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.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Typewriter Orchestra to marking MLK Day
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are a few ways to mark MLK Day, a CultureHouse opening party, Hans Zimmer soundtracks by candlelight, parties with cyberpunk and 1970s themes, magic and aliens, a new Text and Tone Festival and the Boston Typewriter Orchestra.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Bim Skala Bim to Passim Celtic music fest
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Bim Skala Bim has a 40-year reunion, you can perform yoga to music from plant biodata, fold origami or dumplings at the MIT Museum, see a Dance/works show and take in four days of Celtic Music Festival at Club Passim.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville means traditions like Ellis Paul, Marx marathon
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, 2023 ends with “A Taste of the Arts,” Ellis Paul, Dungeons & Dragons improv comedy, dancing and yoga and 2024 arrives with meditation, the Marx Brothers and death metal at The Middle East Upstairs.
Inspired by Harvard Square Holiday Poetry Stroll, Inman Square now has its own ‘Literature Stroll’
A resident’s Literature Stroll of excerpted great works begins at Inman and Cambridge streets and runs eastward down Cambridge Street this month.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from ‘Solstice’ to ‘The Slutcracker’ and ‘Revels’
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, a cemetery hosts the “Solstice” light show, “Slutcracker” is in Davis and Revels’ “Feast of Fools” is in Harvard along with holiday sales, an illuminated-home tour, comedy, musical theater, klezmer and Open Mike Eagle and much more.
Technology is key to understanding humanity, starting with the bad stuff, sci-fi writers tell us
An MIT Museum panel of science fiction writers delved into a process of play with tech – including the joy of tricking it – on the way to being seers of the future.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from a holiday cookie swap to George Santos
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s “The Slutcracker,” Stephanie Vecellio’s “Scenes from Somerville,” the end of a literary journal, a Sweet Exchange, bake-off and cookie swap, “Real Women Have Curves: The Musical,” dark comedy and the author of “The Fabulist” about noted liar George Santos.
‘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.”
To predict the future from today’s technology, turn to science fiction writers at Saturday panel
The phone that tracks you, the home smart speaker that eavesdrops on you, the artificial intelligence that can fake a photo – where does this all end?
