The park is now known as the Boston Common , a large grassy area in the center of the city with ball fields and the Frog Pond, which is a skating rink in the winter and a spray pool for children in the summer. The fleet of dual-pontoon swan boats have been in operation since and have since become a cultural icon of the city, making for the perfect warm-weather activity. And while in the garden, watch out for the ducklings! Nope, not the duck boat tours that are hard to miss but rather a string of adorable copper duckling statues located in a corner of the park.
Bostonians will dress up these little ducklings for the changing of seasons or any important day. From the Commons and Public Garden, the green then continues in a stretch of leafy foliage down Commonwealth Avenue and connects a series of parks throughout Boston. Altogether, these spaces provide the perfect backdrop for strolling, picnicking, and generally balancing out the urban bustle. Boston is a collegiate mecca, with over 50 colleges and universities in the city and greater metropolitan area, including the world-renowned Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
And thanks to these world-class institutions, Boston has the greatest concentration of living Nobel laureates. How often do you get the chance to be on a vehicle that drives from the city streets straight onto a body of water? The tours are conducted on half-automobile, half-boat machines replicated from WWII that operate on both land and sea.
Departing from either the New England Aquarium , the Prudential Center, or the Museum of Science, the minute tours take you to over 30 crucial sites around the city and explain their background and significance. Boston seems to have quite an affinity for ducks; besides decking out the vehicles with images of the same water birds seen all around the public gardens, the so-called conDUCKtour drivers will quack over the intercom for children during their guided narration if requested.
The now clean Boston Harbor has 34 islands for visitors and locals to venture and escape the city. From these bits of land, you can explore other islands nearby as well. If you have a boat of your own or want to rent one during your trip, then your options are limitless. The Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Ballet attract talent from around the world and regularly put on internationally-acclaimed productions and festivals.
The ballet team masterfully executes a range of performances, from classics like the Nutcracker and Swan Lake to contemporary dance that pushes boundaries and leaves viewers pondering the power of the abstract. The symphony orchestra provides another option to experience a profound night out in Boston. Additionally, every year the Boston Pops score the background to the 4th of July fireworks display from the Hatch Shell to create a truly momentous event for anyone lying on a blanket near the river.
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Just like human beings. A loss sends us into a spiral. An uncontrollable, spirling feeling you feel coming up your throat. Oftentimes, when we experience loss, we beg for the "one mores". One more hug, please. Can I have one more kiss? Just one more laugh we can share? We wish for these experiences to just happen once more as if that would ever be enough. The reality is that even if we were privileged with one more, we would want another. And another. We'd never be satisfied.
We'd eventually just wish for eternity. Loss is necessary. Loss is natural. Loss is inevitable. Loss was never defined as easy. In fact, it has to be hard. It has to be hard for us to remember. To remember those warm embraces, to remember the feeling of their lips on yours, and to remember the smile on their face when you said something funny. But why are we so afraid of loss after all? We are so blessed to have experienced it to begin with.
It means there was a presence of care. That ache in our heart and the deep pit in our stomach means there was something there to fill those vacant voids. The empty spaces were just simply whole. We're all so afraid of change. Change in our love life or our families, change in our friendships and daily routines. One day we will remember that losing someone isn't about learning how to live without them, but to know their presence, and to carry what they left us behind.
For everything we've deeply loved, we cannot lose. They become a part of us. We adapt to the way they talk, we make them a part of our Instagram passwords, we remember when they told us to cook chicken for 20 minutes instead of We as humans are so lucky to meet so many people that will one day leave us.
We are so lucky to have the ability and courage to suffer, to grieve, and to wish for a better ending. For that only means, we were lucky enough to love.
When Sony announced that Venom would be getting a stand-alone movie, outside of the Tom Holland MCU Spider-Man films, and intended to start its own separate shared universe of films, the reactions were generally not that kind.
Even if Tom Hardy was going to take on the role, why would you take Venom, so intrinsically connected to Spider-Man's comic book roots, and remove all of that for cheap action spectacle?
Needless to say I wound up hopping on the "lets bash 'Venom'" train. While I appreciated how much fun Tom Hardy was having and the visual approach to the symbiotes, I couldn't get behind the film's tone or story, both of which felt like relics of a bygone era of comic book storytelling that sacrificed actual pathos for that aforementioned cheap spectacle.
But apparently that critical consensus was in the minority because audiences ate the film up. On top of that, Ruben Fleischer would step out of the director's chair in place of Andy Serkis, the visual effects legend behind characters like 'The Lord of the Rings' Gollum and 'Planet of the Apes' Caesar, and a pretty decent director in his own right. Now with a year-long pandemic delay behind it, 'Venom: Let There Be Carnage' is finally here, did it change my jaded little mind about the character's big-screen worth?
