The World’s Only Curious George Store in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass., may also hold the distinction of hosting the world’s first children’s specialty store cash mob last Saturday, or at least the first one in New England. The event was the brainchild of Kellie Celia, marketing communications manager, publishing of Walden Pond Press at Walden Pond Media, in tandem with store manager Broche Fabian.
It’s a lament heard year after year: “What happened to the eclectic Harvard Square of old and how did come to resemble a suburban shopping mall?”
Matt Miller shapes his schedule around the area’s public transportation infrastructure. He said his system for getting around was nearly perfect, but the influx of bicycle sharing in Cambridge completed it. Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline and Boston are participating in a “Rolling Launch Party” Wednesday to celebrate the expansion of the Hubway Bicycle Share system.
You probably remember him best for his famous line ‘No soup for you!’ Now Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi is coming to town to give away – you guessed it – free soup. myTV38, Boston’s home for Seinfeld, is bringing The Soup Nazi, aka Larry Thomas, to Boston and Cambridge in the Seinfeld Food Truck on Friday, August 3. He’ll be handing out free Seinfeld-themed foods including black & white cookies, muffin tops, Junior Mints, and yes, soup.
The building that housed the five-screen Loews movie theater in Harvard Square changed hands just four days after it screened its last film.
After 28 years and an estimated 2,100 screenings, the AMC Loews Harvard Square 5 in Cambridge, Mass., hosted its last showing of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” on Saturday, according to The Boston Globe. That ended one of the longest movie theater runs in history. The film, which stars Susan Sarandon and Tim Curry, became a cult phenomenon in New York after its release in 1975 at the Waverly Theater in Greenwich Village, where midnight screenings ran until the theater closed in the fall of 2001. The traditional Saturday-night screening at the Harvard Square AMC began in 1984 and encouraged audience members to dress in costumes while reciting lines along with the film. It also included a “shadowing” performance by the theater troupe Full Body Cast. AMC announced that it had sold the theater in June and that it would close permanently on Sunday.
Casablanca, the landmark Harvard Square restaurant that for more than four decades has been a home away from home for a Bohemian assortment of professors, artists, writers, and various other regulars and reprobates, is closing. Sari Abul-Jubein, who began working at Casablanca in 1971 as a part-time waiter only to buy the place five years later, announced Friday that the doors of the venerable restaurant will close at the end of August. “Owning a restaurant in Harvard Square is sort of like being a university professor,” he said. “I’ve been working with younger people for all these years and loving it. But it’s also madness, and I am ready to move on.” Abul-Jubein said he’ll be spending a lot of time at his other Cambridge eatery, Casbah, which will be re-named the Fat Man Café and feature a barbecue concept. But drop by Casablanca in the coming weeks because Abul-Jubein is planning a victory lap of sorts with a special menu and other surprises.
The eclectic clientele and the zany decor have kept UpStairs on the Square a go-to institution for 10 years, and for 20 years before that around the corner in Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Club. Today, surprisingly, many customers are sealing business deals and, not surprisingly, proposing engagements, conducting weddings, and celebrating graduations and bar mitzvahs. The whimsy is a stark contrast from the slick design sensibility that defines many restaurants, and the formality of classic wood-paneled steakhouses. But for longtime patrons, that’s part of the draw.
The AMC Loews Theater in Harvard Square, where fans of the cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ have come to see their favorite film every week for 28 years, is closing, a spokesman said Thursday.
The AMC Theater in Harvard Square, where fans of the cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” have come to see their favorite film every week for 28 years, is closing, a spokesman said Thursday. The closure would leave The Brattle Theatre, which shows cutting-edge, foreign, and art-house films, as the last theater in Harvard Square, said Denise Jillson, the executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association.