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...Farewell to Boston” gala, Paula Kelley is going off in style before she heads to Los Angeles to record her next album. This pop orchestra crooner is a sure hit for the romantic at heart. Garvy J, The Rudds and Vitamin-D open. Tickets $8. 9 p.m. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline Street, Cambridge...
Boston’s Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra kicks off the season with a Gala opener featuring pianist Ursula Oppens performing Beethoven’s 4th piano concerto. The program also includes a world premiere work by Amy Williams. Free pre-show aperitif, half-hour of chamber music. Tickets $45/$29/$19/$9; $2 off students and senior citizens; $5 off WGBH members; 2 for 1 Outings and Innings; $9 student rush, day of concert, cash only. Harvard Box Office (617) 496-2222. 3 p.m. Sanders Theatre...
...difficult to say that just one experience stands above all others since I've been at Harvard, but one that is particularly memorable is the Student Friends of the Harvard University Art Museums “Evening with the Director” gala last spring. The event was a culmination of weeks of hard work by our entire committee, and it went off without a hitch. At the event, there were a good number of my friends whom I could relax with and enjoy the ambience of the Fogg courtyard. Also at the museum...
...campaign to tap into the $9 billion specialty-coffee market, the federation is opening a chain of posh Juan Valdez cafes, complete with porcelain cups, comfy chairs and knock-off Frappuccinos. Two weeks after the Washington cafe opens, the President of Colombia will preside over a similar gala at Juan's flagship store in Manhattan. And this fall Target will start stocking single-serve Juan Valdez coffee machines to help consumers replicate cafe quality at home. "Even the average consumer is requesting much better coffee quality and in plain-vanilla places like a burger joint or a doughnut shop," says...
...Last month, Bill Cosby broke the unwritten rule of keeping black dirty laundry in black washing machines. While at a multiracial gala dinner in Washington, D.C. commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Cosby targeted under-educated lower-income blacks as the source of various social problems. Among his comments: "People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around...the lower economic people are not holding up their end of the deal. These people are not parenting." And he mocked...