stunning student installation in MassArt’s courtyard, by Leah Medin
40’ of golden gauzy fabric (organza) dancing in the wind-
Fides: I've met the Boston Bombers
By Alyssa Lindley Kilzer
I started getting facials from Zubeidat Tsarnaeva (pronounced Zu-bey-da) six years ago when I was 17 at a spa in Belmont, MA. She was soon after fired and contacted my mom to have us start coming to her house, at 410 Norfolk St., right on the line of Cambridge and…
It takes 9,000+ good guys with guns to stop two bad guys with guns. Maybe we could just stop bad guys from getting guns.
— Nick Bilton (@nickbilton) April 19, 2013
The Boston manhunt from start to finish: how and where it played out (via The Boston manhunt from start to finish: how and where it played out - Quartz)
Video - explosions at the Boston Marathon
First-person video by a Boston Globe reporter on the scene. Warning: graphic in parts.
“At the corner of Clarendon Street and Stuart Street, near Copley Square, a woman screamed the name Lisa at intervals, panic on her face as she walked back and forth. Runners, many wrapped in the thin space blankets provided by Boston Marathon officials at the finish line of a race that had ended with two explosions, stood shaking from some combination of runners’ fatigue and shock at what they had heard or seen, or at the bits of news that were passing through the crowd. Some were joined by family members or friends. Some were hugging. Others cried. Many in the crowd stared down at the phones in their hands, trying to make sense of conflicting reports.”
— Scenes from the Boston Marathon Explosion : The New Yorker - Ian Crouch
Cool underground basement concert in Boston
If you’re in Boston, you should check this out. It’s going to be awesome. Unless you’re a cop, in which case it’s going to be super boring.
ORG Torch Songs Molly Zenobia (by CLOUDCLUB)
Producing Beck's Song Reader Live @ The Somerville Theatre - February 28th - Somerville, MA Patch
Karin Webb & I [Brendan Burns] are producing an extraordinary show at the Somerville Theatre on Thursday, February 28th. We are bringing together over 150 local musicians, dancers and performance artists to collaborate on Beck Hansen’s lastest project “Song Reader” (an album released exclusively as sheet music) with live music and original choreography. Loosely, Karin is in charge of the dance component and I’m overseeing the musicians. This article shares my journey for this show over the past few months
