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...hippie druggie, the angry black protestor, the hopeful political junkies, the child war bride, and the impressionable youth—as they live their lives on a normal day inside L.A.’s Ambassador Hotel. Their otherwise unremarkable day coincides with the 1968 assassination of presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy at the same hotel...
...images—selected from Rockefeller’s archives—that curator Kevin Bubriski printed himself. The photographs are respectfully left untitled and arranged in a narrative fashion similar to that of “Gardens of War,” the book compiled in 1968 by Robert G. Gardner ’48, who led the 1961 expedition.The exhibition follows inhabitants of the Grand Valley Dani through the cycles of daily life as shaped by war and its repercussions. While the structure of the show may be didactic, Rockefeller’s images are so compelling that...
...kitchen caught on fire—leaving inhabitants of the Co-op known for homecooked meals without a functional kitchen and with dining hall fare for the next few days. Residents use towels to clean the kitchen and put the dirty towels into a plastic barrel, according to Robert Byrne, facilities manager of Dudley House. “We believe some greasy towels that were just taken out of the dryer caught on fire due to spontaneous combustion,” Byrne said. Nine units from the Cambridge Fire Department responded immediately and confined the fire...
...help people with niche interests find kindred spirits. The blog Wardrobe Refashion is dedicated to people who choose to use only pre-owned clothing in fashioning new styles and designs. The Dark Threads mailing list on sfgoth. com caters to people interested in making their own Goth-style clothes. Robert Blaque joined the group when he was learning to make corsets and costumes to wear onstage with his San Francisco-- based band, Secret Secret. Although Dark Threads is a virtual community, Blaque says, "there's a really neat friendship among the listees," some of whom meet...
...could be voted on so as to prevent it from getting on the ballot. The motion to recess early, which needed the backing of a majority of legislators to pass, received 109 votes, including those of Cambridge’s three legislators. The move came as no surprise to Robert Winters, editor of the Cambridge Civic Journal and an instructor at the Extension School. “I think they’re all lobbied extensively by certain people around town and the pressure they feel tends to come from the people who are very satisfied by going into recess...