Volume 5, No.5 By Ramón Bannister While doing the music series, I had the chance to participate in an event of MASSive proportions. I was invited by Professor Kristin Sorensen of the Global Studies Department to walk in a parade, but not just any parade. It was called the Boston Pride Parade. Thousands of people [...]

Volume 5, No.4 – By Ramón Bannister The next stop along my Boston street music route was Quincy market, a tourist destination that’s always teeming with activity in the summer. Also known as Faneuil Hall Marketplace, it is home to a huge selection of restaurants, gift shops and street performers of all types. On this [...]

Volume 5, No.3 – By Ramón Bannister Sometimes you hear a musician and you wonder why he doesn’t have a recording contract with a big music distribution company. Gary Dowling is no exception. I found him by chance, when transferring from the red line Boston subway to the orange line. I was on my way [...]

Volume 5, No.2 – By Ramón Bannister When I began the series about street musicians in Boston, I thought that the musicians weren’t appreciated very much by passersby. I have since discovered that people really do enjoy the live music despite the hustle and bustle of urban life. The appreciation likely results because of the [...]

Volume 5, No.1 – By Ramón Bannister The idea behind this series was inspired by the experiment conducted by Washington Post journalist Gene Weingarten and world famous violinist Joshua Bell. Bell was strategically positioned near a metro station in Washington D.C. He played classic works from composers such as Bach and Schubert using a $3.5 [...]

Kena Cubed™ is happy to announce the addition of an author/contributor to its roster! We are thankful to have him. He has his own blog and we want him to be as successful as Kena Cubed™. Please help us in welcoming Harvey the Turtle and his newly launched blog, harveytheturtle.com! Harvey will occasionally offer his [...]

As I consider other topics for this news magazine/blog, I wanted to address another issue that might be on my readers’ minds. One of my readers recently told me that he/she used this website as a source for a class assignment (college level).  Though I was happy to hear that, he/she also told me that [...]

Volume 4, No.1 – By Ramón Bannister When the huge earthquake of 8.8 on the Richter scale took place in Chile near the city of Concepción, the media reported it having been 500 times more intense than the one in Haiti. There was ample video and photographic evidence, at least 1-2 days after the incident, [...]