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Tonight's annual event known as the Donna Summer Memorial Roller Disco Party returns to City Hall Plaza with a little word play in its name: “Celebration of Summer III,” hailing both Boston’s highest-grossing recording artist and the hottest of... Read more
The public is invited to attend a free celebration of Juneteenth at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts on Wed., June 15. Various works of art such as graffiti, fashion showcases, and performing artists will be showcased starting at 5 p.m. A highlight of the... Read more
This afternoon (Thurs., June 9), and then again on Saturday evening, four young actors including Dot’s Makiya Polk will bring to life the harrowing reality of the youth sex-trafficking crisis around the world and even in our own backyard. This weekend’s... Read more
Although the long-awaited Boston Creates Cultural Plan will be released officially next month, a draft of the founding document was put on line earlier this month, on May 10. Reading it has made me, and others, uneasy. The goal of Boston Creates is to... Read more
The biggest news to come out of the April 30 “Greatest Party on Earth” at Southie’s Artists for Humanity (AFH) EpiCenter was that this youth arts and enterprise organization plans to more than triple the size of its Fort Point facility by the end of 2017... Read more
Life’s intricate trials and glorious victories are exhibited in the uplifting JOBE The Musical, opening on Thursday at Hibernian Hall. The performance, presented by CommonHouse Theater and Productions, Inc. and Madison Park Development Corporation, is... Read more
Mayor Walsh’s proposed FY ’17 budget includes a five-year capital plan that outlines some much-needed infrastructure improvements in Dorchester and Mattapan. The plan lays out intentions, not hard and fast promises to deliver funding. But it nonetheless... Read more
Dorchester spoken-word artist U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo is just one of more than a dozen Massachusetts female artists and ensembles who will gather at Hibernian Hall this Friday and Saturday evening for the Third Annual “We Create! Celebrating Women in the... Read more
Boston Ballet is hosting two upcoming programs at Dorchester’s Strand Theatre in on April 8 to encourage the community to discover the power of dance and "rethink ballet" including an evening performance with tickets priced at just $10. The first show is... Read more
The Boston Arts Academy Spirituals Ensemble, led by Dorchester’s Tyrone Sutton, has been selected for a 2016 GRAMMY Signature Schools Enterprise Award, one of only two schools in New England to earn the award. Barry Hetherington photoLast week, faculty... Read more

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