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Modest Matt D. takes top prize in Magners Comedy Festival
By Marc Levy
Published: January 30, 2012
Cambridge comedian Matt D. has to update his bio: He won the Magners Comedy Festival last weekend.
Exhibit of CRLS art has reception Thursday
By Marc Levy
Published: January 23, 2012
For those inclined to look at art and complain, “My kid could have done that,” here’s an art exhibit where they probably did. But with the level of accomplishment at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, that’s hardly an insult.
Dances rove from Somerville to Chile, from Ireland to Harvard Square
By Marc Levy
Published: January 16, 2012
Somerville’s Zoé Dance Company leads off a trio of new works at Harvard Square’s Oberon this weekend that explore international politics as well as merging rock ’n’ roll and yoga in a piece called “Rock Om.”
If you try the Mindy Kaling, Mindy Kaling recommends the onion rings
By Marc Levy
Published: January 13, 2012
Harvard Square institution Mr. Bartley’s Burgers has named a dish after Mindy Kaling, and the Cambridge native and Hollywood hyphenate is honored.
Flack’s ‘Bunheads’ brings her back to Cambridge
By Marc Levy
Published: January 5, 2012
You may have known her from her role in “The Three Little Pigs’ when she was 3. But glamorous Sophie Flack returns to Cambridge on Tuesday to read from “Bunheads,” her much-praised novel about her time as a ballerina in New York.
For New Year’s Day, ImprovBoston has ’100 First Jokes’
By Marc Levy
Published: December 19, 2011
As the world waits for all of the firsts of 2012, the ImprovBoston theater in Central Square plans to kick off the year with two Jan. 1 shows at which 100 comics will tell their first jokes of the year.
Time’s verdict on band’s ‘Prisoner’ video: Top 10
By Marc Levy
Published: December 8, 2011
A music video by local band Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling wins a No. 6 spot in Time’s online Top 10 Everything of 2011.
Deng transforms China and, on Monday, Toscanini’s ice cream
By Marc Levy
Published: December 4, 2011
The lifetimes of Deng Xiaoping and Toscanini overlapped for more than a half-century, but it’s a good bet they never met until now, as Toscanini’s ice cream hosts Harvard’s Ezra Vogel on Monday for a signing of his new Deng biography.
Food Will Win the War: Worst name, great music, plays Sunday
By Marc Levy
Published: November 30, 2011
You may remember Brooklyn band Food Will Win the War as a winner of “The Worst Band Names Of ’07,” but reviews by Interview, Time Out New York and The Boston Phoenix say you’ll want to see them anyway. They play Sunday at The Middle East.
December ‘Hairspray’ sets records, and spins them, at CRLS
By Larry Aaronson
Published: November 19, 2011
The high school’s December musical comedy, John Waters’ “Hairspray,” promises to be big in every way.