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...able to provide numerical figures but did acknowledge that “our store’s business has gone down considerably.” She cited the rerouting of traffic as the main factor. “The customers we normally would have pass around our store because of the construction,” she said. Vehicular traffic is also on the decline, due to frequent detours and a message released last week by the Cambridge Department of Public Works advising motorists to avoid Harvard Square entirely during construction. “If the cars aren?...
...completely disappeared with the first bite of the cassata siciliana. This sponge cake soaked in Strega and dotted with chocolate chips was perfectly moist and not-too-sweet. I was sold: the North End, authentic or not, was delicious. The tour continued through a wine store and a green grocer before returning to the shops I visited with Giovanna Tognetti the week before—La Salumeria Italiana, Sulmona Meat Market, and Polcari’s Coffee, where plastic barrels of dried legumes lined the floor, glass jars full of licorice root stick teetered precariously, and the whole store smelled...
...future of ROFLCon has yet to be determined, according to organizers. “To be honest, we haven’t given that much thought to what to do next year,” Hwang said. For others, the better question is not what next year holds in store, but why ROFLCon wasn’t organized until this year. “It just makes too much sense,” Connor said of the first-ever event. “I would hate for it to be a one-time thing...
...Newbury Comics was the store, I think, for me, that was almost like a rite of passage when I was younger, you know, and first able to come down to the city on my own and go exploring.” Alternating between giddy dancing fits and hugs or autographs with fans, Brian Viglione was the vision of a populist indie icon. Viglione is one half of the Boston burlesque-rock duo, The Dresden Dolls—and with cabaret stockings and hints of stage makeup, he looks the part. He and Dolls lead singer Amanda M. Palmer were...
...expanding to a new location in Egleston Square in the fall. Student interest in the program has been strong, and 826 Boston opened the Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute, a tongue-in-cheek storefront for the writing center along the lines of 826 Valencia’s pirate supply store. Feeney has seen firsthand the formative effects of programs such as 826, and he attributes this to the organization’s lighthearted approach to literature. “When your writing space doubles as a Bigfoot research institute, you inevitably invite students to think a little creatively. I believe...