Cultural Events

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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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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.