This weekend marks the opening of the Boston Harbor Islands for the season. While Bostonians will be eager to take advantage of Free Ferry Day on Saturday, no one would have been excited about a free ...

Guy Debord’s (1931–1994) best-known work, La société du spectacle (The Society of the Spectacle) (1967), is a polemical and prescient indictment of our image-saturated consumer culture. The book ...

SPECTACLE ISLAND IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR. CLEAN UP OF THE ONCE POLLUTED WATERS OF BOSTON HARBOR, REVIVED INTEREST IN AND OPENED ACCESS TO THE 34 HARBOR ISLANDS. BOATING HAS RETURNED PEOPLE CAMP ON ...

Netflix introduced a spectacle and events TV division last year, led by exec Peter Friedlander. Friedlander broke down the difference between spectacle and event programming. He also discussed shows ...

“As I See It,” a weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England to Globe readers. SPECTACLE ISLAND — It’s just a 4.2 mile ferry ride from Long Wharf in ...

The career of photographer Weegee (born Arthur Fellig, 1899–1968) is often divided into two distinct phases, one gritty, the other glamorous. Celebrated for his sensationalist images of crime scenes, ...

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