If you said “cigarette” then you are already familiar with the fabulous writer and cultural critic, Fran Lebowitz. Director Martin Scorsese examines her life in the new HBO documentary “Public Speaking”. Entertaining footage from her past public appearances, as well as television clips of noted figures and public intellectuals of the era, tell the story […]
This week’s crossword puzzles in The New York Times. We wrote about NYT crossword constructor, Natan Last, over a year ago when he brought famous puzzle editor Will Shortz to town for a special competitive event. Now this puzzle savant and Brown junior is making news again. According to The Providence Journal, this is ‘Brown
Brown University has received an award of $15.5 million from the National Science Foundation for the purpose of creating a mathematics research institute, the eighth of its kind in the country. The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics will be located on South Main Street and will be headed by mathematics professor Jill
This is something of a ‘save the date’ notification. Not About the Buildings is holding its Fourth Annual Spelling Bee on Monday, June 21st, from 9pm to 11-ish. Not About The Buildings’ most popular event is also our biggest fundraiser. 36 spellers will compete for fame and glory and fabulous prizes, but even non-spellers can
Farm City, City Farm: Tales in Urban Farming from Farmer-Author Novella Carpenter and Farmer Rich Pederson Join Southside Community Land Trust and Slow Food RI for a evening of stories — trials, tribulations, and triumphs — from two talented urban farmers; Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City: the Education of an Urban Farmer, and Rich
AS220 has six to eight openings available for a new course being offered in conjunction with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Equipment has been purchased through the MIT Fab Labs program and you can learn how to use it. According to the ProJo, Participants can learn how to use and create long-term projects using the
And glorious: [youtube]hWABJzHrGww[/youtube] Session’s out for somewhere between 2 and 28 weeks, so they say…
The West End is a food insecure neighborhood. What does that mean? It means that it is extremely difficult to get fresh, healthy food in the blocks west of the highway. There are few grocery stores around, and our bodegas and corner stores have only so much space for fruits and veggies. Luckily for all
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So you think you’re so smart? Tonight is the Pub Quiz at the Wild Colonial Tavern. There are several categories like current events, local trivia, famous Irish things, Shatner, the Byzantine Empire, and it always ends with a 12-question music category with audio snippets. Form a team of one to four people, eat, drink and
There’s a new sound taking over the town known as Boston. If you’re by the banks of the Charles River as the moon glows over the muddy waters you very well may hear some thick, groovy beats banging out a trail for raw guitar licks and a soul-drenched Hammond organ. Yes indeed, ladies and gentleman
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If you don’t recognize this man then just move along, because to crossword puzzle solvers, this man is God. Others may know Will Shortz, the crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times, from the movie Wordplay and he has even acquired that cool, cultural notch in the belt, a cameo on The Simpsons. And