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...Community and Student Theater (BlackCAST) has received criticism for this problematic portrayal of black sexuality. Yet, organizers of Eleganza 2009 refuse to be hindered by what they claim to be simple misunderstandings. Instead, Eleganza has decided to tackle even more sensitive and poignant issues. This year, the show will branch out in an attempt to include a positive representation of varying sexual orientations alongside its previous goals of racial diversity and body acceptance. However, some members of the Harvard community worry that the controversial show might again mishandle such sensitive and complex issues in its primary ambition to entertain...
...stores in Cambridge—including Harvard Square retailers HMV in 2003 and Tower Records in 2006—Weirdo’s entrance stands in contrast to the downward trend that has plagued music stores in past years. Duncan H. Browne, CEO of Newbury Comics, which has a branch on JFK St., said he remembers when Harvard Square used to be densely populated with music stores. “Now it’s a veritable desert,” Browne said. Local record store owners attributed the decline to the economic recession and the digital availability of music...
...President's plan during a White House health-care summit expected at the end of next week - but they may be looking toward the wrong end of Pennsylvania Avenue. Unlike the failed 1994 Clinton health-care-reform effort, this isn't going to be a bill that the Executive Branch drafts in isolation and then tries to ram down the throats of Congress. Instead, Congress - particularly a working group convened by longtime health-care-reform advocate Senator Edward M. Kennedy - is working on a consensus solution following the road map laid out by Obama. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...training academies. These days, however, even that hard-line Fatah stance is no longer enough for most Palestinians here. High-ranking officials of Abbas' own party fear that he will trade away their right of return to what is now Israel. "Yassir Arafat went into negotiations with the olive branch in one hand and a weapon in the other hand," says one Beirut Fatah commander. "But all Mahmoud Abbas does is negotiate. He gets nothing, but he keeps negotiating. Palestinians believe in military operations because they want to go back to Palestine. They don't want to negotiate." (Read "After...
...have their answer. A new restaurant, Ten Tables, which aspires to replicate the “dinner party in someone’s home” atmosphere of its original Jamaica Plain incarnation, opened its Cambridge location on Monday night. After about a year of planning for a new branch, co-owner Krista Kranyak settled on the former space of Craigie Street Bistrot, tucked off Garden St and a quick walk from the Quad. “I just sort of had a vision,” Kranyak said. “I love this neighborhood.” Craigie...