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Outsiders want in; they fill Midtown's hotels and clot its traffic. Secular pilgrims, they trek to the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center (and to its fellow firs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at Lincoln Center). They window-shop on Fifth Ave. - a promenade that remains the city's most bustling theatrical experience. And they see a holiday show - for the kids, and for the vestigial child in most adults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can't-Miss Christmas Spectaculars | 12/28/2007 | See Source »

Poet Populist Peter Payack, who can often be spotted wearing a black leather jacket as he zips down Mass Ave on his bicycle, has been spreading poetry across Cambridge for over thirty years. But this fall, the city decided to formalize his role by electing him as its first-ever Poet Populist...

Author: By Lindsay P. Tanne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Populist Spreads Love of Poetry | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

...bulbs convert over 50 percent of their energy input into light. Other advantages include that they don’t require the toxic chemical mercury and almost never burn out.But perhaps the most exciting breakthrough on the horizon is one being proposed by our engineering friends down Mass. Ave. The Vehicle Design Summit is pooling creative and technological prowess from around the world to build a “hyper-efficient 4-6 passenger vehicle…that will demonstrate a 95 percent reduction in embodied energy.” If all goes to schedule, a prototype will be assembled...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman | Title: Leaps Forward | 12/10/2007 | See Source »

...favorite of poets like E. E. Cummings, Class of 1915, and T. S. Eliot, Class of 1909. It remains one of only two not-for-profit bookstores in the country. The Globe Corner Bookstore at 90 Mt. Auburn St. specializes in travel, while Revolution Books at 1156 Mass. Ave. sells primarily Communist literature. And Schoenhof’s Foreign Books, at 76 Mt. Auburn St. #A, founded in 1856, has the largest selection of foreign language books in the country, according to their Web site. Daniel Eastman, the store’s general director, said, “We import...

Author: By Ana P. Gantman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bookstores Galore | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

Books have more than just sentimental value to some sellers. Harvard students are probably unaccustomed to seeing Frenchie (no last name given) and her partner Ken O’Brien, the formerly homeless owners of the movable bookstand outside of J. August Co. on Mass. Ave., without their faithful cat and dog—but they’re inside now, and they won’t be coming back out. “We got an apartment just by selling books without any Section 8 government help, or anything to do with that,” Frenchie said...

Author: By Ana P. Gantman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bookstores Galore | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

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