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• Posted Bostonist Interviews Jonathan Walls (Co-Director, Editor of Playing for Change.) to Bostonist
  The Playing for Change Band -- which you may have seen on The Tonight Show or the Colbert Report, or everywhere on the internet, ever -- is coming to the Orpheum on October 22nd and the Calvin Theater in Northampton, MA on October 23rd. We spoke with Jonathan over the phone while he was working on another project in Philadelphia. BOSTONIST: Tell me about your involvement with the tour and the Playing for Change...
• Posted Boston Mayorfest 2009: Chelsea to Bostonist
  Bostonist is asking the local and nearby mayors and city-managers the following question: Is there anything in particular you'd like to see -- or hope to see -- with the next (or "next," depending) mayor of Boston? Here's what Jay Ash -- the City Manager of Chelsea -- had to say: It is not my place to try to insert myself into Boston politics, but you asked and I will share with you this perspective....
• Posted Bostonist Books: Love and Obstacles by Aleksandar Hemon (Review) to Bostonist
  Aleksandar Hemon is appearing at the Harvard Book Store this Friday, May 15, at 7 P.M. We talked to Aleksandar Hemon last year about his novel The Lazarus Project, which went on to be a New York Times notable book and a finalist for the National Book Award. The Bosnian-American writer's just-released fourth book, Love and Obstacles, is a collection of interconnected short stories, the interconnecting agent being the nameless narrator tearing his way...
• Posted Bostonist Interviews Eugene Mirman to Bostonist
  Eugene Mirman is a comedian. He has done several wonderful things. This coming Wednesday—Feb. 25th, for calendar nerds—at 7PM, he will be reading from his new self-help book The Will to Whatevs at the Brookline Booksmith. Bostonist: Set the scene for us. How'd the book come into being? Who were the players? Outside of Ms. Westfall-Tharp, did you try bits of the book out on anyone as the work progressed? EM: I’ve done an advice...
• Posted Hub Fans Bid Updike Adieu to Bostonist
  "I think of the books on library shelves, without their jackets, years old, and a countryish teenaged boy finding them, and having them speak to him." -- Updike, The Paris Review. John Updike is dead. Twenty-four books of his on our shelf, all read, and he's out the door, on the street and hailing a cab. He wrote about Bergson. He wrote about Whitman. He wrote about the strange silences of an abandoned church. He...