culture

New Bedford’s Feast of the Blessed Sacrament, a cultural festival with religious roots, is billed as the largest Portuguese feast in the world. It’s more than a century old, but this year, behind the scenes, something very big is changing. For the first time — and under threat of a lawsuit — women have been allowed to join the Feast Committee.

“Many of us, even in this small community on Cape Cod, have, by family extension, already known of a death,” said Rabbi David Freelund of Cape Cod Synagogue.

The Massachusetts Air and Space Museum honors the state's contributions to the field, and has reopened in a new Hyannis location.

In philanthropy, the people who hold the purse strings are mostly white. And historically, organizations led by people of color haven’t received the support they deserve from foundations or donors, advocates say.

Songs, dance, and museum tours highlighted the June 25 grand opening of two new uses of the historic Emerald House property in East Falmouth: the Cape Cod Cape Verdean Museum and Cultural Center, and the Emerald House Community Garden.

Arts and culture are a staple of the summer season on the Cape and Islands, and winter sustenance for year-rounders from New Bedford to Provincetown. With…