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Cambridge Massachusetts is known for a unique mix of cultural and social diversity rich with history and you'll find local information within the city guide. Cambridge is home to renowned establishments of higher education-among them Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Select from the list of categories to find local businesses and local community information.

Over one fourth of its residents are college students and one sixth of all its jobs are in higher education. More than just a college town, Cambridge has long been an industrial innovator and at one point it was the third largest industrial center in the Commonwealth. Former factory buildings now house cutting edge firms focused on the latest emerging technologies.

Students from 64 different nations attend the public schools and 46 different languages are spoken here. The city is located along the Charles River just to the west of Boston. It is accessible to the world through its many public transportation options. It is also accessible via major roadways which include Route 2 and the Mass Turnpike (Interstate 90).

An out of town visitor can expect to enjoy one of Cambridge's many parks, attend one of its numerous cultural festivals, shop in its many retail areas that include Harvard Square and Central Square and dine in any one of its top shelf of neighborhood restaurants.

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When: Jun 4, 2013 6 PM in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: USD 0.00 (Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18 )
RamenCamp 2013: The Art of Bootstrapping
RamenCamp 2013

Sponsored by                          &     Bootstrapping is tough, but you're not alone!

Don't miss out! Join Boston's best and brightest entrepreneurs on June 8, 2013 at Microsoft NERD as we learn from some of the top bootstrappers in the country. We'll be exploring:

  • How to build an early team with a tight budget
  • Validating your business model
  • How to sell to your first customers
  • Customer acquisition with no budget
  • Marketing & PR for your bootstrapped startup
 Who Should Attend?

Entrepreneurs of all ages. RamenCamp teaches aspiring entrepreneurs the art of bootstrapping. Master the challenges of getting a startup off the ground with advice on finding customers, building teams, getting press and staying organized, all on the cheap.Schedule (Subject to change)9:00am



When: Jun 8, 2013 9 AM to Jun 8, 2013 4 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: Visit EventBrite.com for pricing. (Sat, 08 Jun 2013 09 )
Boston Pub Night - June 5

You and your guests are invited to reconnect with Boston area alumni over drinks and appetizers.


Don't miss this opportunity to enjoy food, beverages and the company of fellow Techers!

 

Cash bar. Appetizers provided by the Caltech Alumni Association. Mark your calendar now and plan to join us!

  



When: Jun 5, 2013 6 PM to Jun 5, 2013 9 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: Boston Pub Night 0.00

(Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18 )
Moving On Up – A Startup’s Guide to its Leasing

 Is your business ready to expand into its own space?  This presentation will discuss the nuts and bolts of stand-alone leases and the differences between long-term leases and short-term occupancy agreements.  We will review the leasing process -- from negotiating with landlords to moving into the space.  We will also highlight tricky lease provisions such as indemnities, transfer and use restrictions and lease expenses, and strategies to avoid common pitfalls.



When: Jun 12, 2013 12 PM to Jun 12, 2013 1 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: Moving On Up – A Startup’s Guide to its Leasing 0.00

(Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12 )
Central Bottle L'Aventure Languedoc Tasting
Boston will have a little more to cheer about this spring. This June, Languedoc AOC invites Beantown to experience the adventure of the wines from Languedoc, South of France. We are working with the area’s best restaurants and stores to bring you unprecedented tasting opportunities during the [...]

(617) 225-0040

When: Jun 12, 2013 4 PM in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: Free Tasting (Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16 )
JIm Beam Ghost
Come try the latest creation from this well known bourbon producer as they throw their hat in the white whiskey market[...]

617-864-7171

When: May 24, 2013 5 PM in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: Free (Fri, 24 May 2013 17 )
Innovation Series Event: Water Innovation: Making a Splash in Massachusetts

For details about this event, view the description on the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge website.



