Narrative Bookstore prepares March opening, filling a Davis Square void and owner’s dream
Opening a bookstore had always felt like a dream, until Mila Hossain moved to Davis Square and saw a “for lease” sign on her way to the bank one day.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, with hip-hop dancing and writing sex scenes
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s hip-hop dance, Valentine’s, Galentine’s, Mardi Gras, Lunar New Year and Black History celebrations, operatic ballet not seen since the 1700s, “How to Steal a Presidential Election” and the arts of writing love poetry and sex scenes.
Bryn Mawr BookStore celebrates 50-year history with release of recounting by ex-Globie Gardner
The Bryn Mawr Bookstore was founded in 1971 as one of 10 used bookshops in the Northeast opened by Bryn Mawr College graduates. Today, two remain: The Lantern in Washington, D.C., and Cambridge’s.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from We Black Folk fest to ‘Bumbled’ bee play
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a “Groundhog Day” Improv Show, We Black Folk music festival, a fermentation workshop (with sauerkraut!) and more fun science, Celeste Ng and Jas Hammonds readings, ice skating and play premieres to go apiary for (such as for “Bumbled”).
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from singing over silents to Britanik comedy
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the Nightingale Vocal Ensemble performs its “Photoplay,” there’s art such as “Poems of Electronic Air,” academic talks on “The Rhetoric of Black Populism: From Malcolm X to the ‘Manosphere’” and the comedy duo Britanik takes the stage.
Katherine Vaz brings romance of ‘Above the Salt’ to a Portuguese-American center that will love it
An inspirational writer can’t resist adding imagination into the story of a man raised in a jail cell who courted a woman met among Abraham Lincoln’s household, then lost her when fighting with the Union in the Civil War.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Oompa and Picasso to ImprovBoston’s end
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, from “Underground Magic,” poetry with Tracy K. Smith and an Oompa concert to the return of the Harvard Plaza WinterFest, a farewell to ImprovBoston and examination of the darker sides of politics and social media.
‘Filterworld’ is Kyle Chayka’s mass logoff request for nonviral randomness and a sense of surprise
As a New Yorker staff writer about the Internet and digital culture, Kyle Chayka is surprisingly critical in “Filterworld” of the media he makes his living off of.
‘The Tigerbelles’ is a 1960s Olympics triumph from when race mattered as much off the track
The story of eight Black students on Arizona State University’s girl’s track team and their revolutionary 1960s Olympic medals is told by Cambridge’s Aime Alley Card.
Beretsky’s condition in ‘Seizing Control’: Prepared to take on indifference of doctors
A lifelong battle with epilepsy is related in vivid and often stomach-turning detail, and the author X-rays the often-alienating world of modern medicine.
