Amelia Mason

2 weeks ago | wbur.org | Amelia Mason

Editor's Note: This story is an excerpt from WBUR's weekly arts and culture newsletter, The ARTery. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. Back in 2021, WBUR's arts desk published an article by Jenn Stanley titled "In Somerville, affordable studio space for artists is rapidly disappearing." Key to the story was the plight of artists working out of studios at 57 Central St. in Somerville.

3 weeks ago | wbur.org | Deborah Becker |Amy Gorel |Amelia Mason

Following three days of "show cause" hearings this month, charges were brought against more than 30 men who allegedly bought sex from a high-end brothel ring operating in Greater Boston. Although federal prosecutors said in 2023 the ring catered to clients that included  elected officials, military officers and government contractors with security clearances, Cambridge City Councilor Paul Toner is the most public among the clients to face charges.

4 weeks ago | wbur.org | Amelia Mason

One day back in September, Jill Medvedow gamely agreed to take a trip down memory lane. We met on Boylston Street in front of a stately but worn brick building, a former police station that now houses the Boston Architectural College. From 1973 to 2006, it was home to Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art. “It was built to keep people out and be really formidable,” said Medvedow, who was hired as the ICA’s director nearly three decades go.

1 month ago | wbur.org | Amelia Mason

A group of Democrats is calling on the Trump administration to release Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent pro-Palestinian activist and legal U.S. resident in New York who is being held in an ICE detention center in Louisiana. Fourteen members of Congress, including Massachusetts Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Jim McGovern, signed a letter released Tuesday in support of the 30-year-old Palestinian Columbia University graduate.

1 month ago | wbur.org | Amelia Mason

U.S. stocks had their worst day this year, falling sharply in response to President Trump’s tariffs and fears of an impending recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell nearly 900 points Monday and the big basket of stocks in the S&P 500 tumbled 2.7%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq plunged 4%. The slump reflected investor worries that a trade war incited by Trump’s tariffs could cause a sustained economic decline.