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Sunday’s Mayfair to add agricultural fair to food, crafts and entertainment
By Jay Neely
Published: April 29, 2012 at 05:17 PM
Sunday brings the annual Mayfair in Harvard Square, with vendors, music and dance acts, all your favorite fair food and special events. Harvard Square is a great place to explore anytime of year, but Mayfair makes it 10 times so.
Comedy Studio introduces charity drives as well as comics
By Marc Levy
Published: April 28, 2012 at 04:05 PM
Not everything is a joke at the Comedy Studio, the Harvard Square comedy club that’s hosted everyone from Eugene Mirman and Todd Barry to Mike Birbiglia and Louis C.K. The club has added a monthly charity drive to its lineup.
New businesses join Saturday’s Cambridgeport School auction
By Marc Levy
Published: April 27, 2012 at 07:37 PM
The Cambridgeport Public School’s annual Spring Fling Silent Auction and Talent Show is from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the school’s gymnasium, 89 Elm St., and raises funds for field trips and special projects at the school.
Geek Week VI festival accentuates the funny (and the accent is British)
By Marc Levy
Published: April 24, 2012 at 10:59 PM
The sixth annual Geek Week celebrates everything geek for four days starting Wednesday at Central Square’s ImprovBoston — improv, musical theater, sketch and standup comedy and storytelling that celebrates science fiction, fantasy, comic books, anime, video games and superheroes.
Presentation gives parents chapter and verse on storytelling
By Marc Levy
Published: April 22, 2012 at 06:29 PM
Cambridge has plenty of storytelling in its standup comedy and poetry slams but telling stories to your kids is a whole different thing. The Cambridge Community Center has a special storytelling presentation for parents planned to show the way.
High art comes to Oberon for 4/20 celebration
By Marc Levy
Published: April 13, 2012 at 10:59 PM
If 4/20 means anything to you, chances are you’ll want to spend the high holidays at Harvard Square’s Oberon.
Farmers market brings brief ‘Bubble Spectacular’ for kids
By Marc Levy
Published: April 13, 2012 at 04:54 PM
In addition to 23 food vendors, Saturday’s winter farmers market has a special guest: Mike the Bubble Man’s Kids’ Bubble Spectacular, performed by comedian and actor Mike Dorval.
Commission OKs jazzy Liberal Servings for Harvard Square
By Marc Levy
Published: April 6, 2012 at 05:53 PM
The proposed Harvard Square restaurant Liberal Servings got a fast-tracked 3-0 approval this week from the License Commission, bumped up to 358 seats and given a 2 a.m. closing time.
‘Club 47’ film premiere to bring fans back to roots of Cambridge folk
By Marc Levy
Published: April 5, 2012 at 06:35 PM
Sure, folk music fans can hit Club Passim on April 17, but that’s also the premiere (and only local) showing of “For the Love of the Music: The Club 47 Folk Revival” — a documentary about the life of the iconic Harvard Square coffeehouse and start of Club Passim.
Together festival launches, already looking ahead
By Marc Levy
Published: April 2, 2012 at 09:34 PM
The Together electronic music and technology festival is just starting its weeklong run in Cambridge and surrounding cities and already the organizers are thinking about next year, including whether performances can move outdoors and how to handle its likely growth.