Remembering jazz singer John Minnock with final album 'A Different Riff'Instead of introducing the Boston singer to new audiences, the record is coming out as a memorial. 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Remembering jazz singer John Minnock with final album 'A Different Riff'Instead of introducing the Boston singer to new audiences, the record is coming out as a memorial. Minnock died unexpectedly on Feb. 26 at the age of 64 after a...Arts & Culture11 hours ago
Sleuthing leads the MFA to return an Egyptian coffin to SwedenThe MFA and the Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum In Sweden worked together to correct the record on an ancient object's origins.Arts & Culture11 hours ago
'Challengers' is a sexy soap opera about a tennis love triangleDirected by Luca Guadagnino, the time-jumping film skips around over 15 years or so, following our three main characters — played by Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor — from...Arts & CultureApr 25, 2024
5 things to do this weekend, including play 'A Strange Loop' and 'Ancestors and Place' at the MFAPlus, The Glitter Boys’ trip to Vegas and "Growing Through Covid-19."Arts & CultureApr 25, 2024
An eco-art installation that's for the birds — literallyAt Appleton Farms in Ipswich, migratory bobolinks return each May to use the grasslands for breeding. Artist Jean Shin has installed a pastoral art installation called "Perch" highlighting the critical...ResumeArts & Culture04:55Apr 24, 2024
Singer Cara Brindisi wants to talkThe singer-songwriter is seeking deeper conversation in new concert series called "Life & Lyrics."Arts & CultureApr 24, 2024
Revisiting seminal Gen X film 'Reality Bites' 30 years laterDirected by Ben Stiller and starring Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke, the film "occupies an oversized spot in the cultural memory of a certain era," writes critic Sean Burns. It's...Arts & CultureApr 23, 2024
Rehoboth artist adds extra dimension to Mass. emblemsRehoboth artist Hollis Machala's 26 piece "HEART of MA" series documents the state emblems of Massachusetts. The unique collection of mix-media art pieces, featuring fragments of Massachusetts' official state rock,...Arts & CultureApr 19, 2024
Abolitionist Harriet Hayden's photo albums show 19th-century Black livesThe exhibit "Framing Freedom" at the Boston Athenaeum provides a nuanced look into Hayden's life and the larger anti-slavery movement in the city.Arts & CultureApr 19, 2024
5 things to do this weekend, including a tribute to Major Taylor and a graphic novel festivalPlus, "Book of Mountains and Seas" at ArtsEmerson and the Massachusetts Craft Brewers Festival.Arts & CultureApr 18, 2024
Elijah Wald uncovers the censored world of early jazz in 'Jelly Roll Blues'The author and musician examines how ribald rhymes heard in fields, jails and queer-friendly underground parties in the early 20th century were buried for decades by folklorists and record companies...Arts & CultureApr 18, 2024
Inaugural New Bedford Film Festival begins with a love letterRunning April 18-21, the international program includes 101 titles — from shorts to features, animation to music videos. “We're a unique city. We're full of characters," says New Bedford filmmaker...Arts & CultureApr 17, 2024
Get a peek inside Cambridge’s new community theater spaceAmid construction delays, Arrow Street Arts launches with big hopes for the future.Arts & CultureApr 12, 2024
'Civil War' is a hackneyed portrait of war correspondents in the thick of itDirected by Alex Garland, the film is about an ideological conflict in which ideologies are never discussed. "The movie manages to be exploitative while lacking the nerve of an exploitation...Arts & CultureApr 11, 2024
5 things to do this weekend, including Boston Marathon activities and 'Dress Up' at the MFAPlus, Wicked Queer’s 40th anniversary and Taiko drumming in the Arnold Arboretum.Arts & CultureApr 11, 2024
Boston's Ethiopian groove master delves into electronic soundscapesD.A. Mekonnen, who led the long-running Ethiopian funk outfit Debo Band, has a new project called dragonchild. His debut album of the same name will be celebrated with a local...Arts & CultureApr 10, 2024
A tribute for Charles Daniels, a.k.a the Master Blaster, and the 90,000 photographs he left behindWhen he died on January 22, Charles Daniels left behind a trove of 90,000 images. For decades they sat undeveloped, inside canisters that were stored in zip lock bags at...Arts & CultureApr 6, 2024
'Company' is about the connections we keepCritic Jacquinn Sinclair writes “Company” boasts a lot of great music and stresses that it’s the true connections—where one can laugh on the stoop with a friend, spill the relationship...Arts & CultureApr 5, 2024
Edgar Allan Poe's final woes revived in a forgotten opera The horror writer was born in Boston in 1809, then died 40 years later — destitute and delirious — in Baltimore. Poe’s final days are being conjured by the Boston...ResumeArts & Culture04:59Apr 5, 2024
Artist Firelei Báez returns to the ICA with sweeping mid-career surveyMuch of her work deals with the troubled historical narratives of the Caribbean. Often, it takes the form of an imagined or mythological intervention with received knowledge from the region’s...Arts & CultureApr 4, 2024