Dorchester

Have $5?

…then you’ve got more than enough for one (or, in many cases, several) of these delicious items, all gathered from area Asian grocers, bakeries, and banh mi shops.

City Life

Ghost Bike Installed After a Death in Dorchester

Photo courtesy of Andy Schroeder About 10 people gathered on Sunday morning to install a ghost bike along Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester for Doan Bui, […]

City Life

Woman Killed in Dorchester Shooting Was Intended Target

WCVB is reporting that one of the women killed in a car during Sunday’s triple shooting was targeted. “Sources say the shooting is believed to […]

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Dorchester Residents: "We're Afraid"

After two separate shootings occurred in Dorchester this past weekend, killing a total of four people, residents are shaken by the deaths, and officials are […]

City Life

Dorchester Residents: “We're Afraid”

After two separate shootings occurred in Dorchester this past weekend, killing a total of four people, residents are shaken by the deaths, and officials are […]

City Life

Dorchester Residents: "We’re Afraid"

After two separate shootings occurred in Dorchester this past weekend, killing a total of four people, residents are shaken by the deaths, and officials are […]

Restaurants

At DBar, ‘Chic-2B-gAy’ Is Here to Stay

100% of the proceeds of dbar’s $19 chicken dish go to GLAAD. Photo courtesy of dbar. Dorchester hotspot dbar has been buzzing this week with […]

Restaurants

Man Food: Digging Into Mudbugs at Brother’s Crawfish

Photos by Katie Barszcz Down in Louisiana, you’ll find crawfish, along with all things gumbo, oyster and po’boy-related, on too many restaurant menus to count. […]

City Life

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 […]

City Life

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