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Meh from Bob Slate
By massmarrier - 3/18/11 - 4:09 pmWheeling up from lower Hyde Park, I swung over to the Porter Square Bob Slates. I thought of Lily Tomlin - they don't care; they don't have to; they're closing.
A half dozen of us, all of whom had shopped the mini-chain for a long time were browsing. Everyone felt compelled to tell the two Bob Slate Stationer clerks how sorry they were the stores were closing. We didn't get any feel-good in return.
Oddly, the store had virtually nothing discounted. The calendars were 50% off, but hell, Borders did that the first week in January. Customer after customer would ask what the discounts were, only to hear that if it wasn't marked with a red slash, as nearly nothing was, it was full price.
Repeated word from the clerks was that the Church Street Harvard Square store had to clean up and get out before the end of the month, so its last day was Sunday. The bigger Mass Ave Harvard Square one would close a week later. Then all the remaining merchandise would move to Porter for the End of Paper Days.
USuncut takes action against Bank of America in Harvard Square
By Anonymous - 2/27/11 - 3:42 am
"We won't pay for your crisis"
If you have $3 in your wallet, you have more money than Bank of America paid in corporate taxes last year. On Saturday, USuncut took peaceful action against the Bank of America branch in Harvard Square by protesting the unfair tax code and drawing attention to that fact this ginourmous Bank of America happily profits from taxpayer-funded bailouts and banking business but avoids paying almost anything in Federal taxes.
4th Annual Cambridge Science Festival Kicks off April 24
By nilagia - 4/12/10 - 8:56 amIt's not every day you get to see a laser show at the Cambridge Public Library, but that is exactly the event that will kick off the 4th Annual Cambridge Science Festival.
The festival will run from April 24-May 2, 2010, with hundreds of events taking place throughout Cambridge. Organized by MIT, the festival will feature over 200 workshops, demonstrations, behind-the-scenes tours, talks, performances and more, open to the public, and almost all of it free. The idea behind the festival is to make science and technology accessible and fun for people of all ages and backgrounds. It all kicks off with a free Science Carnival featuring a specially commissioned laser show and 89 booths of fun experiments and demonstrations for all ages, Saturday, April 24th, 12pm-4pm, Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway. Laser show begins at Noon.
Other highlights of this year's festival include:
“Big Ideas for Busy People” on Festival Eve, April 23rd. This free event is a short series of talks on mind-bending concepts from leading local researchers in a variety of scientific fields.
Come work for one of the hottest new non-profits in the country
By JosephPorcelli - 12/17/08 - 5:39 pmUH fellow do-gooders,
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PROP 8 PROTEST 11/9/08 CENTRAL SQUARE CAMBRIDGE
By caravaggiste - 11/8/08 - 6:35 pmPROTEST PROPOSITION 8 RULING IN CALIFORNIA
Sunday, November 9, 2008, 12:00-3:00pm, CENTRAL SQUARE, CAMBRIDGE
Mass Ave. & Main St.; Technology Square Park
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Upcoming Event at the Museum of Science
By Museum of Science - 2/25/08 - 12:01 pmFrom Physics to Pheromones:
An Adult Science Fair
Monday, March 3, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Museum of Science, Boston
Want to get to the new Lechmere station? Buy space at NorthPoint
By Arborway - 7/6/07 - 11:52 amAnother entry in the NorthPoint development saga:
It seems that only those living or working at NorthPoint will get easy access to the station.
Just what I wanted, another bait-and-switch.
Fire at 1 Broadway Building in Cambridge
By sooz - 12/8/06 - 12:03 pmThe office building at 1 Broadway in Cambridge's Kendall Square is reported to be on fire with about 30 people trapped on the roof (as of a Boston Globe report at 11:30AM). I used to rent space in that building from the Cambridge Innovation Center. Yikes!
More info at Boston.com.
if you happen to be in Harvard Square .... check out the movie I'm in
By emily sweeney - 8/5/06 - 12:28 am...it's a short silent film called "The Unhappy Medium," (directed by Chelsea Spear) and it's being screened outdoors, right in the middle of Harvard Square, on the Lumen Eclipse billboard display....all throughout the month of August:
www.lumeneclipse.com/gallery/09/Spear
(In case you're wondering, I play the role of the mean ol' spirit medium in this one...)
- E.S.
