Dave Wedge

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Riding with Evil - Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang

1 month ago | spreaker.com | Dave Wedge

Riding with Evil - Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang Mar 4, 2025 · 46m 12s Description Dave Wedge - Riding with Evil - Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle GangJun 27, 2022Bostonian reporter Dave Wedge talks about his work reporting on the Pagan Motorcycle...
Blood & Hate: The Untold Story of Marvelous Marvin Hagler's Battle for Glory|Hardcover

Aug 10, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Dave Wedge

Blood & Hate: The Untold Story of Marvelous Marvin Hagler's Battle for GloryMost know Marvelous Marvin Hagler from his epic battles against Tommy Hearns, Roberto Duran, and his controversial split-decision loss to Sugar Ray Leonard. But it is his escape from riot-torn Newark in the late 1960s, the unbreakable bond he built with the Petronelli brothers, and his 1980 title fight against Britain’s Alan Minter—with its deep racial overtones—that tells the real story of Hagler.
VULVATRON, GWAR'S MURDEROUS SEX GODDESS

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Dave Wedge

When GWAR frontman Oderus Urungus died of a heroin overdose earlier this year, the Richmond, Virginia, crew wasted little time proclaiming that they'd press on in his honor. Just how they'd do that was cloudy for a while, but they recently revealed they've added a new frontman (Berserker Blothar) and an interstellar murderous sex goddess dubbed Vulvatron.
EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT FROM THE NEW BOOK "BOSTON STRONG"

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Dave Wedge

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sits in isolation in a small prison cell at the Federal Medical Center in Devens, Massachusetts, forty miles from the finish line on Boylston Street. He is cut off from the outside world. Communicating with other prisoners is strictly forbidden. Sunlight is rare.
BEHEMOTH + CANNIBAL CORPSE @ HOUSE OF BLUES

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Dave Wedge

When it comes to pure black and Satanic metal, Behemoth are the undisputed dark lords occupying the throne - the biggest act in the controversial subgenre today. They've been banned in Russia, Ohio and even their homeland of Poland. Simultaneously, they're stars in Poland.
THE BOSTON RAP ICON RETURNS YET AGAIN

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Dave Wedge

Twenty years ago, when artists had to hustle and sling records and before music was free, controversy was a golden ticket-especially in hip-hop.
REFLECTIONS ON 14 YEARS COVERING MAYOR TOM MENINO

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Dave Wedge

One of my first assignments when I started as a general assignment reporter at the Boston Herald in 1999 was covering Thanksgiving at the Pine Street Inn. I was a young reporter and wasn't too psyched to be working the holiday. I was pretty annoyed, to be honest. I shuffled over from the old Herald building (which is now being transformed into the million-dollar condo-laden Ink Block project) to Pine Street and was surprised to see Mayor Menino serving food.
AT ACARO'S FINAL SHOW, EMOTIONS WERE AS INTENSE AS THE MUSIC

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Dave Wedge

In life, it's really hard to walk away from something you're passionate about. And perhaps nowhere is it tougher than in the music biz. The music industry is littered with shitty albums from artists who should have quit a decade ago. And there are also endless, often sad examples of artists who wasted their lives pursuing the elusive rock star dream, or simply didn't acknowledge that it was time to move on. Acaro frontman Chris Harrell isn't going to be one of them.
SLAYER TALK DEATH AND DESTRUCTION

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Dave Wedge

The secret Slayer show at The Sinclair a couple months back was one of the hottest tickets in town and proved one of the more memorable nights in recent Boston metal history. But for Slayer frontman Kerry King, the Converse Rubber Tracks show was just another gig. "I don't remember much about it," he tells DigBoston from a recent Mayhem Festival stop in Milwaukee.
CARLOS ARREDONDO TO MEET WITH POPE FRANCIS ON BEHALF OF MARATHON BOMBING SURVIVORS

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Dave Wedge

Boston Marathon hero Carlos Arredondo - the "man in the cowboy hat" - is heading to Washington, D.C. next week to meet with Pope Francis at the White House, DigBoston has learned. Arredondo, who famously rescued double amputee Jeff Bauman from the Boylston Street blast scene on April 15, 2013, is also a noted peace activist whose Marine corporal son, Alex, was killed fighting in Iraq in 2004. Carlos' other son, Brian, committed suicide at age 24 in 2011.