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By Richard Campbell This past Saturday the Institute for Contemporary Art celebrated their Winter Market, a small pop-up festivity of artists and vendors designed as a holiday attraction for Seaport visitors. It was well received by those who braved the first Boston snowfall. Held in the lobby of the ICA the low key event featured young artists and entrepreneurs, plying their goods.  The majority of the artists in displays were small, and missing enough choice to give them broad appeal, but there were some unique start-ups. Perhaps the most ICA appropriate artist, Alex Kittle of Panandascan, displayed her edgy film and TV inspired illustrations that give a cartoonish glimpse of entertainment classics like Twin Peaks, Moonstruck, and  Kill Bill with cult worthy stickers and pins [...]

Students: Academic Links for this story are at the bottom of the page. By Richard Campbell Summer is over. Where did it go, you might ask? Now you are ready for school.  Right. And the Celtics are going to win the championship this year too! All kidding aside, many student’s find research and writing skills to be the most difficult things to learn- especially for students who get bored with dry details.  What follows here is a global view of the skills new high school students need to learn, written out in plain English. Yes, Freshman: this article is aimed squarely at your cerebellums. Awareness: No One is Average. It is hardly an overstatement to say that the pressure to perform well academically increases upon entering [...]

by Rick Winterson      First, a few facts: For the last 21 years, the residential community of Marina Bay in Quincy has held an area-wide art exhibition called “Arts Affair at Marina Bay”.  Their 2017 Arts Affair exhibition was their 22nd; it took place last Saturday and Sunday, August 5-6.  This exhibition attracted a total of 165 works of art from 80 artists, who are members of 21 artists’ associations in Eastern Massachusetts.  Four of these associations are located within the City of Boston.  All in all, it was quite a show, held in really eye-catching surroundings. South Boston Online is pleased to report that four members of our own SBAA (the South Boston Arts Association, presided over by watercolorist Dan McCole from The [...]