editorial
Comfort? Afflict? What’s a Newspaper to Do?
By Stephen Brophy The Fenway News started back in 1974 as part of the community’s response to a form of destruction known as “urban renewal.” Back then the Boston Redevelopment Authority would huddle with the biggest institutions to plan for the “improvement” of the neighborhood, and input from the people who actually lived here was [...]
Clydesides: July 2009
West Fens resident Clyde Whalen gives “The Fenway Report” every other week on Neighborhood Network News on cable channel 9. My friend on the farm is telling me that his chickens are using fowl language, probably because this is the longest winter we’ve ever had. With any luck, it will probably soon end and summer [...]
Clydesides: April 2009
By Clyde Whalen The ballroom was filled with fashions throng. It shone with a thousand lights and there was a woman, who passed along the fairest of all the sights. A girl with her lover then softly sighed, there’s riches at her command, but she married for wealth, not love he cried, though she lives [...]
Institutional Land Banking
Site of the razed apartment building on Longwood Avenue. Photo by Marc Laderman. By Marc Laderman The Fenway has long embraced the Urban Village Plan with its five-pronged goals; 1) housing for all, 2) public transportation, 3) community-building facilities, 4) retail and employment businesses and 5) a healthy environment and well kept open spaces. Is [...]
Clydesides: February 2009
By Clyde Whalen The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity and shall not fail. Bear them, we can, and if we can, we must, so shoulder the sky, my friend, and drink your ale. I was once a drinker and a smoker, particularly through World War II and then I gave [...]
Clydesides: December 2008
By Clyde Do you know what matter is? For those who don’t, matter is something that everything in the universe is made of. Matter cannot be made and it cannot be destroyed. Anything you do to it only makes it a different kind of matter. Matter can only be changed, and that’s important to us, [...]
Clydesides: November 2008
By Clyde Everybody tear up your credit cards and pay for everything in cash, before you take it home. Things are going from bad to worse. The Artic ice shelf is melting and breaking off. You know what that means?? All the land below the ocean surface will be flooded. See you there, with any [...]