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Triple B 100 race held in Rutherfordton
NASCAR superstar Greg Biffle's 18th annual Triple B 100 dirt track race was held December 6th at the Triple B Ranch in Rutherfordton. This was a 100 lap dirt race open to the public for a $20 donation per car at the gate, as there were no tickets sold. Along with the race cars there were food trucks as well. All the grilled cheese sandwiches were donated by Mike Ringquist, with those monies going to the Lake Norman Humane Society. The event was even streamed online for those that couldn't make it.
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MUSEUM OF MODERN RENAISSANCE
First published: Winter 2024/2025 Migrating from the Soviet Union to the USA, a couple decided to create a new life for an old Boston building and a whole new world for themselves At 115 College Avenue in the Boston suburb of Somerville, Massachusetts, stands a former Unitarian church, its facade painted brightly with a stylised sun, roosters and fish. A cement relief of a grotesque face with bulging eyes stares out from above the double doors.
‘Road To Ruane’ Remembers Legendary Boston Rock Impressario And Wild Man
“Billy Ruane walked into the room and he said, ‘I need an extra room for my birthday party. I think I overbooked it,’” Joseph Satar, co-owner of Cambridge’s Middle East Restaurant and Nightclub, recalls in the new documentary “The Road to Ruane,” which debuts at the Somerville Theatre on May 4 as part of the Independent Film Festival Boston. (“A filmmaker’s journey to capture the storied life of ‘90s indie music impresario Billy Ruane, becomes an examination of the human condition.”) On Nov.
At Old Sturbridge Village, 1830s America Comes Alive With Chickens, Sheep, Cows, Pigs
Part of the fun of an old timey living-history museum like Old Sturbridge Village is the feeling that you’ve stepped off a time machine into the past—in this case, peacetime 1830s New England after the successful independence movement and fending off the British again in the War of 1812.
Chelsea Celebrates Dia de los Muertos With Parade
Parades October 29, 2022 Greg Cook 0 Chelsea celebrated Dia de los Muertos with a parade from Chelsea City Hall to Chelsea Square this evening. Local artist Kyle Browne and Sara Peattie of the Puppeteers Cooperative lead community workshops this month to make the puppets and masks for the parade. If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon.
Dream Life in Dordogne – Buying Case Study - FrenchEntrée
First published: 24th May 2022 by Greg Cook Case Study Kerry and Tomas Flaherty-Rask, a pair of high-flying IKEA executives, made a fresh start running two properties converted to provide luxury holidays in the Dordogne. When a couple who have travelled and lived in as many countries as Kerry and Tomas Flaherty-Rask tell you they’ve found the perfect place to settle, you’d be wise to believe them.
Ariel Bordeaux’s ‘Clutter: A Scatterbrained Sexual Assault Memoir’
Art March 19, 2022 Greg Cook 0 Ariel Bordeaux’s “Clutter: A Scatterbrained Sexual Assault Memoir” (Fieldmouse Press) is a beautiful 80-page nonfiction graphic novel of anxieties and terrors. It spans from her childhood to becoming a mom, and throughout it feels like her eyes are wide with worry—from self-critical, self-punishing everyday thoughts as well as awful things that happened to her when she was a girl. It’s the sort of book that leaves you wishing there was something you could to do help.
10th Anniversary Of Occupy Boston
Activism September 30, 2021 Greg Cook 0 Today is the 10th anniversary of the beginning of Occupy Boston at Boston’s Dewey Square, opposite the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston, on Sept. 30, 2011. It was one of hundreds of encampments across the world inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement that launched in New York that Sept. 17. The Boston encampment lasted until Boston Police evicted protesters during a 5 a.m. raid that Dec. 10.
Photos: Cambridge Carnival Parade Returns For First Time In Three Years
Cambridge Carnival, the annual celebration of Caribbean culture, returned with a smaller, in-person version of the festival after live events were cancelled the previous two years. They paraded from Cambridgeport and through Central Square this afternoon in the usual spectacular fashion. “After two years of uncertainty, this year’s theme for Cambridge Carnival will be Emancipation.
