As if my career path over the last few years hasn't made it clear enough just how screwed the ink-on-paper industry is, now comes word that the iconic Out of Town News kiosk in the middle of Harvard Square is going to close because of a "major downt

As if my career path over the last few years hasn't made it clear just how screwed the ink-on-paper industry is, now comes word that the iconic Out of Town News kiosk in the middle of Harvard Square is going to close because of a "major downturn

On the front of  the Globe Movies section today, I have an interview with Danny Boyle, director of "Trainspotting" and "28 Days Later," whose new movie, opening later this month, is "Slumdog Millionaire." It's a Dickens

The Kingston Trio's hit about our favorite transit system, also known as "The Man Who Never Returned," apparently had at least one overseas interpreter, according to this post. You can even listen or download it! (via Boing Boing)

"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy ... tonight is your answer.&quo

I think of Ricardo Monzon as a friend even though I only see him once a year. We've gone to the same beach party for years and years. He is a funny, life-loving guy and we have a great time - except that he usually has to leave early to go play a gig. Ri

Anyone driving north of the city has seen now-shuttered Danvers State Hospital sitting atop its lonely hill, bleak and majestic and spooky. I have a story in this morning's Globe North about artist Michael Ramseur, a social worker whose obsession with th

Wish I'd written this: The Exhibitionist shows you how to figure out who to vote for if you want to support the arts. Elsewhere: you can guess which candidate has had a speech mashed up with Lee Dorsey's "Yes We Can." And finally, all of you

The Seabrook nuclear power plant just tested all 120+ of its emergency sirens around the area. Here's what it sounded like in my backyard: Download WS_10227.WMA That wasn't funny. What was funny was when the horrible WHDH Ch. 7 newscast introduced a s

I've got a feature on the front of the Globe Arts section today, an interview with Mark Oliver Everett, better known as E, the man behind the band Eels. He's got a new book out Tuesday and a Nova documentary on PBS the same night, both exploring his insa

Courtesy the artist and Gagosian Gallery, London. Photograph © Mike Bruce. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts. Rachel Whiteread is one of the bright young English artists of the 1990s whose work never fails to rouse both supporters like collector Charles Sa

Berklee is planting its flag in Spain, and doing so in a pretty cool building. I'll paste the press release below. More details and images are here. Contemporary music college taking shape in Spain with focus on Spanish territories, Europe, Middle East,

Talk about going the extra mile. This past Saturday, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Director Anne Hawley married Urs Peter Gauchat, Professor and Dean of the School of Architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, at Hawley's home in Brookline

There's word on the next exhibit in the gi-normous Gallery 5 at MassMoCA in North Adams, a space in which artists succeed or fail spectacularly. Turner Prize winner Simon Starling will be exploring a little-known chapter in North Adams history in which Ch

Tara Donovan's sculptures at the ICA are interesting in a couple of ways. They make fascinating use of the most mundane, mass-produced materials - scotch tape, styrofoam cups - discovering new physical properties in them, mostly involving light. And thes

Former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky (left), Lucie Brock-Broido, Nick Flynn, Martin Espada, Rhina Espiaillat and Regie Gibson are among the writers feature at the first-ever Mass. Poetry Festival this Friday through Sunday in Lowell. Also featured are

All of Saturday's Beantown Jazz Festival events, which were outdoors, have been canceled. Tonight's concert at the Berklee Performance Center will go on as scheduled.