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...October devoted to a massive crew race. 2. When college and prep-school students descend on Cambridge to get drunk. 3. When your roommates will invite total strangers to drink, party, and pass out in your room. 4. A good weekend (October 21-22, this year) to skip town...
...Ocean Springs businesswoman Eleanor "Cissy" Jordan lost 45 rental houses and a commercial building, all bought on The Point by her grandfather, a Lebanese immigrant who came to Biloxi in 1926. Losing them wiped out 90% of her income. "The casinos are the only entertainment game in town for those of us who have been through so much emotionally over the past year," says Jordan...
...Food in the square: Cambridge is renowned for being a vibrant college town, but grocery stores are nowhere to be found near the Yard. If you land in a union dorm, you’ll be just a short walk from Broadway Market, an overpriced but well-stocked and delicious supermarket. And on your way to class, you can grab a cup of Starbuck’s around the corner...
Four Boston area hockey teams square off in the city’s largest arena in front of the nation’s most cultish college hockey fans. The winner takes home a legendary trophy and cross-town bragging rights for a year...
...Efforts are under way. Wynton Marsalis is heading up a major push, dubbed Rebuild the Soul of America. But even before Katrina, New Orleans had only one major Fortune 500 company in town, Entergy, and a subsidiary of that company is now bankrupt. (Critics say new development, like the casinos, has failed to support the arts.) There are well-intentioned volunteer groups like Habitat for Humanity, which is building a musician's village, and clubs like the famed Tipitina's are aiming their musical revival efforts at the city's children, but the city's African-American residents have been...