Theater/Performance Art
Theater/Performance Art
Ethan Long
Ethan Long
Down by the water in Allston lies the largest section of open parkland in the Charles River Basin. Christian A. Herter Park, named after the 53rd Secretary of State and 59th Massachusetts Governor, is Allston’s own esplanade. Maintained by the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), it is used by residents every day whether it be for recreation or to simply enjoy the oasis-like patch of land bordered by industrial and commercial businesses, a crosstown parkway, and the Charles River. More
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Point/Counterpoint: Is Allston gentrification a good thing or a bad thing?
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Point/Counterpoint
Point/Counterpoint
Point/Counterpoint is a recurring feature on BDCwire which explores the pros and cons of various parts of life in Boston. These arguments may, or may not, break any new ground, but are meant as a starting point for you too to make an argument. What do you think? Are you pro-gentrification or anti-gentrification? More
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Record Hospital Fest, Rock ‘n’ Roll Rumble, more shows this weekend
Music
Perry Eaton
Perry Eaton
It's rock festivals galore this weekend. And by that, we don't mean the outdoor, sweaty bro, over expensive bottles of water types of music festivals. These are more like the community center, tattoo people and local music freak types of festivals. There are also some solid nerdcore bands playing this weekend for PAX East, but that's a different story. More
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Canadian dentist plans to clone John Lennon from tooth
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Jerard Fagerberg
Jerard Fagerberg
Imagine there's two Lennons. It's easy if you try. Well, that is according NME, who today reported that Dr. Michael Zuk, a psychotic and technologically mislead dentist from Alberta, Canada, plans to clone the late Beatles singer from tooth DNA and raise him as a son. More
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Technology
People fill the convention floor at the PAX East gaming convention in Boston
10 things not to miss at PAX East this weekend
Technology
Michelle Buchman
Michelle Buchman

Today through Sunday, hordes of video game fans will swarm the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center for PAX East. Billed as the “largest gaming event in North America,” the Boston show has doubled in size since the first show in 2010 at the Hynes Convention Center. Companies from XBox to Playstation bring their latest and greatest to show off to an estimated 70,000 attendees over the weekend. There’s so much to see and do, it can be overwhelming to battle the crowds. Here are our recommendations of what to see and do at PAX East.  

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The Masters: who to watch for, even if you aren’t a golf watcher
Sports
Jeremy Gottlieb
Jeremy Gottlieb
I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that most, if not all, of you reading this are not often asked, “hey aren’t you so pumped for the big golf tournament this weekend?” Or something to that effect. But that’s OK because I’m here to tell you why you should be so pumped for the golf tournament this weekend and that’s because the golf tournament we’re discussing is The Masters. And The Masters is awesome. More
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Danny Brown releases new ’25 Bucks’ video, plays Boston tonight
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Alex Khatchad­ourian
Alex Khatchad­ourian
After Detroit's own, Danny Brown, came out with his hard-hitting and equally clever 2010 album, "The Hybrid", it seemed like artists were lining up to collaborate with the pedigreed street-rapper. From Freddie Gibbs to A$AP Rocky to Charli XCX, Brown's 2013 album, "Old," bolstered a bunch of improbable collaborations that showed just how emphatic Brown is about pushing the limits of the hip-hop genre. More
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Joan Jett could front Nirvana at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction
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Alex Khatchad­ourian
Alex Khatchad­ourian
There's been a lot of chatter surrounding Nirvana's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tomorrow night. Sans Kurt Cobain, the rumor mills have been spinning a number of possible artists that will step in and front the surviving members of the grunge group. Drummer Dave Grohl's Foo Fighters instagrammed a photo, presumably from event rehearsals, that shows Krist Novoselic’s bass, Pat Smear’s guitar, Dave Grohl’s drumkit and wait for it....Joan Jett’s signature Melody Maker. More
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Derrick Gordon helps American sports take another step towards tolerance
Sports
Jerard Fagerberg
Jerard Fagerberg
American sports took another major step towards universal tolerance today when sophomore UMass guard Derrick Gordon came out today as the first openly gay NCAA men's Division 1 basketball player. "Now that I'm taking the mask off, people can finally see who I really am," the 22-year-old Western Kentucky transfer told SB Nation's Outside Sports, who broke the story this morning. More
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Show Scenes: Cloud Nothings at Brighton Music Hall
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Ben Stas
Ben Stas
Cleveland noise-rock/post-hardcore trio Cloud Nothings, touring their new LP "Here and Nowhere Else," delivered a blistering set to a sold-out Brighton Music Hall on Tuesday night. The post-punk-tinged Pleasure Leftists opened.
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5 ways to determine if your startup has been hacked by Russian spies
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Noah Guiney
Noah Guiney
Innovators beware! It seems like Kendall square is on the frontlines of a new Cold War. The FBI’s Boston office has issued a warning to area startups that Russian spies might be posing as investors in order to steal technology for the Russian army. To hammer their point home, Lucia Ziobro, an assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's Boston office, wrote an op-ed in the Boston Business Journal detailing some of the links between Russian investors involved in Cambridge and Silicon Valley and scary-sounding Russian military units, such as the “strategic missile troops.” More
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7 stereotypes you’ll find at any summer music festival
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Alex Khatchad­ourian
Alex Khatchad­ourian
You know it's music festival season when you scroll through your Facebook or Twitter feed and fifty percent of the statuses are either announcements about some friend who is trying to get rid of an extra Coachella ticket for super cheap, or angry posts by people venting about their disappointment in Daft Punk's absence from every single festival lineup this year (and every year prior to this, so just give it up already). Sure, SXSW has come and gone, but nothing marks the start of so many people's favorite season of the year more than Coachella. More
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