As we all trudge through our Monday after a long holiday weekend, new contributor In the Viewfinder offers this calming, watery shot of MIT's Stata Center. In case you missed it over the weekend, make sure to check out our photo gallery of all the July 4th activities - our awesome PotD photogs did a great job catching the weekend events.......

Music Kimya Dawson has long been one of those buried indie-rock treasures, at least until the release of Juno. The former member of the Moldy Peaches and avid livejournal diarist contributes a large part of the soundtrack, and stars Ellen Page and Michael Cera cover one of her songs, "Anyone Else But You." In fact, Page suggested that Dawson be on the soundtrack since she felt Juno would be a Moldy Peaches fan. Bostonist......

COLLISIONtwelve (12) Art Opening Tonight Friday, November 30th MIT Stata Center Balcony Gallery 32 Vassar Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 6p - 9p / FREE / All Ages COLLISIONcollective is a group of artists from MIT and the surrounding Boston area that explore new technologies through the filters of art. Founded in 2002, their intentions have been to showcase art that incorporates technology, but has since expanded into some of the most innovative and......

One of the most famous sights in Cambridge--MIT's Stata Center, designed by Frank Gehry--is leaking. MIT is now suing Gehry for negligence. The Stata Center may look amazing on the outside, and it got a shout-out in Doonesbury, but Shelley Murphy at the Globe reports that the inside is a mess of cracks, drainage backups, and mold. MIT paid $1.5 million to fix problems in the Stata Center's amphitheater--which is a rotten icing on top......

We got excited back when the acceptance letter came in. We were again enthused when Alex decided to come to MIT. Just recently we watched the daily strip as MIT made some of the first appearances, even if it was only on the phone. Today, after a week at MIT only in the dorm room, we actually get to go outside. The tour of the Cambridge campus features the Stata Center – or as......

Bostonist was startled last week when the Cambridge Chronicle published an article listing the ten ugliest buildings In Cambridge. Topping the list was the new Stata Center at MIT, designed by world-renowed modernist architect Frank Gehry. Apparently, we weren't the only ones taken back by this nudge to the experimental and visually stimulating building placed in the center of the otherwise drab industrial park. This past week, the Chronicle reported on a class of......