Photos: Lantern Walk at Malden’s Fellsmere Pond
Lantern Walk at Fellsmere Pond, Malden, June 1, 2019. Photos copyright 2019 Greg Cook. If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support…Continue Reading →
Photos: Mermaid Promenade at Cambridge Arts River Festival
The Mermaid Promenade danced down Massachusetts Avenue and Sidney Street during Cambridge Arts’ 40th annual River Festival in Central Square on June 1. About a year ago, inspired by the…Continue Reading →
Photos: Celebrating Holi, The Hindu Festival Of Colors, At Boston University
Holi is “the Hindu Festival of Colors which celebrates the arrival of Spring,” the Boston University Hindu Student Council writes. This afternoon they invited hundreds of their fellow students to…Continue Reading →
In Gloucester, Celebrating Purim With Costumes, Stories And Beer: ‘It Is A Mitzvah’
As is traditional, the families gathered at Gloucester’s Temple Ahavat Achim for their annual celebration of the Jewish holiday of Purim on Wednesday evening were costumed as superheroes and princesses,…Continue Reading →
Gragger Retells The Jewish Purim Tale As A Radical, Queer Burlesque
Gragger—Boston Workmen’s Circle’s annual, grown-up “evening of gender-bending, ancestral-healing, world-transforming Purim festivities”—is named for the clacker or rattle traditionally used to blot out the villain’s name in the ancient Jewish…Continue Reading →
New Orleans Second Line Parades Photographed By Pableaux Johnson
“My goal with these photographs is to capture in a single frame what it feels like to be in the middle of a Second Line,” Pableaux Johnson has said, “sandwiched…Continue Reading →
Photos: Chinese Lunar New Year Celebration In Malden
Chinese Culture Connection hosted its annual Chinese Lunar New Year Celebration at Malden High School on Jan. 26, 2019. All photos copyright 2019 Greg Cook. If this is the kind…Continue Reading →
The Best Christmas Decorations (And A Lobster Trap Menorah) Around Boston
Below is Wonderland’s guide to dazzling holiday decorations around greater Boston, from Attleboro to Somerville (listed by community, in alphabetical order). This is based on several years exploring region during…Continue Reading →
Lighting The World’s Only Lobster-Trap Menorah: ‘We Need Light In Darkness’
“This is a time when we need light in darkness,” Rabbi Steven Lewis of Gloucester’s Temple Ahavat Achim told the crowd gathered last night as they lit what’s said to…Continue Reading →
Photos: Celebrating Diwali, The Hindu Festival Of Lights, In Malden
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 →