Provincetown’s 45th annual Carnival Parade danced down Commercial Street from the Harbor Hotel in the East End to the Coast Guard Station in the West End yesterday afternoon. This year’s…Continue Reading →
In 1929, a group of Italian-Catholic Immigrants formed the Saint Rocco Fraternal Society in the Edgeworth section of Malden, Massachusetts, to help locals afflicted with flu. They named it for…Continue Reading →
More than a decade ago, Stelvyn Mirabal, the founder of the Lawrence group Asociacion Carnavalesca de Massachusetts, told me some of the anti-colonial symbolism of the ruffled suits and monstrous,…Continue Reading →
Chelsea celebrated Dia de los Muertos with a parade from Chelsea City Hall to Chelsea Square this evening. Local artist Kyle Browne and Sara Peattie of the Puppeteers Cooperative lead…Continue Reading →
Honk, the annual festival of activist street bands, arrives in Somerville and Cambridge this weekend. Begun here in 2006, the festival has spawned a worldwide movement. Due to covid, last…Continue Reading →
The Exeter UFO Festival’s Alien Parade traveled from Town House Common Park to the Bandstand outside Town Hall today. The small southern New Hampshire festival is inspired by the famous…Continue Reading →
Gloucester is celebrating its annual St. Peter’s Fiesta this week. The festival is a celebration of the community’s commercial fishing, Roman Catholic and Sicilian traditions. It begins with the Novena…Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →