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.
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The Crimson
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Cambridge Chronicle
Help Save the Brattle
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Boston Herald
Talent shows in new project at Harvard Square
Harvard Square will be home to an innovative new venture next month…
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The Crimson
Plasma TVs to Debut in Square
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.
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Boston Globe
This time, the burritos are a big hit. Mexican eatery packs ’em in after other failed
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
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Variety
Brattle Theater in danger – Homevid hurting legendary repertory house
Variety
October 17, 2005
The Brattle Theater, a legendary repertory house in Harvard Square that gave birth to the Bogart cult in the ’50s, has fallen on hard times. The operators of the non-profit theater have launched what they are calling the “Preserve the Brattle Legacy Campaign.”
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Boston Globe
The last picture show? The Brattle helped create the template for repertory movie theaters, and now it’s in trouble. What does the future hold?
Because of a reporting error, the first name of former Brattle co-director Connie White was incorrect in some editions of last Sunday’s Movies
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Cambridge Chronicle
Fiscal crisis at the Brattle
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Boston Globe
Public-art project to light up Palmer Street
Palmer Street, a dreary Harvard Square pass-through connecting Church and Brattle streets, is little more than a service alley, ”a dull, sunless corridor,” Jody Pinto and Keith Crawford write in their proposal to transform the street.
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Boston.com
Square holes: A world-famous destination is a bit frayed, but some see that as Harvard Square’s best chance
March 6, 2005
Phil Nini has seen the life pulse in and out of Harvard Square. From his 44-year perch at Nini’s Corner, the merchant watched the hubbub of small independent shops like his emerge in the ’60s; witnessed the extension of the MBTA Red Line northward from the square in the early 1980s; and cringed as big brand-name retailers plopped in and …