Dorchester

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Ayanna Pressley: Why I Love Dorchester

As part of our annual cover story Best Places to Live 2012, we invited prominent Boston residents to tell us what they love about their […]

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Bahstan’s Wicked Pissah of an Accent

Bahstan has a wicked pissah of an accent to nail on the big screen. And if you have lived in Beantown for any length of […]

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The Top Streets for Trick-or-Treating in Boston

Halloween is just about here, and chances are, you’ve got the costumes down pat, but… do you know where you’ll be going? Because not to […]

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Is Dorchester Safe?

Is Dorchester Safe? For most, the off-the-top-of-the-head answer is no way, but the consensus is that you won’t get murdered in Savin Hill and the […]

A Masshole in Full

If you grew up here, you know a Robbie Concannon: Tough. Funny. Big-hearted. Hard-partying. Frequently flirting with danger, or incarceration, or worse. But Robbie Concannon dodged the fate most guys like him meet. The unlikely tale of how the craziest kid from the neighborhood turned himself into a bona fide folk hero.

The Firebrand

The more Boston turns against its scandal-plagued firefighters, the further out on a limb Ed Kelly goes to defend them. Is the bombastic union boss as nuts as he seems? Or does he know a few things the rest of us don’t?

How the Guardian Angels Saved Boston

How the Guardian Angels Saved Boston

If You Lived Here … You’d Never Want To Leave

If You Lived Here . . . Youd Never Want To Leave

Growing Up in Gangland

Elliot Delgado shivers inside his collar as a stiff wind blows through the park in Dorchester’s Fields Corner section. He’s not wearing a hat, and […]

Bad Girls

Rosa was two weeks away from celebrating her 14th birthday the night she was arrested for armed robbery. She had been hanging out with eight […]

No Irish Need Apply

A fistfight erupted inside Scruffy Murphy’s in Dorchester right before Christmas. Witnesses say the drunken brawl was over a girl, and that it began when […]

FBI The Set Up (Part one)

As David Turner rode past TRC Auto Electric — a notorious Dorchester hangout of thieves, dealers, and other assorted lowlifes — he had no idea […]