On Dec. 18, 2025, Donald Trump signed an executive order entitled “Increasing Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research.” “The Attorney General shall take all necessary steps to complete the rulemaking process related to rescheduling marijuana to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) in the most expeditious manner in accordance with Federal law,” Trump wrote. […]
Photo by Paul Mardy On the afternoon of Nov. 23, I joined over 2,000 people in Fenway’s Symphony Hall to hear the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra take on legendary Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi’s “Messa da Requiem.” The colossal venue went silent as Benjamin Zander walked out to begin his pre-concert talk. Zander, who came to Boston […]
There are few experiences worth waiting in line for an hour: getting your driver’s license at the DMV, soaring through Space Mountain at Disneyland, and seeing Tyler the Creator live in concert, to name a few. The hustle and bustle of 21st-century life has materialized the concept of time into a currency, so the few […]
Michael Jackson moonwalking away after pilfering your KFC order. SpongeBob SquarePants getting pulled over by highway patrol. Peter Griffin duking it out with anime characters. These absurd scenarios, once confined to dreams or fanfiction, can now be conjured in seconds through OpenAI’s new video-generation model, Sora 2. All it takes is a few keystrokes and […]
Somerville residents headed to the polls on Sept. 16 to vote in the preliminary elections for mayor, councilor at large, school committee member for Ward Three, and councilor for Ward Seven. The city is divided into seven wards, each represented by its own councilor, in addition to the four councilors elected at large. Somerville is […]
