The Mermaid Promenade kicked off the Cambridge Arts River Festival along the Charles River this morning. The parade, which I organized, featured numerous wonderful volunteer mermaids and mer-people, numerous puppets…Continue Reading →
“We’re there to lift up the spirits and the vibrations of the thousands of free and enslaved Africans and African-Americans that are buried there,” Ifé Franklin says of her “Egun…Continue Reading →
Late last year, archivists made a dramatic discovery when paging through an old guest book at the Hammond Castle Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Long thought lost, the guest book—full of…Continue Reading →
At the beginning of director George Miller’s bitter, thrilling film “Furiosa,” the latest installment of his decades-long “Mad Max Saga,” a couple girls are picking peaches in a lush green…Continue Reading →
In some spiritual traditions the “Axis Mundi,” or axis of the world, is a place where heaven and earth come close together and can link. In William Schaff’s mixed media…Continue Reading →
A dog becomes a table, an owl becomes a bronze vase, and a cast bronze tree holds up a glass tabletop in Judy Kensley McKie’s exhibition “Carving the Surface” at…Continue Reading →
Somerville Porchfest is part hootenanny, part a giant open studios for bands. Inspired by an event in Ithaca, New York, the Somerville version, overseen by the Somerville Arts Council, has…Continue Reading →
Charles Daniels always had one or more cameras with him—when he was strolling local streets; when he was emcee at Boston Tea Party rock club in the late 1960s and…Continue Reading →
During covid, Kathleen Bitetti’s neighbor cut down trees that had shaded her South Boston yard, so she began filling the small dirt plot behind the triple decker in which she…Continue Reading →