Results tagged “september11”

It's always hard to know what to say on this day, but local photographer Rich Beaubien has put together a beautiful piece with photographs of the 9/11 Memorial at Logan to pay tribute to the events of eight years ago. Our thoughts and hearts go out to those affected by this and other American tragedies. more ›

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... more ›

Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston's firefighters bent over backwards all week long - first, they fought flames pouring from the Boston Tea Party museum, and then a restaurant fire killed two and injured many more. Their efforts make everything else - like Tom... more ›

In the past few years, Bostonist has seen some pretty spectacular documentaries: "Spellbound", "DIG!", "Paper Clips", "Mad Hot Ballroom", "Murderball"; the list could go on but we think you get the idea. None of these compares to "Rhythm Is It!" – an incredible movie that documents the work of choreographer Roysten Maldoom and his team as they create a dance company in less than two months with 250 "at-risk youths" (their terminology not ours) from around Berlin to perform Stravinsky’s ballet, "the Rite of Spring," with the Berlin Philharmonic. more ›

The MFA brings you the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival this week. Starting with the opening of Born into Brothels on Thursday there will be a number of films from the traveling series screened at Coolidge Corner and the Museum of Fine Arts. In the spirit of the MFA they’ll cost a little bit more than a movie anywhere else, but Bostonist promises that you’ll get more out of any of the films in this series than you will from Elecktra. more ›