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Leaning into the microphone in a bar crowded with street musicians yesterday, Baird, executive director of the Community Arts Advocates, railed against a new policy that will prevent many of them from claiming their subway-station stages...
Boston’s community of street musicians is an intimate one. Milo Matthews, a veteran bassist at Harvard and Davis Squares who recently extended his performance circuit to South Station, cracks several smiles of recognition as his eyes wander around the room. He says he knows most of the meeting’s other guests...
According to Sean McLaughlin, associate news editor at the Boston College Heights, the BC students’ requests for press passes were initially approved, even after making it clear that they were working for a college newspaper in their applications. Once the student reporters showed up at the station to have their press pass pictures taken, however, the public affairs office revoked their authorization. “It is my belief and the belief of the editors that they were discriminated due to being college students,” McLaughlin wrote in an e-mail...
...MEANWHILE IN GREECE ... Kiss Me, Quick The National Council for Radio and Television handed a 5100,000 obscenity fine to TV station Mega Channel for broadcasting a five-second smooch between two men. In response, about 30 gay-rights activists held a kiss-in outside the regulator's offices in central Athens. The kiss aired in the popular late-night drama series Close Your Eyes; the oft-aired embrace between Madonna and Britney Spears at the MTV Awards in August went uncensored. Gay TV : Absolutely Pink
...Kremlin persecution of Russia’s powerful oligarchs has become routine: An obscenely rich Russian criticizes the president, often on his own TV station; Putin sends ski-masked officers from the Federal Security Service—the successor organization to the KGB—to confiscate assets and arrest the upstart; and the oligarch either escapes abroad—usually to London—or languishes in prison until he accedes to the president’s demands. Khodorkovsky hasn’t gotten past the languishing-in-prison stage, and, unlike his predecessors, it looks as though...