• The Common

  • By: WBUR
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The Common

By: WBUR
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  • Greater Boston’s weekly podcast where news and culture meet.
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  • Local libraries encourage readers to hop on a retro trend: zines

    Local libraries encourage readers to hop on a retro trend: zines
    Apr 10 2025

    Little self-published booklets known as 'zines' have long been a staple of DIY and counter-culture movements. They have deep roots in underground music scenes like punk. Today, zines are having a renaissance, with more DIY-ers returning to the medium to spread information and stories - as well as to avoid increased censorship.

    The Common recently visited the Boston Public Library's Jamaica Plain branch to check out the BPL's zine collection with children's librarian and local punk drummer, Chris Strunk.

    Where to find zines in Boston For the month of April, public libraries across the Boston Area are encouraging patrons to dive into zines with their 2025 Zine Library Crawl. Explore these Boston-area zine libraries to participate, or explore on your own any time.
    • Boston Public Library Zine Collection
      • Participating branches include: Central, Codman Square, Connolly, Egleston Square, Grove Hall, Jamaica Plain, Parker Hill, Roslindale, Roxbury,
    • Framingham Public Library
    • Harvard University’s Schlessinger Library
    • MassArt Morton R. Godine Library
    • School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University’s W. Van Alan Clark Jr. Library
    • Somerville Public Library (all locations)
    • Watertown Free Public Library
    If you're looking for digital zines, you can also visit the online archive of Cambridge's Papercut Library, a free and volunteer-led collection featuring zines and other media from over 16,000 independent creators.

    Greater Boston’s weekly podcast where news and culture meet.
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    12 mins
  • Priests, nuns and cat burglars: The surprising history of Boston's anti-war movement

    Priests, nuns and cat burglars: The surprising history of Boston's anti-war movement
    Apr 3 2025

    Catholic nuns and priests led Boston's anti-war movement during the Vietnam era. A new podcast tells the story of the lengths many Irish Catholics went through to protest the war — including breaking into official buildings to steal draft cards.

    The Common spoke to Host and Producer Brendan Patrick Hughes about his new podcast "Divine Intervention."

    Greater Boston’s weekly podcast where news and culture meet.
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    19 mins
  • Computers and community at this Jamaica Plain repair shop and museum

    Computers and community at this Jamaica Plain repair shop and museum
    Mar 27 2025

    When Tim Colegrove decided to open a computer repair store in 2021, it was partially because he was interested in entrepreneurship. He also really needed a place to keep the vintage computers and gear that were piling up in his home. So, The BYTE Shop was born: A computer repair shop AND museum to the modern home computer in Jamaica Plain.

    The Common visited Tim at The BYTE Shop to talk about the store's fully operational computer history exhibit (that is open for the public to come and try), as well as how community and sustainability play into its mission.

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    14 mins

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