There’s no question that the Citgo sign that shines above Kenmore Square is one of the landmarks of Boston. But Tuesday’s vote by the Boston Landmarks Commission to grant official…Continue Reading →
The American Revolution is in its fifth year in Nathaniel Philbrick’s spirited new history, “In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown” (Viking), his…Continue Reading →
“We are here today because we believe in the rule of law and we have a president who does not,” said Myra Slotnick, one of the organizers of “Rally To…Continue Reading →
The earth is home to 450,000 species of beetles, Brian Farrell, the Harvard University professor and curator of entomology, told me recently as he was pulling out drawers of the…Continue Reading →
The cardboard pickup truck drives through the audience, blinding people with its headlights, in Tarish “Jeghetto” Pipkins’s puppet show “Just Another Lynching,” which will be performed at Brookline’s Puppet Showplace…Continue Reading →
The Gallery on Main Street in Malden hosted a public celebration of the Hindu festival of Diwali tonight. “Diwali is known as the festival of lights,” Shikha Vyas told the…Continue Reading →
If you walked into Cutler Majestic Theatre on Monday afternoon or evening, you would have found a stage with 11 empty chairs illuminated by a single light. It was intended…Continue Reading →
The Northeastern University’s Oct 31 deadline for the landmark African American Master Artists In Residence Program to vacate a school building came and went today without a resolution to the…Continue Reading →
In “William Forsythe: Choreographic Objects”—an exhibition highlighting interactive sculptures by the celebrated Vermont choreographer—you’re invited to try to cross a room filled with swinging pendulums without getting bumped. Or to…Continue Reading →
Halloween is a most wonderful time of year—that season when the lengthening nights make us suspect that the boundaries between living and dead and other sinister creatures grow porous, and…Continue Reading →