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Fifteen unhinged things said to independent artists, and what they reveal
A listicle of crude remarks from the music business reads, at a distance, like a field guide to how gatekeeping works in any creative field.
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Tonight in Boston: How to find last-minute culture
Same-day listings, venue newsletters and a little patience will fill an empty evening in Boston.
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Ten million dollars in music royalties is missing, and the people owed it are the artists
A claim about uncollected music payments says something larger about how artists of every kind get paid — and how rarely the money finds its way back.
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Events massachusetts: The Massachusetts event lover's year-round calendar
How the Bay State's fair and festival season moves from the coast to the valley to the Berkshires, and how to plan around it.
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How to write a guide people actually finish
Structure, not length, decides whether a reader reaches the last block of a practical guide.
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Four years after the ArtCraft exodus, a happy ending worth reading skeptically
Cleveland's displaced artists say their new building is better. The fuller picture is more mixed, and more instructive for any city watching studio stock vanish.
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Hiawatha Music Co-op revives its Master Artists Series in Marquette
A Michigan co-op brought back a teaching-and-performance format with one show and two workshops — a modest restart, and a telling one.
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Artists in the studio — Inside the studio: what artists' workspaces reveal
Clutter, light and habit leave fingerprints on finished work. A look at what a studio tells a visitor that a gallery wall never will.