May 10 to 16, 2019: Pictured above: Bread and Puppet Theater’s “The Basic Bye-bye Show” at Spontaneous Celebrations in Boston, April 21, 2018. (Copyright Greg Cook) If this is the kind…Continue Reading →
Somerville’s annual PorchFest is part hootenanny, part a giant open studios for bands. More than 200 bands acts are scheduled to perform on porches, in backyards and in parks from…Continue Reading →
In the fall of 1936, as the first edition of “The Hobbit” was in production, its author, J.R.R. Tolkien, gave his publisher a series of maps that he’d drawn to…Continue Reading →
Unicorns, gorgons and other fantastical creatures abound in the Metropolitan Chorale’s performance of Gian Carlo Menotti’s “The Unicorn, The Gorgon and The Manticore” and R. Murray Schafer’s “A Medieval Bestiary”…Continue Reading →
May 3 to 9, 2019: Pictured above: Museum of Modern Renaissance, Somerville, May 6, 2017. (Copyright Greg Cook) If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms…Continue Reading →
Note: Updated May 4, 2019, with comments from the Mass Cultural Council. The Massachusetts Cultural Council could get a 3.5 percent budget increase in July, but the state arts agency…Continue Reading →
“Johnny Boo Is King!,” the new graphic novel for kids from James Kockalka, the former Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont, begins with the ghost Johnny Boo discovered hiding in a bush…Continue Reading →