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Interview with author and comedian Aaron Karo from Thomas Attila Lewis on Vimeo.

Are you a fan of Google Maps? Are you a fan of the MBTA? Wait, that second one might be a bit too much to ask for. How about: do you have to use the MBTA and/or would you like to use it more often and more efficiently?

A couple months ago we did this little Fenway Park piece with Boston-based comedian Ira Proctor.

Mistakenly regarded as a Pixies spin-off band, the Breeders have always been an entity to themselves. Sure, the band is helmed by Pixies bassist Kim Deal started the Breeders with (Throwing Muse) Tanya Donelly when the Pixies were in a tailspin and headed for a breakup way back in the early '90s. The Breeders released the excellent Pod (still a fave of ours and Kurt Cobain's) in 1990 and followed it with their platinum album, Last Splash in '93 - but they have consistently released excellent music since their inception.

Pro Cyclist Magnus Backstedt Interview from Thomas Attila Lewis.The Pan Mass Challenge ride to fun cancer research at Dana Farber starts tomorrow.... or does it? Former professional cyclist, and current cycling team manager, Magnus Backstedt, arrived in Boston on Wednesday to participate in fundraisers and make his way across the state in order to start the Pan Mass Challenge ride today from West Stockbridge, on the New York border, in order to ride the entire length of the state.

Boston Web Innovators Group Meetup 07/15/2009 from Thomas Attila Lewis on Vimeo.

MC Hammer, Gary Vaynerchuk, and many other speakers will be at Gravity Summit at Harvard this August 31st. Gravity Summit is about how to market your organization, how to connect with users and customers and how to best leverage the new tools available.

Scott Kirsner has had a new book, Fans, Friends & Followers: Building An Audience And A Creative Career In The Digital Age, and it's a great read. Kirsner is a kind of Michael Musto of the regional technology scene: he knows all the companies and their principals, he knows about new products and partnerships, he knows the venture capitalists and their areas of investment, and his observations of these phenomena and his commentary are published in his "Innovation Economy" column at the Boston Globe. The column, and his InnoEco blog are must-reads for any entrepreneur or anyone working in tech in New England.

What's Next In Tech 2009 - The Venture Capitalist Panel from Thomas Attila Lewis on Vimeo.

Comedians Eugene Mirman and Kristen Schaal Interview Each Other from Thomas Attila Lewis on Vimeo.

New England Innovation Month is drawing to a close this week with several events, among them is What's Next In Tech: Exploring the Growth Opportunities of 2009 and Beyond. #whatsnext09 will happen this Thursday at Boston University's School of Management from 6:00pm-8:30pm.

Comedians Eugene Mirman and Kristen Schaal Interview Each Other from Thomas Attila Lewis on Vimeo.

Comedian Ira Proctor takes us to Fenway from Thomas Attila Lewis on Vimeo.

It's not too early to tell you about what we think is a great show this coming weekend: They Might Be Giants are coming to the Berklee Performance Center for not one, but two shows! At 3pm on Saturday, June 13th, They Might Be Giants will perform a family oriented matinee that will include plenty of tunes from their Grammy winning Here Come the 123s.

Comedian Tyler Boeh at Fenway Park from Thomas Attila Lewis on Vimeo.

Bill Burr will be the first comedian to perform on "The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien" tonight! Burr, who hails from Boston and who cut his teeth on the local comedy scene will be the first to bring stand-up comedy to Conan's new set after a variety of musical performers have performed on the first week of the relaunch of "The Tonight Show".

Interview with comedian Jen Kober - featured in "NESN Comedy All-Stars" from Thomas Attila Lewis on Vimeo.

Interview with comedian Freddy Lockhart - featured in "NESN Comedy All-Stars" from Thomas Attila Lewis on Vimeo.

Thankfully Massachusetts is such a compact state that you can get to any spot in less than 3 hours (depending on traffic). One of the most farthest-flung spots—from Boston, at least—is Mass MoCA in North Adams.

Interview with comedian Al Del Bene - NESN Comedy All-Stars from Tom Lewis on Vimeo.

Janeane Garofalo's performance at AltCom09 last Friday was easily the highlight of the evening. While there had been concern that her performance would be interrupted by conservative "teabaggers", a fearless Garofalo jumped into the audience at her first opportunity which delighted the crowd and set the tone for her set (see the video after the jump for excerpts). As a fan of her character on "24", Janis Gold, her reading of dialogue from the show was particularly funny.

Comedian Jamie Kilstein at AltCom09 in Somerville, MA from Tom Lewis on Vimeo.

Comedian Leo Allen performed on AltCom09's first show last Friday night. Comedian Leo Allen has written for Conan O'Brien, Saturday Night Live, Human Giant, and the Comedians of Comedy. A former resident of the Boston area, Allen put on a great act and we hope to see him again here.

Rob Riggle at AltCom09 in Somerville from Tom Lewis on Vimeo.

Eugene Mirman Defines Alternative Comedy at AltCom 2009 from Tom Lewis on Vimeo.

An Intro to Season 2 of NESN's Comedy All-Stars from Tom Lewis on Vimeo.Starting tonight and running for the next two months, Friday nights on NESN will be capped by what Boston does best: sports and comedy! Filmed before a live audience last December at Boston's historic Wilbur Theatre, comics from both Boston and around the country converged to bring NESN's audience, which is pretty much everybody, their hilarious take on life and sports in particular in the second season of "NESN's Comedy All-Stars".

Jon LaJoie performing at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston - 04/30/2009 from Tom Lewis on Vimeo.Sure, we had watched all of his online videos, and yes, we went to Hollywood to walk around and interview him, but we really didn't know what to expect from Jon LaJoie's live show at the Wilbur Theatre last Thursday.

In our post on this week's AltCom in Somerville, which starts tonight at the Somerville Theatre, we did note that there would be "many more" performers than we listed.

Although Jay Mohr is currently starring on CBS' "Gary Unmarried" (potential Emmy nomination for him!) on Wednesday's at 8:30pm, you might know him from about a million other things: his seasons on "Saturday Night Live", his roles on Jerry Maguire and Picture Perfect and other movies, his ground-breaking TV series "Action", and his involvement with sports shows like "Mohr Sports", Fox Sports Net's "Beyond the Glory", and "The Jim Rome Show".

The Boston International Film Festival has a ton of offerings in its 6 sessions today and you should definitely look them all over. One of them, in Session 37, caught our eye as it is edited by two-time Academy Award® winner Pietro Scalia (“JFK,” “Black Hawk Down”): 40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy, which screens at 6pm.