ORG: LAST DAY ON EARTH @ OBERON
eschatons of fun A metric fuckton of performers are taking the stage at OBERON—musicians, dancers, spoken-word artists, and filmmakers are assembling in some kind of doomsday coven to perform in the...
View ArticleDIG THIS: “LOVE IS A PRISON” @ PRECINCT
Oh shit! It’s like Moulin Rouge all over again! … Sort of. Head to Precinct in Somerville Friday night for “Love is a Prison,” a fantastically odd night of laughter, music, sex appeal, and just plain...
View ArticleGO: CAMBRIDGE POET POPULIST NOMINEES READ @ CANTAB LOUNGE
poet of the people, by the people, for the people April is National Poetry Month. Stretch your creative wings and get some culture this Wednesday at the Cantab, where you can vote to elect the new Poet...
View ArticleKISSING OSCAR WILDE: A LOVE STORY IN THE CITY OF LIGHTS
Jade Sylvan is an award-winning poet, author, performance artist, yoga teacher, and bon vivant based in Cambridge. Or as she puts it: “Troubadour, Eschatologist, Bum.” Her latest book, Kissing Oscar...
View ArticleA TEN-ACITY OF PURPOSE
“What are you doing Wednesday morning? Do you want to be a woman covered in blood in a pig mask in her underwear for a movie we’re making?” If you’re even a distant cousin of the Boston arts scene, you...
View ArticleFALL PREVIEW: ARTS
The arts tend to go a little quiet over the summer. We assume that’s because all our favorite playwrights, painters, and puppeteers go underground to work on new material. Fall brings them all out of...
View ArticleWORDS: KISSING OSCAR WILDE
Portrait of the artist as a conflicted queer Oscar Wilde, Arthur Rimbaud, and Humphrey Bogart are all dead, which is kind of a problem for Cambridge poet Jade Sylvan. “I worry I’ve outlived the...
View ArticleDIG THIS: ‘KISSING OSCAR WILDE’ READING & DISCUSSION @ TRIDENT BOOKSELLERS
First, we brought you a sneak peek of Kissing Oscar Wilde in the form of some lovely, lyrical excerpts a few months before the official release. Then, we attempted to coerce you to the epic release...
View ArticlePEACE, LOVE & MYTHOLOGY
Photo by Caleb Cole You’re not alone in thinking John “We’re bigger than Jesus” Lennon of the Beatles looks like Son of God when the spotlight hits him a certain way. Religious scholar Jade Sylvan...
View ArticleBRIDGING THE GAPS IN BOSTON’S ART SCENE
Photo by Maresqu Photography Cheap Seats, Boston’s only omni-genre variety show, earned some well-deserved attention after folk singer ACLU Benefit defecated in a diaper on stage. But one shouldn’t...
View ArticleALUMNI EDITION: WHAT WE WISH WE KNEW
Your pals here at DigBoston have assembled a wise ragtag team of Boston’s art-minded denizens to give you your first lesson this academic year. Namely, that the kind of things we wish knew about when...
View ArticleTHE LITERARY ROAST
Photo By Jon Beckley Stephen King has messed with our heads for long enough; it’s about time someone turned the tables and went Cujo on him. Produced by Eowyn Evans and Jade Sylvan as Weird Love...
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