Around Town
Picklemaking cover photo
Vilna Shul is a synagogue where Jewish people, often in their 20s and 30s, gather to find community over their shared background through events like picklemaking.
At Vilna Shul, Shabbat is a Big Dill
With national attention trained on Harvard the past few months, engaging in Jewish spaces on campus has felt like more of a political endeavor. Pickle-making, gimmicky in all the right ways, was enough to get us out the door.
Picklemaking cucumbers photo
There are buckets of cucumbers in an ice bath, stacks of mason jars, and bags of green beans. Each person measures mustard seed, red pepper flakes, and heaping tablespoons of salt.
Picklemaking tea bags
We slice and combine, pour in water and a black tea bag (for crispiness, we’re told), and the whole thing is over faster than we thought.
Quad Bikes Hours Sign
Miller also says Quad Bikes is helping the Harvard community travel around campus and the greater Boston area more sustainably.
Pedal to the Metal at Cabot’s Quad Bikes
“Having someone walk in with a broken bike and walk out with a fixed bike — there are few things I've done at this university that have made people so instantly happy,” says Quad Bikes manager Julian K. Li ’25.
In Ancient DNA, New Directions for African American History
Evolutionary biologists, historians, population geneticists, and archaeologists gathered on Feb. 7 to discuss new genetic findings, published last fall in an article in “Science,” that enabled researchers to peer into the lives of the individuals who were buried at the Catoctin Furnace Cemetery.
'Cash for Your Warhol' Goes Worldwide
In its 15th year, Geoff Hargadon ’76’s “Cash for Your Warhol” art project has reached new heights — stapled to telephone poles nationwide and hanging in the halls of the art world it critiques.
Behind the Scenes at Boston Supper Clubs
In recent years, the Boston area has seen a flourishing of private multi-course dinners. They take a variety of forms: a pop-up in a restaurant, a meal around a table. Prices range widely, from $30 to more than $200, and the hosts run the gamut as well from amateur to professional chef.
food friends supper club
The menu at the "Hundredth Plate Celebration" of Dinner With Friends Boston is a conglomerate of foods that were hits in prior dinners, including black bean patties with onion and spicy mayo on Hawaiian rolls
cute drain
After choosing a drain and naming it, drain adopters clear out leaves and debris from the drain twice a month, logging the amount of debris they clean up online to measure the program’s impact.
friends chef supper club
Suraag Srinivas prepares a dish at the “Hundredth Plate Celebration” of Dinner With Friends Boston, a biweekly-ish supper club.
supper club cover
In recent years, the Boston area has seen a flourishing of private multi-course dinners.
Somerville Residents Open Hearts to New Pets: Storm Water Drains
As increased flooding due to climate change has caused more combined sewer overflows, the city has decided to give residents a new role in flood prevention through its Adopt-a-Drain program.
OMOP supper club ppl
At the Out of Many One People supper club, people don't attend to make friends as much they attend to eat. For a price tag of $200, that’s to be expected.
out of many chef
Private chef Kendall DaCosta’s newest series of dinners are tailored towards a smaller gathering of 10 people.
Crawling for Journalism
What if The Crimson did a crawl? A bar crawl? What if we gave the people what they wanted: an investigative report on the Cambridge going out scene for college students? Fine, we commit.
Surviving Harvard Survivor
As the day went on, players made alliances, found immunity idols, and won immunity challenges as they were voted off each tribal council.
suvivor rain
Harvard Survivor participants endured a frigid and merciless Cambridge downpour during the contest.