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Slipping in under the midnight wire to the newly re-established Bow Street Dunkin’ Donuts, that glittering beacon of inexpensive (and occasionally stale) caffeinated products and baked goods, a late-night customer is immediately struck by the ample stock of untouched muffins and doughnuts, getting staler by the minute under the heat lamps...
Knowing that Au Bon Pain, the other local provider of stale mass-produced muffins and coffee, often donates its leftover pastries to volunteers from the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter and other organizations, an inquiring consumer had to know: whither the Dunkin’ Donuts once the fluorescent lights click...
...when you’ve got a “South Asian Bent,” it’s easy to spice up such stale material—by discussing, for example, how India still has laws to prevent what it calls “sex against the order of nature.” Gheri Dosti’s playwright and director Paul Knox discovered the complications caused for gays by the hostility of a tradition-bound society while he was exploring issues of HIV/AIDS in South Asia. Adding considerably to the show’s pathos, the five...
...MASKS Filter out stale air and noxious gases--built up during centuries of decay--inside the tomb...
Forte! got so bad, eventually, that it got good. It entered the realm of comedy when a screen came down to flash a slide show of stale VES pieces that were seen in the Advocate a few years ago. In front, a tuxedoed undergrad pulled out a cello and gave us some Bach. What a creative way to celebrate the arts...