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D.C. Poet Brings Sustenance, Connection, and Humanity to the Spoken Word
By Jailene Adorno When Elizabeth Acevedo was growing up, she was fascinated by hip hop and storytelling, and nothing combines the two quite as well as slam poetry. You’ll... Read More
A Nutcracker With Soul
Tony Williams enjoyed an incredible career in dance. Becoming the first African-American principle dancer in the Boston Ballet paved a way of life for Tony that would sculpt his... Read More
The Civil Rights Movement’s Unsung Hero
Let’s look at some of the facts: He was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. He was... Read More
Carmen Lynch: Getting Laughs in Two Languages
Every comedian wants to make you laugh. A handful of the better ones, the so-called topical comics, want you to think as well as laugh. The great ones not... Read More
Shankar Mahadevan Meets Berklee
It all started five years ago when Annette Philip, a 2009 graduate of Berklee College of Music who went on to join the faculty as a member of the Voice... Read More
Latino Millennials Find Their Voice in New Web Series
By Jailene Adorno La Gringa Loca Productions present, The Pineapple Diaries, a web series that follows the lives of young Latinas living in Boston. Meet Maite, Feliz, Catalina, Montserrat, and... Read More
Sounds for a New Golden Age: Marcel, Rami, and Bachar Khalife
I call to you before speech I fly with you, holding your waist even before I reach you how many times can you put my soul’s addresses in the... Read More
The Long Journey of Boubacar Traoré
Boubacar Traoré, known to fans as Kar Kar, is a harmonious contradiction, a musician whose art and biography are striking less due to balance, more due to extremes. In... Read More
Love Songs By Men, For Men
A Big Band singer, a Hollywood photographer, and an LGBT music and history archivist are at the heart of the story behind Love Is A Drag, the 1962 LP... Read More