It’s the dream, ladies and gentlemen – the rise from obscurity to center stage. It’s the ascension from being anonymous to being the key to several promotional marketing campaigns. “Fleek” is the star in question.
The Waltham Mills Artists Association (WMAA), one of Greater Boston’s oldest artists’ communities, is holding its 39th open studio weekend starting this Saturday. Artists from Lincoln Studios, the home of nearly 20 studios and two galleries, and Metalwerx, a Waltham-based non-profit school and community studio, will join artists from the WMAA to meet and greet members of the community, give studio tours and exhibit and sell their original works. Over 75 artists, working in mediums ranging from woodworking to film leave, much to be explored at this two-day event. 144 and 289 Moody St.; noon - 6 p.m.; free.
Toju Ometoruwa, a 22-year-old senior business student at Northeastern, believes that his website, Pickasound, will revolutionize the way people experience music.
Around 30,000 people filtered through a Roxbury track center last weekend for one of Boston’s largest- and longest-running vegetarian food festivals. Businesses and nonprofits set up booths at the Boston Veg Food Fest to infuse a new consciousness into the local community.
In 1978, then-sophomore engineering student David Ferretti could not have been happier. His father had just opened up a couple of canteen food trucks around Northeastern University’s campus, giving Ferretti full access to the grub.
Nobody tells you that southern Spain is a desert. It isn’t common knowledge that it’s hot – not like how we know countries in the Middle East or Africa are hot. Looking out under the plane’s wing, you will see starchy yellow deserts for miles.
Event of the Week: Saturday, Oct. 31
Nocturnal New Englanders flock to Coolidge Corner Theatre every year for the annual overnight Halloween Horror Marathon. Advertised as “12 hours of monsters, mayhem and masks,” the event will begin with a performance by progressive-rock Northampton band Dust Witch. At midnight, the marathon will kick off with a double feature of “Trick ‘r Treat” and a to-be-announced film. Following the two movies, marathon goers have the option of sticking around for an additional four films, one of which is “Halloween II” and three of which are still unannounced. Those who attend in costume have the opportunity to win a prize. 290 Harvard St., Brookline; midnight - noon; $20 - $25.
Two colossal compositions were matched with an orchestra of prodigious proportion. On Thursday, Oct. 22, the 113-member Boston Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) filled Symphony Hall to play selected pieces in “An Evening of Epic Music.”
Northeastern’s Pitch, Please! performers stepped up to the microphone sporting 4-inch gold stilettos, their heels clomping on Faneuil Hall’s trademark cobblestone walkways before they settled to perform on Saturday, Oct. 17. “We harness our femininity and turn it into something that works to our advantage,” group president Casey Matsumoto, a third-year communication studies major, said.
In a city famous for its annual marathon, baseball team and Revolutionary history, the annual Celebrity Series establishes Boston as an international artistic beacon. The Celebrity Series, an organization that brings performing artists to Boston, launched its 2015-2016 series this week, shepherding in a medley of musical, dance and theater performances through mid-May.
In many cultures through history, there has existed an expectation for women to fall subservient to men, but this patriarchal construct is dismantled in Associate Professor of Theatre Antonio Ocampo-Guzman’s new and original translation of a classic Spanish play.
