Cate McQuaid

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Cate McQuaid

BROCKTON — A film producer turns visions into reality. “I make people’s dreams come true,” said Rui Lopes, cofounder and CEO of Anawan Studios. If a movie needs a bar, Lopes calls the watering hole down the street. If it’s a car scene on a rainy day, he finds a garage and has a rain machine jiggered from a hose.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Cate McQuaid

Big art fairs are mammoth gatherings where thousands of artworks are put on view for throngs of buyers. They often take place in sprawling convention centers and exhibition halls in big cities. “A team comes in and puts up cheap fake walls and it’s very sterile,” said Sarah Galender Meyer, an art advisor and collections manager in San Francisco.“There’s fluorescent lights, and it’s booth after booth packed with artwork.”“It feels a little rat-race,” she added.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Cate McQuaid

“The battle itself overshadowed everybody,” said Joe Bagley, Boston’s city archaeologist and director of archaeology. “Charlestown burned to the ground, and everybody lost everything.”Bagley and his Boston 250 Archaeology team expected to wrap up the second of several digs commemorating the first major battle of the American Revolution in Charlestown last week.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Cate McQuaid

What does a musician do after grad school? After violinist Alyssa Wang and clarinetist Nicholas Brown finished at New England Conservatory in 2019, they co-founded an orchestra. “We said we need a conductor. We need someone to run the strategy, finances, the back-end administrative stuff,” said Brown. “That’s how it all was born.” Their brainchild, the Boston Festival Orchestra, which celebrates its fifth season this summer. Brown, 32, is BFO’s executive director and principal clarinetist.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Cate McQuaid

GLOUCESTER–In his 50 years at C.B. Fisk Inc., Charles Nazarian has designed close to 100 pipe organs. The latest is Opus 166, an organ with about 3,000 pipes for the Church of the Little Flower in Coral Gables, Fla. Nazarian is responsible for the instrument’s aesthetic and shaping it to the church’s needs and architecture. The Church of the Little Flower’s priest asked Nazarian to incorporate five stained glass windows into his design. “That was the driving force,” the designer said.