Wild Day at Taylor’s Island Boat Docking Contest
Hundreds of spectators streamed in by land and sea to Slaughter Creek Marina to watch the exciting Taylor’s Island Boat Docking Contest on Sunday, August 30, 2026. “All our slips are filled,” says Aidan Enders, dockmaster and operations manager at Slaughter Creek Marina. “The crowds are even larger than last year.” The annual event is […]
The Dorchester Center for the Arts presents Graham Slaughter Biannual Photography Competition
The Dorchester Center for the Arts presents Graham Slaughter Biannual Photography Competition Fragments of Time – Photographs by Sahm Doherty-Sefton Exhibition Run: August 8 – September 27 Closing Reception: Saturday, September 12th @ 5-7pm Gallery Hours: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday from 12pm – 6pm, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 11am – 5pm and Sunday 12-4pm Gallery […]
Main Street Gallery Shows the Works of Jose Ramirez This Fall
Jose Ramirez Building with Red Roof Main Street Gallery is proud to celebrate 15 years as Cambridge’s only artist-run cooperative with a fall show of the works of its guest artist, local painter, Jose Ramirez. There will be a special second Saturday gala reception on September 12 from 5-8 pm to honor the artist and […]
Academy Art Museum’s 16th Juneteenth Celebration Honors Easton’s Hill Community
On a beautiful Saturday afternoon, the Academy Art Museum welcomed the community for its 16th annual Juneteenth Celebration — a free, all-ages gathering that filled the Museum’s galleries, courtyard, atrium, and lawn with music, art, storytelling, and the kind of energy that’s hard to put into words but impossible to miss. This year’s celebration […]
He Had No Children by Val Cavalheri
Authors Note: “He Had No Children” was born from a discovery that arrived decades too late. By the time I learned the truth about my biological father, many of the people who carried the story were gone, leaving me to piece together my history through records, DNA, photographs, and unanswered questions. Writing this essay […]
‘Bear Me Into Freedom’ Marks America’s 250th
; A new documentary celebrating the life and legacy of Frederick Douglass will be screened throughout Talbot County this summer as part of local observances marking America’s 250th anniversary. Given the remarkable history the community has with this American hero, we asked the film producer, Jeff McGuiness, Pastor Reggie Pinkett of Asbury United Methodist […]
Spy Review: A Journey of “Musical Memories” Opens the 41st Chamber Music Festival
Lucy Fitz Gibbon As you might expect after four decades, there were “Musical Memories” galore as the 41st annual Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival got Friday night underway in the lovely Ebenezer Theater. The opening night program spanned three centuries and up to 20 generations in just three diverse—to say the least—selections. The concert opened […]
Bay to Ocean Journal: Aloha Shirt Man’s Inventory of the Beauty That Remains by Michael Brockley
Authors Note: I wrote “Aloha Shirt Man’s Inventory of the Beauty That Remains” during the summer of 2024. During the baseball season, I am a fervent follower of the Cincinnati Reds, who have either been woeful or have flirted with woefulness for far too many years. The night I drafted this poem, the Reds […]
Bay to Ocean Journal: Institutional Door by Catherine Carter
Author’s note: the poem began with one of those everyday struggles with a heavy door, the kind that doesn’t want to open and then apparently isn’t going to close and then suddenly bangs shut, maybe catching people in it, when it occurred to me that a whole lot of not-so-literal “institutional” doors are designed […]
Spy Review: Perfect Arrangement – A Perfectly Arranged Dramedy by Steve Parks
There’s nothing perfect about the arrangement that serves as the comic premise of Topher Payne’s Perfect Arrangement—except perhaps that it is perfectly suited for Pride Month. Directed by Joe Fox for Groove/Factory—the company formed by the merger of E.T. Wilford’s Groove Theater and Cece Storm’s Factory Arts Project—Perfect Arrangement begins as a surreal farce […]