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EMPAC announces Fall schedule, including appearance by Album of the Year candidate

By On August 16, 2011 · 4 Comments

 

EMPAC has released its schedule for the Fall of 2011. Check it out here.

Some of the things  that popped out to me:

Guy Maddin: Tales from the Gimli Hospital: Reframed (Thursday September 1, 7:30 PM) features [...]

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Bicycles, Christmas, and the Special Olympics

By On July 31, 2011 · Leave a Comment

One thing I’m always struck by is the generosity of friends, acquaintances, and outright strangers.

Yesterday I was out on a morning run (I actually did two days in a row; someone get Rex Smith on the horn and tell him we need an evening edition printed) when I was flagged down by someone that [...]

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Giveaway: 2 free tickets to virtuoso pianist Jaroslaw Kapuscinski at EMPAC this Saturday

By On April 12, 2011 · 5 Comments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyWYAcvwPOg

 

UPDATE: contest closed. Congratulations to Alex, one of Kevin Marshall’s Americans. Enjoy the show!

Kevin Marshall’s America is honored to be giving away two (2) tickets to see “Jaroslaw Kapuscinski: Catch the Tiger!” live at EMPAC on Saturday, April 16th at 7:00pm.

To win the tickets, submit a comment in response to this blog post [...]

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At RPI, crowd cheers for machine as IBM’s Watson beats human competition on Jeopardy

By On February 17, 2011 · 29 Comments

I watched the IBM Jeopardy! Challenge at RPI’s EMPAC facility last evening with an unhealthy combination of skepticism and ignorance.

The three-day event coincided with the airing of three episodes of the long-running game [...]

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