Gift Guide: Culture

Gift Guide: Culture

by | Dec 17, 2013 | Leisure

Eric Carle Museum Posters If you are racking your brains for a gift that will feel special for the family whose kids have everything, even if they don’t live locally, here’s an easy solution: an exhibition poster from the Eric Carle Museum...
Cinemadope: Nogging Off

Cinemadope: Nogging Off

by | Dec 17, 2013 | Film

Traditions start flying pretty fast and furious this time of year, some more welcome than others. Trees in the living room, new sweaters, and rich, boozy, drinks? Bring it on. Trying to find just the right thing for that hard to buy for relative? Not so much. Film is...
A New England Original

A New England Original

by | Dec 17, 2013 | Food + Booze

The Salem family got into the restaurant business in a unique way: Martha Salem’s father bought a “rundown, ramshackle farmhouse” in the 1950s as a wedding gift for his brother. “Once he got in the house, which he figured was a fixer-upper, he...
Paint and Photo

Paint and Photo

by | Dec 17, 2013 | Arts

What do you get when you combine photography with painting, drawing and computer rendering? In the case of Palmer native Kathryn Massey, you get images that ride an interesting line between photo-realism and painted/drawn surfaces—they seem somehow on the verge...