Diablo Glass School is a public-access glass-arts studio in Boston that opened in 2001, offering hands-on classes and demonstrations across glassblowing, flameworking, fused glass, and stained glass. Over the years it built a reputation as a welcoming place for beginners and experienced makers alike to try working with hot glass, with the studio located at…
The Paradise Rock Club is one of Boston’s most storied music venues, a mid-sized room on Commonwealth Avenue that has hosted countless touring artists on their way up. Opened in the 1970s, the Paradise earned its reputation early by booking acts who went on to international fame, and it remains a key stop on the…
Brighton Music Hall is an intimate live-music venue in the heart of Allston, a neighborhood long known as Boston’s gritty, student-fueled music scene. Located at 158 Brighton Avenue, the club books a steady mix of indie rock, hip-hop, metal, and touring up-and-coming acts in a small, standing-room setting that keeps audiences close to the stage….
The Boston Center for the Arts anchors the South End’s arts scene from a campus on Tremont Street, where nonprofit theater companies, visual artists, and performers share a cluster of historic buildings. Its most striking landmark is the BCA Cyclorama, a vast domed rotunda built in 1884 to display a panoramic painting of the Battle…
Symphony Hall is the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops, opened in 1900 at the corner of Massachusetts and Huntington Avenues. Designed by the firm McKim, Mead & White with acoustician Wallace Clement Sabine, it was one of the first concert halls built using scientific acoustic principles, and it remains widely…
The Exeter Street Theatre building is a striking Richardsonian Romanesque structure at the corner of Exeter and Newbury Streets in Back Bay. It was built in 1884-85 by the architectural firm Hartwell and Richardson, originally as the First Spiritual Temple, a center for the spiritualist movement founded by merchant Marcellus J. Ayer. Its rough-faced masonry,…
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