Here’s our guide to what to see at this weekend’s Boston Book Festival. The annual event offers more than 125 talks and presentations at three locations—the main festival in Boston’s…Continue Reading →
In this afternoon’s Honk Parade, dozens of bands and activist and community groups marched from Davis Square in Somerville to Harvard Square in Cambridge. Thousands lined the streets for this…Continue Reading →
“Casanova’s Europe: Art, Pleasure, and Power in the 18th Century” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts through Oct. 8 is a sumptuous, deeply researched exhibition inspired by Casanova, the charismatic…Continue Reading →
In a joint letter, more than 80 Maine affiliated writers—including Pulitzer Prize-winners Richard Russo and Michael Chabon, Ann Beattie, Jonathan Lethem and John Hodgman—are calling on Sen. Susan Collins, a…Continue Reading →
The 13th annual Honk—the infectious street party and festival of activist bands—arrives in Somerville and Cambridge this weekend, featuring an international roster of more than 28 bands. The free outdoor…Continue Reading →
Salem, Massachusetts, is a city filled with curious attractions, but one of the most curious is “Pioneer Village: Salem in 1630.” Billed as “America’s First Living History Museum,” it was…Continue Reading →
“We stand with survivors. We believe Dr. [Christine Blasey] Ford. Brett Kavanaugh is not fit to serve on the Supreme Court,” Rebecca Hart Holder, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts,…Continue Reading →
“Katie Gradowski called them ‘displacement dollhouses,’ which I thought was kind of cute,” Somerville artist Dina Gjertsen tells me about the dioramas she’s been making lately. At Martha Friend’s Friend-Smithsonian…Continue Reading →
The title of Boston artist Stephanie Cardon’s public artwork “Unless”—installed in the main entrance of the Prudential Center shopping mall at 800 Boylston St. through November—comes from Dr. Seuss’s 1971…Continue Reading →
There are moments of delight and happiness in the tales of Winnie-the-Pooh—like the very first one, the comedy of the stuffed bear pretending (badly) to be a rain cloud so…Continue Reading →