Around Town
Edgar Allen Faux
If you can’t imagine Edgar Allan Poe being funny, you’ve never seen Velella work a crowd.
Notes from the Underground Bells
The bell ringers remain patient, awaiting the day they can return to their perch in Lowell. Until then, they are content with their humble practice set and the memory of their former glory.
On Death Houses in Canada
Robin S. Lacy speaks on death houses and winter burials in Canada at the Death Salon in Story Chapel.
Notes on Trash Night
This is not the deliberately seeded so-bad-it’s-good of Sharknado or its spiritual Bad Film contemporaries.
The 'Hippies with Dolls' Take Cambridge
The show begins with a rendition of the 1386 Battle of Sempach, in which puppeteers in large papier-mâché masks defeat armored cavalry (other puppeteers wearing stilts and papier-mâché horses) with pitchforks and hay rakes. I become concerned for the welfare of the fictional horses.
Two Hundred Square Feet and Dickensian
A display case at street level bears a sign with peeling letters that says “VIOLINS VIOLAS CELLOS BOWS REPAIRS SALES” and an arrow that points 45 degrees up toward a door that leads to a staircase with 16 steps.
A Homecoming in Kendall Square
“To share your culture without being censored — this is activism, and this is much bigger than us.”
Cambridge Carnival
Hip-hop and reggae artist Letia Larok performs at the 26th Cambridge Carnival International, a festival celebrating African and Caribbean traditions in Kendall Square.
Bread and Puppet TOC
A tinfoil-capped member of Bread and Puppet theater evokes the Antarctic Ice Shelf.
Hippies With Dolls
A young member of Bread and Puppet dons a top hat in the group's Cambridge Common performance.
