Web watching has Tokyo Kid saying sayonara

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Published: August 14, 2011 at 01:10 AM

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

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Published: July 26, 2011 at 03:02 PM

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

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Published: July 23, 2011 at 06:53 PM

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.

Closing bookstores could be prologue to change in city retail

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Published: June 13, 2011 at 11:00 AM

Two revered booksellers are closing in Harvard Square within the next month — Curious George & Friends and the Globe Corner Bookstore — and a Planning Board member is wondering whether Cambridge retail is worth saving at all.

Conservatives meet the free market but see the ‘elite’

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Published: May 2, 2011 at 10:15 AM

Who are the biggest political boosters of free-market principles? And the biggest hypocrites when it comes to being on the receiving end of those principles? Conservatives, both times, as we see when “Atlas” fails and a law firm drops their case.

Bookseller shutting down in Porter Square

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Published: April 30, 2011 at 02:32 PM

Porter Square’s McIntyre & Moore Booksellers is closing and going Internet-only, taking away 45,000 volumes for browsing and buying.

Architects applaud Cambridge Main Library

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Published: December 20, 2010 at 01:53 PM

The Cambridge Main Library has received an Annual Design Review Award from Architect Magazine, one of the country’s leading national architectural magazines.

Rodney’s stays; sign law goes, for now; and church gets status update

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Published: November 15, 2010 at 12:46 AM

For the record, Rodney’s Bookstore isn’t closing, the City Council rescinded its sign ordinance and the Historical Commission has recommended historical landmark status for St. James’s Episcopal Church.

Fixes delayed at derelict home of famed author

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Published: November 4, 2010 at 10:39 PM

Repairs at a badly deteriorated house once lived in and written about by the great, if largely forgotten, William Dean Howells have been delayed by the Historical Commission for lack of details.

Closing of annex takes 6,000 more books from city shelves

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Published: August 17, 2010 at 08:34 PM

Window shopping is all you can do at The McIntyre & Moore Booksellers Annex. The space is close, taking another 6,000 used volumes off the streets in a city already losing 100,000 titles from the closing of Rodney’s in Central Square.

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