Honk, the annual festival of activist street bands, arrived in Somerville and Cambridge this weekend. Begun here in 2006, the festival has spawned a worldwide movement. These photos are from…Continue Reading →
The City of Somerville moved forward with a plan to acquire the Somerville Armory building at 191 Highland Ave. and “preserve the facility for arts uses” with an unanimous vote…Continue Reading →
Brazilian carnival is the subject of the mural “Doña Patria” that Alexandre Keto completed in Somerville in October. The Sao Paulo-raised, Maryland-based artist says the painting at 102 Broadway, on…Continue Reading →
Once, the Somerville music lounge and ballroom, “will not reopen” at its current venue, owner JJ Gonson announced today. (Read her full announcement below.) Launched in 2015 in the former…Continue Reading →
A new art and nature video for kids from Wonderland Spectacle Co.: When a family of wild turkeys visited our backyard in Greater Boston, we wondered how the birds came…Continue Reading →
Just Us Somerville, with the support of the City of Somerville and the Somerville Arts Council, led a volunteer effort to paint a Black Lives Matter mural at the intersection…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 →
“Sequestered Storytime with Jef Czekaj”—Somerville children’s book author and artist Jef Czekaj’s DIY television show for kids—represents one of the more delightful ways folks are navigating the daunting seriousness of…Continue Reading →
The T-Rex outside Boston’s Museum of Science and the Lego giraffe standing in front of Somerville’s Legoland Discovery Center are now sporting masks, as communities continue to work to stem…Continue Reading →
On Thursday night, the Somerville Arts Council kicked off its “Home Alone Art Series” with “Parallax,” a performance livestreamed on Facebook. Callie Chapman and Catherine Murcek danced while Christopher Konopka…Continue Reading →