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Listening to “Here Lies Love” means first coming to terms with the bizarre reality of this album: David Byrne, Fatboy Slim, and a host of guest singers narrating the rise and fall of Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. It?...
For most of the sprawling 22-song album it feels like the difficulty of painting a sympathetic portrait of a woman who wants herself referred to as “Love” on her gravestone has been brushed over. But there are exceptions, moments in which Byrne chooses to...
“The Portuguese community is severely undercounted,” said Paulo R. Pinto, executive director of the Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers. “It is the second most spoken language in Massachusetts. We need to be counted to empower this community.”
Cambridge also bucks the trend seen in Boston and nationwide of a large increase in Hispanic populations. The ethnic makeup of waitlists for public housing in Cambridge has changed little over the past ten years, with Portuguese speakers and Haitians comprising most of the minority applicants, according to Johnston.
We encourage the state legislature to pass DeLeo’s bill and hasten the construction of the two resort-style casinos and four race-track slot machine banks for which it calls. Although we recognize that gambling may not be the most productive industry, or the most morally sound...