Note: I’ve been commissioned by the Essex County Community Foundation to help document/promote cultural projects from its Creative County Initiative, which is supported by Boston’s Barr Foundation. At the end…Continue Reading →
“You didn’t get a whole lot of history lessons about African-American culture in school,” Frank Stewart told The New York Times in 2017. “My work is culturally motivated. I wanted…Continue Reading →
MICE, the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo, was founded in 2010 to focus on the artists—with creators selling their own works and presenting talks and workshops. Below are some delightful people…Continue Reading →
“The history of Oberon is clouded in mystery,” one of the paranormal investigators warns at the start of the Boston Circus Guild’s “Cirque of the Dead,” “which is to say…Continue Reading →
One of the highlights of Montreal each fall is the “Gardens of Light,” which illuminates the Chinese Garden at the Jardin Botanique de Montréal with dazzling lanterns this year from…Continue Reading →
In Peru in the 1980s, a new music exploded in popularity on the radio: Chicha. The word can refer drinks made from purple corn or fermented fruit and grains, but…Continue Reading →
Yu-Wen Wu, a Taiwan-born, Boston-based artist, has been named the winner of the inaugural $15,000 Prilla Smith Brackett Award, administered by the Davis Museum Wellesley College. The biennial prize aims…Continue Reading →
“Rebelling against constraint, she let her voice out in ‘Rock Me’ and ‘That’s All,’ and left the house ecstatic,” The New York Times reported when Sister Rosetta Tharpe performed during…Continue Reading →
Honk!—the infectious street party and festival of activist street bands—paraded from Davis Square in Somerville to Harvard Square in Cambridge this afternoon and we where honored to be there. Photos…Continue Reading →
The annual Topsfield Fair, which runs from Oct. 4 to 14 in Topsfield, Mass., is known for its giant pumpkin growing contest; for its barns full of poultry, rabbits, sheep and…Continue Reading →