Around Town
5280 Feet of Footloose
The Dance Mile's website promises “5280 feet of pure awesomeness,” and under the rules section, they insist in all caps to “HAVE THE MOST FUN POSSIBLE.” It’s barely noon on Saturday, and FM has sent me to a dance party in the middle of Boston hosted nominally by Mayor Martin J. Walsh.
Jokes and Lab Coats at the Ig Nobel Awards
It was like witnessing a drinking game I didn’t know was happening — but still I wanted to be a part of it.
Kendall Square
Organizers canceled the annual Cambridge Carnival, which usually passes through Kendall Square.
A Street Named For Abolitionists
The city of Cambridge is planning to rename two streets near Cambridge Crossing, located in East Cambridge, after two prominent female African American activists with ties to the city.
Street Signs
North Point Boulevard will become Morgan Avenue after Gertrude Wright Morgan, an activist involved in the Niagara Movement and the establishment of the NAACP, and North Street will be Jacobs Street after Harriet Jacobs, a freed slave and prominent writer.
CGIS Poets
Professor Ju Yon Kim facilitated the event featuring poets Tamiko Beyer, Emily Yoon, and Paul Tran.
Asian American Poets Take a Stand
Beyer has authored a poetry collection called “We Come Elemental,” Tran placed in the Top 10 at the 2015 Individual World Poetry Slam, and Yoon was a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation in 2017.
Walking by the ‘Woods’
Four million people live in this city. The global temperature has risen by an average of one degree Celsius since the 19th century. My feet are sore, and I wish that, for a moment, I could lean back on the bench overlooking the rose garden, close my eyes, and not be interrupted by the sporadic honking and sirens blaring from Route 203.
Friends of Inman Square
White-haired activists shift in their chairs, whispering about the upcoming decision.
How to Change Your Brain
As the meditation advisor at the Harvard Innovation Lab, or i-Lab, Underwood’s practice centers around pinpointing the origin behind the common fear of what others think of us.
Surfer, Monk, Diplomat: The Odyssey of Isaias A. Medina III
“I've wanted to change the world since I can remember,” he informs us. “This is something printed in my heart.”
Driving Science Forward
BioBus originated as an experiment to test Dubin-Thaler’s hypothesis that, given the opportunity to use research-microscopes to perform hands-on experiments, anyone would fall in love with science.
The Writer’s Repair Shop
“People just come in — sometimes not to buy anything,” explains Thomas J. Furrier, owner of Cambridge Typewriter Company. “They love typewriters — to talk about them, try them.”
The First Amendment in Permanent Ink
Considering the hustle and bustle of the convention, it’s hard to believe that as recently as 2000, creating body art of any kind was illegal in the state of Massachusetts.
Vases, but Make It Sexy
The room we are in contains, as our tour guide explains, the majority of the museum’s antiquity holdings. We’re here on the official tour that was advertised on Eventbrite as the “Sexy Vases Tour for Parents.”
