitched battles are case studies in progressive French good intentions gone awry. Initially constructed in the 1960s to replace the squalid Hoovervilles once populated by...
While the traveling company of “Hairspray” no doubt delighted Bostonians on the quaint yet elegant Opera House stage, the touring group lacks the coveted flair and professionalism of this musical’s Broadway cast. “Hairspray” follows painfully plump teenager...