Celebrating the Winter Solstice with Music and Spoken Word First Church in Boston, Unitarian Universalist, continues its tradition of offering a Celebration of the Winter Solstice on Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 7 PM at the church, 66 Marlborough St. in Back Bay. In…
Month: December 2021
‘The Last Shepard’ Celebrates 10 Years of Wonder
By Mary Jo Rufo “The Last Shepard & Tales of the Tenth Ornament” is celebrating 10 years of wonder. Looking back at the five-year effort to conceive, code, design, manufacture, and ship mystery ornaments around the country was no small…
Wu Announces Relaunch of Boston Opportunity Fund
Mayor Michelle Wu and the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture announced applications have reopened for the City of Boston’s Opportunity Fund, a grant program that supports meaningful one-time opportunities for artists living in the city of Boston to further…
Justice Department Awards More Than $17.5 Million to Support Project Safe Neighborhoods
The Department of Justice has awarded $314,273 to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security (EOPSS) to administer Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) grant funds in the District of Massachusetts. Since the program began in 2001, nearly $7 million…
Temporary Rink Installed at Frog Pond to Allow for Skating This Winter
When it looked as though there would be no skating at the Frog Pond on the Boston Common this winter for the second consecutive season – this time, due to a mechanical issue with the rink’s colling mechanism – the…
‘Tis the Season for Giving — and Never Has the Need Been More Urgent
“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. With Christmas fast approaching, most of us will be rushing about — either to the stores and malls or on-line…
GOP’s Opposition to Rachael Rollins
The unprecedented opposition, accompanied by unprecedented vitriol, by the Republican members of the U.S. Senate to the nomination of Suffolk County District Atty. Rachael Rollins for the position of U.S. Attorney for the Massachusetts district has laid bare their driven…
Guest Op-Ed: Somehow, Some Way, May This Be a Christmas Worth Remembering
Dr. Glenn Mollette We had difficulties when we were growing up in Martin county, Kentucky but overall, we thought we were doing okay. President Lyndon Johnson came to Inez, Kentucky in 1964 to let us know we weren’t doing very…
Holiday Decorating
Chestnut Street Teen to Perform Alongside Tony Award-Winner
As one of the Boston Children’s Chorus members performing in the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T) production of “WILD: A Musical Becoming” at Harvard University, Julia Sax gets to share the stage Tony Award-winner Idina Menzel – an experience which has…