Dickie Powers News Today

Richard “Dickie” Powers, former editor of the Revere Journal, died Monday following a courageous battle against cancer. He was 75. Mr. Powers became one of the city’s most powerful voices on local news and politics. Readers looked forward each week to his commentary and opinions. During his reign as editor of The Journal, Mr. Powers

Image For the essays in this issue, we commissioned and chose works about friendship; the images are not meant as literal reflections of the text. Above is “Grand Rising” (2021), made exclusively for T by the Los Angeles-based artist Clifford Prince King, who said: “With the pandemic, a lot of my friendships have intensified and fast-forwarded. There’s more checking in, and you can’t go out in groups, so you’re usually meeting one on one. A.J., the boy in the mirror, and I are fr...