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Jessie Reyez performs for her “Paid in Memories” tour at the House of Blues in Boston on June 28, 2025. Photo by Rosa Morales-Simmons

The ‘Paid in Memories’ tour bares Jessie Reyez to Boston concert goers

By Rosa Morales-Simmons, Beacon Correspondent / 15 hours ago

Boston’s House of Blues was sold out with ecstatic Jessie Reyez fans on June 28, 2025, during her “Paid in Memories” tour.  She filled the venue...

Photo courtesy of Maximiliano Romero

Isaiah Falls talks his new album and tour, ‘LVRS PARADISE (SIDE A)’

By Rosa Morales-Simmons, Beacon Correspondant / 15 hours ago

From the 2024 upload of the snippet “Florida Baby” on TikTok with over 25 million streams on Spotify to the present international tour with his new...

Photo courtesy of Maximiliano Romero

Isaiah Falls talks his new album and tour, ‘LVRS PARADISE (SIDE A)’

By Rosa Morales Simmons, Beacon Contributor / August 6, 2025

From the 2024 upload of the snippet “Florida Baby” on TikTok with over 25 million streams on Spotify to the present international tour with his new...

Reyez’ first appears on stage at the House of Blues of Boston on June 28, 2025. Photo by Rosa Morales-Simmons

The ‘Paid in Memories’ tour brings Jessie Reyez to Boston concert goers

By Rosa Morales Simmons, Beacon Contributor / August 6, 2025

Boston’s House of Blues was sold out with ecstatic Jessie Reyez fans on June 28, 2025, during her “Paid in Memories” tour.  She filled the venue...

Photo by Ro.Lexx

Isaiah Falls brings Florida’s new voice in R&B to The Middle East in Cambridge

By Rosa Morales Simmons, Beacon Contributor / July 4, 2025

R&B fans will want to mark their calendars for Isaiah Falls, the R&B artist with a Florida edge, who touches down in Cambridge’s Middle East...

From left: (foreground) Crystin Gilmore, Dru Sky Berrian, and Catia. (Background) MarHadoo Effeh, Hampton Richards and Kwezi Shongwe. Courtesy of Nile Scott Studios.

‘JaJa’s African Hair Braiding’ exemplifies why immigrant stories matter

By Rosa Morales-Simmons, Beacon Correspondent / May 30, 2025

A hair salon can be a place of hot topics, personal drama, and a clamor of opinions. However, for West African immigrant women in Harlem, an African...

‘Haunted’ exposes the comedy and the horror of Indigenous land rights

‘Haunted’ exposes the comedy and the horror of Indigenous land rights

By Rosa Morales-Simmons, Beacon Correspondent / January 22, 2025

In “Haunted,” a comical horror stage play, residents are haunted by their home’s previously living, Indigenous American ghosts, who pass their time...

Boston Fashion Week brought Caribbean style to local runways

Boston Fashion Week brought Caribbean style to local runways

By Rosa Morales Simmons, Beacon Correspondent / November 3, 2024

Boston Caribbean Fashion Week finalized its eleventh year of fashion week on Oct. 19 with an intimate showcase that vibed through the neighboring halls...

Boston En Vogue shines for Boston Fashion Week

Boston En Vogue shines for Boston Fashion Week

By Rosa Morales Simmons, Beacon Correspondent / November 3, 2024

On Oct. 15, the Boston En Vogue Luxury Fashion Show, set against the romantic goth style architecture of Newbury St.’s Emmanuel Church, became a place...

Elijah Brown - Actor / Movement Captain for "Hoops."

The colorful “Hoops” production arrives at The Strand Theater in Boston

By Rosa Morales-Simmons, Beacon Correspondent / July 20, 2024

Before Company One Theater got its hands on the BIPOC-led stage gem “Hoops,” it began as a photography exhibition by Wisconsin-born photographer Nicole...