Happy New Year from the entire TFG team! It’s still a little insane to think that we are at the beginning of a new decade. So far, 2020 has been off to a rather rocky start globally. But for as many stories dominating our news about natural disasters and escalating violence, there are also a […]Read Post ›
The Handmaid’s Tale is meant to be a warning to all Americans about the dangers of losing our freedom. But for the smart and stubborn people who rally behind #BostonStrong, the series is particularly challenging to the notions of who we are.
Kimberly Huestis is the owner of Porcelain & Stone, a Boston-based jewelry design studio founded in 2012. Much like the name suggests, Kimberly combines porcelain and stoneware with fine metals to create nautically-inspired statement pieces. We had a chance to talk to Kimberly about what managing her own creative business is like and the trials […]Read Post ›
On a sunny May day, I set off for a relaxing and romantic stroll-through a graveyard.
On a campus full of stately brick collegiate neo-Gothic buildings, I can think of no more universally hated place on campus than the sole Brutalist structure, our Science Center. For four years, it was my academic home base and so I have a special place in my heart for this inside-out building but from the […]Read Post ›
Ghosts are not the stuff of fairytales. Vibrant personalities leave their impressions on the places they inhabit. Many of these spaces suffer destruction, alteration, redecoration—look at any number of “home museums” and you’ll find period furniture, recreating the ambiance of a place and time. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum looks a bit like a haunted […]Read Post ›
Although I have always considered myself a Bostonian, I have never lived in the city proper-until now.
