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J. Montgomery to headline blues benefit for film about 1960s WBCN-radio

WBCN was the hub of enormous musical, social and political activity in Boston much of which had a national impact,” says James Montgomery, ho will be headlining a benefit for a forthcoming film about the radio station. “The blues were at the heart of it, and we’ll celebrate the roots of blues in this special…

November 16, 2013
Journalist/Producer Bill Lichtenstein Wins Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism

Our friend Bill Lichtenstein has won a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism for “A Terrifying Way to Discipline Chlldren,” an Op Ed piece he wrote for the September 8, 2012 New York Times. Lichtenstein, an investigative journalist and filmmaker, exposed the largely unknown use of seclusion rooms and physical restraints in schools across the country.

July 2, 2013
House of Blues Gala Benefit for The American Revolution

Cambridge writer Anita Harris shares photos from gala benefit for Bill Lichtenstein’s forthcoming film, “The American Revolution”–a documentary on WBCN radio which Lichtenstein credits as instrumental (pun intended) in the political and cultural upheavals of the late 1960s.

December 4, 2012