Around Town
Lovestruck in Cambridge: A Romance Bookstore Comes to Harvard Square
Rachel Kanter is taking her relationship with romance to the next level – opening Lovestruck Books, a bookstore in Harvard Square specializing in romance novels.
‘In Deep Aeolic Infinitude’: Catching Wind of the Harvard Whistler’s Society
“For too long, whistling has been sort of a maligned art form, underappreciated in comparison to other forms of music-making,” Tyler Heaton says. “We figured it was high time to put our foot in the door.”
Whistling Society Cover
Members of the Whistler’s Society close their Oct. 16 meeting with a rendition of “500 Miles.”
Making Harvard Square a Stage
Over the years, Harvard Square has become home to a vibrant group of entertainers, from singing guitarists to spray-paint artists. For many of them, the Square is not just a platform for their performance but also a source of many years of memories.
Sea Monsters Exhibit Creatures
Many deep sea creatures are smaller than what media or folklore may portray them as.
“Sea Monsters” Exhibit Blurs Border Between Monster and Human
Through the juxtaposition of different sea creatures and their relationships to a polluted environment, “Sea Monsters” asks visitors to consider how human-induced climate change might be the true monster deep beneath the waves.
Sea monsters exhibit books
Books like "Moby Dick" are some of the many pieces of literature that have villainized deep sea creatures.
Sea Monsters Exhibit Main
The Sea Monsters Exhibit in the Harvard Museum of Natural History contrasts traditional depictions of sea monsters with those portraying humans as the real terrors of the sea.
Treasure Hunting for New Experiences
I wanted to get out and explore, and I realized I could do this through one thing: Geocaching.
Sea Monsters Exhibit trash
Filled with packaging, bottles, and nets, “Who Are The Ocean’s Real Monsters?” challenges notions of who sea monsters really are.
An Annenberg Stakeout
A month into school, are people in Annenberg still sharing meals with strangers? An FM freshman spends a day staking out the dining hall to find out.
Acid and Cake at the Death Cafe
Death Cafe provides an opening, if imperfect, for inquiry about finding meaning with or without religiosity.
Death Cafe Div School Photo
Jefferey A. Breau, an MDiv candidate who works in psychedelic chaplaincy and helped found the Death Cafe, explained that “it was really out of a recognition that there was a hunger for open conversations about death and dying.”
At Vilna Shul, Shabbat is a Big Dill
With national attention trained on Harvard the past few months, engaging in Jewish spaces on campus has felt like more of a political endeavor. Pickle-making, gimmicky in all the right ways, was enough to get us out the door.
Picklemaking cover photo
Vilna Shul is a synagogue where Jewish people, often in their 20s and 30s, gather to find community over their shared background through events like picklemaking.
Picklemaking tea bags
We slice and combine, pour in water and a black tea bag (for crispiness, we’re told), and the whole thing is over faster than we thought.
Picklemaking cucumbers photo
There are buckets of cucumbers in an ice bath, stacks of mason jars, and bags of green beans. Each person measures mustard seed, red pepper flakes, and heaping tablespoons of salt.
Quad Bikes Hours Sign
Miller also says Quad Bikes is helping the Harvard community travel around campus and the greater Boston area more sustainably.