Category: Arts & Culture
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Performers Provide the Words, Audience Provides the Scenery in ImprovBoston’s ‘Blackout’
By Marissa Giambelluca The word of the night was “donkey,” and the sketch began with a disgruntled Dunkin’ Donuts worker attempting to make a man and his mule leave the premises. There was a lot of yelling and hee-hawing but the movements were left to my imagination because I was sitting in a pitch-black theater.…
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An International Twist on a Traditional Bluegrass Musician
For an Americana musician in Boston, Stash Wyslouch certainly brings an international flavor. Born in Switzerland of half Polish-half Colombian ancestry, he holds triple citizenship for the US, Poland and Colombia, all three of which he spends time in. He plays full-time in an original bluegrass/progressive bluegrass band called The Deadly Gentlemen, which tours around…
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‘Wanton Regard’: A Book Review
“Fate don’t negotiate”—Gage Dolon As I read “Wanton Regard,” I wondered what kind of mind Geoffrey Neil must have to be able to come up with a fiendish character like Gage Dolon. This is Geoffrey Neil’s third book and his writing is every bit as good as Stephen King’s or Joe Hill’s. The only difference…
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‘We Are Sharing the Same Vibes’: Garv Bomjan Brings eastern Ragas Melodies to the MBTA
Garv Bomjan moved to the U.S. from Nepal three and a half years ago. A year later, he decided to take up busking at Boston T stations, which soon became his full-time job. “The satisfaction that I get, that’s why I started doing music … self pleasure. And if my pleasure gives pleasure to other…
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Poetry
Raindrops If kisses were raindrops I’d send you showers If hugs were seconds I’d give you hours If smiles were water I’d send you the sea If love was a person I’d send you me not good enough Why am I not good enough for you? For your love? Sometimes I feel like I’m…
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‘Something a Camera Can’t Get’: David Andrus Draws Cambridge’s Homeless Residents
During the month of April, the Central Square branch of the Cambridge Public Library hosted a gallery of local artist David Andrus’ drawings of the homeless in Central Square. The gallery was taken down April 30. The drawings were mixed medium. For his posed portraits, Andrus used charcoal. However, his main way of working involves…
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Night Goggles
When shadows you know step and shine on shadows you don’t, you might see what Vishnu once saw: The creation of all earth, of all life, a dream- bound together in joy and tears, the codas caught frozen in time and left for later, like an old high school yearbook boxed somewhere up in the…
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Aristotle in Aurora & maybe earth is a he after all
By Bruce Goldberg, former member of SDS and Labor Organizer—his take on the shootings at the opening of the Batman Rises movie—and another poem about how humans treat the Earth.. Aristotle in Aurora “The Good is that at which all things aim.” Aristotle A warm midnight in late July; laughter and the zoo-like…
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To June In Lieu of Flowers
In that little house far from the road you made new left casserole and waited while we marched on the induction center and drove all night across the western slope to Grand Junction the day King was killed. I still see you in your long blue denim dress, a frontier wife of the sixties…
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Three Poems
Headline: Lawmaker Destroys Shopping Carts Marge Piercy The homeless make him angry. They’re in the way. He doesn’t find them scenic. How dare they survive on the street, in parks, in alleys, doorways and beaches. Making life even more difficult for those at the end of choices is his answer to their problems.…