Surprisingly, it kind of did. I won't pretend that I loved it by any stretch, but while 'Let There Be Carnage' still features some of its predecessor's shortcomings, there's also a tightness, consistency and self-awareness that's more prevalent this time around; in other words, it's significantly more fun!
A year after the events of the first film, Eddie Brock played by Tom Hardy is struggling with sharing a body with the alien symbiote, Venom also voiced by Hardy. Things change when Eddie is contacted by Detective Pat Mulligan played by Stephen Graham , who says that the serial killer Cletus Kasady will talk only with Eddie regarding his string of murders. His interview with Kasady played by Woody Harrelson leads to Eddie uncovering the killer's victims and confirming Kasady's execution.
During their final meeting, Kasady bites Eddie, imprinting part of Venom onto Kasady. When Kasady is executed, the new symbiote awakens, merging with Kasady into a bloody, far more violent incarnation known as Carnage.
It's up to Eddie and Venom to put aside their differences to stop Carnage's rampage, as well as Frances Barrison played by Naomi Harris , Kasady's longtime girlfriend whose sonic scream abilities pose a threat to both Venom and Carnage.
So what made me completely switch gears this time around? There's a couple reasons, but first and foremost is the pacing. Serkis and screenwriter Kelly Marcel know exactly where to take the story and how to frame both Eddie and Venom's journeys against the looming threat of Carnage. Even when the film is going for pure, outrageous humor, it never forgets the qualms between Eddie and Venom should be at the center beyond the obvious comic book-y exhibitions.
If you were a fan of Eddie's anxious sense of loss, or the back-and-forth between he and the overly eccentric Venom, you are going to love this movie. Hardy has a great grasp on what buttons to push for both, especially Venom, who has to spend a chunk of the movie contending with losing Eddie altogether and find their own unique purpose among other things, what is essentially Venom's "coming out" moment that actually finds some weight in all the jokes.
Then there's Harrelson as Carnage and he absolutely delivers! Absolutely taking a few cues from Heath Ledger's Joker, Harrelson is leaning just enough into campy territory to be charismatic, but never letting us forget the absolutely shattered malicious mind controlling the spaghetti wrap of CGI. Serkis' directing itself deserves some praise too.
I can't necessarily pinpoint his style, but like his approach on 'Mowgli,' he has a great eye for detail in both character aesthetics and worldbuilding. That goes from the symbiotes' movements and action bits to bigger things like lighting in a church sequence or just making San Francisco feel more alive in the process. As far as downsides go, what you see is basically what you get.
While I was certainly on that train more here, I also couldn't help but hope for more on the emotional side of things. Yes, seeing the two be vulnerable with one another is important to their arcs and the comedy infusions work more often than not, but it also presents a double-edged sword of that quick runtime, sacrificing time for smaller moments for bigger, more outrageous ones.
In addition, while Hardy and Harrelson are electric together, I also found a lot of the supporting characters disappointing to a degree. Mulligan has a few neat moments, but not enough to go beyond the tough cop archetype. The only one who almost makes it work is Naomi Harris, who actually has great chemistry with Harrelson until the movie has to do something else with her.
It's those other characters that make the non-Venom, non-Carnage moments stall significantly and I wish there was more to them.
I wouldn't go so far as to have complete faith in this approach to Sony's characters moving forward — Venom or whatever larger plans are in the works — but I could safely recommend this whatever side of the film spectrum you land on. This kind of fun genre content is sorely needed and I'm happy I had as good of a time as I did. Brittany Morgan, National Writer's Society 2. Kristen Haddox , Penn State University 4.
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For adventurers willing and able to hit the road, a quick half-hour drive from downtown will get you to enjoyable hiking destinations, like Blue Hills Reservation , Middlesex Fells Reservation , Noanet Woodlands , and Hale Reservation. Dual hiking and skiing destinations Mt.
Wachusett and Mt. Watatic , popular among hikers, trail runners, and snowshoers alike, are about an hour from downtown. Slightly less than two hours from the city is Mt. Monadnock, located just past the New Hampshire border in Jaffrey, one of the most-climbed peaks in the world. Boston is surrounded by water—this is The Bay State, after all. For rowers and kayakers, the Charles River is your playground. Prime sailing starts out of Rowes Wharf and the Boston Harbor.
A ferry ride away, the beachcombers can explore Cape Cod, Nantucket, or one of the many Harbor Islands. Outside the city, but accessible by train, are the picturesque beaches of Ipswich and Rockport along the North Shore, and Scusset and Sandy Neck beaches along the South Shore.
The largest by far, with 40, square feet of rock walls, bouldering, fitness equipment, and class space, is the crunchy-hipster mecca of Brooklyn Boulders in Somerville.
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