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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Club Passim? It's that sunken whitewashed place across from the Coop, below the map store. Tom Waits got his start there. In its heyday Club Passim (then Club 47) was a familiar nightspot for Harvard students: "It was the House of Blues without the booze," says co-founder Betsy Siggins Schmidt. Over the years though, student nightlife has fragmented as venues multiplied, and the Club's Americana format has become less immediate than it was when folk musicians were creating a vocal canon of protest in the days of Vietnam and the civil rights movement...
Their relationship began gradually; their first date began as a group affair. In mid-September, the two went with a group of friends to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. The soon-to-be couple went to Store 24 for coffee before meeting their friends. When they arrived at the theater, the show was sold...
...then our relationship soured. The "chrome" crowning the pen cap began to peel, revealing the shoddy, plasticky truth-she had been sheathed in a pseudo-chrome laminate. She was living a lie, and I wanted nothing to do with that $27 flake. Back to the store she went...
...Want to join the Diesel-clad clan? Good luck. Sales racks only offer novelty items like rubber pants and furry tee-shirts, and now that the sole Diesel outlet store has closed shop, the only hope for the Diesel junkie is to kick it on over to the local Marshalls where savvy shoppers have been known to salvage up a pair of these magical dungarees on occasion. Of course if they don't show up there, there is always Alitalia. How much more could a trip to Italy possibly...
...Stilgoe, Orchard professor in the history of landscape development, made a Valentine's gift from a nine-inch by nine-inch linoleum tile. He carved a heart in the ink-absorbing material and made a block print on quality paper stock. Stilgoe advises, "A Valentine shouldn't necessarily be store-bought. A handmade gift is good because it shows a really strong sense of devotion of time and effort." Flowers or chocolates, he warns, can be dangerous, especially if you don't know what your sweetheart likes. "That level of risk isn't a good idea in my opinion." After...