“Keep abortion safe and legal” people chanted at a “Stop The Abortion Ban” rally at the Massachusetts State House in Boston at noon today. Hundreds of women and some men…Continue Reading →
Three large brown papier-mâché puppets arrive on the blue curtained stage early on in Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis.” The puppets depict head and hands, perhaps…Continue Reading →
Patricia Marx and Roz Chast have a delicious premise for their slim illustrated humor/advice book “Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It? A Mother’s Suggestions”…Continue Reading →
May 18 to 15, 2019: Pictured above: Revere Beach Kite Festival, May 17, 2015. (Greg Cook) If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please…Continue Reading →
NOTE: I’ve been commissioned by the Essex County Community Foundation to help document/promote cultural projects from its Creative County Initiative, which is supported by Boston’s Barr Foundation. On a damp…Continue Reading →
When you’re waiting in the rain for 10 minutes and then all the buses come at once. Photo copyright Greg Cook May 14, 2019.Continue Reading →
NOTE: I’ve been commissioned by the Essex County Community Foundation to help document/promote cultural projects from its Creative County Initiative, which is supported by Boston’s Barr Foundation. As darkness settled…Continue Reading →
Margaret Atwood was living in West Berlin in 1984, the city still divided by the Berlin Wall, when she began writing the story of Christian fundamentalists who assassinate the president…Continue Reading →
In “Pokémon Detective Pikachu,” billed as the “first-ever live-action Pokémon adventure,” detective Harry Goodman goes mysteriously missing, prompting his 21-year-old son Tim (Justice Smith) to investigate. He’s helped by his…Continue Reading →
The year after the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, Life magazine asked Gordon Parks to travel to Alabama to photograph the lives of African-American families in the Jim Crow South. For…Continue Reading →