Bostonist was on hand Thursday when hip hop journalist and SoleSides co-founder Jeff Chang spoke at Tufts. Jeff gave a fascinating lecture about his award winning book Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation. After the lecture, many in the crowd patiently stood in line, waiting for a chance to chat briefly with Jeff while he signed copies of his book. Jeff also asked for questions after his talk. And folks......

Maybe you saw yesterday's Globe article announcing that legendary hip hop artists such as Afrika Bambaataa, Kool Herc, and Grandmaster Flash are contributing turntables and other items for a forthcoming hip hop exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. And maybe that got you jonzin' for some mad science about the history of hip hop. Well, you don't have to wait to trudge through a dusty museum. Instead, Bostonist has just the event......

Lent, what a time to give something up. Over here at Bostonist Headquarters we're thinking hard what we're going to drop come Wednesday. It won't be our MP3 player and it won't be live music. Maybe with this, week four of the now weekly music pick running on Monday we're going to be able to give up our lack of coverage of the local music scene. With fingers crossed we're raising a pint to forty......