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Earlier this week, we found out that Oona's will be closing and reopening under new management in the summer. Here are snapshots of the store in one of the last weeks before its temporary closing...
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...Oona's Experienced Clothing will close June 6 to undergo a renovation before opening under new management (and the same name) in August. Oona's, located on Massachusetts Avenue between Bow and Arrow Streets, has become a Cambridge landmark over the course of its 38-year-history. In order to reduce its inventory before closing, it is offering 50 percent off nearly everything. Get your Halloween shopping done (really) early and on the cheap...
...purposes, a ‘happiness gene.’ After it is confirmed that Thassa suffers from this genetic predisposition to happiness, she becomes an overnight Internet celebrity. The book charts Thassa’s rise through the blogosphere all the way up to “The Oona Show” (a fictional analog for Oprah), until she reaches a level of fame whose pressure threatens to break even her seemingly indominable happiness.Powers thus combines the recent public attention to the positive psychology movement, genetic enhancement, and the democratic atmosphere of the internet into a novel that examines...
...eyed rock critic and strikingly disparate figure whose hovel on 84th street provides the setting for much of the rest of the story. Tooth serves as the wellspring for the paranoia that motivates much of the book, and brokers Chase’s introduction to the other major players, Oona Laszlo and Richard Abneg.Chase and Tooth shortly develop a fast, if strange friendship defined by Perkus’ love for marijuana, cheeseburgers, coffee, and esoterica. Their daily smoke sessions serve an indoctrinatory function as well: Tooth enmeshes both Chase and the reader in the interconnections between things as seemingly disparate...