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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
![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)
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 →
In 1960, when Joseph Tetteh-Ashong was 15, he began an apprenticeship in coffin-making with his mother’s cousin, Seth Kane Kwei. The training led Tetteh-Ashong, or Paa Joe, as he’s become…Continue Reading →
Among the fiercest political graphics that appeared during the Trump Administration were Edel Rodriguez’s covers for Time magazine and the weekly German magazine Der Spiegel. In the New Jersey artist’s…Continue Reading →
The striking intimacy in the film “The Last Repair Shop,” which won the 2024 Academy Award for best documentary, begins with the Interrotron. Developed by Cambridge documentary filmmaker Errol Morris,…Continue Reading →
As the story goes, in 1976, when Howard Finster was 60, the Baptist preacher was painting a bicycle when he got paint on his hand and fell into a vision.…Continue Reading →
One of the fascinating things about nature is how patterns repeat—the way, for example, the branching of trees can rhyme with the branching of rivers. This repetition can convince some…Continue Reading →