THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME AT APOLLINAIRE THEATRE COMPANY ★★★★☆ Apollinaire Theatre’s free waterfront productions have become one of the best things about summertime in Boston, and it’s not hard to see why: The performance is free, the parking is free, it’s easily accessible by public transit, […]
BOSTON FIDDLES WHILE THE WORLD BURNS
City government continues issuing reports while UN calls for immediate action When writing about human-induced global warming on a regular basis, it’s a good idea to pace oneself. Because it’s such a relentlessly depressing topic that highlighting it too often can backfire. Faced with an existential threat of such magnitude that human civilization—and […]
MYSTIC BREWERY: TROPICAL MAGIC, WEEKLY RELEASES, AND TABLE BEERS IN CHELSEA
If you’re a beer nerd in the Greater Boston region, then you may have made a pilgrimage to Mystic Brewing on a Friday afternoon or evening. The place can get quite nuts …
KILLING AT ARCHERY GAMES: NONLETHAL PROJECTILE PLEASURE IN CHELSEA
“Dress sporty,” my buddy recommended. He’s familiar with the gauntlet, having ventured there to shoot it out with coworkers a few weeks earlier.
IN CHELSEA, ONE HELL OF A DREAM: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM AT APOLLINAIRE THEATRE
★★★★★ If there’s only one thing you do this week, it should be to find time to get to Chelsea’s PORT Park to catch Apollinaire Theatre Company’s practically perfect (and free) production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It isn’t only that this outdoor production takes full and inventive advantage of Chelsea’s […]
OH, SULLIVAN: I BRAVED THE NOTORIOUS CROSSHAIRS OF CHARLESTOWN, EVERETT, AND SOMERVILLE AND LIVED TO WRITE ABOUT IT
Even for this tortured region, Sullivan is something of an evil clusterfuck oasis, an otherworldly portal into gridlock that uniquely cripples multiple municipalities at once.
BOY MEETS FOX: FIRST LOVE IS THE REVOLUTION AT APOLLINAIRE THEATRE
★★★★☆ Not since Romeo and Juliet has a first love caused such a… well, stir. And while Rita Kalnejais’s First Love Is the Revolution is undoubtedly taking several cues from the tragedy of the legendary star-crossed lovers, the result is a wholly original, compulsively enjoyable, and deeply thought-provoking play that turns out […]
MAKE SOME WAVES: WHY ZUMIX RADIO NEEDS YOUR HELP
Help keep multi-generational radio on air as it moves to a dial near you.
THE PLAY’S THE THING
Apollinaire Theatre brings Hamlet to Chelsea’s waterfront
NEWBRIDGE CAFE
A Decades-Old Institution, Steak Tips, and More
