James Joyce Ramble spread out along the course. Six Joycean works have been selected, and the story being told changes each of the six miles of the race. The works, in the order in which they are read are: Finnegans Wake, Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Exiles, Dubliners, and The Dead. In 2014, to celebrate the 100th Centennial of the publishing of Dubliners, three dozen actors all read from this book of short stories by Joyce. In conjunction with the James Joyce Ramble, there is an event called “Take a Walk” to benefit the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Two Gallants (band) was released in September 2007 on Saddle Creek and debuted at number 29 on "Billboard"'s Top Heatseeker's Chart. Produced by Alex Newport, the band's eponymous album was noted for being much more sonically rich than previous albums while still retaining the same basic guitar/drum sound and storytelling themes, though "Two Gallants" has more personal themes of love, loss and absence rather than the social themes found on "What the Toll Tells". "Two Gallants" received a score of 69 out of 100 on Metacritic, "generally favorable reviews". A writer for "Alternative Press" remarked that "their take on Delta blues and twisted