When: Jun 12, 2013 5 PM to Jun 12, 2013 8 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: Ticket 45.00

Tech Entrepreneur Membership + this event 108.09

Service Provider Membership + this event 159.09

Student 0.00

Sponsor 0.00

(Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17 )
Winnie Dahlgren
Winnie Dahlgren Project. More details to follow, stay tuned!

When: Jul 17, 2013 8 PM in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Wed, 17 Jul 2013 20 )
FRIDAY NIGHT FANTASY
MAGIC: THE GATHERING: THE SHOW (JUNE 7 & 21 and JULY 5 & 19)

You are a witness to one of the greatest battles of sorcery ever seen. Two wizards are bent on destroying each other because of an ancient grudge—perhaps one stole the other’s shoveled out parking spot? By playing the popular fantasy card game Magic: The Gathering, they enlist creatures of good—angels, elves, passers-by— and creatures of evil—goblins, trolls, tax collectors—to battle one another in a proxy war. The wizards call on elements of fire, water, earth, and air, drawing lethal power from all around them, and from little cardboard cards! And behold! COMEDY GOLD! 

SPACE: ASTEROID MISSION! (JUNE 14 and JULY 12 & 26)

The international crew of the TELLUS-2 is on a mission to save earth from a certain asteroid strike.This is their last chance. These unlikely heroes will need to step up to save the planet.  But how will they handle the pressures of the final frontier? Find out in this completely improvised space comedy.


HEROES (JUNE 28)

David Marino and Erik Volkert -- These two guys know their nerd-lore. Steeped in thousands of years of science fiction and fantasy tradition (they are immortal, of course), they will stretch the boundaries of your imagination and take you on a comedic tour of other worlds -- from sailboats to starships, from mundane to magical, from helpless... to HEROES!



When: Jul 26, 2013 10 PM to Jul 26, 2013 11 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: GENERAL ADMISSION 10.00

(Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22 )
JUNE 4th BASG: Bringing Sustainability to Your Community

 

Bringing Sustainability to Your Community

 

For June and July, we’ll be hearing from folks who’ve been actively bringing sustainability to their communities – be they schools, towns, organizations, congregations, or however you’d like to define community. Here's who's on tap for June:

 

Susan Jennings, Director of Sustainability UMass Dartmouth – for those of you unfamiliar with what UMass Dartmouth has accomplished, you’ll find their accomplishments inspirational – and Susan has been at the helm. http://www.umassd.edu/sustainability/

 

Peter DeBruin, Vice President, Office of Environmental Sustainability, State Street Corporation. Peter has been involved with State Street's sustainability initiatives since they first came into being. www.linkedin.com/in/peterdebruin

 

Ian Todreas will talk about the challenges of fostering sustainability at a municipal level, drawing from his experience as co-chair of Belmont's Energy Committee. He has successfully advocated for more and better transportation options, commercial and residential energy efficiency, and environmentally friendly town policies.  www.linkedin.com/in/iantodreas

 

Mike Balin will describe his experience with sustainable practices from two community-oriented perspectives: 1) As a member of a local green committee that worked on a 3-year "Green Church" certification process involving the congregation and broader community, and 2) illustrating how this initiative helped fuel Mike's own shift toward a less impactful lifestyle. www.linkedin.com/in/mikebalin

 

Jim Newman will talk about tracking the key indicators of success in creating regenerative living places and communities and asks, "So, what are those indicators?" Jim is founder & principal of Linnean Solutions, which provides environmental planning services & tracks energy, environmental & community impacts for companies, non-profit & governmental organizations. www.linkedin.com/pub/jim-newman/5/383/88a


Join us from 6PM to 9PM, Tuesday June 4th, at The Venture Cafe for:

Bringing Sustainability to Your Community - Part I


Time is short and we all need to learn a boatload, fast. One of BASG’s explicit goals is that we learn as much as we can from each other, where the very diversity of the group is one of our most valuable assets. Come join the discussion, or hang out and listen. Meet those folks working hard to do what you’re trying to do and your paths have not yet crossed. We have a great time and really want to meet you!

