Take a look at EA Sports new pop-up training centers that encourage better personal fitness.

Virtual Street Corners brings together two communities who rarely interact with the help of a video connection.

For one Boston Prep school, the satisfying turn of the page and row upon row of books have been replaced by the calculated clack of keyboards and endlessness of the internet. As the modern library it seems, contains no actual books.

In the true spirit of DIY culture, skillshares operate under the notion that access to education is a right rather than a commodity and that everyone has knowledge to share, making every individual both a student and a teacher. Their mission is to bring people together and create a reciprocal community based on learning, sharing and doing. A quick internet search reveals groups already formed in both Boston and Austin, but nothing in the NYC environs, until now.
Brooklyn Skillshare’s inaugural event will take place October 10th at the Gowanus Studio Space, offering classes on topics that range from kombucha brewing and [...]

In an effort to streamline some of its governmental bureaucracy, Boston has released the city’s first official iPhone application, allowing citizens to report complaints ranging from broken street lights and potholes to graffiti and downed power lines directly to City Hall. Called Citizen Connect, the mobile application will enable residents to send both pictures and text with a feature that tags the information with location-based GPS. After filing a complaint, users will receive a tracking number so that they can easily follow-up if the problem persists. Though the application has yet to arrive in Apple’s iTune’s store, once it does, [...]

Wooster Collective points out a powerful example of street art that has caused quite a commotion in New England. Artist Maki105 put up a wheat-paste poster titled  “Peek-A-Boo Jesus” on the side of a video store in New Bedford Massachusetts, and it’s getting a lot of serious attention by religious pilgrims.
The Boston Herald reports:
Tears welled up in Angela Sampaio’s eyes as she beheld the Lund’s Corner Jesus through her car windshield Wednesday, reports today’s Standard-Times.
“I am really, really, really moved by this,” she said. And she wanted reassurance that the photographs of this Jesus are on the Internet. “This will [...]