Each August, thousands of jazz enthusiasts make a pilgrimage to Newport, R.I., for the JVC Jazz Festival.
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Community radio station aims to keep Hub in Touch
Howard Manly
The basement office of Touch FM has a handful of rooms, and all of them are cramped.
One of the radio station’s owners, Charles Muhammad, has an office that doubles as storage space. Stacks of paper cups occupy one corner. An old Lou Rawls album resides in another.
His desk is cluttered with papers and awards, most noticeably a dark gray obelisk given to him last February by none other than Mayor Thomas M. Menino, trumpeting Muhammad’s community service. Full Story
Two films reflect on Boston street violence
Toussaint Losier
Though recent reports would seem to suggest a decline in shootings in Boston’s high crime neighborhoods in the past few months, a pair of films featured at this year’s Roxbury Film Festival showed just how heavily gun violence still weighs on the minds of local residents.
Screened earlier this month, “Bullet Full of Knowledge” and “Shots in the Hood” are two films by local filmmakers focusing on the issues of young people and gun violence. Full story
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