“What soothed my warrior spirit [in the military] was music and beauty.”
SOULDIER STORY: JOEL MASSICOT ON MIXING MARTIAL ARTS, DANCE, AND MILITARY INFLUENCES
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VIDEO: ARTISTS VS PANDEMIC
Performing artists are facing particularly high unemployment in this COVID-wracked year of 2020. Alison Qu, Jude Torres and Alexa Albanese are Boston local artists who live under this pandemic. These interviews were conducted between September to November. Here is a video for their stories during this unprecedented time.
VIDEO: MEET DOT-BASED ARTIST LUDGY JEAN-BAPTISTE OF COMIXSCAPE
Ludgy is still busy illustrating his COMIXSCAPE project though, and so we finally dug up the video for the many comic fans in our readership …
SEE THIS WORLD: THE FUTURE IS 2020
Dave Tree discusses musical departures, trudging through COVID, and the year upon us.
HALEY HOUSE TO HOST FIRST VIRTUAL SOUPER BOWL FUNDRAISER
The nonprofit will use homemade soup and art to support social change.
IN MEMORIAM: JOAN MICKLIN SILVER
On the "Midwest films" of Raphael D. Silver (1930-2013) and Joan Micklin Silver (1935-2020).
FILM REVIEW: “MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM”
Directed by George C. Wolfe. US, 2020, 94 minutes. Available on Netflix.
FOREVER STRUGGLE: ACTIVISM, IDENTITY, AND SURVIVAL IN BOSTON’S CHINATOWN
“According to descriptions of that life, frugal laundrymen saved money by sleeping and cooking meals of white rice in their tiny shops, only occasionally allowing themselves vegetables and meat.”
THE BEST THEATER IN GREATER BOSTON OF 2020
A recap of the performing arts in a tumultuous year.
WOKE IN PROGRESS III: DEAFENING SILENCE AT BOSTON’S TWO BEST-KNOWN ART MUSEUMS
Though hundreds in the Boston area signed the June 2020 Open Letter from Boston Arts and Cultural Workers in Demand of Racial Equity and Social Transformation that began this inquiry, listing their professional affiliations along with their names on the petition, many have been reluctant to talk about what they or their institutions have done or plan to do since making these commitments.
