Benjamin Zander, conductor of transformation, prepares Friday’s once-in-a-lifetime symphony
The conductor, musical director and founder of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra is preparing for the final concert of the year, honoring a composer he’s returned to many times – and for which he’s been given a medal of honor. Friday will be “a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” Benjamin Zander said.
Henriette Lazaridis wrote ‘Last Days in Plaka’ with a hero who’s as imperfect as the rest of us
The newest novel by Henriette Lazaridis, “Last Days in Plaka,” follows a young woman – the daughter of expats, like herself – searching for connection to her Greek heritage and becoming entwined with the life of another. She speaks Tuesday at Harvard Book Store.
Meet Lyn Hardy, whose focus is on his grandkids but whose fondest memories begin in California
From his first moments as a bawling baby in 1948 to his days rifling through the news and visiting his grandchildren as a silver-haired man, Lyn Hardy lived what many would consider to be the quintessential American life.
Meet the Cambridge Math Circle’s Nataliya Yufa, who folds in her experiences from Kyiv and MIT
Nataliya Yufa’s experiences growing up in an oppressed Ukraine and dazzling but economically out of reach New York shaped her work as a founder and leader of the nonprofit Cambridge Math Circle, which aims to widen access to the sciences.
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.
‘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.
New chief strategy officer is hired for schools, highly paid but without the listed qualifications
Community members are criticizing the Cambridge school district’s hiring of a highly paid chief strategy officer who is 25 years old, graduated from college two years ago and has no experience in the field of education.
‘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.
‘The Berry Pickers’ is a late-blooming debut telling an indigenous story of family and hope
With her her debut novel “The Berry Pickers,” Amanda Peters perhaps perfectly signifies the writers’ adage “It’s never too late to make your big break.”
For four famed women authors in library panel, Cambridge is the place and this is their moment
Anne Dudley Bradstreet, Hannah Adams, Margaret Fuller and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins connected across the centuries Nov. 6 with Virginia Pye, Laura Zigman, Gish Jen and Claire Messud at “Cambridge Woman Authors: Past and Present,” an event led by Pye.
