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Visual Arts Commentary: A Tale of Two Bridges

Two stories about how a public process, because of politics, can make it very difficult, and costly, to connect two points.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Commentary, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston, Cambridge, London, Longfellow Bridge, Mark Favermann, The Garden Bridge

Visual Arts Feature: Cambridge’s Magazine Beach — A Fascinating View of Its History

As is the case with all public spaces, Magazine Beach reflects the sensibilities and desires of its users, who ruined, abandoned, embraced, and transformed the area.

By: Ira Papadopoulous Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Cambridge, Ira Papadopoulou, MA, Magazine Beach, Magazine Beach – A Place Apart

Literary View: Poetry Slams in the 21st Century

By Kate Vander Wiede The Cantab, as the regulars called The Cantab Lounge, is like a quirky not-quite-speakeasy complete with a narrow stairwell leading below street level and smoke-perfumed attendees. This night, bass chords shake the ceiling, courtesy of the band headlining one floor up. Dim lights hardly illuminate the cramped room, which is lined […]

By: Kate Vander Weide Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Boston, Cambridge, Cantab Lounge, Emerson College, Kate Vander Wiede, Leslie McIntosh, Poetry, poetry slams

Food Muse: WHAT’S FOR DINNER IN THE AFTERLIFE? ORYX ANYONE?

Food was front and center in the here and hereafter. A sumptuous feast was in the offing. But what was for dinner in the afterlife? Chasing the whim of what food went with funerary art, after several blind alleys I landed at Oleana, the Inman Square restaurant invented by Ana Sortun, a Norwegian Seattle native. […]

By: Sally Levitt Steinberg Filed Under: Featured, Food, Visual Arts Tagged: afterlife, Ana Sortun, Cambridge, coffin paintings, Egypt, Egyptians, Egyptology, Food Muse, Inman Square, MFA, Oleana, Sally Steinberg, Sofra, Tomb 10A

Food Muse: Rendezvous in Central Square

by Sally Steinberg American chef Steve Johnson knows what he’s doing. A rendezvous in Central Square is a rendezvous with well-being. What’s in a name? When it comes to the restaurant Rendezvous in Central Square, a lot. There’s location, the crossroads thing. There’s social resonance, the people thing. There’s the history of Steve Johnson, chef/owner […]

By: Sally Levitt Steinberg Filed Under: Featured, Food Tagged: Cambridge, Food Muse, Rendezous, Sally Steinberg, Steve Johnson

Coming Attractions in Classical Music: October 2009

By Caldwell Titcomb Oct 4: Celebrated mezzo-soprano Frederika von Stade gives her farewell Boston performance to inaugurate the Celebrity Series’ new season. Also sharing the spotlight will be the famed soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. Symphony Hall, 3:00 p.m.

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Classical Music, Coming Attractions, Music, Opera Tagged: Boston, Boston Baroque, Boston Classical Orchestra, Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble and Chorale, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Caldwell-Titcomb, Cambridge, Celebrity-Series, classical, concert, conductor, Federico Cortese, Frederika von Stade, Gustavo-Dudamel, Handel, John Adams, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Ludovic Morlot, Martin Pearlman, Memorial Church, Murray Forbes, Music, Opera, Opera Boston, organ, PBS, Rossini, Somerville, Steven Lipsitt, The Chiara Quartet

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