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For 260 hours under the cover of darkness, Dan Masi painted.
Over six months, entirely at night, Masi painted, combining his own artistic style with the colors and themes of Francisco Goya to create a mural that now envelopes the Lilypad collaborative ...
This year’s annual NESFA convention, Boskone 55, promises a seriously eclectic mix. There will be Star Wars Mad Libs. There will be a Regency-era dance class, with costumes encouraged.
A new mixed-media art show co-curated by artist Noah Grigni and the Aviary Gallery in Jamaica Plain delves into the many faceted experiences of displacement, while raising money for hurricane relief in Puerto Rico where so many people have been physically displaced.
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This Ain’t Normal is a profound film that brings the audience into the homes of young men in their neighborhoods, and has them explain the multilayered, complex social and economic issues that drive gun violence so high.
A celebration with a simple idea: ‘It’s an important time to be creative’
“He describes the narrator dismembering this body, which is horrifying enough, but when you do that visually, it becomes over-the-top grisly,” Hinds said. “I had to strike the right balance, which actually was to show very little and leave a lot to the reader’s imagination.”
“It’s hard to judge because we haven’t had a mayor’s race in 10 years.”
From sports-loving tomboy, to Boston pride parades, to finding his community online
A Q&A with Jeremy Ogusky, Boston Fermentation Festival founder
"I grew up in communes in Allston in the ’70s. There used to be this great big penny poker game at the Spanish House commune; it was in the former Spanish consulate on Commonwealth Avenue."
"Wait, homeless people doing this for the community, not community service?”
I used to feel, metaphorically, that I stood by a vast river of music and everything that was happening came down that river and I hooked out anything that was interesting to me. Now, I feel like I’m on a small boat on a calm sea and I’m only hearing the stuff that swims near me.
Pulp Fiction fashion, art, and burlesque show hits Providence
Leah Carroll’s book revisits rough Rhode Island memories and tough personal trials
There will always be someone who was somewhere on the beach at some point who says, “Well that’s not how it happened exactly.” But you write representative pieces, and I had a lot of creative freedom to connect the dots.
How fast can you get from Downtown Boston to Davis Square?
Voted best place to find flamingo tongues in Greater Boston
"I think in times where other people are scared … it’s always important to be brave, to not be taken over by fear."
A new film aims to shatter stigmas around public housing
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich explains where stories really come from
"And that’s why we made the closet bigger… anything that holds someone back in their life or anything that they’re suffering under. "
