New additions to The People’s Garden Tour, a guide to beautiful gardens that can be seen for free across New England, include: • Somerville: Quincy Street Open Space between Summer Street and…Continue Reading →
My Father’s hand. March 31, 2016. Eighteen days before he died. (Photo copyright Greg Cook)Continue Reading →
“We don’t need it,” Boston City Councilor Matt O’Malley agreed with hundreds of protesters who’d come out on Saturday, April 23, for the Resist The West Roxbury Pipeline march and…Continue Reading →
“What do we want? Contract! When do we want it? Now!” shouted striking Verizon workers picketing the Verizon store at 340 Washington St., Boston, in the rain on Tuesday morning,…Continue Reading →
New York’s Phantom Limb Company mixes dance, puppetry, tech and experimental theater to create visionary spectacles. They’ve described their latest show, “Memory Rings,” as tracing the “evolving relationship between people and the…Continue Reading →
Back in February, I visited the screenprinting studio of James Weinberg in Somerville, Mass. Usually he works on paper, but he’d been experimenting with printing silkscreens on panels (like “Elk (1/3)”…Continue Reading →
The People’s Garden Tour is a guide to beautiful gardens that can be seen for free across New England. We love gardens, but most garden tours are fancy affairs with…Continue Reading →
From “Fragments” by poet Amanda Cook (pictured above) of Gloucester, Mass., as published in late 2015 in the third issue of editor Joe Torra’s “Let the Bucket Down: A Magazine…Continue Reading →
“I smoked a lot of weed with him [Harry Smith], on the streets even. We met in bars. We once were together in the great jazz place that closed very…Continue Reading →
CALL FOR ARTISTS, MUSICIANS, PERFORMERS: The Somerville Arts Council and Greg Cook, the fellow behind last year’s “Pity Party,” are looking for your help for the “TINY TALL SHIPS FESTIVAL”…Continue Reading →