MICE Comics Expo Highlights Massachusetts Creators
Pictured above: MICE Comics Expo in the Before Times. (©Greg Cook 2019) After MICE (the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo) was cancelled last year to stem the spread of covid, the free annual comics expo returns with a Mini-MICE outdoor marketplace highlighting 64 Massachusetts creators outdoors at Starlight Square at 84 Bishop Allen Drive in Cambridge’s Central Square on Aug. 28 and 29, from noon to 4:30 p.m. There’s a different exhibitor roster each day.
JP Porchfest Arrives With New BIPOC Leadership And Spotlight On Artists Of Color
“Big news from Jamaica Plain Porchfest,” read the headline of the email that arrived at the end of 2020. “Mindy Fried and Marie Ghitman, co-founders of Jamaica Plain Porchfest, are thrilled to announce that this much-treasured event is being handed over—with love and gratitude—to the amazing artists and art-managers from Dunamis, a Boston-based nonprofit organization,” the announcement read. The 2021 JP Porchfest, which arrives under this new leadership this Saturday and Sunday, Aug.
Goodbye To Elka Schumann Of Bread And Puppet Theater
Elka Schumann, co-founder of Vermont’s legendary progressive activist Bread and Puppet Theater, died Sunday, afternoon Aug. 1, “surrounded by her five children and her partner Peter,” DeeDee Halleck writes. Schumann—”our beloved matriarch,” the theater company said on Facebook—was 85. She was a powerhouse behind the theater and an inspiration to many.
ON JUNETEENTH, IFÉ FRANKLIN DEBUTS ‘SLAVE NARRATIVE’ FILM
Production shot At Royall House and Slave Quarters. “I’s sick O Massa hans all ova me.” So begins Ifé Franklin’s 2018 book “The Slave Narrative of Willie Mae” (Wildheart Press). “This book is historical fiction about a young woman, Willie Mae,” Franklin says. Set in the mid-1800s, Willie Mae is “a 20-year-old African American enslaved woman in Virginia who knows that she’s not a slave. She knows it. She understands it. She’s smart.
New Greenway Mural Is A Giant Fruit And Flowers Still-Life Designed By Daniel Gordon
This week the Brooklyn-based commercial painting firm Overall Murals put the finishing touches on “Summer Still Life with Lobster and Fern,” a mural depicting an arrangement of fruit and flowers plus the title’s fern and lobster, designed by New York artist Daniel Gordon, at Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway on the tunnel ventilation building facing Dewey Square, along Purchase Street between Congress Street and Summer Street.
Somerville Approves $5M Purchase Of Armory To Maintain It As Arts Facility
Art May 14, 2021 Greg Cook 0 The City of Somerville moved forward with a plan to acquire the Somerville Armory building at 191 Highland Ave. and “preserve the facility for arts uses” with an unanimous vote of approval from the City Council on May 13.
He put a spell on you
An 'unofficial' installation raises questions about what's right and wrong with public art By GREG COOK | July 8, 2010 NATURALISM Part witch shack, part voodoo shrine, Brandon Nastanski’s installation at Franklin Park is one of the best artworks in town right now. Brandon Nastanski had e-mailed me a map to his Unofficial Franklin Park Research Outpost, but it's a good thing he met me at the park's Glen Road entrance to lead me in, because I would have never found it on my own.
Malden Rejects The Coup Rally: ‘We Must Have Accountability’
“We stand strongly against white supremacy,” Shaina Lu of Greater Malden Asian American Community Coalition told the crowd gathered at the Malden Rejects the Coup rally held at Malden City Hall this afternoon in response to the Trump mob that sacked the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. “The white supremacist coup on the Capitol was an attempt to undermine our democracy. And as an organinzation we stand against such actions.
Wild Turkeys In The City | Wonderland Spectacle Co.
A new art and nature video for kids from Wonderland Spectacle Co.: When a family of wild turkeys visited our backyard in Greater Boston, we wondered how the birds came to live in the city. To find the answer, come along with us as we visit Jim Cardoza of MassWildlife, who led the effort to restore wild turkeys to Massachusetts in the 1970s after they had been gone for more than 100 years. We tell the history with puppets.
