“I missed out on Saturday morning cartoons as a kid because I had to go to Latvian school,” artist Ansis Puriņš of Boston’s Brighton neighborhood writes, “to learn the language…Continue Reading →
What is the cost of our quest for perfect lawns? Somerville artist Judith Klausner’s exhibition “There Goes The Neighborhood” is an examination and sendup of our society’s infatuation with lawn…Continue Reading →
This was my cancer year. Though you wouldn’t necessarily guess it from these drawings. I drew the tree on the tiny island at the Breakheart Reservation on the day I…Continue Reading →
A double rainbow appeared as the downpour subsided and the sun broke through the angry gray clouds on the evening of July 4. I had my waterproof muck boots in…Continue Reading →
“Summer Solace,” a showcase of ballet and modern works presented by Boston’s Janelle Gilchrist Dance Troupe at Cambridge’s Foundry on July 11 and 12, 2026, aims to be “a performance…Continue Reading →
Where the Malden River emerges from under Malden’s downtown, birds have found a small oasis hidden behind a wall of trees at the edges of surrounding stores, a function hall,…Continue Reading →
What does it mean to remove a dam that’s constrained a river for more than a century? What does it look like to loose the bindings that have impeded the…Continue Reading →
I’ve been documenting the St. Peter’s Fiesta in Gloucester for three decades now—but this time, the 99th year, as I’m recovering from my year of (successful) treatment for cancer, treatment that…Continue Reading →
Hans Rickheit is an excellent draftsman who creates comics set in unsettling erotic steampunk worlds of lithe young women and troll-like men and insectile cyborg prosthetics. His art can slither…Continue Reading →
Convalescing just downstream of the Trash Trap on the Malden River. Near where the river begins, or at least where the river emerges from where it got buried underground about…Continue Reading →