They were meant to be together so when I learned that the Guggenheim Museum was celebrating the 50th anniversary of its landmark building with an in-depth retrospective of the Russian avant-garde artist Wasilly Kandinsky, I knew I had to go.
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6 Dec 2009 - 10:45pm
Any mystery about the content of Pres. Barack Obama's speech regarding U.S. involvement in Afghanistan was dispelled the moment it was announced that he would be giving his address from West Point.
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6 Dec 2009 - 3:39am
BOSTON/Dorchester - Members of Dorchester People for Peace stood out in Fields Corner Tuesday evening to protest Pres. Barrack Obama’s announcement of an impending escalation of the Afghanistan War by sending 30,000 more troops at an annual cost of tens of billions of dollars.
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6 Dec 2009 - 3:13am
In the Bourne neighborhood of Jamaica Plain, Andrée Zaleska and Ken Ward, with their 3 boys, Simon 8, Eli 9, and Kuba 11, are rehabbing a 100 year old, abandoned, former corner store to serve as their new home, a demonstration of sustainable living & passivhaus design, community center and c
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6 Dec 2009 - 12:00am
BOSTON/Government Center - Over 25 people congregated on a rainswept City Hall Plaza Monday at a rally called by the Massachusetts Mobilization for Climate Justice. The action aimed at pressuring politicians to push for more far-reaching policies to deal with the negative effects of climate change. Organizers also commemorated the 10th anniversary of the mass protests by labor and environmental groups against the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle - which were widely-credited with effectively shutting down the proceedings and forcing a public reevaluation of corporate-driven global political and economic agendas.
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29 Nov 2009 - 10:09pm
Open Media Boston needs your help to keep putting out professionally-produced news coverage of Boston and environs - with a consistently progressive editorial stance - week after week.
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28 Nov 2009 - 6:16pm
The health reform endgame is over for low-income senior citizens, but the national hoax continues.
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23 Nov 2009 - 11:06am
BOSTON/Beacon Hill - In the last hours of the 2009 legislative session, the Massachusetts State Senate voted to pass “An Act Relative to Sentencing Laws.” The omnibus criminal justice bill included comprehensive CORI reforms sought by a broad statewide network organized as the Commonwealth CORI
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23 Nov 2009 - 3:17am
With ChromeOS, Google is betting the sever farm on a new model of computing that leaves applications on web servers and trades power for ease of use and reliability. Optimized for web work and little else, ChromeOS devices will be zippy browsers.
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22 Nov 2009 - 11:47pm
BOSTON/Downtown Crossing - A photo essay of a candlelight vigil called by labor and community organizations on 11/11/09 in support of 100 housekeepers fired from 3 area Hyatt hotels in August after being forced to train their replacements from a subcontracting company.
