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COVID-19 canceled all of musician Josh Daniel’s gigs. So he’s taken to livestreaming his daily front-porch “quarantine sessions.”
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STAYING AT HOME IN PLAZA SHAMROCK Life in a shaded sweet spot that gentrification has mostly passed by, so far BY ALLISON BRADEN PHOTOGRAPHS BY LOGAN CYRUS
STEPHANIE BERCHT feels bad for people who live in South End apartments. The coronavirus pandemic and stay-at-home directives in spring forced people to reckon with where they lived, and access to the Blue Line and lavish amenities suddenly mattered less than proximity to parks and shady backyards. “We’ve got all this space out here,” Bercht says. “There’s just so many trees here too, so you get a lot of birds.”
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