This week’s Showdown takes our members to the extremes of human ambition, to consider the visionary innovators and ruthless corporate raiders of cinema history. From Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, about ...

On September 8, 2026, Tufts library staff made the brave decision to publicly announce their union with SEIU Local 888. The Tufts Library staff maintain Tufts' collections, support student and facult...

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We can forgive the Criterion Channel for failing yet again to provide the much desired Boston Crime collection, since it’s Halloween season and that simply wouldn’t make sense. No, today I’m going to complain about their failure to provide a New England Horror collection. The Dunwich Horror, Jaws, The Witch, The Haunting, and I suppose one could make room for some adaptations of that Maine guy’s novels. I get it. Criterion is a New York company and New Yorkers are allergic to Boston. I won’t dwell on this further; let’s get to the October lineup. It’s scary.

The decision comes as CNN, MS NOW and Politico said they are suing Trump to overturn his new ban of those three media outlets from the White House.

Eh, I had to get to the jobs I didn’t really enjoy eventually. I wound up at Oracle because I badly wanted to leave Amazon. Never the best reason for taking a role, but we’ve all been there. Also, true story, Oracle rejected me back in 2002 because I didn’t have a college degree, so I felt a little bit like I was getting some of my own back. Not really rational but we’re all human.

A street-by-street, door-by-door gazetteer of the Troikan borough of Ripplegate with spider banks, fire cults, population adjusters, and hundreds of other small businesses all mapped and packed with s...

Two major news networks’ journalists says they have been turned away from the White House. Reporters from CNN and MS NOW both went live to report about the circumstances of the ban imposed by Presiden...