Photos: 2024 Somerville Porchfest
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 →
Boston Rock History And Vintage Views Of Local Streets In Charles Daniels’s Photos
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 →
In Bitetti’s ‘Gardening Because Murder Is Wrong,’ Plants Help Her ‘De-Stress/De-Rage’
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 →
Looking Back To A Lost Earth In Jessica Straus’s ‘Packing for Mars’
In Somerville artist Jessica Straus’s exhibition “Packing for Mars,” at Boston Sculptors Gallery from April 4 to May 5, 2024, she “looks forward with dread to a future when humans…Continue Reading →
‘Road To Ruane’ Remembers Legendary Boston Rock Impresario And Wild Man
“Billy Ruane walked into the room and he said, ‘I need an extra room for my birthday party. I think I overbooked it,’” Joseph Satar, co-owner of Cambridge’s Middle East…Continue Reading →
‘Comics in Color Festival’ Showcases Artists Of Color
The “Boston Comics in Color Festival” showcased comics creators of color with a hall full of comics for sale, talks and live music at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic…Continue Reading →
‘Book Of Mountains And Seas’ Reenvisions Chinese Creation Myths Via Puppetry
“Shanhai jing”—which gives the title to the choral singing and puppetry performance “Book of Mountains and Seas” at ArtEmerson’s Emerson Paramount Center in Boston from April 19 to 21, 2024—is…Continue Reading →
Bread And Puppet Theater’s Indictment Of War On Gaza: ‘Hope Principle Show’
“And if our yelling does not reach their uninterested ears? Will we invent new yells that are harder to neglect?” asks Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theater in its terrific and…Continue Reading →
![Jim McGrath and others, "Untitled [Playland]," 1950s to 1980s, photographs. (Collection of The History Project)](https://gregcookland.com/wonderland/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/picJim-McGrath-AsTheWorldBurns240324_P1102412w530.jpg)
Rare Look Into Queer Boston From 1970s to ’90s In Photo Exhibit ‘As the World Burns’
Snapshots of the Boston bar Playland taken by bartender Jim McGrath and friends beginning in 1958 and ’59 show a drag queen leaning on a jukebox under clouds of balloons,…Continue Reading →
Coming Soon: Bread & Puppet ‘Hope Principle Show: Citizens’ Shame and Hope in the Time of Genocide’
Our friends at Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theater bring their new performance “The Hope Principle Show: Citizens’ Shame and Hope in the Time of Genocide” to Massachusetts over the next…Continue Reading →