Franziska Monahan

6 days ago | wbur.org | Darryl Murphy |Franziska Monahan

That includes pages dedicated to Boston’s many national parks. Among the resources that were taken down from Boston’s National Parks was an audio tour of Downtown and Beacon Hill titled “Their Dreams, Their Rights, and Their Love.”The tour was meant to show how Boston’s LGBTQ+ community has lived and thrived despite oppression and erasure. The tour still exists on the History Project's website, where it was posted after it was removed from the National Parks Service website.

2 weeks ago | wbur.org | Darryl Murphy |Franziska Monahan

Organizers to mark MLK Jr.'s 1965 Freedom Rally in Boston with march of their own Play14:24 Download Audio Embed on your website Close× Copy the code below to embed the WBUR audio player on your site <iframe width="100%" height="124" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://player.wbur.org/the-common/2025/04/24/mlk-freedom-rally-boston-march"></iframe> Copy embed code A flyer that was distributed in 1965 to garner support and attendance for the Freedom March and Rally (A photo from a 1982...

1 month ago | wbur.org | Darryl Murphy |Franziska Monahan

Zines are having a moment. Zines (short for 'magazine') are a type of small circulation, self-published booklet, replicated by a regular ol' photocopier for distribution. Zines have long been a staple of DIY and counter-culture movements through history, with deep roots in underground music scenes like punk. Today, zines are having a renaissance of sorts, with more DIY-ers returning to the medium.

1 month ago | wbur.org | Benjamin Johnson |Amory Sivertson |Katelyn Harrop |Franziska Monahan

Credits:Episode producer: Katelyn Harrop and Frannie MonahanCo-hosts: Amory Sivertson and Ben Brock JohnsonShow producers: Samata Joshi, Dean Russell, Emily JankowskiMixer and sound designer: Paul VaitkusWell, the messaging app Signal has been in the news recently, thanks to a snafu in which prominent federal defense officials mistakenly added The Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffery Goldberg, to a group chat in which they discussed military strikes in Yemen.

1 month ago | wbur.org | Darryl Murphy |Franziska Monahan

Some of the computers in The BYTE Shop's museum collection, all of which are fully operational. (Frannie Monahan/WBUR) Tim Colegrove had been collecting old computers for about 10 years when he decided he needed a place to keep all that old gear piling up in his home. In 2021, he finally opened up The BYTE Shop. It's a computer repair shop in Jamaica Plain, that doubles as a museum to the modern home computer. "Everybody has a different response to this space," Tim said. "Some people are nostalgic.