Photos: Wake Up The Earth Festival
Photos of the Wake Up the Earth Festival at South-West Corridor Park at Stony Brook in Jamaica Plain, Boston, today. The festival was founded in 1979 to celebrate a grassroots…Continue Reading →
Lion Dancing By Wah Lum Kung Fu & Tai Chi Academy
Lions from Wah Lum Kung Fu & Tai Chi Academy in Malden and Quincy danced in Malden Center today, blessing restaurants and businesses, as part of the celebration the Lunar…Continue Reading →
Honk Band Festival Returns 10/9—In New Neighborhoods, With Covid Precautions
Honk, the annual festival of activist street bands, returns Saturday, Oct. 9, after taking a year off from live performances to help stem the spread of covid. This weekend, “bands,…Continue Reading →
Photos: Cambridge Carnival Parade Returns For First Time In Three Years
Cambridge Carnival, the annual celebration of Caribbean culture, returned with a smaller, in-person version of the festival after live events were cancelled the previous two years. They paraded from Cambridgeport…Continue Reading →
'Holiday Magic At The Disney Parks'
“Holiday Magic at the Disney Parks: Celebrations Around the World from Fall to Winter” by Graham Allan, Rebecca Cline and Charlie Prince (Disney Editions) is a big, lavishly illustrated, 384-page photo…Continue Reading →
Honk: As 2020 Festival Goes Virtual, Looking Back At Photos Through The Years
In advance of this year’s virtual Honk festival from Oct. 5 to 11, I’ve put together the video below for my friends at the festival featuring my photos of the…Continue Reading →
Chinese Lantern Spectacle Comes To Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo
“Boston Lights: A Lantern Experience” fills Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo with dazzling, giant sculptures of dragons, pandas, crabs, tigers, fish and flamingos lit from within by LED lights. More than…Continue Reading →
Our Guide To Somerville's ArtBeat--Now Part Pop-Up, Part Virtual
This year’s “ArtBeat” festival from the Somerville Arts Council adapts to coronavirus by expanding to a week of surprise pop-up events and virtual performances from July 10 to 18. Danielle…Continue Reading →
Boston Cancels Parades And Festivals Through Labor Day
The city of Boston has cancelled all parades and festivals “this summer, up to and including Labor Day on September 7, 2020,” to help stem the spread of coronavirus, the…Continue Reading →
Shelter In Place Gallery: A Tiny Boston Gallery Pops Up In Response To Coronavirus Restrictions
The motto of Shelter In Place Gallery is “Giving Boston artists an opportunity to make ‘large scale’ work from their shelter in place locations.” It epitomizes one of the ways…Continue Reading →