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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.
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.
Closing of annex takes 6,000 more books from city shelves
By Marc Levy
Published: August 17, 2010
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.
Seniors’ picnic full of music, pleasant memories
By Marc Levy
Published: August 14, 2010
WIth three musical groups performing under sunny skies in historic Harvard Yard, the year’s Harvard Senior Picnic was a musical affair.
It’s $250 a seat to celebrate century with Harvard Square Business Association
By Marc Levy
Published: August 14, 2010
For those still mourning the old Harvard Square — the funky one alive with buskers and late-night rowdiness at The Tasty, the one before Abercrombie & Fitch and all the bank branches — the announcement of the Harvard Square Business Association’s 100th anniversary gala will seem a bitter epilogue.
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.
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.
Senior picnic set for Harvard Yard in August
By Marc Levy
Published: July 23, 2010
The Harvard Senior Picnic — with the appropriate theme of “Summer in the City” — will be at 11 a.m. Aug. 4, Mayor David P. Maher and Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard University, announced this week.
Nice shot: American Appaller
By Marc Levy
Published: July 21, 2010
What’s wrong with American Apparel? Chances are these photos will prove to you it’s something totally different.
RelayRides challenges Zipcar, marketing with teams on foot
By Marc Levy
Published: July 17, 2010
On the way down to all those red line T cars with Zipcar ads, commuters in Porter Square first got a pitch from a competitor: RelayRides, which had a street team out Friday morning handing out cards bearing a $25 credit to try the service. Kendall Square is next for the startup car rental business.