“It’s here. It’s life. It’s everything. Bam!” Willie “Loco” Alexander tells me as we tour a retrospective of his paintings and collages at the Manship Artist Residency + Studios in…Continue Reading →
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 →
“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 →
“Where in the world did I ever get the idea that people are supposed to be good?” The line is obsessively printed hundreds of times in one of the artworks…Continue Reading →
Gloucester is celebrating its 91st 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 →
How can we imagine the unimaginable number of people who die from guns in the United States each year? Federal statistics say the tally was 37,863 people lost in 2016,…Continue Reading →
“There are hurts that don’t go away. They follow us like the dead or the lost, and we mourn them as such,” Amanda Cook writes in the entry for Saturday,…Continue Reading →
Last Saturday, Feb. 24, hundreds of people gathered at Gloucester’s Hammond Castle for a memorial to eminent Gloucester poet Gerrit Lansing, who died on Feb. 11, a couple weeks shy…Continue Reading →
I was saddened to learn yesterday that my friend, the eminent Gloucester poet Gerrit Lansing, has entered care for the end of his long and amazing life. (Update Jan. 12:…Continue Reading →
Art and activism around around greater Boston as we saw it in 2017. Help us keep producing our great coverage of local arts by contributing to Wonderland’s Launch Fundraiser. And…Continue Reading →