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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.
Where Occupy can go from here: to Spare Change
By Marc Levy
Published: December 9, 2011
With an eviction notice hanging for Occupy Boston’s Camp Dewey and the future of the movement in flux, here’s a suggestion for a way forward that could benefit literally everyone.
High schoolers charm Gates, earning likely second TV segment
By Marc Levy
Published: December 7, 2011
Students were excited when Henry Louis Gates Jr. came to Cambridge Rindge & Latin School to film a segment for an upcoming television show, but they didn’t know he was impressed enough to plan a second trip.
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.
DA arraigns Swartz on hacking charges
By Marc Levy
Published: November 30, 2011
Programmer, writer and open-information activist Aaron Swartz was arraigned today in Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn for what authorities are calling computer intrusion, fraud and data theft — trying to provide unpaid access to the contents of Jstor, a not-for-profit archive of scientific journals and academic work. He was released by Middlesex Superior Court Clerk [...]
Occupy Harvard divides students, even without locked gates
By Marc Levy
Published: November 10, 2011
Before Harvard police relented late Wednesday and unlocked the gates to Harvard Yard, the day’s Occupy Harvard protest proved one thing you don’t need a Harvard diploma to know: 1 percent and 99 percent are each endlessly indivisible.
Occupy Harvard protest locked out, moves to street
By Marc Levy
Published: November 9, 2011
The hundreds-strong Occupy Harvard protest is getting crazy, according to reports on the a twitterfeed and from James Williamson, who just ended a run for City Council and said he was on the scene Wednesday night.
VCs put $4 million on expansion of Alewife startup Modo Labs
By Marc Levy
Published: November 2, 2011
Modo Labs, a maker of smartphone apps based on open-source software that are serving businesses and universities around the world — including a notable one right here in Cambridge, namely Harvard — got $4 million in venture capital Tuesday.
Owner of huge home draws fire from owners of large homes
By Marc Levy
Published: October 24, 2011
There’s tension on Avon Hill, a pricey neighborhood of large single-family homes near Porter Square — but none so large as this.
Four settled lawsuits vie for forum time with cost of buying homes
By Marc Levy
Published: October 18, 2011
The settling of two civil rights lawsuits so quickly after an $8.3 million payout to a third plaintiff could quiet questions about City Manager Robert W. Healy at Wednesday’s candidates forum in West Cambridge. Or not.