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Vicki Xu

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Around Town

Behind the Scenes at Boston Supper Clubs

In recent years, the Boston area has seen a flourishing of private multi-course dinners. They take a variety of forms: a pop-up in a restaurant, a meal around a table. Prices range widely, from $30 to more than $200, and the hosts run the gamut as well from amateur to professional chef.

nana cake
Around Town

nana cake

A cake congratulating Georgian novelist and literary scholar Nana Abuladze for winning an award. Though her books have been published in Georgian, Abuladze wrote much of her work for Exchanging Notes in English.

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Around Town

exchanging notes cover

For Exchanging Notes, a Georgian writer and a Georgian musician and an American writer and an American musician spend the summer working virtually with their artistic counterparts from the other country.

exchanging notes cover
Around Town

Mixing Two Types of Mountains: A Night with Exchanging Notes

The program sends artists from America and Georgia to each others' countries. "I'm going to bring this American clawhammer old-time style to the highest inhabited village in Europe," says Maxwell Evrard, "and I’m going to make people tap their foot."

Harvard Kennedy School - HKS
The Scoop

Harvard’s Science, Technology, and Society 20th Anniversary Conference discusses the future of the field

What does the future of STS entail? Everyone seems to have a different answer. Most people agree, though, that the key to STS’s success is creating opportunities for collaboration between scientists, technologists, and policymakers.

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Retrospection

Harvard’s ‘Marshmallow Revolution,’ 50 Years Later

Sanders Theatre, ordinarily tranquil and decorous, was in total uproar on the night of March 26, 1971, as the left and right clashed over U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

League of Legends Graphic
Endpaper

Adventures on the Rift

We played as the sun set and the sky split into pink and yellow, the room awash in gold. We played as the lamps turned on and the rooms around us quieted down to rest. When I went to bed that night, still giddy, I saw the graphics imprinted behind my eyelids, just as vibrant and animated as they’d been on screen.

Food delivery app
The Scoop

Toppings in the Square

The Toppings food delivery app allows users to get free food delivery by having a friend or family member grab the order on their way back from the restaurant they were already going to.

Under the Sea
Introspection

Vision: “Under the Sea”

A digital illustration, “Under the Sea” by Vicki Xu.

Sunset
Introspection

Vision: “Sunset”

In the first installment of our new Vision content category, a digital illustration from Vicki Xu.

Under the Sea
Introspection

Under the Sea

Digital illustration, 1080 x 1350 pixels. An exploration of how spaces and shapes carve each other out.

Sunset
Introspection

Sunset

Digital illustration, 1080 x 1350 pixels. A study of color and mood.

Around Town

The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo Adapts to the New Normal

COVID-19 made hosting the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo in-person impossible, but cancelling the expo was, too. So many stories from MICE’s past centered on the human connections made at a show — “We’ve heard so many people say things like, ‘I met my future husband at MICE, I met my best friend and collaborator at MICE,’” Paroline remembers.

Sticky Locals
The Scoop

Sticking with Chinatown

The group decided to partner with Asian American and Pacific Islander-owned restaurants to sell stickers of their iconic dishes or drinks, with 75 percent of proceeds going to the business and a charity of its choice — the goal being to both bring  restaurants publicity and support community work. And so Sticky Locals was born.

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