With high-wire walkers, trapeze artists and acrobats, the Big Apple Circus performs under a “Big Top” tent at Somerville’s Assembly Row through Sunday, May 6. Update: The show has been…Continue Reading →
MONTREAL—It was snowing lightly last Thursday afternoon as the performance of “Les Bêtes dansent ou le sortilège discret de la nature sauvage” (“The Dancing Beasts or the Discrete Spell of…Continue Reading →
During a snowstorm in January 1885, Wilson ”Snowflake” Bentley, a Vermont farmer turned scientist, is said to have become the first person to photograph a single snow crystal—more commonly known…Continue Reading →
Saturday brings the 4th annual Vermont Crankie Fest to New England Youth Theater in Brattleboro. “Crankies are scrolling illustrations that accompany songs and stories,” organizers write. “Often lit from behind,…Continue Reading →
“I think sometimes puppets and masks are thought of as a primitive and non-modern remnant of indigenous cultures. … And yet they show up,” says John Bell, a Cambridge-based puppeteer…Continue Reading →
“We’re here to celebrate black people today,” said Boston artist Ife Franklin, as she was joined by more than 100 people for the presentation of her fourth ancestor slave cabin/praise…Continue Reading →
Keytar Bear gets interviewed by an NECN news crew on Stewart Street at Dartmouth Street in Boston, July 12, 2017. (Photo copyright Greg Cook)Continue Reading →
A Viking Funeral to mark the one-year anniversary of my Father’s death, April 17, 2017. My father, who was a community college teacher, raced on friends’ sailboats for most of…Continue Reading →
It is only now, that I’ve finally returned to civilization that I can finally relate the full account of our journey to the highest peak in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on March…Continue Reading →