Entries from Bostonist tagged with 'discovery'
October 18, 2007
Some people dig Beethoven. Others love Beethoven. Astronaut Stephanie Wilson apparently thinks Beethoven and the Boston Symphony Orchestra are so out of this world that she's determined to take the music into orbit. Wilson, a Pittsfield native preparing for her second trip into space for NASA, is planning to bring a page from Beethoven's 9th Symphony ("Ode to Joy") onto the space shuttle Discovery later this month. A fan of the symphony and its annual......
Continue Reading "Houston, We Have A Symphony"March 19, 2007
Since daylight savings time kicked it's been hard to get a good nights sleep. Up too late, and up again the next day too early. This week promises to keep us in that very same groove with a list of great music coming to Boston. Who needs sleep anyway? Don't forget to give your support to Exploit Boston Radio, they've got their fingers crossed that Congress and their favor of big label music will......
Continue Reading "Weekly Music Picks: Spring Begins"May 19, 2006
Last night Bostonist found ourselves at the Massachusetts College of Art Senior Show, an art opening featuring pieces from graduating seniors. The idea of spending a few hours in a room with a group of undergraduate art students had us a bit apprehensive, but we were a bit disappointed by the distinct lack of existential angst emanating from those present. In general, the crowd consisted of very nice students who seemed entirely relieved to be......
Continue Reading "Bikes + Art = Le Tour de Fantasy"February 3, 2006
"Michael Moore's films are great," Randy Olson has told the Kansas City Star, "but I've never seen a debate afterward." Olson's documentary, Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus, aims to provoke discussion through the filmmaker's encounters with inarticulate, media-shy evolutionary biologists and with advocates of intelligent design, a Totally Legitimate Scientific Theory that species were created miraculously appeared suddenly, designed by the Lord an intelligent entity with the power to do that kind of......
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