“Reif, you can’t hide! We demand that you resign!” hundreds of protesters chanted at an “MIT Rally Against Jeffrey Epstein” and “They Knew: Speak-out against MIT-Epstein Scandal” outside Massachusetts Institute…Continue Reading →
“Preserve our culture!” shouted Cambridge Carnival supporters as they marched down Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge’s Central Square this evening. “Keep our carnival!” The protest was in response to the Aug.…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet Theater brought their “Diagonal Life Circus” to Cambridge Common yesterday afternoon, as the culminating performance of Cambridge Arts’ free, annual Summer In The City series. (I work…Continue Reading →
This week students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s East Campus residence hall have been constructing DIY carnival rides. A plywood track for wooden handcarts circles around the courtyard between the…Continue Reading →
Cambridge Carnival—the spectacular annual Caribbean parade and festival planned for Sept. 8—has been canceled due to fears of violence, organizers announced Thursday night. “There have been increasing safety concerns associated…Continue Reading →
“That could have been me. That could have been my brother. That could have been my own family,” Farida Moustafa told the hundreds of people gathered outside Cambridge City Hall…Continue Reading →
“If you could paint anything, what would it be?” a voice from off-screen asks. In Keaton Fox’s “Green Screen Dreams” videos, people standing painting canvases answer—and then their answer magically…Continue Reading →
The robot C-3PO cradles R2-D2 as in a traditional Madonna and child painting. The gangster slug Jabba the Hutt sits at the center of a “Last Supper”-ish table. Luke Skywalker…Continue Reading →
A $100 million donation “will enable Harvard to imagine a 21st-century research and performance center in Allston,” the Cambridge university announced today, making it “possible to reimagine the university’s arts…Continue Reading →
“Let us create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions which raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist,” Walter Gropius wrote in the 1919 manifesto to launch…Continue Reading →