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Some say Jean Paul Sartre wrote Nausea at the Cafe Pamplona, still a haunt for aspiring existentialists. Cafe Algiers, where Humphrey Bogart really met Lauren Bacall, is another Cambridge cafe of the same pseudointellectual pedigree. Located under the Brattle Theater (which shows great old Bogie movies), Algiers sports a smoky, sophisticated clientele and expensive food and drink...
...folk music, the person to see this weekend is Molly Malone, playing at the Backroom at the Idler (123 Mt. Auburn St.) on Saturday. And if you don't like '30s and '40s cabaret and folk, you can just sit back and enjoy this old-style, pre-Pamplona coffeehouse, which features a limited...
...shop on Plympton St. (right next to Harvard Bookstore) should help. Sometimes, in fact, you can find someone like Adrien Rich there discussing her books with old friends. Of course, sometimes you can't too. And for really obscure stuff, there's this guy who sits in the Cafe Pamplona with an assortment of books he's collected from the garbage or something...
...boho crowd. In Cambridge, it hangs out at the Algiers Cafe under the Brattle St. Theater, at Piroschka's on Dunster St., and at Pamplona on Bow St. All three places have tables outdoors and pretentious conversation...
Paco didn't always wear an ascot and carry a briefcase of smoke thin cigarettes while huddles under the low ceiling at the Cafe Pamplona. Three years ago when Paco first blew into Cambridge from Southern California with its blistering fields and union speeches, he was all set to bring the workers' revolt to the Yard. Then he met his roommates--an obnoxious Jewish debater from the area who didn't know a thing about Cesar Chavez but knew Ralph Nader was gong to make Aermica safe for democracy, and a completely apolitical Indian chemistry major from Pennsylvania who liked...