Revere Beach Picnic!
Thanks to everyone who came out to the Revere Beach Picnic. It was a picnic meet-up and sandcastle building shindig at Revere Beach, hosted by Sandcastle Matt (Kaliner), artist Kari…Continue Reading →
‘My Son’: A Killing by Police Protested at Boston Police Headquarters
In the video, projected on a building across from Boston Police Headquarters tonight, Carla Sheffield stood six-stories tall, holding a photo of her dead son, and crying. Burrell Ramsey-White was…Continue Reading →
Franklin Graham prayer rally in Boston: ‘We’re on the verge of losing our nation’
“Ladies and gentlemen, we’re on the verge of losing our nation,” Franklin Graham, son of the famous Christian evangelist Billy Graham, told thousands who’d come to Boston Common for his…Continue Reading →
In solidarity with Standing Rock Sioux, a pipeline protest at TD Bank in Cambridge
A group led by Arlington United for Justice with Peace protested TD Bank in Cambridge’s Central Square this evening “in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe against the Dakota Access Pipeline.”…Continue Reading →
Greg Cook makes a ‘Friends Is Friends’ linocut
Here’s how Greg Cook carved and printed a linocut rendition of the cover of his long comic book “Friends Is Friends,” August 2016. Above: Finished prints hung up to dry.Continue Reading →
‘Rodin: Transforming Sculpture’ at Peabody Essex Museum
Versions of many of Rodin’s masterpieces–including his iconic “The Thinker”–are on view in “Rodin: Transforming Sculpture” at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. (May 14 to Sept. 5, 2016),…Continue Reading →
‘God is Dead’
Graffiti off Route 1, Saugus, Mass. Aug. 14, 2016. Copyright Greg Cook.Continue Reading →
‘I am too old to run’
“On this hillside James Miller, Minute Man, aged 65, was slain by the British, April 19, 1775. ‘I am too old to run.'” Revolutionary War marker on Washington Street, near…Continue Reading →
J’ouvert at Boston Caribbean Carnival
J’ouvert, the dawn celebration at the Boston Caribbean Carnival, on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016. Thousands splashed with oil, paint, talcum powder and flour danced down Talbot and Blue Hill avenues…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet Theater’s ‘Whatforward Circus’
Bread and Puppet Theater’s ‘Whatforward Circus’ as photographed by Greg Cook in Glover, Vermont, during the weekend of Aug. 21, 2016. The family-friendly satirical, slapstick show poked at Donald Trump…Continue Reading →