Awkward Lectures Cory Arcangel's best known artwork Super Mario Clouds turns the world's first scrolling video game into a digital environment of placid repetition. It percolated on the internet and spilled into the Whitney's Biennial, making Arcangel a digital art superstar. But his true calling may have been as a lecturer. Whether the topic is hacking old electronics or copyright; his willful ignorance of art history or his place in it, Arcangel always entertains.......

The Supreme Judicial Court gave Mitt Romney and his conservative cohorts a mild smacking today when the justices ruled that they cannot force legislators to vote on whether or not a proposal to ban gay marriage should be on the 2008 ballot. This ruling is the latest in a set of complex legal wranglings, which Bostonist has explained here and here, that started when the Legislature recessed before voting on the proposed ballot measure. Romney......

OK, we know it's last-minute, but still . . . Bostonist likes the hip-hop music, and we are always excited when a big name comes to town. This is especially so when the big name belongs to a group or MC who maybe hasn't had the stellar commercial success of, say, Eminem or Ludacris, but who has continued all along to make good music. So we're excited that Buckshot and Smif N Wessun are playing......