Matthew I. ponders the Giant Fiedler Head on the Esplanade. You think, late at night, when everybody's asleep, it gets together with the Giant Baby Heads at the MFA?

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Joel Brown reports on who will be performing with the Pops at the Hatch Shell this July Fourth.

Practice, of course. And also don't be a Boston Latin student. Yes, some BLS students scheduled for a debut with the Pops tonight were barred so they don't spread the killer devastating disfiguring annoying swine flu, Joel Brown reports.

Jim Sullivan talks to Keith Lockhart about the spring season. Baseball is a big theme this year.

Joel Brown interviews the Pops conductor on the upcoming EdgeFest, which this year features Natalie Merchant and Amanda Palmer:

... I was vaguely familiar with the Dresden Dolls' work, and I'm thinking "Pops Goes Goth" was not a combination I ever saw happening. But as I listened to her solo stuff, it's really, really interesting, very lyric-driven, very honest, and very original, and that's what we're looking for. We're not looking for people to fill some sort of genre. We're looking for artists with something to say. In a way the disparity in people's minds of Amanda Palmer vs. the Boston Pops is going to produce some interesting results. ...

Theodore83 captures them practicing at the Hatch Shell yesterday:

Yes, they settled, by agreeing not to bring charges against each other. Geoff Edgers provides the Before and After photos (or should that be: During and After?).

The Suffolk County D.A.'s office reports those two guys who battled it out at a Pops concert face a probable-cause hearing in Boston Municipal Court. A court clerk will determine whether any charges in the case should be issued and, if so, against whom.

Stephen Colbert likes the idea of Fight Night at the Pops, but says management will have to keep upping the ante to keep fans engaged:

During "The Flight of the Bumblebees," why not release actual bees?