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'Memories of Martha's Vineyard'
"In Every Season: Memories of Martha's Vineyard" Author Phyllis Méras gives an intimate look of Martha's Vineyard through personal stories and visionary images. Accompanying her essays is artwork by Thomas H. Cocroft and Robert E. Schwartz. Blurb from Schiffer...
May 15, 2012 5:40 pm
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Residential psychosis
"So Home'' (pallet stack), by JONATHAN LAUSTEN, at the "Traces: persistent and fleeting'' show, May 18-June 15, at AS220, Providence. "Artistic Vision,'' by TOM WOLFE (c. 1979), ink on paper, at the National Museum of American Illustration, Newport. (Yes,...
May 15, 2012 4:24 pm
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The layered effect
"Rebirth,'' by Dominick Takis, in a June 1-30 show at Galatea Fine Art, Boston. As he says: "The theme in this series of work is rebirth. I perceive each new piece as a regeneration of other work that came...
May 14, 2012 6:05 pm
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Jean Lesieur: U.S. and France spar over terrorist
By JEAN LESIEUR PARIS This is the tale of a man everyone calls a "model prisoner," kept in a French jail since 1984. For life. This is the tale of a former schoolteacher turned warrior who, 30 years after...
May 11, 2012 6:06 pm
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Brian Bishop: The late Peter Lord, reporter or advocate?
By BRIAN BISHOP Say nothing but good of the dead is the kind of warmed over truism that seems to have reached its nadir on occasion when it amounts to say nothing thoughtful about the dead. Of course one...
May 10, 2012 4:51 pm
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Go climb a tree!
The happiest news today -- the weary world needs this: Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum, in Bristol, R.I., right on Narragansett Bay, is hosting the 24th Annual New England Tree Climbing Competition on Saturday, May 19, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.!...
May 10, 2012 4:17 pm
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Matt Buckler: A TV deal UConn couldn't refuse
By MATT BUCKLER It's a silver cloud with a dark lining. That may be the best way to describe the new four-year television deal announced Tuesday between the University of Connecticut and SNY that will make SNY the television...
May 10, 2012 9:45 am
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JoAnn Fitzpatrick: Elizabeth Warren -- Native American?
By JoANN FITZPATRICK BOSTON Elizabeth Warren has no connection to the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, which is a good thing, because if she did she might stand to benefit from a proposed Wampanoag casino in Massachusetts. Then there'd be something...
May 10, 2012 9:03 am
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Stairway to paradise
Photo by BILL HALL The interior of a lighthouse on the Maryland coast. It looks oddly like human anatomy....
May 10, 2012 8:55 am
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Cape Cod Today: Romney, P-Town and gay marriage
From Cape Cod Today (Edited for time element) SOUTH DENNIS In May 2004, one week before same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts, Provincetown voted to issue marriage licenses to out-of-state same-sex couples even if they have no intention of...
May 10, 2012 8:39 am
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Gorgeous gears
"Untitled #828,'' by CHUCK HOLTZMAN (ink, colored pencil, gouache and chalk), at the "Paper Trail'' show at the Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Mass., May 8-June 10. The paper trails will grow dimmer as we move into machines....
May 9, 2012 6:41 pm
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Truman Taylor: You'll get used to it
By TRUMAN TAYLOR BROCKTON, Mass. Many things you're worried about today will change . . . so stop worrying. Some of you have worried for years about Mexicans immigrating to the United States taking jobs you think should be...
May 9, 2012 6:29 pm
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Outbound data
Photo by LYDIA WHITCOMB XXX Story below is from the New England Board of Higher Education's news Web site, www,nebhe.org: Note that United Van Lines measurement of ''outbound'' population showed that the percentages were about the same for relatively...
May 9, 2012 6:22 pm
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Give me a nice clean hug
(Resending to fix date of show) "Warm and Fuzzy'' (stainless steel), by GEORGE SHERWOOD, in his show "Machine Tears,'' at the Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, May 23-June 24. At the rate our digital and bionic world is going, this...
May 7, 2012 6:54 pm
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Michael T. Dolan: Thoreau's voice, 150 years later
By MICHAEL T. DOLAN CHESTER, Pa. I can see it clearly: the American literature textbook from my sophomore year in high school, complete with faded red cover, frayed spine, and a list of students who had rifled through its...
May 7, 2012 12:37 pm
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Chris Powell: Smoke screen in Conn.
' By CHRIS POWELL No issue may have consumed more of the Connecticut General Assembly's time more trivially in recent years than "medical marijuana." Such legislation at last has cleared the state House of Representatives and Senate, and Gov....
May 7, 2012 9:42 am
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Take what you can get
"45th Place'' (charcoal drawing) by Joel Moskowitz, at Fountain Street Fine Art, Framingham. Life's relentless humiliations....
May 2, 2012 6:39 pm
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