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City of Cambridge Business Associations: Harvard Sq. Business Assn. Denise Jillson
The nation’s truly authentic urban village is Harvard Sq. Since as early as 1636, commerce has been a key ingredient of life here in the heart of Cambridge, and for […]
Academics, Street Art Merge in Harvard Square
While most thesis-writing seniors are making the library their second home, Cydney E. Gray ’09 is taking her thesis to the streets of Harvard Square.
Small startup has big plans for wi-fi
Plenty of big companies – from Google to Earthlink – have tried setting up citywide Wi-Fi networks and failed. San Francisco-based Meraki, a wireless company spun off of a research […]
Passim putting 60s folk treasury within reach
Within the offices of the Passim Center on Church Street, the ’60s folk music revival is alive and well. Photographs of Joan Baez crowd the walls. A framed, unpublished Bob […]
Iconic Harvard Book Store turns a new page
A voracious reader and zealous book collector, Jeff Mayersohn always harbored the fantasy of retiring from his hectic high-tech career and owning a bookstore.
A new Harvard pecking order
She has a smaller brain than the average student on campus, but like many of the would-be MBAs at Harvard Business School, she’s driven – and refuses to let anyone […]
Couch your enthusiasm
If the Car Talk Guys, local live music, and the promise of fried dough aren’t enough to move your feet to Harvard Square’s annual Oktoberfest on Sunday, at least go […]
Wellesley couple buy Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store, which had been for sale since last spring, was sold yesterday to a married couple from Wellesley who say they intend to change very little about the […]
Here, too, bourgeoisie to do Bastille Day justice
Tomorrow, every corner of France will burst with joy to celebrate the anniversary of Bastille Day, the 1789 storming of the notorious prison at the beginning of the French Revolution. […]
A list of buildings to demolish in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Everyone is entitled to be an architectural critic, especially of one’s own environment. Since I studied and worked at Harvard for almost half a century, this is theI have a […]
Bidding Adieu, F.B. Hubley’s Conducts its Final Auction
A lot of people never thought they would see a final sale at the venerable F.B. Hubley Auction Galleries. It did conduct its last sale, however, and the June 4 […]