The 2016 St. Peter’s Fiesta in Gloucester officially began with the opening procession and Friday Greasy Pole contest. Above, Mike Sanfilippo is carried up Pavilion Beach after winning this evening’s…Continue Reading →
Boston artist Gregg Bernstein is painting a mural of the Boston Public Garden at the end of Harvard Terrace, off Harvard Avenue, in Boston’s Allston neighborhood. His work may be…Continue Reading →
Construction of Somerville’s ArtFarm, a “bucolic, post-industrial” park for community gardening and art (think: agri-culture), has begun with the building of a greenhouse on the former waste transfer station site…Continue Reading →
“Grass Stains,” Boston Hassle’s series of free outdoor concerts, continued at Brighton Square in Boston on June 19. (All photos here copyright Greg Cook)Continue Reading →
“It’s about resistance to throwing things out,” poet Ammiel Alcalay said during the shindig Saturday night to celebrate the opening of the Maud/Olson Library in Gloucester. The library is a…Continue Reading →
Things to do this week… Monday, June 20 Noon to 4 p.m. “Grown Up Study Hall” at Democracy Center 45 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge. Meet organizers, artists, students, movers and…Continue Reading →
At least four protests against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump were planned for Boston today, but after he reportedly cancelled his fund-raiser scheduled for this afternoon at the Langham Hotel…Continue Reading →
Things I’d like to do this week…. Monday, June 13 7:20 to 7:45 a.m. and 1:30 to 2 p.m. “Stand Vigilant” demonstration at Burke High School, 60 Washington St., Dorchester.…Continue Reading →
“We’re not going to have a moment of silence,” shouted one of the Boston Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence standing on the steps of Boston’s Trinity Church at tonight’s vigil for…Continue Reading →
John Luther Adams’s “Inuksuit”—as performed by some 90 percussionists spread out through the woods of Boston’s Arnold Arboretum this afternoon—was all crashing and clanging and (actual) sirens. It was all…Continue Reading →