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It might be a stretch to claim that all the children at Sunday's Boston Comic Con were present to support their parents, but there was one incontrovertible example. Two toddlers, swaddled in the costumes of Superman and the Flash, raced through the Back Bay Events Center in strollers, pushed by their parents. "I think he's going to win," said the mother, pointing at the one dressed as Superman. "He's really the fastest." The convention was...

Boffo Box Office, with a lecture from burlesque historian David Kruh, a screening of Lady of Burlesque and a performance from the Boston Babydolls Burlesque Troupe, will start at Coolidge Corner Theater tomorrow night at 7:00 pm. Tickets are $12. Boffo Box Office at Coolidge Corner Theater kicks off a month packed with burlesque events. Tomorrow night, historian David Kruh will talk about the Old Howard theater, which used to be Boston's home of burlesque...

There is something to be said for aerial photography. It's a great way to see the city on the large. It's expensive to take and it's not very interactive unless you know a pilot and can hop a ride to go check out the sites yourself. There is a company based in LA that is using technology to provide not only an aerial, zoomable view, but also panoramas and time lapse photography using gigapixel digital technology. We found this version (shown left) of a zoomable Copley Square as proof of the wonderment that is technology. And we thought that 10.2 megapixels was the new hotness. xRes: Extreme Resolution Large Scale Image Creation currently features an incredibly high resolution image of Copley Square and Back Bay as taken from above this summer (you can see the cow parade below). Looking in from what we can see of the same scene from Google Maps there's little more than a shadow of the John Hancock tower covering the same area. The Prudential sky walk was the site of the photography that was pulled together to make this panorama. We're hoping that Big Brother doesn't get a hold of this technology, it's a little scary what can be photographed from the top of the Pru, especially if you're paranoid.

The New York Times printed a glowing review of the new ICA building on the waterfront today. Fun quotes from the article like "its ability to interweave art and civic life makes it the most important building to rise here in a generation." show that the New York press are as impressed with the new building as the Boston media seems to be. There is early mention of the piece of the John Hancock tower...

Bostonist loves science but does not have the time to read the thousands upon thousands of scientific journals and magazines out there. This is where the Current Science and Technology Podcast proves its worth. A production of the Current Science and Technology Center at the Museum of Science in Boston, helps keep you up-to-date on the latest scientific research, trends, and news.

We've been sitting on our hands wondering how we were going to approach Menino's call for a new downtown skyscraper last week without making all sorts of inadequacy jokes, you know, how this skyscraper might just be Menino's viagra. Damn, we blew our load already. To be just as blunt the basic story told is that Menino has called for a 1,000 foot skyscraper (that's roughly 80 stories, John Hancock is 62). And all Bostonist can do is giggle thinking about how he doesn't measure up to Dubai's planned phallus. In the speech he made announcing the plan he described a tower as a way to showcase the promise and strength of Boston's economic future. Seems reasonable enough, but we do remember hearing a little something about Fidelity shifting some jobs to North Carolina, and the potential for Gillette, following the P&G merger, to pull some of their operations out of the Prudential Center leaving a bit of real estate open for new tenants.

After seriously almost being knocked over in the wind tunnel in front of the John Hancock tower this lovely Tuesday morning, Bostonist just wants you all to be careful out there. After pummeling our newest friends in Florida yesterday, Hurricane Wilma has decided to pay us a visit up north and brought some of her friends. Similar to "The Perfect Storm" of 1991, which had three storms combining into one big massive one, the storm...

After Boston was recently ranked11th for Fittest City in their spring issue, Men's Fitness Magazine has just released the top 20 Fittest (and Fattest) colleges and universities. With Boston already being a very healthy place (if you discount all the Dunkin Donuts in town), two local universities were listed in the fittest higher institutions of learning. Boston University came in third place, with Boston College taking the eleventh spot on the list.

Speaking of the always changing weather, Boston has its own unique meterologist, which is not named Dick Albert or Barry Burbank. Now, Bostonist knows that many of you already know of this weather signal, but for those of you who are new to Boston and need a quick weather check, just look up to the top of the old John Hancock Tower. This building (now known as the Berkeley Tower after a taller, more dominant John Hancock Tower was built in 1968) has a light on top, which depending on the incoming weather pattern, will tell you what to expect. It has been in operation since 1950 and is pretty accurate. Bostonist was trying to recall the little poem that helps Bostonians keep the signals clear: