Photos: Herring Migrating Upstream In Medford
The Mystic River Watershed Association held a River Herring Open House on May 22, inviting visitors to watch herring swimming up the fish ladder (usually locked to the public) at…Continue Reading →
A Teeny Tiny Bruins V. Blues Hockey Championship At Legoland Somerville
The Legoland Discovery Center in Somerville is routing on the Boston Bruins in their Stanley Cup pro hockey championship run against the St. Louis Blues with Lego depictions of the…Continue Reading →
MFA Bans 2 Visitors, Continues Bias Training After Students Complain Of Racist Treatment
Updated with May 31, 2019, statements from MFA. Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts says it has banned two visitors for making racist comments to seventh graders from Boston’s Helen Y.…Continue Reading →
‘No Food, No Drink And No Watermelon’—MFA Apologizes For Racist Mistreatment Of Students
“No food, no drink, and no watermelon,” seventh graders from Boston’s Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy reported that a staffer at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts told the more than…Continue Reading →
Recommended: Boston Answering • ‘Radical Suburbs’ • Poet Toni Bee • Activist Dolores Huerta • Mermaid Promenade
May 24 to June 1, 2019: Pictured above: Tim Hall (right) joins Cliff Notez at Hojoko at the Verb Hotel, May 18, 2018. (Greg Cook) If this is the kind…Continue Reading →
During WWII, Otto Piene’s Job Was To Kill Planes, Afterward He Imagined A ‘Sky Art’ Of Peace
The artist Otto Piene was 15 when his entire class at his school in Lübbecke, Germany, was drafted into the Wehrmacht. The conscription of kindsoldaten (“child soldiers”) into the military…Continue Reading →
As Boston Continues To Exclude Hip Hop, ‘Boston Answering’ Aims To ‘Uplift Some Of The City’s Finest Local Artists’
“A cultural response manifested into a show” is how this Saturday’s “Boston Answering” show at the Strand Theatre in Boston is described by its organizers, Boston booking and audio and…Continue Reading →
Photos: ‘Stop The Abortion Ban’ Rally At Massachusetts State House
“Keep abortion safe and legal” people chanted at a “Stop The Abortion Ban” rally at the Massachusetts State House in Boston at noon today. Hundreds of women and some men…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet Theater’s ‘Diagonal Life’ Addresses Politics, Migration, Global Warming
Three large brown papier-mâché puppets arrive on the blue curtained stage early on in Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis.” The puppets depict head and hands, perhaps…Continue Reading →
Patricia Marx And Roz Chast’s ‘Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?’
Patricia Marx and Roz Chast have a delicious premise for their slim illustrated humor/advice book “Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It? A Mother’s Suggestions”…Continue Reading →