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Nothing helps avant garde art go down like a good gimmick, and filmmaker Robert Fenz had a great one. Fenz screened two films Monday at the Harvard Film Archive, each accompanied by live improvisation from the renowned jazz trumpeter Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith.

Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick has endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president. He made the leap early, and it's a little surprising given that Patrick worked for the Clinton Administration. Obviously, Patrick is a plum catch for any politician running for office. A good word from him can mean a lot. Patrick's decision gives Obama access to the Massachusetts political treasure chest and gives him a publicity boost for the primaries in New Hampshire. It also...

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA...

Bank of America wants you to get cultured. Or it wants more cultured people to open bank accounts with them. Whatever. They're continuing the tradition of free admission to Massachusetts Bank of America cardholders during the month of May. The Old State House Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Science, and the Museum of African American History are participating in the promotion. We didn't see any fine print, so it looks like...

Poet and spoken-word artist Sekou Sundiata will be speaking as part of the ICA's "What New Is" series on Wednesday, April 18, at 6:30 pm. Tickets are available online on icaboston.org.

There's no good reason to be sitting at home carving pumpkins this week with all the good shows happening around the Hub. Take a moment to put down your $3 carving kit and your pumpkin to sing the pumpkin carving song as you head out to catch some live music. Oh, and if you wear your costume we won't tell. Tuesday, 10/24 Project Move with Elemental Zazen Local hip hop heroes Project Move and...

Yeah, Sublimidible. Bostonist has heard Dubya utter that word a thousand times in rerun clips in the past four years, in fact we're pretty sure it came up as a hip hop mix during the last election cycle. According to a Boston Globe report last week the election debacle of 2000 is what got DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid kicked into gear speaking out about politics and history. Paul Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky, remixed a film into a multimedia presentation "Rebirth of a Nation" that will be performed for the first time locally Friday at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. The presentation has been performed around the country but DJ Spooky will perform the new work locally as part of Harvard’s Learning From Performers series. The performance will be followed by a discussion and question and answered session with real academic feel, moderated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Chair of Harvard's Dept. of African and African American Studies. Get a preview of what’s in store Friday night at an event tonight at the Harvard Book Store at 6:30 p.m. Rhythm Science, Paul Miller’s book, has met some critical acclaim. The book speaks to mixing and the art form of the DJ. The pop culture favorite DJ anthology today seems to be the 36 Chambers, The RZA’s discusson of the Wu-Tang phenomenon. Rhythm Science was just released in paperback, with a CD, on March 1, 2005 (It came out hardcover last summer). Catch the DJ in Cambridge for two days of thinking hip hop not as a cultural phenomenon but as a method to splice old and new ideas into a newly creative work.