2018 – Page 16 – WONDERLAND

Art Greg CookMarch 30, 2018 0

To Do March 30 to April 6: Anime Boston, Balloon Music, STL GLD, Lightning Bolt, Yo La Tengo, William Shatner, Police Brutality Protest

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Sun parade at Revere Beach, March 24, 2018. (Greg Cook)

Art Greg CookMarch 28, 2018 0

Seagulls Disturbed By ‘Sun Setting In The East’ Parade

Seagulls disturbed by ‘Sun Setting In The East’ Parade at Revere Beach, March 24, 2018. By Greg Cook and friends. Help Wonderland keep producing our great coverage of local arts,…Continue Reading →

"Islandborn" authored by Junot Diaz and illustrated by Leo Espinosa.

Art Greg CookMarch 28, 2018 0

Junot Diaz’s ‘Islandborn’ Is A Kids Book About Immigrants’ Memories Of Home—And What Made Them Leave

Two decades ago, author Junot Diaz was asked by his two goddaughters, Dominican girls living in the Bronx, to write a book about little girls like them. “The only problem…Continue Reading →

The front of the March For Our Lives: Boston, March 24, 2018. (Greg Cook)

Activism Greg CookMarch 24, 2018 0

‘Enough!’ Photos From The March For Our Lives: Boston

Tens of thousands of people participated in today’s March For Our Lives: Boston. The protest in support of gun control was part marches across the nation organized in response to…Continue Reading →

Nicholas Nixon exhibit at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, Dec. 20, 2017. (Greg Cook)

Art Greg CookMarch 23, 2018 0

Celebrated Photographer Nicholas Nixon Retires From MassArt Amid ‘Allegations Of Inappropriate Behavior’

Celebrated photographer Nicholas Nixon has retired from his longtime teaching position at Massachusetts College of Art and Design amid “allegations of inappropriate behavior,” according to a message sent out yesterday…Continue Reading →

Art Greg CookMarch 23, 2018 0

You’re Invited: Greg’s Fake-Birthday Real-Party!

Facebook tells me I was born on April 1, 1933. So please come join me in celebrating my, um, 85th birthday at Greg’s Fake-Birthday Real-Party at Cantina La Mexicana, 247…Continue Reading →

Woolapalooza celebration of sheep at Mass Audubon’s Drumlin Farm, Lincoln, Mass.

Art Greg CookMarch 23, 2018 0

To Do March 23 to 29: Anti-Gun Protests, Woolapalooza, ‘When James Brown Saved Boston,’ Urban Nature Walk, Junot Diaz, Lou Jones, Poetry Grudge Match

Friday, March 23 2 p.m. Nazi reenactors: SS Deutschland New England World War II reenactors hold their “Dunbarton Tactical Event” at 1121 Montalona Road, Dunbarton, New Hampshire. Continues through Sunday.…Continue Reading →

‘SoFi,’ a soft robotic fish developed by MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to independently swim alongside real fish in the ocean. (MIT CSAIL)

Nature Greg CookMarch 23, 2018 0

Fish, Meet Your New MIT Robot Overlord!

With the headline “Soft robotic fish swims alongside real ones in coral reefs,” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this week announced that “a team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial…Continue Reading →

Dent plays at Boston Hassle's "Boston Underground Summit #8" in 2016. (Holly Haney/Boston Hassle)

Music Greg CookMarch 22, 2018 0

Boston Hassle Makes (Most) All Their Shows Free For Folks Younger Than 18

Boston Hassle and Brain Arts—impresarios of experimental, underground music shows—will make most of their shows free for folks younger than 18, the organization announced on Monday. “To help showcase BRAIN…Continue Reading →

Tenneh Silah (left) and Damon Singletary perform in Front Porch Arts Collective's "A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes" at Cambridge's Central Square Theater, March 19, 2018. (Greg Cook)

Theater Greg CookMarch 20, 2018 0

Front Porch Collective Aims To Change Boston: ‘We’re One Of The Few Major Metropolitan Cities That Doesn’t Have A Black-Run Theater Company’

“Thank you. You people are part of a movement,” Maurice Emmanuel Parent said as he stood on a chair in the lobby of Cambridge’s Central Square Theater last night, glass…Continue Reading →