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Monday, March 15, 2010
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Boston University professor Jenny White reads from her latest book of historical mystery fiction Monday at Toscanini’s, just part of the ice cream shop’s race toward spring with iced coffees and a new flavor: Pancakes.
Sarah Cronin and Thomas Allen, of the band Drug Rug, met while working at The Middle East in Cambridge. On Thursday they play The Paradise in Boston.Today is the first day of South by Southwest, the festival of music, technology and film that manages to draw the world’s attention to Austin, Texas, for at least a fortnight. Some Cantabrigians are going; for those who aren’t, there are some local alternatives.
The only thing less funny about the second performance of the new Bastards Inc. show is the catchphrase, “March Fourth. Into the Future.” Because the performance is Thursday. Right: March 11.
If Cambridge had an official classical composer, it might well be Johannes Brahms. He was as opinionated, controversial, prickly but generous and brilliant as anyone here now — in fact, he will be here Sunday, in a Cambridge Symphony Orchestra celebration.
A panel presentation of Cambridge women activists past and present — starting with Transcendentalist and suffragist Margaret Fuller — is scheduled as part of an International Women’s Day celebration at 6 p.m. Monday.
Seth Grahame-Smith will be at The Brattle Theatre at 6 p.m. Monday to read from and sign copies of “Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.”
The long-running Dire Literary Series of readings at the Out of the Blue Art Gallery has announced its lineup for Friday, starting with Ethan Gilsdorf, the Somerville author of travel memoir and pop culture investigation “Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms.”
New York Times best-selling author Jodi Picoult will be at The Brattle Theatre at 6 p.m. Wednesday to read from and sign copies of her new book, “House Rules.”
Even for people without a taste for art, this First Monday @ CAC Gallery is likely to be irresistible: At the free Monday reception for “100 from Cambridge: Preview Exhibition for Cambridge Open Studios,” there will be a product tasting of Taza Chocolate, of Somerville.
The Hong Kong restaurant, entering its 55th year in Harvard Square, is also hosting much of the square’s Chinese New Year celebration Sunday. (Photo: Adam Fagen)Harvard Square plans its Chinese New Year Celebration for Sunday, including a parade through the square and cultural open house at the mainstay Hong Kong restaurant. Just look for the red and gold silk lanterns hanging from wrought iron lampposts — or the parade.
Jenny White
Sketch of the future promises comedy, a bit of sleaze and Bastards Inc. | 
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'Lincoln, Vampire Hunter' author reads, signs at Brattle | 
Escape into dungeons, learn impropriety at Dire Literary Series | 
Jodi Picoult signs books in Phoenix in November 2008. (Photo: Devon Adams)
Visitors check out an exhibit at the CAC Gallery on Broadway in Cambridge. (Photo courtesy: Cambridge Arts Council)
