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Friday, March 19, 2010
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For the Chagall Performance Art Collaborative, “Choose Your Own Adventure” is not a cute, nostalgic but ironic name for a night of music, poetry and dance. The collaborators are serious: They really want people to come Friday and decide the path the artists will follow.
Brittany Smith, a former Harvard student, has pleaded not guilty of involvement in the May shooting of a Cambridge man in a Harvard dorm, The Boston Globe reports.
There were hints of a resolution Monday to the long-empty 450 Massachusetts Ave. storefront owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Photo: Marc Levy)The decline of Central Square drew debate from city councillors at their Monday meeting, but also signs of hope for two prominently empty storefronts on Massachusetts Avenue.
Last year this list ran with the warning that an enumeration of the top 10 employers in Cambridge was “a moving target.” It turns out the target doesn’t rove as much one would think, but some movement resulted from — get this — companies adding jobs.
A sign in the Somerville Avenue window of the Uno Chicago Grill in Porter Square, Cambridge, announces the restaurant’s closing and reminds diners another store in the chain remains in Harvard Square. (Photo: Marc Levy)The Uno Chicago Grill in Porter Square closed for good Monday, part of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy Uno Restaurant Holdings Corp. filed for in January. The West Roxbury company is still said to have about 160 restaurants, including one in Harvard Square.
A semi-regular food film series with an underground feel continues at 6 p.m. Monday with “Dinner Rush,” a behind-the-scenes look at a fancy New York restaurant.
Next week sees another step in TD Bank opening a branch in Central Square, in the Massachusetts Avenue space that used to house The Gap. Despite unhappiness over the coming of another bank, the move takes 7,000 square feet of empty real estate off the market just as another several thousand open up.
There’s little doubt what’s driving a forum planned for Thursday on “Civil Rights: Policing, Discretion and Race in Cambridge.”
Harvard Square’s Sheraton Commander Hotel was received high marks from guests recently. (Photo: Eszter Hargittai)The Sheraton Commander was voted the top hotel in the 200-plus site chain in December, said Jennifer Auyer, director of sales and marketing for the hotel.
An Amanda Palmer-Neil Gaiman wedding is like the joining of two of the world’s noblest royal families.