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Spencer Buell

Staff Writer at Boston Magazine

Spencer Buell is a staff writer for Boston, covering news, politics, technology, the T, legal weed, french fries, bears, Brady, and beer. He used to be a news reporter for Metro Boston and the Arlington Advocate.

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Education

Hampshire College Says It’s Looking to Merge

The storied and famously weird institution is the latest liberal arts school to face financial problems.

Arts & Entertainment

Yayoi Kusama, Instagram’s Favorite Artist, Will Be Featured at ICA Boston

An Infinity Mirror Room, called LOVE IS CALLING, arrives here this fall.

City Life

Stephen King and His Readers “Saved the Day” for the Portland Press Herald

After the paper cut its book reviews, the author led a push to buy subscriptions.

City Life

A New Trump Tweet about Elizabeth Warren Triples Down

This time with more ethnic insults.

boston molasses disaster
City Life

The Great Boston Molasses Flood, 100 Years Later

Reflecting on the North End disaster that changed history.

City Life

Timeline: The Great Boston Molasses Flood

How it all went down.

City Life

Anarchists, Horses, Heroes: 12 Things You Didn’t Know about the Great Boston Molasses Flood

The weirder and more notable aspects of the disaster, via Dark Tide author Stephen Puleo.

Arts & Entertainment

The Boston Molasses Flood in Pop Culture

The disaster lives on in film, books, and Drunk History.

City Life

Brace Yourselves: Plans for an Eight-Year Overhaul of the Mass Pike Are Here

MassDOT has announced its vision for the Pike and Soldiers Field Road in Allston.

City Life

Someone Was Pulled from Under the Red Line and Survived

MBTA service has resumed after am unidentified person described as “conscious and alert” was rescued at Fields Corner.

City Life

A Breathalyzer Ban in Mass. Courtrooms Is in Effect, for Now

A judge ruled the tests can’t be used until the state proves it’s made improvements.

City Life

Aly Raisman Just Broke a Bone for the First Time: Her Elbow

And it wasn’t a gymnastics injury.

Arts & Entertainment

New Seaport Public Art: Light-Up “Retro-Futuristic” Railway Handcars

Loop opens on Friday.

City Life

Watch: A Huge Fire Burned Three Boats in Charlestown

$1 million in damages but no injuries after the late-night blaze.

City Life

That Boston Fire Department Report on Women Is Not Enough, Advocates Say

Now what?