You’re Invited: Greg’s Fake-Birthday Real-Party!
Facebook tells me I was born on April 1, 1933. So please come join me in celebrating my, um, 85th birthday at Greg’s Fake-Birthday Real-Party at Cantina La Mexicana, 247…Continue Reading →
To Do March 23 to 29: Anti-Gun Protests, Woolapalooza, ‘When James Brown Saved Boston,’ Urban Nature Walk, Junot Diaz, Lou Jones, Poetry Grudge Match
Friday, March 23 2 p.m. Nazi reenactors: SS Deutschland New England World War II reenactors hold their “Dunbarton Tactical Event” at 1121 Montalona Road, Dunbarton, New Hampshire. Continues through Sunday.…Continue Reading →
Fish, Meet Your New MIT Robot Overlord!
With the headline “Soft robotic fish swims alongside real ones in coral reefs,” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this week announced that “a team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial…Continue Reading →
Boston Hassle Makes (Most) All Their Shows Free For Folks Younger Than 18
Boston Hassle and Brain Arts—impresarios of experimental, underground music shows—will make most of their shows free for folks younger than 18, the organization announced on Monday. “To help showcase BRAIN…Continue Reading →
Front Porch Collective Aims To Change Boston: ‘We’re One Of The Few Major Metropolitan Cities That Doesn’t Have A Black-Run Theater Company’
“Thank you. You people are part of a movement,” Maurice Emmanuel Parent said as he stood on a chair in the lobby of Cambridge’s Central Square Theater last night, glass…Continue Reading →
Talking About ‘Dreadful Young Ladies’ And Evil Rulers With Newbury-Winning Author Kelly Barnhill
At the start of last year, Minneapolis novelist Kelly Barnhill won the Newbery Medal, the highest honor in young adult literature, for her fourth novel, “The Girl Who Drank the…Continue Reading →
Photos: Montreal’s Festival de Casteliers, A Showcase Of International Puppetry
Photos from the Montreal’s 13th annual Festival de Casteliers, a showcase of international puppetry (which sponsored my visit) from March 8 to 11. Thursday “Les Bêtes dansent ou le sortilège…Continue Reading →
To Do March 16 to 22: Palehound, Oompa, Womanimation, Queer Afro Indigenous Futures, Junot Díaz, Craftivism, Improbable Places Poetry
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‘Protect Children Not Guns’—Elementary School Students Protest In Cambridge
Dozens of elementary school students from the Cambridgeport School protested against guns on Broadway in Cambridge this morning. Photos copyright 2018 Greg Cook. Help Wonderland keep producing our great coverage…Continue Reading →
Up Close With Ronnie Burkett’s Marionette ‘Love Letter To Theater And Show Biz’
“The show is a love letter to theater and show biz,” Ronnie Burkett says during a question-and-answer session after performing his “The Daisy Theatre” at Montreal’s Centaur Theatre last Thursday…Continue Reading →