Puppet Showplace’s Bank Account ‘Fully Depleted’ After Alleged Embezzlement
Performance October 27, 2020 Greg Cook 0 Puppet Showplace Theater announced yesterday that their “bank account had been fully depleted” after an alleged embezzlement from the 46-year-old Brookline cultural institution. “The treasurer noticed some suspicious transactions after getting a call from their bank about a payment that couldn’t be processed,” Brookline Police Lt. Jen Paster says. In an email last night, trustees explained, “On Oct.
SHOWING HOW SOMERVILLE'S CULTURAL PHENOMENON SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD
The Lowell Party Band performs at Honk in Somerville’s Davis Square on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015. “The online festival will virtually transport us around the world to see how Honk has manifested across the globe.” How do you adapt Honk!—Somerville’s annual festival of activist street bands—for coronavirus? “Back when the pandemic first started we had no idea it would last all the way into October,” says Cecily Miller, one of the organizers.
BLM TAG INSPIRES ARTIST’S SOMERVILLE MURAL
Photo by Greg Cook In June, Jason “Swat” Talbot was invited to paint a mural on Posto, the pizza place outside Somerville’s Davis Square. Amidst the Black Lives Matter protests, someone had tagged “BLM” on the wall, Talbot says, “really sloppily.” Rather than just paint it over or sandblast it, which would be required by the city, [the owner] called me up to paint a mural on it,” the Cambridge artist says. The owner aimed to support the cause, but a bit more beautifully.
The protest artists behind icons to George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and swiftly growing list of others
Home»Features» By Greg Cook on Friday, July 24, 2020 By Greg Cook Friday, July 24, 2020 A protest icon of George Floyd is held aloft June 7 at The Movement Continues rally on Cambridge Common.
DIAS DE CONSUELO
Dave Ortega Graphic novelist Dave Ortega recounts his grandmother’s immigration story Dias de Consuelo, Dave Ortega’s nonfiction comic book account of his grandmother Consuelo Castañon Herrera’s childhood, begins with the courtship of her parents in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico, a bit north of Mexico City. Their romance is formal and drawn out, but it is 1914 and the Mexican Revolution has soldiers stopping people in the streets, so they hasten their plans and are married that May.
Patriots Playoff Bet Sparks Question: Would Edgar Allan Poe Root For The Ravens?
Updated January 09, 2015 This article is more than 5 years old. The New England Patriots football playoff game tomorrow (Saturday) versus the Baltimore Ravens has sparked another dramatic development in one of the most pleasurable literary rivalries of recent years, namely the one between the Edgar Allan Poe Foundation in Boston and Poe supporters in Baltimore. The two groups make competing claims on the great Gothic writer—Poe was born in Boston in 1809, but he died in Baltimore in 1849.
Boston Gallery District Flooded When Water Main Breaks
Boston Gallery District Flooded When Water Main Breaks by Greg Cook Sunday Apr 26, 2020 This article is from the April 23, 2020 issue of South End News. Flooding on Harrison Avenue at Perry Street in Boston, April 14, 2020. (Boston Fire Department photo) A water main broke at 500 Harrison Ave.—near Boston Sculptors Gallery and Perry Street—around 9:18pm, on Tuesday, April 14, flooding buildings and cars in Boston's primary gallery district in the South End.
Case Study | A new life as B&B hosts on the Algarve
Andrew Roberts and Rupert Kirby moved to rural, eastern Algarve after 25 years holidaying there to set up a B&B If the mention of the Algarve immediately conjures up images of luxury golf courses and rows of holiday villas, family resorts and modern marinas, then you’ve probably never travelled east from Faro airport. Head back along the Portuguese coast towards the Spanish border and the landscape couldn’t be more different, for here you will find a stranger, wilder version of southern Portugal.
DETROIT RED: MALCOLM X COMES OF AGE IN BOSTON
DETROIT RED. Illustrated by Zlatko Mitev. In December 1945 and January 1946, Malcolm X and accomplices burglarized homes in Brookline, Newton, Arlington, Belmont, and Milton. The end of his crime spree came that January in a Roxbury jewelry shop where he’d left a stolen watch for repair. The man who would become the incandescent civil rights leader and evangelist for the Nation of Islam was then just 18.
