UMass Boston performing arts professor gives students top priority
By Ed Karvoski Jr., Culture Editor
Boston – Whether serving as chair of UMass Boston’s performing arts department or freelancing as a practicing costume designer,...
Chelmsford production director successfully recovers from COVID-19
By Ed Karvoski Jr., Culture Editor
Chelmsford – Bill Kenney of Chelmsford has worked in various capacities while producing successful entertainment events throughout four decades....
Longtime resident serves as Arlington Center for the Arts’ director
By Ed Karvoski Jr., Culture Editor
Arlington – Tom Formicola brings 30-plus years’ experience as a Boston-based arts and education administrator to his current job...
Vintage car collector has followed a long and winding road
By Brett Peruzzi, Contributing Writer
Salem - Bob DeSantis, a life-long resident of Salem and the president of the North Shore Old Car Club, bought his...
Bassist shares music and health passions with multiple generations
By Ed Karvoski Jr., Culture Editor
North Shore – David Landoni of Danvers began his career as a bassist touring on the road nationally and...
Jürgen Lobert – a chemist with a camera explores the night world
By Peg Lopata, Contributing writer
Medway - Jürgen Lobert is a night and day man, a man of two lives. His daytime occupation is as...
South Boston activist uses art as a threshold to build community
By Ed Karvoski Jr., Culture Editor
Boston – South Boston artist Michael Dowling felt compelled to complement his successful career as a painter with creative...
Storyteller focuses on Cape Cod shipwrecks, storms, rum runners and other historical events
By Jane Keller Gordon, Assistant Editor
Northbridge/South Dennis - Growing up in northern New Jersey, Don Wilding visited Cape Cod when he was four, but...
Ann Szerlip, from computers to flames and glass
By Peg Lopata, Contributing Writer
Newton Highlands - Can a successful career software systems salesperson turn into an equally successful glassworker? Hard to see the...
Former Shrewsbury resident is finally living her dream
By Melanie Petrucci, Senior Community Reporter
Shrewsbury/Cambridge – Former Shrewsbury resident Deb Peeples, 63, recently returned from a month-long residency at the Vermont Studio Center,...
