This New England Blog

Lorraine Hopkins: 65 years on, song still clutches my heart

By LORRAINE HOPKINS In Connecticut in 1948, I was in the high-school class graduating in West Hartford. That was three years after the musical hit "Carousel" had opened on Broadway. When our graduation soloist sang the show's rousing "You'll Never...

Unexpected next stage

"Untitled,'' by GEORGE SHAW (oil paint/wax medium on panel), at his show "Passages -- Paintings at Faneuil Library,'' through July 5 at the Faneuil Branch of the Boston Public Library, in Boston's Brighton section. The portal here is meant...

The start of an infection

"Blast'' (mixed media), by JODI COLELLA, above, and below, "Macrocell 5 (mixed media), by KAY HARTUNG, at Fountain Street Fine Art, in the "Morphology" show, May 23-June 23, in which is explored the structures of life....

Thomas Hook: At least not feeding on the cats!

By THOMAS HOOK Feeding birds is a pleasure that many of us share. During the winter, when the weather is often unforgiving, keeping the feeders filled attracts life to our otherwise desolate front yard. All sorts of birds show...

Arthur Robbins: Behind the Aronsonian words

By ARTHUR ROBBINS For the past 21 years, Rhode Islanders have had the pleasure of taking a journey through the mind of one of the most intelligent, inspiring and influential members of our community. Through his more than 1,150 weekly...

John R. MacArthur: In Boston, exercise in intimidation

By JOHN R. MacARTHUR NEW YORK I remember the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963, as if it were last week, but until I heard the news of the Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath, I had forgotten several of that...

Which one for end of world?

"Fire and Ice'' (acrylic), by CAROL BOILEAU, in the "Breaking Out'' show at the Brush Gallery, Lowell, June 8-Aug. 3....

Peter Baker: Inviting the cod to follow the scallop

By PETER BAKER CHATHAM, Mass. The new commercial fishing year that began this month presents an unprecedented challenge for many New England fishermen. Depleted populations of cod and some species of flounder are forcing fisheries managers to adopt tighter catch...

Riverine rapture

"Approaching Sunset on the Marsh River'' (oil), by SERGIO ROFFO, at the Guild of Boston Artists....

Henrik Totterman: A business school on a world mission

By HENRIK TOTTERMAN The idea of "doing good while doing well" is hardly new. But the Y Generation's response to it is different. They are literally taking on a youth revolution that extends from one part of the world...

Protein-rich New Haven

Let nothing nutritional go to waste! The New Haven Register reports that Bun Lai, a New Haven chef, is looking forward to this summer's cicada invasion. The owner of Miya's Sushi, has already prepared a Mexican grasshopper dish and...

Daunted by the prospect of summer

"The Wrong Garden,'' by NANCY WHITCOMB...

Chris Powell: Of tattoos and Islamic immigrant terrorists

By CHRIS POWELL MANCHESTER, Conn. After another weekend of shootings in Hartford and Bridgeport, the Connecticut General Assembly is making public health a priority. The objective is ... to license tattoo artists. The bill passed in the House last...

Self-absorbed

Work by ANNA HEPLER, in her show "New Work,'' at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art....

Free publicity, until boredom sets in

Free publicity, for a while

Big data in Scottsdale

I was at the National Healthcare Marketing Strategies Summit last week In Scottsdale, Ariz., as a sort of hanger-on with my health-care-sector consulting friend Robert Harrington, Dr. Jeremy Orr, M.D., of the Massachusetts-based health-data-analytics firm Humedica, and Dr. Richard...

Words for the world

"Comfort '' (Kozo paper, acrylic, beeswax), by PAT MUSICK and JERRY CARR, in the "Our Fragile Home'' show at Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, Vt., May 18-July 14. The show consists of 29 sculptures and works on paper inspired...

Barbara Hall: Getting public involved in URI water research

By BARBARA HALL "I am a science idiot, and if I can figure it out, anyone can." So quipped a volunteer with Watershed Watch, a first-rate program out of the College of the Environment and Life Sciences at the...

Ancient look at Flatrocks Gallery

"And There Was Light'' (mixed media), by DAWN SOUTHWORTH, in the "Fabrications'' show at Flatrocks Gallery, in Gloucester, through May 26. Looks like an aboriginal drawing in the Australian outback, a place with even older rocks than New England....