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...This is unusual but not unheard of. A few years ago the architects Diller, Scofidio & Renfro provided the same kind of glass-walled backdrop for the theater they designed as part of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, and it's worked well there, though one factor may be that it looks out on a water view that's calmer and more predictable than a cityscape. The Wyly is also a very flexible cavity, with movable banks of seats and balconies that can slide in and out or fly up and disappear. Even the proscenium can be raised and lowered...
...Boston winter is fast approaching, and the falling temperature is simply a delayed reminder of what is to come—the upcoming flu season. With sanitization stations dotting the campus, e-mails from deans reminding us to wash our hands with soap and water and sanitizer, and special rooms on campus quarantining sick students, we would be hard-pressed not to notice the particular attention paid to this year’s flu season, especially with the spread of the H1N1...
...responding to Moscow mayor’s innovative strategy, the overwhelming majority of students gave a thumbs-down to the idea, wishing to spare Boston skies of the misty chemical assault...
Mazzarelli, who has operated Alfred Harvard Square since 1983, said that his salon already has a close relationship with the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center...
...scene” is no longer in New York, where is it? Some argue that other cities like D.C. or Boston provide thriving alternative intellectual loci. (Legend has it that, challenged thusly in a newspaper editorial, one New Yorker fired off the epistolary missile: “May I suggest that the reason Boston is ‘overflowing’ with culture is the shallow vessel in which it is contained?”) Others propose that the very idea of an intellectual nucleus is outdated, with the collective energy of e-mail, blogs, and Twitter heralding a more...