Looking to help Puppet Showplace Theater after alleged embezzlement reported last month left their bank account “fully depleted”? The Board of Trustees of the 46-year-old Brookline cultural institution is directing folks who…Continue Reading →
Puppet Showplace Theater announced yesterday that their “bank account had been fully depleted” after an alleged embezzlement from the 46-year-old Brookline cultural institution. “The treasurer noticed some suspicious transactions after…Continue Reading →
“Kids don’t get enough credit that they can understand what’s going on. Racism isn’t going to end until people start noticing it,” says Tanya Nixon-Silberg, co-founder of Wee the People,…Continue Reading →
“Laura McPhee: Desert Chronicle”—on view at Boston’s Carroll and Sons gallery from Dec. 4, 2019, to Feb. 1, 2020—is a concise exhibition of five large photos from the Brookline artist’s…Continue Reading →
“They were like the original moving pictures,” says Katherine Fahey of “An Evening of Crankies,” which she performs at Puppet Showplace Theater in Brookline on Monday, Dec. 9, at 7:30…Continue Reading →
The cardboard pickup truck drives through the audience, blinding people with its headlights, in Tarish “Jeghetto” Pipkins’s puppet show “Just Another Lynching,” which will be performed at Brookline’s Puppet Showplace…Continue Reading →
Celebrated photographer Nicholas Nixon has retired from his longtime teaching position at Massachusetts College of Art and Design amid “allegations of inappropriate behavior,” according to a message sent out yesterday…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 →
“Is our democracy in danger?” Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt write at the beginning of their new book “How Democracies Die” (Crown). “It’s a question we never thought we’d be…Continue Reading →