When All The Buses Come At Once
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 →
A Laser Show To Celebrate Local Immigrants’ Stories … And Confront Stigma
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 →
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: A Walking Tour Of The Novel’s Cambridge Settings
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 →
Kids Review ‘Pokémon Detective Pikachu’: ‘Pretty Cool And The Graphics Were Amazing’
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 →
Gordon Parks’ Camera ‘Was My Choice Of Weapons Against … Racism, Intolerance And Poverty’
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 →
Recommended: Bread & Puppet • Steampunk Fest • Bubble Fest • PorchFest • Mothers Day Walk For Peace • Duckling Day
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 PorchFest: Wonderland’s Totally Biased Guide To This Saturday’s Music Fest
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 →
How Tolkien Envisioned ‘The Hobbit’ And ‘Lord Of The Rings’
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! Manticores! In Metropolitan Chorale’s Collaboration With Puppet Showplace Theater
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 →
Recommended: Wake Up The Earth • Somerville Open Studios • William Steig • Lightsabers • Breakin’
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 →