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‘Shop local’ adds to a top holiday season for Harvard Book Store
By admin
Published: January 19, 2012
Theories abound as to why sales were so good this year — everything from Occupy Harvard to an abusive Amazon.com. But staff was struck by the frequency of customer comments about supporting an independent bookstore and local business.
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.
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.
Five recommendations: Erica Milia
By Marc Levy
Published: December 2, 2011
We just want to ask you five questions — or, rather, get five recommendations of things to read, listen to, watch, eat and buy. First up is Erica Milia, who is well-read in the display of quantitative information and not so big on TV.
Five recommendations: Marian Schmidt, Harvard researcher
By Marc Levy
Published: December 1, 2011
We just want to ask you five questions — or, rather, get five recommendations of things to read, listen to, watch, eat and buy. First up is Marian Schmidt, a Hampshire College grad now working as a researcher at Harvard.
Central Square library’s scary alcove needs solution
By admin
Published: October 20, 2011
The drop/return slot located at the Pearl Street entrance of the library gets lots of use, and so does the alcove hosting it — not always of the savory kind.
For ‘Folk Music Novel,’ only Club Passim release party would do
By Marc Levy
Published: September 14, 2011
Cambridge is not only the setting of “Revival: A Folk Music Novel” by musician and Boston Globe writer Scott Alarik, but the setting of its release party — for the rest of the month.
Web watching has Tokyo Kid saying sayonara
By Natalie Au
Published: August 14, 2011
Tokyo Kid, a Harvard Square store specializing in Japanese anime and manga, will shut down at the end of September, the latest in a string of specialty bookstores in Cambridge to close.
Harry Potter wrocks on Friday in Harvard Square
By Marc Levy
Published: July 26, 2011
Harry and the Potters, the original wrock band — that’s wizard rock, for folks who aren’t engrossed in the Harry Potter series of books — returns to Harvard Square on Friday with the inevitable companion band: Draco and the Malfoys.
Harvard Book Store seeks stories for comics anthology
By Marc Levy
Published: July 23, 2011
The artists of Cambridge and Somerville who put out comics and graphic novels are getting another local venue for their work: an anthology called Minimum Paige that will be printed and distributed by Harvard Book Store.