As activism has spread across Massachusetts in response to Minneapolis Police murdering George Floyd on May 25, organizers have used online posters to share word of protests, marches, rallies and…Continue Reading →
Each year the Boston Society of Architects’ “Gingerbread Design Competition and Exhibition”–on view at BSA Space, 290 Congress St., Boston, from Dec. 7, 2019, to Jan. 2, 2020–invites local landscape…Continue Reading →
“Big Plans: Picturing Social Reform,” at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum from June 20 to Sept. 15, 2019, looks back a century and a half ago to a moment of…Continue Reading →
NOTE: I’ve been commissioned by the Essex County Community Foundation to help document/promote cultural projects from its Creative County Initiative, which is supported by Boston’s Barr Foundation. On a damp…Continue Reading →
In the fall of 1936, as the first edition of “The Hobbit” was in production, its author, J.R.R. Tolkien, gave his publisher a series of maps that he’d drawn to…Continue Reading →
The question was how to slow traffic around Medford’s Brooks Elementary School to make it safer for students. Last year, fourth-grader Eric Dobson and his third-grade partner Isa were in…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 →
The idea for the Make The Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon originated with a bad day in a bathroom at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab. After the birth of…Continue Reading →
Check out this new video of the Atlas robot from Boston Dynamics. The Waltham, Massachusetts, company proclaims: “Atlas is the latest in a line of advanced humanoid robots we are…Continue Reading →
The dire threat to mid-20th century monumental concrete architecture—generally known as “brutalism”—is demonstrated in “Brutal Destruction,” an exhibit opening next week of photos documenting the demolition and alteration of the…Continue Reading →