Modernist Cute: Mary Blair’s Art For ‘Dumbo,’ Golden Books, ‘It’s A Small World’
Remember that heartbreaking scene from Disney’s 1941 feature “Dumbo” when the little elephant visits his mom in jail and she reaches her trunk through the bars to caress her baby? How about Disney’s 1950 film “Cinderella,” when birds and mice dance through the air as they help Cinderella sew a gown to wear to the prince’s ball? Or recall the moment in Disney’s 1953 film “Peter Pan” when the children soar with Peter Pan around the top of London’s Big Ben?
The Local Guy Behind 'Let It Go' Snow Day Video That Everyone’s Talking About
January 26, 2015Updated Jan 26, 2015 12:00 AM “Sunday morning we saw the weather report,” Adam Olenn explains, “and we said, ‘Oh, we’ve got to get this done.’ ” So today, Moses Brown School in Providence posted a “School Is Closed” video to YouTube that’s already attracting national attention. Educational institutions across the region have announced that they’ll be closing for the predicted blizzard via robocalls.
Restoring Chevoom: This ex-Car Craft Chevelle funny car only speaks Mopar
To know where you’re going, you need to know where you came from, and at Car Craft that is sometimes taking a step back and visiting the past, and with 66 years of content to draw from, all it takes is a gentle prod in the right direction. That’s what happened when we stumbled across a mid ’60s fiberglass-bodied, rear-engined Chevelle powered by an early Chrysler Hemi with “Car Craft Project Car” painted on the decklid on display at the US30 Indoor Dragfest show.
Public Art Goes Missing A Day After Debut; City Vows To Replace It
"Pulse of the City." (Courtesy of George Zisiadis) About a week ago, just after a new public art project called “Pulse of the City” debuted at five locations around Boston, one of the electronic musical hearts disappeared from Christopher Columbus Park in the North End, where Mayor Thomas Menino had participated in a reception for the project the day before. Artist George Zisiadis with "Pulse of the City." (Courtesy of George Zisiadis) “It went missing around Saturday,” Sept.
This Is What Boston Landmarks Would Look Like If They Were Gingerbread Houses
December 10, 2015 City Hall Plaza offers boating in the confection by LDa Architecture & Interiors of Cambridge. (Courtesy) In answer to the age-old question “What would Boston landmarks look like if they were gingerbread houses,” 15 local architecture firms have created cookie versions of Boston City Hall, Trinity Church, the Prudential Tower and other iconic Boston buildings.
Look Inside The New Legoland: 3 Million Bricks, 2 Rides And 1 Tiny Boston
You’ll recognize the Legoland Discovery Center, opening Friday at Somerville’s expanding Assembly Row mall, by the giant yellow Lego giraffe standing some 15 feet tall on the street corner outside the building. This Legoland is a cross between an amusement park, a children’s museum, a toy store and a shrine to the iconic Danish plastic toy building brick. Already tickets are sold out through at least Memorial Day weekend, the venue reports. “We’ll be forever changing,” Ian Coffey says.
Toronto's hidden homeless: The shelter crisis as seen through the eyes of an outreach worker
On a Wednesday night recently, some 1,030 people stayed at drop-ins, respite centres, places of worship and temporary warming facilities in Toronto in an effort to survive. A further 6,899 people stayed in shelter beds. They had to negotiate long lines, ID checks, arbitrary sleeping-mat lotteries, waiting lists and being put on hold in order to secure a small heated space for themselves.
Photos: This Is What It Looks Like When Salem Sets 1,000 Christmas Trees Ablaze
January 07, 2016 A firefighter throws a tree onto Salem's Christmas tree bonfire. (Greg Cook) Yesterday morning, the Christmas tree still decorated the living room of the Flanagan family in Salem. Last night, a fireman dragged it across the sand and then hurled it triumphantly onto the city’s 13th annual Christmas tree bonfire at Dead Horse Beach, on Memorial Drive near Salem Willows. “She was a good tree,” Thom Flanagan said. “Farewell to a good tree.
