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Switcheroo: BPS Lets Arts Academy Stay, Moves Fenway High Bowing to angry students and parents from Boston Latin Academy, the marginally less-prestigious cousin of Boston Latin School, Boston School Superintendant Carol R. Johnson dropped her plan to move the Latin Academy into shuttered Hyde Park High School. That move would have set off a chain [...]
Visiting Artist Robert Wilson Lecture, Wednesday, November 9
November 9 | Robert Wilson Visiting Artist Lecture 7 pm, MIT Room 10-250. Reserve your Free Ticket. Robert Wilson, an American avant-garde stage director and playwright, delivers a lecture about his diverse career. Wilson is perhaps best known for his inspired collaborations with artists Allen Ginsberg, David Byrne, and Philip Glass. With Glass, he created [...]
MIT Visiting Artists Program and the Music and Theater Arts Section Announce Two Concerts by the Ascoli Ensemble
The MIT Visiting Artists Program and the Music and Theater Arts Section are pleased to announce two concerts by the Ascoli Ensemble: The Ascoli Ensemble is in demand internationally for its dynamic combination of musicianship and scholarly rigor. The Netherlands-based vocal ensemble focuses on bringing to light rare and unknown pieces of medieval music, with [...]
Catch it Before it’s Gone: GLAM plus BAM at the Trustman Art Gallery
One of the things I love about art is its ability to transform the spaces it occupies. Sculpture can beautify a vacant spot of grass. A mural can tell a story on an otherwise featureless wall. And a large open space that otherwise serves only to connect rooms can become a gallery. This was my [...]
News Notes – March 22
BU students in Japan will not be allowed to finish semester in country, BUIP says by Chris Gambon/BU Daily Free Press – Mar 22, 2011 Boston University students studying abroad in Japan will be forced to return home this week after the program was cancelled for the remainder of the Spring 2011 semester in response [...]
News Notes – March 17
BU alumnus among missing NYT journalists in Libya by Josh Cain/BU Daily Free Press – Mar 16, 2011 Four New York Times reporters covering the violence in Libya have gone missing, The Times reported on Wednesday on its website. Among them is Tyler Hicks, a Times war photographer and Boston University alumnus who graduated with [...]
News Notes – March 8
President’s visit leads to parking ban Tuesday in the Fenway by Sara Brown/Boston.com – March 7, 2011 After year of natural disasters, universities in Boston prepare for their own by Alexandros Letsas/BU Daily Free Press – Mar 8, 2011 The 2011 Boston Urban Symposium, hosted by Boston University’s City Planning and Urban Affairs Programs, addressed [...]
News Notes – March 5
10th US archivist to talk at convocation – John Reed, Susan Hockfield also slated to headline MIT150 event By Rebecca Han/The Tech – March 4, 2011 John S. Reed ’61 (chairman of the MIT Corporation), David S. Ferriero (10th Archivist of the United States and former associate director of MIT Libraries), and Phillip L. Clay [...]
News Notes – February 11
Fenway at risk of losing affordable housing complex By Jennifer Gorden, Globe Correspondent – February 10, 2011 Conrad Ciszek graduated from Northeastern University 14 years ago, saddled with student debt while working an entry-level job in insurance regulation. He moved into the Burbank Apartments, which allowed him to live in quality affordable housing near his [...]
News Notes – February 8
Turner suit fails to halt election – Judge sends query to state high court By Andrew Ryan – Globe Staff / February 8, 2011 A federal judge rejected yesterday Chuck Turner’s bid to halt a special election for the Boston City Council seat vacated when he was thrown out of office for accepting a $1,000 [...]