Around Town


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 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 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?