Peshwari Lamb Kebab Recipe
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University of Toronto Press
Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction Cathy Crowe and Greg Cook Part I: We Are [Not] in This Together 1. “Displaced Again and Again and Again” Nikki Sutherland 2. The Housing Crisis and the Indian Residential School Legacy Blue Sky, Leaders from the Houseless Community, Sandra Campbell, and Leigh Kern 3. Inconvenient Bodies and Toronto’s History of Displacement Lorraine Lam and Greg Cook 4. Displaced There, Displaced Here Jenn McIntyre and Steve Meagher 5.
MORE FUN, LESS STRESS: THE ANNUAL REPAINTING OF MARK ALSTON-FOLLANSBEE’S ART CAR
On a cool, overcast Memorial Day Monday, I join Mark Alston-Follansbee as he’s repainting the exterior of his Toyota Camry in the driveway of his Waltham home. Over the years, his cars have been painted with suns and eyeballs, flames and waves, flowers and peace signs, hot-air balloons, a winking sun, a giant orange octopus. His art car has become a landmark around Somerville—where he’s executive director of the Somerville Homeless Coalition.
How To Prepare Lamb Cutlets
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How to Cook a Rack of Lamb
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SUBTERRANEAN CENTENNIAL
“Directing you to underground shows and awesome happenings! in Boston.” That’s what Sam Potrykus scrawled across the top of the first edition of the Boston Compass. The publication debuted on March 6, 2010, as just a single photocopied sheet of paper. Each month since, the Compass has arrived as a sort of oracle. The broadside grew into a newsprint newspaper.
Lamb and Gnocchi Recipe
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6,000 PROTEST SIGNS
After the 2017 Boston Women’s March, thousands of participants left their protest signs around the iron fence surrounding the Boston Common Central Burying Ground. They were going to be thrown away—until three local teachers came along.
Seven goals in Ivy Tech’s five-year plan
Ivy Tech Community College has unveiled its new, statewide five-year strategic plan, “Our Communities. Your College. Pathways for Student Success and a Stronger Indiana.” The plan features seven goals: Student Success, Recruitment and Enrollment, Completion, Workforce, Employee, Financial and Community. The plan also seeks to have Ivy Tech students earn 50,000 credentials per year through 2023 via high quality certifications, certificates and degrees, aligned with Indiana’s workforce needs.
‘YOU DON’T LOOK HAITIAN’
“Anytime I say I’m Haitian, I’ve had people look at me and say, ‘You don’t look Haitian,’” photographer Valerie Anselme says.
Roast Lamb, Potatoes, Pulao Rice & Fenugreek - Great British Chefs
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A Tiny, Secret, Street Art Monument In Boston Remembers Trayvon Martin
For about four years, Matthew Hincman had been eyeing the old stump of a lamppost at the corner of Eliot and Centre streets in Jamaica Plain’s Monument Square. It stood there, with two screws sticking pointing up, as if calling for something to go on top. “Ripe for intervention,” he figured. And he got to thinking about the granite monument tower on the other side of the square to a couple dozen West Roxbury men who died in the Civil War. Long forgotten men, he thought.
At MFA, Brookline Artist Annette Lemieux Uses Old Movies To Address Today’s Anxieties
In Annette Lemieux’s new exhibition “Mise en Scène,” on view at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts from Sept. 24 to March 4, the Brookline artist riffs on images from scenes in old movies — Charlie Chaplin satirizing Hitler in his 1940 film “The Great Dictator,” the balloon the murderer uses to abduct a girl in Fritz Lang’s 1931 film “M,” television antennas rising from rooftops in the opening credits of François Truffaut’s 1966 film adaptation of “Fahrenheit 451." Annette Lemieux.
At The 9th Massachusetts Poetry Festival, ‘Words Matter’
Like what you read here? Sign up for The ARTery's upcoming newsletter.The ninth Massachusetts Poetry Festival will bring more than 150 poets to Salem to present nearly 100 poetry readings and workshops, a small press and literary fair, panels, poetry slams, and open-air readings from Friday, May 5, to Sunday, May 7.“I think it’s about the festival coming together given our new political reality,” says January Gill O'Neil, the festival's executive director.
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