Gables’ Settlement Work Receives Important Assist From Cummings Foundation

A generous $100,000 grant from the Cummings Foundation makes it possible for The House of the Seven Gables to continue its settlement work despite st...

The Walsh Family Donates $500,000 to Salem State University

Jean and Rick Walsh of Harvard, Mass. recently made a philanthropic gift of $500,000 to Salem State University. The donation supports under...

Frank Webb Home Opens New Salem Showroom

Frank Webb Home Salem is the North Shore’s newest bath, kitchen, and lighting showroom. It’s located in the town’s historic downtown area at 89 M...

Salem Arts Festival Returns This Year June 4-6

Celebrate the arts, culture, creativity, and community at the 13th annual Salem Arts Festival June 4 through 6. This free and popular family-fri...

View Alexis Rockman’s Shipwrecks Now Through May 31 at PEM

This spring, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents an exhibition of large-scale, hallucinatory paintings that tackle pressing ecological issues...

Experience the “Perfect Breath” at PEM’s New Exhibit

Three years ago, artist Zarah Hussain could hardly breathe.  “I was coughing, I was having trouble walking uphill, and I just wasn’t getting enoug...

Cinema Salem Thanks Service Workers with Free Screenings

Cinema Salem is thanking service workers and organizations for their extraordinary efforts during this year of COVID. The cinema is turning its s...

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan Named Executive Director and CEO of PEM

The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) today announced that Lynda Roscoe Hartigan will become PEM’s next Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Executive Direc...

Caramel Patisserie Brings Taste of Paris to Salem

Because of the pandemic, we can’t have “Paris in the Spring,” as the song goes. But we can savor the taste of it, thanks to Dimitri Vallier, pastry c...

5 New Art Exhibits on View North of Boston

The arts and culture scene on the North Shore continues to impress, with many new exhibits opening over the past year despite the pandemic. These thr...