Honest-to-goodness Nobel Laureates, along with a few non-Laureates, indulged their silly sides on Thursday night when Harvard University hosted the 2007 Ig Nobels ceremony. The Annals of Improbable Research magazine (that sounds like something Dave Eggers would have thought up) grants the "Ig Nobels" for achievements in "unusual and imaginative scientific discovery." Here's a list of this year's winners in all the Ig Nobel fields from the Guardian UK: Medicine: Brian Witcombe of Gloucester and......

Bostonist would like to congratulate Heather for winning our contest for two free tickets to the Revenge of the Book Eaters show at the Berklee Performance Center. 826 Boston just sent word that tickets are still available. Not only will the show be a blast, but the money also goes to a good cause - the new 826 Boston writing center/Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute. Revenge of the Book Eaters Wednesday, September 26, 7:00 pm,......

Revenge of the Book Eaters will take place on Wednesday, September 26th, at the Berklee Performance Center. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. For ticket info, visit 826 Boston's website. This fall, the latest branch of 826 National, the series of fantasy stores/writing centers created by author Dave Eggers and Nínive Calegari, will open in Egleston Square. Students will be able to explore the wonders of cryptozoology at the Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute, and then......

Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant - it all happened across our sites this week! Another banner week at Chicagoist started off with daily reports from food writer Lisa Shames on her attempt to eat only locally grown and raised foodstuffs all week as part of a farmers market......

The Darfur/Darfur Exhibit will be at the Institute of Contemporary Art on Friday, September 7, in the Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater. The exhibit of photographs will run from 10 am to 3 pm and is free with regular admission. Tickets to the lecture and Yo-Yo Ma performance are already sold out, but you will be able to hear it outside the ICA. Sometimes "awareness-raising" only goes so far, especially when it comes to......

"Get to Know Us By Filling in the __ : An Evening of Literary & Musical Entertainment" will be from 6 to 9 pm tonight, May 23, at 647 Boylston Street. Clear your calendars because 826 Boston, the soon-to-be-opened Massachusetts division of the writing school that started in San Francisco, is holding its inaugural fundraiser. "Get to Know Us By Filling in the __ : An Evening of Literary & Musical Entertainment" promises to get......

Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr., will read from Finding Oprah’s Roots: Finding Your Own, at Harvard Book Store at 6:30 pm. Dave Eggers, Valentino Achak Deng, and Samantha Power, Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, will discuss What Is the What at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard at 6:30 pm. It's a big night tonight when it comes to intellectual gatherings. We simply couldn't decide which event to attend......