Boston music group Aljashu’s intercultural performance of Sephardic songs, in the Ladino language, will take place at the 2012 Boston Jewish Music Festival on March 5, at Ohabei Shalom, Synagogue, in Brookline.
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Review: Boston ICA Draw/Dance Transforms Ways of Seeing, Being
Cambridge writer Anita Harris finds Boston ICA’s Draw Dance show transformative.
Filmmaker uses novel site to fundraise for doc on Boston 60s WBCN rock politics radio
Boston filmmaker Bill Lichtenstein is seeking $104K to fund documentary “The American Revolution” about 60s Boston radio station WBCN. “We changed the world once and we can do it again,” he says.
Cambridge collaboration to inaugurate entrepreneurship “Walk of Fame” on Friday 9/18/11
At 1PM, collaborators from MIT, CIC, the Marion Ewing Kauffman Foundation
for Entrepreneurship, several venture funds, the City of Cambridge,
Ernst & Young and others will inaugurate the world’s first “Walk of
Fame” for entrepreneurs . The event, open to the public, will be held at the Kendall Square T stop in front of
the Marriott Hotel’s newly redesigned plaza.
Merging Art & Science: MIT Koch Institute Gallery is a Must See
On my way to a meeting at MIT, I happened to spot some stunning photos through the window of what turned out to be the Philip Alden Russell Gallery David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. While cancer research would not seem to be much of a draw, the gallery is well worth a visit.
Journalist Dorothy Parvaz held in Iran; please keep story in the news, social media
Please help spread word to help free Dorothy Parvaz, a reporter for Al Jazeera who was seized while reporting from Syria, and then deported to Iran on May 1. The Iranian government has not acknowledged that she is in the country.
Lab tests for a dime at the convenience store?
I asked when and how these groundbreaking technologies will affect the costs and structure of US healthcare–and whether those who make and market our costly technologies will try to keep these new testing devices from our marketplace.
Country Greetings From Fresh Pond, Cambridge
My new place is gorgeous-three floors, a garage, a basement, big windows, light…and just a 10-minute bike ride from my favorite morning coffee haunt. There’s a grocery store nearby, a gym, a Chinese restaurant…I have nice neighbors who like gardening so much that they bought some plants that they take care of in my front yard. When you walk down the street, people actually smile and say “hello.”