Muppet Motorcyclist
A Muppet motorcyclist was riding with Cruiser Club Boston south along Route 1, through Saugus, this morning as they headed to the Wounded Vet Ride in Revere (at least according…Continue Reading →
Photos: Cambridge Carnival Parade Returns For First Time In Three Years
Cambridge Carnival, the annual celebration of Caribbean culture, returned with a smaller, in-person version of the festival after live events were cancelled the previous two years. They paraded from Cambridgeport…Continue Reading →
‘Seeding The Future’ With Ekua Holmes And London Parker-McWhorter’s New Grove Hall Mural
“We not only garden with seeds and plants and flowers, but we garden in our communities with souls and minds and hearts,” Boston artist Ekua Holmes said of the temporary,…Continue Reading →
Bread And Puppet’s ‘Domestic Resurrection Circus’ At Cambridge Common
After cancelling last year’s visit to stem the spread of the coronavirus, Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theater returned to once again present its annual end of summer performance of its…Continue Reading →
In The Heart Of The Beast Puppet Theater To Sell Avalon Theatre, Disperse Archive
In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater plans to sell its Avalon Theatre, the 300-seat 1930s art deco building on Minneapolis’s Lake Street where the company has…Continue Reading →
A Murmuration Of Swallows At Rumney Marsh in Saugus
A week and a half ago, we drove up to the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge looking for thousands of tree swallows that were flocking along marshes on Boston’s North…Continue Reading →
Firelei Báez Imagines The Ruins Of Haiti’s Sans-Souci Palace At The Bottom Of Boston Harbor
“We think of history as human because our experience of time is very much predicated by memory, but the world around us has longer history,” says Firelei Báez, a New…Continue Reading →
‘Chicago Comics’ Showcases Windy City Comics From The Past Six Decades
“Chicago Comics: 1960s to Now” at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art from June 19 to Oct. 3, 2021, is intended as “a celebration of Chicago’s pivotal role as a national…Continue Reading →
MICE Comics Expo Highlights Massachusetts Creators
Pictured above: MICE Comics Expo in the Before Times. (©Greg Cook 2019) After MICE (the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo) was cancelled last year to stem the spread of covid, the…Continue Reading →
Going Back To School With Jef Czekaj’s ‘Little Ghoul’
Jef Czekaj”s latest humorous picture book for kids, “Little Ghoul Goes to School” (Balzer + Bray), conjures a school anxiety dream. “It’s a little monster, a Little Ghoul, that is…Continue Reading →