Amelia Mason
@shmabelia.bsky.social
senior arts and culture reporter @wbur.org, Boston's NPR // shop steward at #wemakewbur // I love pasta
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November 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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The Boston Palestine Film Festival is all this week. Tomorrow, they are screening a documentary about Fatma Hassona, a young Gazan photojournalist who was killed in an Israeli airstrike earlier this year, right before the film premiered at Cannes. My latest: www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...
A Gazan photojournalist is immortalized in a new documentary
Screening as part of the Boston Palestine Film Festival, “Put Your Hand on Your Soul and Walk” depicts one year of Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona’s life in Gaza, culminating in her death in...
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October 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Boston Palestine Film Festival is all this week. Tomorrow, they are screening a documentary about Fatma Hassona, a young Gazan photojournalist who was killed in an Israeli airstrike earlier this year, right before the film premiered at Cannes. My latest: www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
I'm very proud of this year's crop of Makers. These are local artists of color whose work engages with the natural environment, asking tough questions about climate change, sustainability and justice. I was lucky to get to profile two visionaries: @jakeblount.com and Andre StrongBearHeart
WBUR Presents: The 2025 Makers
The natural world has been a powerful muse for artists across the ages, and in our present era, engaging with our environment is more urgent than ever. Meet 10 local artists of color who are foregroun...
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September 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I'm very proud of this year's crop of Makers. These are local artists of color whose work engages with the natural environment, asking tough questions about climate change, sustainability and justice. I was lucky to get to profile two visionaries: @jakeblount.com and Andre StrongBearHeart
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The town of Burlington has repeatedly attempted to gain access to the ICE facility there to do an inspection and has been repeatedly denied, including their latest attempt a few days ago. If you've read anything about the conditions there, you know what ICE is trying to hide. (h/t @srossmktg.com)
September 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The town of Burlington has repeatedly attempted to gain access to the ICE facility there to do an inspection and has been repeatedly denied, including their latest attempt a few days ago. If you've read anything about the conditions there, you know what ICE is trying to hide. (h/t @srossmktg.com)
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Excited to share this interview @wbur.org chatting about my new album, the early 2000s, the challenge of finding focus in a burning world, that kinda thing. Thanks so much for the fun convo @shmabelia.bsky.social !
Hope to see folks at the release party Sept 20! www.wbur.org/news/2025/09...
Hope to see folks at the release party Sept 20! www.wbur.org/news/2025/09...
Evan Greer on making music to meet the moment
Ahead of the release of her new album "AMAB/ACAB," the self-described queer anarcho-indie-punk musician spoke with WBUR's Amelia Mason about how her perspective has changed with age, what it means to ...
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September 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Excited to share this interview @wbur.org chatting about my new album, the early 2000s, the challenge of finding focus in a burning world, that kinda thing. Thanks so much for the fun convo @shmabelia.bsky.social !
Hope to see folks at the release party Sept 20! www.wbur.org/news/2025/09...
Hope to see folks at the release party Sept 20! www.wbur.org/news/2025/09...
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Thinking about the public media family at GBH right now www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
GBH cuts more than 40 staffers in new layoffs
The layoffs come as public media faces increased scrutiny and funding threats from the federal government.
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June 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Thinking about the public media family at GBH right now www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Which local Tiny Desk Contest entry do you think deserves the glory? Voting for the Massachusetts Fan Favorite closes this Thursday, June 5 at 11:59pm! www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
Vote for your favorite local NPR Tiny Desk Contest entry
WBUR is on the hunt for our Local Favorite. Which song do you think deserves the glory?
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June 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Which local Tiny Desk Contest entry do you think deserves the glory? Voting for the Massachusetts Fan Favorite closes this Thursday, June 5 at 11:59pm! www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
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Lupe Fiasco's latest hip-hop collaborator? MIT
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Lupe Fiasco's latest hip-hop collaborator? MIT
The Grammy winning musician has composed songs inspired by MIT’s collection of public art.
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May 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Lupe Fiasco's latest hip-hop collaborator? MIT
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Boston’s own Eph See was featured on @npr.org Music's Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf! NPR’s Robin Hilton said Eph See’s song “Malachi the Uber Driver” is the Tiny Desk entry he is most excited about this year. Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWcZ...
Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf 2025: Episode 1 with Bobby Carter and Robin Hilton
YouTube video by NPR Music
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April 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Boston’s own Eph See was featured on @npr.org Music's Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf! NPR’s Robin Hilton said Eph See’s song “Malachi the Uber Driver” is the Tiny Desk entry he is most excited about this year. Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWcZ...
“ Museums are an incredible treasure trove of what people create and what mattered to us, right? What mattered to us: our inner lives, our outer lives, our political lives, our social lives.” -- Jill Medvedow @icaboston.bsky.social
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How Jill Medvedow transformed the ‘scrappy’ ICA into a Boston institution
The Institute of Contemporary Art’s longtime director looks back on her legacy.
