To do groundbreaking work, attract legions of followers, and eventually watch them leave you behind . . . it can’t be easy, or particularly pleasant. The consolation, of course, is that if you have this particular problem, you’ve attained a level of influence that most people can only dream of. Which is why, in the end, we should envy Gene Sharp rather than pity him. To be hailed in your lifetime as a seminal figure is reward enough. Pissing off Hugo Chávez is just gravy.
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Recently, Boston Chowhounds steered me to Oran Café, a two-month-old Moroccan restaurant in East Boston that has much in common with Angela’s.
- The political virgins
At this incalculably critical time — with a fiscal nightmare threatening billions of dollars of state-government spending and momentous budget decisions to be made — everyone in Massachusetts wants to be represented on Beacon Hill by someone with clout.
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An East Boston bistro? Kind of doesn't have a ring to it — especially since we're not talking about Orient Heights or Jeffries Point.
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Mobius fundraiser featuring more than "10,000 sq. feet of performance, installations, video art, dance, music, and more"
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I've long praised East Boston for its trove of terrific budget restaurants, especially the Latin-American ones.
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An old adage says, "Never eat at a place called 'Mom's,' " which of course is not a snipe at actual mothers, but the folly of marketing a restaurant as somehow capable of channeling the love, care, and multi-generational lore that the ideal of mom's cooking represents.
- Elite Restaurant
Some meals can bring you back vividly to your childhood, perhaps because your sense of smell and long-term memory are centered in adjacent areas of the brain.
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Letters to the Boston editors, March 9, 2012.
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So upon hearing that Boston's first Somali restaurant has opened, food nerds should seek out Tawakal Halal Cuisine, hidden above the Victory Pub in Orient Heights, where their geeky determination will be amply rewarded.
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Lucía López did not cross the border by foot, nor did she pay a smuggler thousands of dollars to get here. She took a plane to Boston from her native Peru, and hasn't left.
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Last week, a man whose determination to embarrass the American government extended to helping US citizens when their own government wouldn't died, reportedly suffering a heart attack.
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