Culture

Karen Daly. PHOTOS BY CHRISTOPHER BOOTH By Karen Daly and Maureen Hossbacher Music – pop, jazz, theater, Irish, folk – filled the air at the early ...

By Sean Devlin Irish actress Sarah Street’s acting resume isn’t short on top-level performances on stage and screen. Now Street and her group, the ...

Karen Daly played Winifred Carney. By Maura Mulligan Yours truly has been presenting Samhain celebrations since the early 1990s when I taught Irish...

Laoisa Sexton and John Keating in a scene from the upcoming Rep production “The Pigeon in the Taj Mahal.” By Orla O’Sullivan Laoisa Sexton is doubl...

Friendship helps the Narrowbacks’ creative fire. By Colleen Taylor In the 19th century, narrowbacks referred to women of Irish descent raised in Am...

Larry Nugent's new CD is entitled "White Island." By Daniel Neely Congratulations to the Chicago Cubs, who broke a 108-year drought to win last wee...

Nick Laird takes the helm at PoetryFest, which begins this evening at the Irish Arts Center. By Orla O’Sullivan Ironically, the new curator of Poet...

Caitlin Doyle has been called a “highly original voice” in American poetry. By Peter McDermott Caitlin Doyle can’t remember the exact moment that I...

Michael Connelly. PHOTO BY MARK DELONG By Peter McDermott Crime novelist Michael Connelly has argued that almost all of us are natural storytellers...

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill had the BC audience mesmerized. By Colleen Taylor As a music journalist, I rarely think about “the inaudible.” But two weeks ag...

By Daniel Neely In the player this week is “The New York Connection,” the new album from Josh Dukes & Dylan Foley. Dukes and Foley are two of the t...

A former employee Ursula at the 2014 Halloween party at the Coliseum. By Peter McDermott St. Patrick’s Day is the standout day of the year for many...