Second Line Parades and Mardi Gras Floats in New Orleans
Last October, I got a chance to visit New Orleans and photographed one of the amazing, regular weekend Second Line parades; Mardi Gras World, where they make and store many…Continue Reading →
Greg Cook’s Snow Unicorn with Icicle Horn
Check out the snow unicorn with an icicle horn that I sculpted on Feb. 13 and that snow bear that I sculpted on Feb. 7 with generous help from Malden…Continue Reading →
Mike Lash’s ‘Ugly Paintings’
Mike Lash’s “stated purpose behind his art is to ‘make stuff, mostly stuff that has no real reason to exist, but now, they do exist,’” Patrick Collier writes in introduction…Continue Reading →
For Sale: Custom 1977 Dodge B200 Maxi Van
For Sale: Custom 1977 Dodge B200 Maxi Van – $5000 (Lakeville, MA): “I am the 3rd owner of this van, which originally hailed from Massillon, Ohio. From birth, it was…Continue Reading →
Gerrit Lansing’s ‘I See Bright Sun Illuminating Absence’
I was sad to hear that tomorrow’s reading by the legendary Gloucester poet Gerrit Lansing at Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room has been cancelled (Snow!). So I called him up and…Continue Reading →
Fire in Malden
Firefighters put out a fire at a house at 468 Salem St., Malden, this afternoon. Initial reports from crews on the scene were that no one was injured in the…Continue Reading →
Patriots Super Bowl victory parade in Boston
The New England Patriots celebrated their Super Bowl victory with a duckboat parade along Boylston and Tremont streets in Boston today. (All photos by Greg Cook. Some of them also…Continue Reading →
Seeing the Snowstorm by riding Boston’s Orange Line from end to end
This morning Ulysses went on snowstorm odyssey, seeing Boston from end to end by riding the MBTA Orange Line from Malden Center south to Forest Hills and back again. All…Continue Reading →
Snowman on Tremont Street
Snowman sort of resembling Olaf from the Disney film “Frozen,” as photographed on Tremont Street, Boston, by Greg Cook, Jan. 31, 2015.Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet’s ‘Captain Boycot’
“Captain Boycott” by Bread and Puppet Theater at the Boston Center for the Arts, Jan. 31, 2015, as photographed by Greg Cook. “The police brutality that serves the state is…Continue Reading →