Cultural Events

[browngirl]

I've been thinking that I want to do more in Boston, take more advantage of living in a major city, and at about the same time the Metro expanded their coverage of cultural events. I haven't yet actually gone to anything I've read about in the paper, but I'd say I've already benefited from this project; for example, I now know that today at noon in Copley Square (Green Line), Vanilla Ice will be judging te Dunkin' Donuts Iced Coffee-oke Contest. I mean, the jokes, they write themselves.

In an event I might actually attend, there's an exhibit at the ICA (617-478-3100; Silver line to World Trade Center) through April 29 called "Super Vision", about how "science has changed the way we look at the world" and the effect that change has had on contemporary art. An exhibit about the effect of science on art, rather than yet another staged battle between the two fields? I am so there, if I can manage to find time to go.

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[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

I'm often thinking (but rarely doing) that I want to do more in Boston, and I've been wanting to visit the new ICA (last time I was on vacation it was on my list of things to do, but the opening had been delayed, so no ICA for me).

That exhibit sounds good. Perhaps we could arrange to go together?

[rebmommy.livejournal.com]

It does sound like an interesting exhibit, and the ICA itself is supposed to be a fascinating building. Have either of you (browngirl or treacle_well) been there yet?

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

I haven't. And I want to.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Ooo, architecture! *dances* And no, I haven't been there yet.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we could arrange to go together?

That would be *really* nifty. And I don't really have April booked up yet, either.

[apple-pi.livejournal.com]

Vanilla Ice will be judging te Dunkin' Donuts Iced Coffee-oke Contest.

I'm a little confused as to how this qualifies as a "cultural event" (or maybe I'm just a crashing snob - six of one, half a dozen of the other I suspect), but I would like a link, if you have one handy? I want to send it to another friend who lives outside Boston and razz her. *g*

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I included it mostly to mock Vanilla Ice, really.

A link:

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/03/21/clarke_happy_to_chill_with_ice/

[cheshyre]

I have to post about it in bard_in_boston, but my favorite Shakespeare troupe will be performing Titus Andronicus in the basement of the Garage in Harvard Square.

Convenient location?

[anisosynchronic.livejournal.com]

I hope the acoustics are better than the acoustics were at First Avenue in Minneapolis, the site of a music challenge in an Emma Bull novel between major characters.... years ago, back during a Fourth Street Fantasy Convention (which were really really really fine conventions...) there was a pub party held at First Avenue for that particular book of Emma Bull's. First Avenue was like The Garage in Cambridge, originally a car/trolley barn, made of concrete, with the concrete spiraling up and down ramps... and the absolute worst accoustics I've ever been exposed to in a music club venue! I was having trouble believing my ears as the acoustic converter musicians playing on instruments and using their voices, into mostly non-sound, diverting off the audio to I wasn;t sure where and leaving very little comprehensible signal in what was remains and what trounced around to I-wouldn't-really-call-it-echo.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

That it surely is!

Oh, my. Titus. Meep. *looks scared and intrigued both*

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

Wonderful location! Thanks for calling it to my attention.

[cheshyre]

Is it?
I didn't even know there was a basement in the Garage...

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

I meant the location is wonderful in the sense of being easy for me to get to. I've never seen a production there.