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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Orson Welles (1001 Mass. Ave.) is another foreign film-leaning theater but has a little bit more fun doing it. It was the first theater in the country to show The Harder They Come. Often their films are political footballs others won't touch, but they also show the most rock and roll movies in the area. They are also especially strong in exposing Brazilian and other Latin cinema as well as a smorgasbord of European movies...
...other theaters which go out of their way to show unusual movies are the Nickelodeon in Boston (600 Commonwealth Ave.) and Coolidge Corner in Brookline (290 Harvard St.), both on modeled and expanded, and it offers a good selection of foreign, offbeat, underground, and gay films. The Coolidge Corner is a little more mainstream, tending towards interesting revivals...
...other theater worth mentioning is the Fresh Pond Cinema at the Fresh Pond Shopping Plaza out Concord Ave. Take the number 4 or 78 bus form the Square. It is usually a step behind the Sack giants in offerings, but it one of the cheapest theaters around. Admission is only $1.50 at all times...
Wednesdays and Sundays at the Bow and Arrow (on Bow St., just off Mass. Ave.) mean cheap pitchers of cheap beer, quite simply the cheapest place in the neighborhood to kill those brain cells and get really sick. The rest of the week features different specials, though the crowd is a little rougher. The jukebox, which plays horrible heavy metal music, is loud, but liquor comes first, and everyone there is dedicated to its consumption in large quantities...
Work in the Square has created similar unpleasant memories. Some students have approached the ruins with intellectual curiosty, such as Ryan C. Reetz '84, wo crawled into the Mass. Ave. ditch one night freshman year to look around...