City love

By Katherine Triantafillou

Published: November 28, 2005

I am one of those people who loves living in the city. I also love the country. As far as I know, there is no word to describe such schizoid existence. We have all sorts of “bi” words: bicoastal, bisexual, bilateral, bimonthly, bipartisan, but nothing to describe the need for both the hustle and bustle [...]

Proportional indifference

By Katherine Triantafillou

Published: November 23, 2005

Well, the elections have come and gone and as usual the focus of the conversation is who has won and who has lost and why. Politics in Massachusetts has always been considered a blood sport, and even in the left bank of Boston council races have never been laid back. But I have often wondered [...]

Conflicted holiday of things past and present

By Katherine Triantafillou

Published: November 16, 2005

It was on the 11th hour of the 11th day of November 1918 that President Woodrow Wilson inaugurated the celebration we know as Veterans Day. It was called Armistice Day and intended as a paean to the heroic deeds of the soldiers who died in World War I. Business was intended to be suspended, not [...]