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Urban Safari: The Blue Man Group

November 5, 2023 // 0 Comments

The last time we saw Blue Man Group (BMG), it was the late ’90s. The show blew us away with their use of percussion, inventive ways of creating sound, and how the the [...]

Urban Safari: Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein

February 24, 2023 // 0 Comments

We got opening night tickets for Manual Cinemas’ Frankenstein at the Emerson Paramount Center. We might not have been paying attention to the description of the show, [...]

Urban Safari: Staycation at the Seaport

January 8, 2023 // 1 Comment

Last year at this time, when the nation was in the final chapter of the Covid epidemic, we staycationed at the Loews Boston in the Back Bay. The city was quiet and the hotel [...]

Urban Safari: SOLSTICE

December 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

Mount Auburn Cemetery “…Since 1831, Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge has been a place to commemorate the dead, console the bereaved, and inspire all who visit [...]

Urban Safari: The Art of the Brick

November 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

Many of us grew up with Legos, but not many of us took that love and made it into an art form (and actual art) like Nathan Sawaya. We first wrote about Sawaya in 2007, but [...]

Urban Safari: Covid Christmas 2021

December 31, 2021 // 0 Comments

Things were looking up for a while regarding the pandemic, then a variant emerged and broadsided: no one who was paying attention, and everyone who refused to acknowledge it [...]

Urban Safari : Strandbeest on Crane Beach

October 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

The TED talks got the Strandbeests a lot of publicity. So when, on August 22nd, the PEM folks said they were going to “release” a few of the Strandbeests onto [...]

Urban Safari : Blackhawks in Boston!!!

September 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

At 10 o’clock yesterday we heard that there were going to be Blackhawk helicopters in the Boston Common at 11. We didn’t need to know why, we just wanted to see [...]

Urban Safari : Spotting the Blue Angels

May 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Boston was treated to a Blue Angels fly-by on Tuesday. We debated over where in the city we should set up our photo gear, and decided that Castle Island in South Boston [...]

Urban Safari : Herons at Millennium Park

May 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

Boston is an urban city with a lot of nature within its boundaries it. Places like the Emerald Necklace and the Arnold Arboretum are well known, but others, like Millennium [...]
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