Listening For Bats At Mount Auburn Cemetery
The group of nine of us began looking and listening for bats at Cambridge’s Mount Auburn Cemetery as night fell last Wednesday evening. Christopher Richardson, a biology teacher at Tufts…Continue Reading →
Gerry Bergstein Paints A World Full Of Dire Emergencies
“Gerry Bergstein: Dithering Machines” at Boston’s Gallery Naga from September 5 to 30, 2023, can give the feeling of peeking in a Renaissance master’s sketchbook imaginings of the end of…Continue Reading →
Somerville Toy Camera Festival Turns 10
This fall marks the 10th anniversary of the Somerville Toy Camera Festival. What is a “toy camera”? The 89 photos featured in three exhibitions across Somerville are made with simple…Continue Reading →
Andrew Mowbray’s Wind-Driven Drawing Machine
In July, a nearly 20-foot-tall weather vane appeared at the edge of Provincetown harbor, next to Angel Foods, at 467 Commercial St. in the East End. It’s Boston artist Andrew…Continue Reading →
Puerto Rico’s Agua, Sol y Sereno Performs With Boston’s Hyde Square Task Force
The theater troupe Agua, Sol y Sereno from Puerto Rico performed and paraded with youth from Boston’s Hyde Square Task Force at Mozart Park in Boston last evening after leading…Continue Reading →
Little Amal, Giant Puppet Depicting Refugee Girl, Begins Journey Across U.S.
Little Amal, the internationally famous 12-foot-tall puppet depicting a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl, debuted in Boston aboard the three-masted schooner Denis Sullivan that slowly motored towards Rowes Wharf at 2…Continue Reading →
Wonderlands: Visionary And Folk Art Sites Across The U.S.
For several years now, I’ve been making pilgrimages to visionary sites across the United States. Below are a selection of photos from those trips. I’ll add more as I go.…Continue Reading →
At Boston’s Old North Church, Reprinting The Dangerous Ideas That Sparked A Revolution
Though the first printing press was imported from Europe into the Americas around 1554, to Mexico City, and Harvard got the first printing press in the English colonies in 1639,…Continue Reading →
Feast Of The Madonna Della Cava In Boston’s North End
The Society of the Madonna Della Cava held their 103 anniversary Feast in Boston’s North End on Aug. 11 to 13, with a procession of a banner of the saint…Continue Reading →
Bread & Puppet’s ‘Heart Of The Matter Circus’ In Cambridge
Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theater brought its “The Heart of the Matter Circus” to Cambridge Common on Saturday as part of its September tour of the Northeast. The perform Lawrence,…Continue Reading →