Tutor Drive. 
826 Boston is running a tutor drive! As we near the end of the school year, many of our dedicated tutors are taking exams, heading home, or zipping off to other locales for the summer. But Marvin, Alex, Maura and the other drop-in students still have six more weeks of homework! Read more.
Wednesday /
May 7, 2008
Please join a spirited evening of dialogue on the complexities of remembering and writing about family, as Boston journalist and Radio Open Source host Christopher Lydon converses with best-selling author Mary Gordon about her latest memoir, Circling My Mother.
Thursday, May 29, 2008, 5:30-8:30 pm
60 State Street Boston: 26th floor
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Tuesday /
April 22, 2008
826 Boston, GOOD magazine, and the Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute wish to thank the 300+ people who attended the first annual North American Symposium on Sasquatch Research on April 12th! The unique conference– the first of its kind to be held in Boston– attracted throngs of the curious to the Institute including cryptozoologists and citizen scientists.
Mammalologist Eugene Mirman (HBO’s Flight of the Conchords) cracked up the crowd with his own cryptid inventions– the Very Long Mouse and the Harrison Ford-o-Taur– while award-winning author Jim Shepard read “Ancestral Legacies,” a story about soldiers pursuing the yeti. “Yeti Researcher” editor Josh Bearman and the world’s leading cryptozoologist Loren Coleman joined Shepard and Mirman for a panel titled “Does Sasquatch Exist?” The ensemble entertained questions like “Bigfoot: friend or foe?” and “Should it be illegal to shoot a Sasquatch?”
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Watch Giant Crab Wrestling.
Watch Leech Ballet.
Friday /
April 18, 2008
Thanks to everyone who made it out to our Family Day last Saturday! It was great to bring together enthusiastic folks to celebrate the opening of the Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute!
Some highlights included:
Mayor Thomas M. Menino stopped by to officially open our doors with a ribbon-cutting.
Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman explained the difference between mythical animals (unicorns, dragons, centaurs) and cryptid animals (sasquatch, loch ness, chupacabras) and answered questions from an enthusiastic audience.
A. W. Flaherty read her book, The Luck of the Loch Ness Monster: A Tale of Picky Eating, and explained why parents should be proud of picky eaters.
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Saturday /
April 5, 2008
Register now for the Symposium, Saturday, April 12, 2008, 6-10 p.m. Don't miss this fabulous event, featuring Mammalologist Eugene Mirman, Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, "Yeti Researcher" author Josh Bearman, and author Jim Shepard. The evening will also include free drinks & dancing with DJ Ripley.
Thursday /
March 20, 2008
The Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute's Product Testing Seminar on March 8, 2008, brought together cryptozoologists, naturalists, scatologists, and -ists of various other types. Participants received the much-coveted GBBRI T-Shirt, the eminently hip Wilderness Survival Bundle, and terribly useful instruction on everything from cargo net tosses to foot plaster casting to camouflage makeup application.
To see photos from the event, follow this link. Click here for video highlights.
The GBBRI will officially open on April 1. Don't miss the crypto-event of the season--the North American Symposium on Sasquatch Research, Saturday, April 12, with events running all day long.
Register now for the April 12 evening cocktail party, hosted by GOOD Magazine.
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