The Strand Theatre on Columbia Road has hosted any number of shows over the decades from operas and rap icons to blues artists, fashion shows, and vaudeville acts. But lately, it has become a popular destination for Korean Pop groups—also known as K-Pop or the Hallyu Wave— as they make tour stops on their way across America.
Below a glowing canopy of lights and traditional nón lá hats, each affixed with a slip of paper bearing a Vietnamese family’s immigration date, nearly 100 people gathered Sunday night for a temporary art installation marking a milestone in the campaign to establish a permanent Vietnamese diaspora memorial in Boston.
When rapper MaceyOMaze from Fields Corner released “Father’d A Child” this spring, the song carried the weight of three generations. He conceived it as a tribute to his father, who had been raised without a dad, but he also crafted it to a beat by Boston legend Edo.G, whose 1991 rallying cry for men to step up as parents, “Be a Father to Your Child,” helped put the Boston rap scene on the map.
By Jacquinn Sinclair, WBUR.
The use of outright deception doesn’t seem like a winning recipe for love, but in William Shakespeare’s tale “As You Like It,” somehow, despite it, true devotion prevails.
A new opera, “White Raven, Black Dove,” which is scheduled for a three-day run at the Strand Theater this weekend (Sept. 26-28), tells the story of the segregated Silvers and Onyx, who are faced with building a new world.
Tre Johnson, author of the critically acclaimed new book “Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy,” will visit Dorchester’s Just-Bookish in Fields Corner next week for an in-store reading and conversation.
