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Arts Center seeks charter members, students for fall
By admin
Published: August 30, 2010
The Maud Morgan Arts center, dedicated to providing high quality and affordable visual art classes and activities for all, is complete and, after a successful summer session, open for fall registration.
‘Quiet Desperation’ moving off Web to television
By Marc Levy
Published: August 28, 2010
Web-based reality sitcom “Quiet Desperation” is going off the air, kind of, only to take to the actual air. Musician and comedian Rob Potylo and director Warren Lynch said Friday they are ending the Web series and restarting it on MyTV, where it can reach a potential 2.4 million people.
Palmer, Humanwine cross Atlantic into the Bizarre
By Marc Levy
Published: August 19, 2010
It’s unlikely anyone could miss the piece about Amanda Palmer in this week’s Phoenix — she’s the cover story, and she’s pictured clutching her naked breasts — but it’s just as unlikely many have seen Palmer in last month’s Bizarre magazine.
Society offers ice cream for scans of historic photos
By Marc Levy
Published: August 6, 2010
The Cambridge Historical Society is offering residents free Toscanini’s ice cream Saturday along with digital scans of their vintage photographs. That’s just the start of what’s new in history.
CCTV’s ‘Bandwidth TV’ marks 50 episodes with music marathon
By Marc Levy
Published: August 4, 2010
Fans of Razors in the Night will want to be watching Cambridge Community Television at 11:30 p.m. Friday, then stick around for performances by Girlfriends, the Debo Band, A.K.A.C.O.D., Black Fortress of Opium … in fact, by 49 bands, each with a half-hour of stage time. The “Bandwidth” show is celebrating 50 episodes with a marathon.
Artists in the Salon: Queer Carrie, a memoir of loss and the typo crusade
By Marc Levy
Published: August 3, 2010
The online magazine Salon is talking about The Queer Carrie Project by a 23-year-old Cambridge artist Elisa Kreisinger, the memoir “Let’s Take the Long Way Home” by Cambridge resident Gail Caldwell and a book by the Somerville-inspired Typo Eradication Advancement League.
Hard to explain, impossible to miss: Rave meets comedy at Crisco Theque
By Marc Levy
Published: July 26, 2010
Mehran Khagani is in the midst of a media frenzy in which he’s explaining being in a vortex of creativity. What he’s trying to explain is Crisco Theque, his Aug. 6 show at Oberon in Harvard Square, which will be part comedy show, part rave.
Housing is hopeless, fatherhood daunting, but at least there’s ‘No Good News’
By Marc Levy
Published: July 22, 2010
“There Is No Good News: A Comedy” was pitched to ImprovBoston comedy club as being about the U.S. financial crisis. Then writer and monologist David Mogolov found out his wife was pregnant. The show and the baby had “the same gestation period,” and both changed quite a bit from their conception.
Potylo show means first full-band performance for two albums
By Marc Levy
Published: July 13, 2010
Rob Potylo hasn’t performed with a full band since he finished his previous album, which makes a Thursday CD release show for his latest album all the more exciting.
Porter platform hosts shoots for big-name flick
By Marc Levy
Published: July 10, 2010
Anna Faris, several dozen extras and the crew shooting the romantic comedy “What’s Your Number” spent some four hours in the Porter Square T stop Saturday — many commuters will probably say they know the feeling — for shots of Faris heading down to, and boarding, a train.