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Meet the Filmmakers – Boston LGBT Film Festival

      The Boston LGBT Film Festival is May 3rd – 13th.Over 20 directors, producers, and actors will be attending. See the list below for who will be in attendance. Each film will be followed with a Q&A. Come with questions or just say hello!   For details, tickets, and updates: www.bostonlgbtfilmfest.org     [...]

[Arts-announce] Don’t miss Yesterday Happened: Remembering HM

Don’t miss Yesterday Happened: Remembering HM at the Central Square Theater. The production features Senior Lecturer in Music and Theater Arts Anna Kohler and music by MIT Media Lab composer Prof. Tod Machover.  There is an MIT discount code (MITID).  For tickets, visit the Central Sq. website: http://www.centralsquaretheater.org/season/11-12/remembering-hm.html Yesterday Happened; Remembering HM At the age [...]

NEWS FROM BIDMC: Only 1 in 5 Bike Share Cyclists Wears a Helmet

ONLY 1 IN 5 BIKE SHARE CYCLISTS WEARS A HELMET Riders at significant risk for head injury BOSTON – A national rise in public bike sharing programs could mean less air pollution and more exercise, an environmental and health win-win for people in the cities that host them, but according to researchers at Beth Israel [...]

ArtsEmerson Presents Hershey Felder in Maestro: Leonard Bernstein

ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage PRESENTS THE BOSTON PREMIERE OF HERSHEY FELDER IN MAESTRO: LEONARD BERNSTEIN APRIL 28 – MAY 13, 2012 (BOSTON ) ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage presents the Boston premiere of Hershey Felder in Maestro: Leonard Bernstein, the latest composer work from the creators of George Gershwin Alone, Monsieur Chopin and Beethoven, [...]

NU Commencement Parking Restrictions

The following parking restrictions will be in place for Northeastern University’s 2012 Commencement Activities:   Date: Wednesday, May 2nd until Sunday, May 6th Event: Commencement No Parking on Gainsborough Street from St. Botolph to MBTA: All Day (Midnight- Midnight)   Date: Friday, May 4th and Saturday, May 5th Event: Commencement No Parking on St. Botolph Street [...]

Haymakers for Hope – May 17th

Haymakers For Hope, May 17 Area boxers raise funds for Dana-Farber On Thursday, May 17 at 7 p.m., twenty-eight local amateur fighters will compete in boxing matches as part of Haymakers for Hope at  The House of Blues in Boston. Equity traders, Harvard Business School students, a former New England Patriot, and a firefighter are [...]

Community Hearing on the BU Biolab on April 19, 2012 at RCC

The Blue Ribbon Panel and Tetra Tech will be presenting their Draft Supplementary Risk Assessment  for Level 3 and 4 Labs at ROXBURY COMMUNITY COLLEGE on APRIL 19, 2012 at 6:30 PM A public hearing on the third and latest risk assessment for the NEIDL (the Boston University bioweapons lab) has been scheduled for Thursday, [...]

Protest on tax day Tue Apr 17 at 5:30pm

If you’re interested in holding big corporations accountable for being tax dodgers, there will be a rally & march on Tax Day, Tue Apr 17.   Tax Day March & Rally Tuesday, April 17 Rally 5:30pm, Dewey Square (across from South Station) March 6:00pm (through the financial district) See below & go to www.taxdayboston.org for [...]

The 2012 Blackout: Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

by Stephen Brophy Brian Clague was walking from Hynes Convention Center over the Christian Science Center to meet a friend. He took a short cut that brought him to the corner of Scotia St. just as a plume of black smoke started emerging from a building next to the Hilton Hotel parking garage. A little [...]

Newslines – April 2012

Elizabeth Warren Headlines FCDC Annual Meeting inMay In a bit of a coup for the Fenway Community Development Corp., the likely Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate seat this fall, consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren, will deliver the keynote address at the group’s annual meeting on May 11. The group alternates its meetings between the East [...]