Around Town
Among Crêpes and Poetry, Artists Find Creative Resistance
On the first Friday of April, we head to the café for the latest installment of Cambridge Night Readings, a weekly series partnering with the Cambridge Arts Council for National Poetry Month. Though we are among the first to arrive, every seat in the coffeehouse is filled within minutes.
Preserving the Past, Embracing the Present: Art in the Houses
There is often little room for modern or student-produced art. The Houses “have a particular architecture,” Luise Mörke says, that “already determines what is possible in a given space, or what works in a given space.” Conformity to these past styles, she says, is often what contemporary art “is up against.”
The Urban Agriculturalist at North Allston Farms
Founder Rita L. Vaidya sees North Allston Farms not simply as a business, but as a garden and space of education for anyone hungry and curious. When not tending to her crop, she hosts workshops throughout Allston, advertising “the joy of tasting and growing microgreens while learning where your food comes from.”
Under One God: Bible Studies Across Harvard’s Campus
Bible studies across campus don’t just provide social spaces for students — they are also part of Harvard’s academic fabric.
An Aviation Paradise
“Traditionally, you don’t think of aviation as necessarily an interest or topic because you would write someone off as an avgeek,” he tells me. “You just embrace the identity. I mean, I love planes.”
Luxor Cafe, After Dark
People are crowded around tables, playing cards, Connect 4, Othello, and other games taken from a nearby communal shelf. One wall is decorated with Egyptian hieroglyphics, another with a span of Polaroids.
The 16,000 Generation Yeast
Michael M. Desai, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and of Physics, hopes to leverage the common fungus to answer an age-old question: How did we come to be?
The Million Year Picnic: A Hidden Comic Haven
Ornamented with hundreds of graphic novels, daily comic editions, and more, the shop makes use of every corner and inch of space. Titles such as “Asterix,” Alan Moore’s “Watchmen,” and daily strip collections “The Phantom” line the walls. Each section of The Million Year Picnic is brimming with life.
The Twelve Steps to Internet Sobriety
As attendees of Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous take turns telling their personal journeys, I’m struck by how much we have in common.
