There’s something indescribable about the Northwest. I took the vastness of the place for granted when I was a kid: the great open spaces; the epic mountains; the beauty of the hills and rivers and lakes. I go back to …
Artist Interview with Gene Shinozaki
After getting his start as a busker on the streets of Boston, Gene Shinozaki has gone on to become a world class professional beatboxer, musician, performer and artist. He sat down with recently me via telephone to answer a few …
Friday the 13th
Depending on your situation adjuncting can be a halfway decent gig. But by my third year of teaching and trying to line up enough classes to pull myself above the poverty line, it just wasn’t working out for me. On …
Female in Rock: Engaging Males, Embracing Allies
*Guest post by Anna Rae ©2017. *Illustration by Kip Lyall Not long ago I was on a walk with a friend of mine who is a male musician. I was railing about the fact that young females are …
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Dateless & desperate, or the tragicomedy of how I almost escaped unemployment
Shortly after the start of 2013 I ran out of time, patience and stuff to sell. It had been five months since I finished graduate school and while I spent the better part of my time blanketing the Greater Boston …
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My 12 Scares of Christmas
Christmas movies have their time and place in our cultural cannon, but with the count down on sometimes I find there is nothing better than taking a minute to sit back and relax for a good old fashioned movie based …
All Together Now, 3rd Installment
With the summer slowly rolling to an end the final installment of All Together Now approaches. The showcase on August 27th at the Lily Pad in Cambridge is the third installation of a series of multimedia art events that have unfolded …
