Boston Menopausal “Sküll” Girls Smash Porchfest Brookline Porchfest Brookline, Mass. Sept. 30, 2023 “Everyone hydrating?” Grace Buchanan, the lead singer of Girl Sküll, called out to the small crowd which had gathered outside on the quiet, Sasha Patkin 2 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Boston The Latinx Question Explored in an exhibit that looks below the surface of identity politrix. Latinx Identities: Struggles, Perspectives, and Critiques Unbound Visual Arts Exhibit Gallery 43 North Beacon St., Allston, Mass. Through Sasha Patkin 27 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Boston Not Your Bubbe’s Latkes — But Almost Kosher! Zaftigs Delicatessen 335 Harvard St. Brookline, Mass. “Knish Happens,” “Love you a latke,” “Almost Kosher,” and “Got Matzo Balls?” Zaftigs in Brookline knows its brand, and its tongue-in-cheek T‑shirts Sasha PatkinKelley McLaughlin 26 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Boston A Hobbit Hole Offers Up A Magic Meal Antique Table Lynn 2 Essex St. Lynn, Mass. If you have ever read or watched a fantasy adventure, you are no stranger to the wonderful world of magical dining spaces. Sasha PatkinKelley McLaughlin 15 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Boston Little Amal’s Hopeful First Big Steps Change The Picture 12-foot-tall puppet of 10-year-old refugee girl begins 6,000-mile coast-to-coast journey Why do people throw their energy into art when there are so many real and terrible things happening in Sasha Patkin 11 Sep 2023 · 6 min read
Boston Amid Verse-Tossing, The Cutest Date Night Of All Time Poetry Open Mic Night Trident Booksellers & Cafe 338 Newbury St, Boston Sept. 3, 2023 “And next up, Tony!” called the host of Trident Booksellers’s Poetry Open Mic Night. Sasha Patkin 8 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Boston Sofar Sounds So Good at Boston HQ The last time I went to a concert it was too loud, tall people stood in front of me the whole time, and canned beers cost $15. While there’s Sasha Patkin 31 Aug 2023 · 6 min read
Boston Art Has Consequence At The Big Summa’ Show Teen artist Ashanti Dejesus’s paintings hung on the wall at the Artists For Humanity’s Big Summa’ Show — two moody-blue paintings of underpasses, their details sponged away to abstraction Sasha Patkin 28 Aug 2023 · 5 min read
Boston Guadalupe Maravilla’s Vision Rings Out at ICA Watershed Block Party Our experience of art doesn’t solely consist of the impression we get in the moment as we stand in front of a painting or sit in the audience of Sasha Patkin 22 Aug 2023 · 7 min read
Boston Plants Invade Museum — & Art Blooms The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is one of my favorite museums in Boston, which has to do with its unique history (who doesn’t love an unsolved art heist or Sasha Patkin 17 Aug 2023 · 6 min read
Boston Thaiger Meets (Vegan) Duck; Curry Soothes With Mix Of Sweet, Sour, Salt, & Spice The first thing you notice when you enter Crying Thaiger Rustic Thai Kitchen in Malden, Mass., is that the walls are painted black. But that doesn’t mean it’s Sasha PatkinKelley McLaughlin 16 Aug 2023 · 4 min read
Boston Hair Hangs From Ceiling, Sparks Stories From The Heart The introductory video to Gu Wenda’s “United Nations” exhibit, currently on display in the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., states that a single strand of hair contains enough Sasha Patkin 9 Aug 2023 · 5 min read
Boston In The Shadow Of Fenway, Mountain Goat Fans Beat Their Own Path Lansdowne Street in Fenway was packed with an eclectic array of Bostonians this past Saturday. Red Sox fans were buying hot dogs from street carts and making their way to Sasha Patkin 7 Aug 2023 · 4 min read
Boston Sand-Sculpted King Kongs (Mostly) Withstand The Rain Ever since I learned that there’s a train in Boston that literally goes to “Wonderland,” I’ve been looking for a reason to make the journey to the end Sasha Patkin 2 Aug 2023 · 5 min read
Boston At Burmese Lunch Spot, You Can Have Your Tea and Eat It Too On a bustling corner in the heart of Boston’s Allston Village neighborhood, behind an unassuming storefront, its door flanked by two tidy cafe tables, stands Yoma Burmese Cuisine. Despite Kelley McLaughlinSasha Patkin 27 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
Boston Busker Review: JoshOnBuckets Builds Gratitude Into The Beat The plaza outside of Faneuil Hall is generally packed with tourists and performers on a summer weekend, but the performers can often feel as commercial as the shops around them. Sasha Patkin 21 Jul 2023 · 2 min read
Boston Fest Photos Blend With Nature, As Finding The Right Path Proves Tricky The last thing I want to do on a summer Friday afternoon in Boston is stay inside, which is how I ended up battling through city traffic in a car Sasha Patkin 19 Jul 2023 · 4 min read