Author: Josh Resnek

Will He Talk or Not?

Ex-speaker Sal DiMasi is in Rhode Island. He’s been on a tour that began in Kentucky, where he’s been serving out his sentence in a lock-up there. From Kentucky he was driven by bus in handcuffs and chains to Brooklyn…

Mare Opens with Fanfare

The new Mare Oyster Bar on Richmond Street opened with great fanfare and a large crowd late Friday afternoon. The new Mare replaces the old Mare with a much more pervasive sense of oyster bar than fish restaurant. Mares’ raw…

Bread Made with Passion

Down a nearly hidden alley off Hanover Street and set back among a host of brick buildings whose walls rise high above it, almost obscuring its entranceway, there is a new bakery. Bricco Panetteria is one of the newest North…

Interview: Frank DePasquale

In the North End of today Frank DePasquale is the neighborhood’s man for all seasons. Among others, he is the North End’s most significant individual restaurateur, Italian artisan bread baker, gelati specialist, real estate developer supreme and above all, an…

The Longest Ride

Former Speaker of the House Sal DiMasi makes the longest ride of his life beginning late in the evening the 29th or in the early morning on the 30th. He is heading to Lexington, Kentucky, where, on the 30th, he…

DiMasi Paying for His Mistakes

Sal DiMasi will be going away to prison for at least 8 years following his sentencing in Federal District Court last week. His 16 minute “I am a broken man” speech to the court before sentence was announced by Judge…

Down to the Wire

On September 8, Sal DiMasi will likely learn what his future is going to be about in a Federal courtroom on the Boston waterfront. Will he remain a free man while his case goes to appeal or will he be…