New musical tells story of Madame Curie
Cape Cod Theatre Company/Harwich Junior Theatre will present a streaming production of “Madame Curie,” a new musical by David Kurkowski that is directed by Cate Cammarata, starring a professional cast led by Kerry Conte. The show relates the life of the first female Nobel Prize-winning scientist, who emigrated 1,000 miles from Poland to France, overcame xenophobia and sexism, and pioneered the public’s understanding of radioactivity, including helping more than one million WWI soldiers by invention mobile X-ray units.
When: 7 p.m. Thursday through Sunday
Where: https://www.facebook.com/jester51 or on YouTube at CCTC HJT
She began life as a rich young debutant who was presented to the Queen but she became the inspiration for Martin ‘The General’ Cahill to conduct one of the most daring raids of his career.
Republican renegade Rose Dugdale was an aristocrat born into extreme wealth in Devon but she turned her back on her life of privilege to join the ‘Irish cause’ and is to date the only woman to pull of a major art heist.
A new book, The Woman Who Stole Vermeer, by art detective Anthony Amore details how Dugdale planned and carried out the first major raid on Russborough House in County Wicklow stealing a number of paintings including the famed ‘Lady Writing a Letter With Her Maid by the Dutch master Vermeer.
Artist Matty Owens, 22, creates justice-themed artwork at the Dorchester Art Project in Fields Corner. (Courtesy Sam Correa)
On a corner in Egleston Square which I pass almost every day once stood an artistic statement: a mural that doubled as an epitaph and a vision board. The wall was adorned with subaltern messages that resonate to an audience today: I have a dream. Stop the violence. I ll do what I can to survive. One local news station described it as a social blackboard and a cry for happiness, the messages having been painted by local Puerto Rican street youth who called themselves the X-Men.
Fetchin Bones band members pose for a photo in the 1980s.
It’s really never too late to finish something you’re passionate about. Charlotte rockers Fetchin Bones’ heyday was in the 1980s, but for years, lead singer Hope Nicholls had nagging feelings of unfinished business manifesting in a recurring dream about a forgotten song. Well, Nicholls, who’s now in the band It’s Snakes, and her husband, former Fetchin Bones member Aaron Pitkin, found the song and a few others on long-forgotten demo tapes. And after 32 years, Fetchin Bones dropped new (well, old but new) music. “Maybe the dreams will stop now,” Nicholls said.
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By Marie Morris Globe Correspondent,Updated December 23, 2020, 8:36 p.m.
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Welcome once again to HomeFront, where prehistoric solstice rituals are currently resonating more than any tradition cooked up since living indoors and spying on the neighbors became a thing. Weâve been studying the night sky, admiring the way we look by candlelight, and clinging to every extra minute of daylight. Winter and the longest year we can remember are both rounding the turn and heading into the homestretch, and not a moment too soon.