Content tagged "Boston"
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Posted by Ed Barrett
The Sinatra n
“The 2013 Boston Marathon bombing triggered the poems in The Sinatra n, poems that race across these pages with lethal riptide quickness.”
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Video: “The Phoenix Burns Out: Remembering a Boston Institution”
The Phoenix‘s legacy and the ways in which its loss will affect Boston, featuring Anita Diamant, Charles Pierce Lloyd Schwartz, and Carly Carioli.
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Posted by Jason Lipshin, Heather Craig, Chelsea Barabas and Yu Wang S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2014
Podcast: “The Phoenix Burns Out: Remembering A Boston Institution”
Audio and liveblog of four Boston Phoenix vets on their paper’s legacy and Boston’s loss. Anita Diamant, Charles Pierce, Lloyd Schwartz, and Carly Carioli.
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Event: Thursday, September 12, 2013 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
The Phoenix Burns Out: Remembering a Boston Institution
When the Phoenix announced its closing, the city lost a powerful cultural force and a vibrant source of information. We’ll discuss the Phoenix’s legacy.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
GAMBIT at the center of GameSpot video on Boston’s game development history
Our GAMBIT Game Lab was stoked to see the dozen or so mentions of its work, mission, and role in game development featured in a GameSpot video.
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Posted by Parmesh Shahani S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2005
Why Gay Employees Need to Come Out
“I would never have imagined in July 2009 that by 2011, I would be sitting at the Google office in Bangalore, giving a talk to the Indian Gayglers.”
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Event: Thursday, February 10, 2011 @ 5:00 pm
Bustling with Information: Cities, Code, and Civics
How can information systems rewrite our understanding of civics, governance, and communication, to solve old problems and create new opportunities in our communities?
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Podcast: Eric Gordon, “How Neighborhoods Can Use Local Engagement Games to Build Community and Plan for the Future”
Whether it’s a game built around a town hall meeting or a government planning process, LEGs scaffold local processes to foster community and commitment to civic life.
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Posted by Ed Barrett
Bosston
Bosston completes Ed Barrett’s trilogy of Boston-based prose poem novels that includes Rub Out and Kevin White.
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Posted by Seth Mnookin
Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top
“Seth Mnookin was given access never before granted to a reporter for this fascinating inside account of the Boston Red Sox.”
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Posted by Selby Cull S.M., Science Writing, 2006
Topics: Boston, geology, gondwanaland, pangaeaFrom Gondwanaland, with Love: The Tale of How Boston Got Its Rocks
The history of our understanding of Boston’s journey illustrates how geologists think about their world, and how their ideas have changed over the last 150 years in one of science’s great revolutions.
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Posted by Henry Jenkins
In Medias Res, Fall 2004
“Because of our interest in the communities that form around games, we are positioned to examine the informal learning that occurs outside of school spaces.”
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Posted by Courtney Humphries S.M., Science Writing, 2004
Topics: AIDS, Boston, drugs, HIV, medicine, scienceSide Effects: The New Age of AIDS in America
The stories of HIV-infected individuals, clinicians, social workers, and AIDS service and prevention workers in Boston and examines how their lives and work have changed now that AIDS is no longer seen as a “crisis” in the U.S.