Books --Charles Bock's Beautiful Children isn't as delicate as it sounds. A couple reels after their child vanishes in the Las Vegas desert--only it's so, so much more than that, and it's received a flood of attention. The Globe thought Bock threw too much into his debut, but everyone seems to agree that he's ambitious. Brookline Booksmith, 7:00 pm, free. Speaking of free, he's letting you download the book without dropping a single dime.......

The Sustainable Endowments Institute, which is based in Cambridge, has published its second annual College Sustainability Report Card. The Institute issues grades for schools in several green-friendly fields: Administration, Climate Change & Energy, Food & Recycling, Green Building, Transportation, Endowment Transparency, Investment Priorities, and Shareholder Engagement. The endowment and investment fields are crucial to the report because they indicate whether or not a school is putting its money where its mouth is and investing in......

The Globe supplemented today's print edition with a 16 page supplement on the ICA (including the ads). The ICA has been the topic of the local arts blogs and print media arts press for the last few months, a fury of activity has picked up over the past few weeks. The Institute for Contemporary Arts location in the Back Bay closed earlier this year with the promise of a new location on the Boston Waterfront......

Call it performance art. Call it comedy of irony. Call it, well, that’s the point. The Institute for Infinitely Small Things has begun the Initiative for the Renaming of Names in Cambridge. Through 13 separate renaming expeditions, they’ll compile a new nomenclature for the entire city of Cambridge. From what we see we’re not quite sure if they’re going to breach the sanctity of the every-other-block memorial square, but Porter is certainly fair game.......