On the road and out of control
Getting around Cambridge as a student can be surprisingly difficult. Take, for example, my first two months of this fall term. Last week, I walked into class 13 minutes after the hour. I had left...
View ArticleHasty Pudding is set
Actress Anne Hathaway will parade through Harvard Square as Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year this Thursday (Jan. 28). Last year’s honoree Renée Zellweger braved arctic temperatures while surrounded by...
View ArticleStage set for theater festival
Artists are taking to the streets. As part of the Emerging America festival — a new collaboration by the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), Huntington Theatre Company (HTC), and the Institute of...
View ArticleIt’s Arts First at Harvard
Spring at Harvard typically signifies Commencement, but before those robed scholars dart off into the wider world, the annual Arts First Festival happens. For four days, this year from April 29 to May...
View ArticleHarvard encourages community to shop local this season
Harvard University and the Harvard Square Business Association (HSBA) are teaming up again this holiday season to encourage the Harvard community to “think Harvard Square” and shop locally. Harvard...
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Shopping in, and for, the Square
The party outside the Holyoke Center, complete with Oggi’s pizza, hot apple cider, and musical performances by the co-ed a cappella group the Harvard LowKeys, was more than a festive way to kick off...
View ArticleAt college, but almost home
During Opening Days, every Harvard freshman gets asked the same set of questions over and over: “What dorm do you live in? What are you thinking of concentrating in? Where are you from?” When I was...
View ArticleTaking the baton
Early last April, I pulled a pristine crimson folder from a tattered envelope to find the hard copy of my Harvard acceptance. Still euphoric from the news of my admission over email several days...
View ArticleHarvard encourages ‘shop local’
Harvard University is encouraging staff, faculty, and students to “shop local” this holiday season and support locally owned, small businesses near work and in their home communities. “Local businesses...
View ArticlePreserving affordable housing
Twenty-five affordable apartments in Harvard Square’s Craigie Arms Apartments will remain affordable for at least 50 additional years after the city of Cambridge, Harvard University, and the nonprofit...
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Affordable housing, saved
Representatives from the state, Harvard University, and the city of Cambridge joined with elected officials, affordable-housing advocates, and local residents on Feb. 8 to celebrate preserving the...
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Emerging to a renewed normal
After a tense Friday that saw the campus and the Greater Boston area on lockdown, Harvard returned to life Saturday as students, residents, and visitors flooded back into the Square. Some Harvardians...
View ArticleA landmark, that’s no lie
Pinocchio’s Pizza & Subs has been a fixture in Harvard Square for decades. With Kirkland, Eliot, Winthrop, and Lowell Houses nearby and much of the rest of campus also close, it has been a...
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A shoe thing
Earlier this week, Corey Lewis boarded a MegaBus from Philadelphia to Boston. With his folding chair and camping equipment, he was likely the oddest-looking passenger. But Lewis, 25, wasn’t headed...
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Goodbye tourists, hello residents
As the Class of 2017 settled in at Harvard and began Freshman Week, students from 49 states and more than 60 nations were busy taking in the unfamiliar sights and sounds of the tightly packed,...
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On the road and out of control
Getting around Cambridge as a student can be surprisingly difficult. Take, for example, my first two months of this fall term. Last week, I walked into class 13 minutes after the hour. I had left...
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Hasty Pudding is set
Actress Anne Hathaway will parade through Harvard Square as Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year this Thursday (Jan. 28). Last year’s honoree Renée Zellweger braved arctic temperatures while surrounded...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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Stage set for theater festival
Artists are taking to the streets. As part of the Emerging America festival — a new collaboration by the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), Huntington Theatre Company (HTC), and the Institute of...
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