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In Harvard Square, Valentine’s Day celebrations will last all month long.  The Harvard Square Business Association has commissioned a 28-video series called “With Love from Harvard Square.”

Three-hundred-and-seventy years ago, Harvard opened up its first buildings in an area surrounded by wood yards and cows. Today, the University is one of the largest landowners in the Square—a disturbing fact to some of its business neighbors.

Harvard Square Theatre still on the hunt for $500,000…

It was a choice they didn’t want to make: the sun or the Sam Adams.

Because of a reporting error, an article in the Feb. 26 edition of City Weekly (”In mom-and-pops vs. chains war, all politics is local”) misquoted Cambridge Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Kelly Thompson Clark on her group’s role in the city. She said, ”We as a Chamber of Commerce promote the success of all businesses in Cambridge. In …

Erotic massages. Talk of a “Team Zebra.” Someone named “Flat Patty.” A striking explosion of banks. The closing of WordsWorth Books and impending shutdown of Brattle Theatre.

Harvard Square will be home to an innovative new venture next month…

The panhandlers, performers, and protestors of Harvard Square will soon compete with a new fusion of art and advertisement to win the attention of tourists and townies alike.

The taqueria with its floor covered in pictures of grass and walls splashed in bright colors offered, at best, a mediocre, overpriced menu, say those who explain why it flopped two years ago