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...annual CityStep show, starring fifth through seventh graders who already dance better than the large majority of the Harvard student body, will hold three performances this weekend. Tickets $5 (HBO). Friday 7:30 p.m., Saturday 1 and 5 p.m. Cambridge Rindge & Latin’s Fitzgerald Theatre, 459 Broadway...
Despite its short running time, the video’s plot called for several disparate locales, and by the second day of filming, when the 40 person cast and crew descended upon the Broadway Market in Cambridge, the team had already been to South Boston, Waltham and a private board room at Weston Copley Place...
...begin with, Times Square is not a square. It's actually more of a triangle, one created over the years by the convergence of Broadway, Seventh Avenue and every primal impulse--sex, power, greed, vanity, ambition--known to man. Or woman. Or, in these days of the sanitized 42nd Street, Mickey Mouse...
...clothes behind translucent screens while a winking crooner sang I'd Like to See More of You. By the '20s, the culture of Times Square hit its stride. The world of the stage spectaculars converged with the new nightclub society that Prohibition did little to discourage. The evolution of Broadway theater brought forward Eugene O'Neill, George S. Kaufman and George Gershwin. Times Square became not just urban but urbane...
...delicate social ecology couldn't last. Broadway declined. Hard drugs arose. Damon Runyon's Times Square became Ratso Rizzo's. In the 1970s, 42nd Street was overrun with porn shops, junkies and bus-station hustlers. Traub adroitly explains how a combination of municipal power and rising real estate values succeeded in driving out the rot. In a new world of tall towers and chain stores, the Disney company played both beauty and the beast--corporate pioneer in the once skanky wilderness but also chief symbol of the bland mass marketplace that the Square is today. It's not just...