Arts + Culture
What should Harvard Square’s KiOSK be? A new residency model revives an old debate
On a recent Wednesday evening, a handful of strangers sat around a table inside the Harvard Square KiOSK, cutting up old magazines and turning the scraps into postcards. The free workshop, organized by local artist Missy Arellano, was one of five weekly sessions hosted this fall by the Radical Collage Collective, a group she founded. […]
Street Theory Collective sees a year of art and community in Central Square
Street Theory Collective has spent its first year in the heart of Central Square trying to create more than a place to display art. Read more Sales tax could be used to protect wildlife The nonprofit gallery, founded by Liza Quiñonez and visual artist Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs, offers exhibitions, studio space and professional development opportunities […]
Honk! Festival celebrates 21 years of street band activism with photo exhibit in Somerville
The Honk! Festival of activist street bands kicked off its 21st year at Somerville City Hall on Thursday night, unveiling a commemorative art exhibit of photos and quotes from the festival’s two decade history. Read more ‘Reckoning’ fails to exact a toll The exhibit, “Looking Back at 20 Years of HONK! Festival of Activist Street […]
Cat tour draws hundreds of ‘CATabridgians’ to Cambridgeport
Hundreds of people and their cats filled the streets of Cambridgeport Saturday afternoon for the first annual Cambridge Cat Tour, a city-backed event that drew far more attendees than organizers expected. Read more YWCA Cambridge celebrates local women making a difference In honor of Meet Your Neighbor Month in September, Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui collaborated with […]
Student crochet club donates handmade roses to Cambridge Health Alliance
Karuna Tarafdar visited Cambridge Health Alliance to get treatment for a broken ankle in summer of 2025. In August of this year, she came back to donate 88 handmade crochet roses to be given to patients at the CHA’s Breast Center. Read more Council approves tax increase, warns of difficult budget season ahead The roses […]
Davis Square vendor market Small Mart bans AI art
Local artists are giving big props to Small Mart, saying its ban of AI use makes them more inclined to sell their work at the Friday marketplace. Read more A survival thriller and a crime drama Carly Holbrook, the painter and button maker behind Carly Makes Things, said she “appreciates the ban” because it protects […]
Central Square Night Market returns for third year
Saturday night saw Central Square’s University Park transform into the bustling cultural smorgasbord common in cultures from around East and Southeast Asia — showcasing the substantial number of people in Cambridge who’ve moved from those areas. Read more Remembering the Craigie Street bathtub Michael Monestime, president of the Central Square Business Improvement District, said the […]
‘We’re not just the war’: Ukraine beyond the battlefield
When Ukrainian pianist and composer Vadim Neselovskyi wrote a suite dedicated to his hometown of Odesa, he never imagined it would take on political meaning. Read more Intensity in survival and horror The music, which predates Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, is a love letter to the Black Sea city where he grew up and […]
Central Square’s ‘Eleanor’ a Plum production
Central Square Theater’s absorbing and enlightening production of Mark St. Germain’s “Eleanor” opens on a set of benches, panels of greenery, and a projection of a statue called “Grief.” The acclaimed Paula Plum, wearing a dignified dress from an earlier era, steps onto the stage, and we are face-to-face with the embodiment of one of […]
Futures in flux at MIT and Harvard documentary film centers as founding leaders step down
The 2020s have been hard on Boston’s documentary film scene. In 2022, the LEF Foundation’s DocYard screening series went on indefinite hiatus; in 2024, the Bright Lights Cinema Series was cancelled after its curator, Anna Feder, was let go in what appeared to be a politically motivated dismissal. In comparison, last month’s leadership transitions at […]