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March 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
“ Museums are an incredible treasure trove of what people create and what mattered to us, right? What mattered to us: our inner lives, our outer lives, our political lives, our social lives.” -- Jill Medvedow @icaboston.bsky.social
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How Jill Medvedow transformed the ‘scrappy’ ICA into a Boston institution www.wbur.org/news/2025/03... via @shmabelia.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
How Jill Medvedow transformed the ‘scrappy’ ICA into a Boston institution www.wbur.org/news/2025/03... via @shmabelia.bsky.social
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Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election.
She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”
She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”
February 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election.
She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”
She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”
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A Harvard Law School graduate on the verge of joining the faculty at the nation’s most prestigious historically Black law school was killed in the D.C. plane collision.
Kiah Duggins, Harvard Law graduate focused on civil rights, killed in D.C. plane crash - The Boston Globe
The 30-year-old civil rights lawyer was scheduled to join the faculty at Howard University Law School in Washington, D.C., this fall, the university said Thursday.
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January 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A Harvard Law School graduate on the verge of joining the faculty at the nation’s most prestigious historically Black law school was killed in the D.C. plane collision.
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"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks"
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Zuckerberg Says 'Everything I Say Leaks' in Leaked Meeting Audio
"There are a bunch of things that I think are value-destroying for me to talk about, so I’m not going to talk about those."
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January 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks"
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In the era of segregation, Black actors and filmmakers made their own movies for their own audiences. On Sunday, the Somerville Theatre is screening one of the rare surviving examples. A reminder that art flourishes in even the most adverse conditions: www.wbur.org/news/2025/01...
January 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
In the era of segregation, Black actors and filmmakers made their own movies for their own audiences. On Sunday, the Somerville Theatre is screening one of the rare surviving examples. A reminder that art flourishes in even the most adverse conditions: www.wbur.org/news/2025/01...
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OK YES that was an earthquake, says USGS -- right off York Harbor in Maine. More to come: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
January 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
OK YES that was an earthquake, says USGS -- right off York Harbor in Maine. More to come: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
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January 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
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“Our food is our stories ... It's our sovereignty. And without food, without the stories, there wouldn't be language.” - Chef Sherry Pocknett www.wbur.org/news/2024/11...
Local Indigenous communities are reclaiming their food sovereignty
From restaurants to seed stewarding, tribal members are working to reconnect with their foodways and culture. "Our food is our stories. It's our sovereignty," said chef Sherry Pocknett. "And without f...
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November 26, 2024 at 4:50 PM
“Our food is our stories ... It's our sovereignty. And without food, without the stories, there wouldn't be language.” - Chef Sherry Pocknett www.wbur.org/news/2024/11...
Did you know there are all kinds of geniuses you've never heard of quietly making brilliant music all over New England??? Melo Green is the just the latest to hit my radar. Please check out my feature on his deep, weird, beautiful album.
In kaleidoscopic R&B, Melo Green reinvents himself
The Providence musician Chris Kazarian releases "Laminar Flow," his debut album as Melo Green. Its songs are raw and personal, rife with musical references close to Kazarian’s heart.
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November 25, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Did you know there are all kinds of geniuses you've never heard of quietly making brilliant music all over New England??? Melo Green is the just the latest to hit my radar. Please check out my feature on his deep, weird, beautiful album.
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Pleased to announce I have taught a major international artist about the great Boston pastime of “Storrowing.” He is fascinated. “Why don’t you fix the bridges?” He asked. Then there would be no more Storrowing,”I explained.
November 14, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Pleased to announce I have taught a major international artist about the great Boston pastime of “Storrowing.” He is fascinated. “Why don’t you fix the bridges?” He asked. Then there would be no more Storrowing,”I explained.
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Rose Art Museum has a wild new exhibit.
“The unsettling combination of threatening and alluring is on dizzying display throughout the Rose’s survey of Hayden’s prolific last decade: a baby’s crib lined with thorns, basketball hoops woven from human-like hair …” — @shmabelia.bsky.social
“The unsettling combination of threatening and alluring is on dizzying display throughout the Rose’s survey of Hayden’s prolific last decade: a baby’s crib lined with thorns, basketball hoops woven from human-like hair …” — @shmabelia.bsky.social
Spiky and surreal, Hugh Hayden’s sculptures resist an easy reading
A survey at the Rose Art Museum offers a probing look at the 41-year-old artist’s career as he rides a surge of admiring coverage for his large, eye-catching installations.
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November 14, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Rose Art Museum has a wild new exhibit.
“The unsettling combination of threatening and alluring is on dizzying display throughout the Rose’s survey of Hayden’s prolific last decade: a baby’s crib lined with thorns, basketball hoops woven from human-like hair …” — @shmabelia.bsky.social
“The unsettling combination of threatening and alluring is on dizzying display throughout the Rose’s survey of Hayden’s prolific last decade: a baby’s crib lined with thorns, basketball hoops woven from human-like hair …” — @shmabelia.bsky.social
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Wild chart here. "Abortions were up 37% in Mass. last year, driven by patients from other states" www.wbur.org/news/2024/11...
November 12, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Wild chart here. "Abortions were up 37% in Mass. last year, driven by patients from other states" www.wbur.org/news/2024/11...