Our format for the evening begins with informal networking followed by quick introductions all round before several lightening-speed presentations from knowledgeable folks. Using the 5-minute IGNITE-style format, our speakers will share their experiences  and then open the discussion.

We end the discussion with time left for more networking and sharing info on other local evnets. Hope to see you there!

Please note: Registration for this event closes at 4PM on June 3rd or when we reach capacity.

The Venture Cafe is located at the Cambridge Innovation Center, One Broadway, 4th Floor. Visitors must comply with Venture Cafe attendance policies (see http://bit.ly/vc-credo for more details).

Admission $10 -  includes Eventbrite service fees and a glass of wine or beer

 



When: Jun 4, 2013 6 PM to Jun 4, 2013 9 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: Visit EventBrite.com for pricing. (Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18 )
The Lone Bellow

The Lone Bellow

Zach Williams, the Lone Bellow's lead singer and principal songwriter, can pinpoint just about exactly when the Brooklyn-based group serendipitously willed itself into being. It was around 9 a.m. one morning in 2010, at Dizzy's Diner in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where the Lone Bellows guitarist and Williams' old friend Brian Elmquist was working a shift. Williams, up to then performing as a solo artist, needed a place to try out some new songs; for a scuffling artist, the diner was as good as any rehearsal space. He asked fellow singer Kanene Pipkin, just returned to New York City from living in Beijing, to meet them at the diner and the trio did more than merely jam. With the beginnings of a repertoire and an already strong communal spirit, that fateful morning they became the Lone Bellow. As Williams recalls, "Three songs in I realized I should quit what I'm doing and just make music with these people." And that's what he did. The trio's self-titled debut disc is exuberant in its playing, welcoming in its attitude. Though the lyrics have a melancholic undercurrent, the tracks are more often rave-ups than ruminations, with swelling three-part harmonies and rousing group-sung choruses, especially on the electric guitar-driven "The One You Should've Let Go" and "Green Eyes and A Heart of Gold," a we-will-survive anthem that could be about a family or a band. Indeed, there is a strong familial feel to The Lone Bellow, a recurring theme of inclusiveness. That sentiment lies at the heart of the album and Williams' own career to date. The native Georgian first came to songwriting via near tragedy. While still living down south, Williams' young wife was catastrophically injured in a horseback riding accident. Physicians initially told Williams that, at best, his wife would leave the hospital a paraplegic. But doctors at the pioneering Shepard Center in Atlanta thought otherwise and after months of rehab there she ultimately regained the ability to walk. Throughout the ordeal, Williams had been scribbling his thoughts into a journal; good friend Caleb Clardy, co-writer of "Teach Me To Know," suggested he turn his writing into songs. The couple's friends had rallied around them, practically living in the hospital waiting room with Williams, organically becoming the support group he needed. Williams admits, "That was the first time I really experienced somebody trying their best to carry someone else's burden. It was very moving to me. I was going to classes on how to bathe and feed my wife, and I was trying to process all the fear and anger and the numbness. I started reading my friends these journal entries. I was writing in a kind of rhyming form because it helped to keep my mind focused. Caleb said, these are songs, man, you need to learn how to play the guitar and sing at he same time." Having experienced something close to a miracle, a revitalized Williams and his wife decided to head to New York City and pursue their creative paths in earnest. Several of their friends, equally motivated, chose to follow, and they reformed a tightly knit community in Brooklyn, where everyone settled Williams initially worked as a solo artist, backed at times by a hired band. Two years ago, following a soul-searching trip he'd taken with his wife, Williams re-emerged with a stack of deeply personal songs -- tender but frank tales of romantic rupture and hard-fought redemption -- rooted in the country, folk and gospel of his Southern youth, and that's the material he brought to the diner. Along with the core group of Williams, Pipkin, and fellow Georgian Elmquist, the Lone Bellow's recording and touring ensemble now includes Ben Mars on bass, Brian Murphy on keyboards, Matt Knapp on lap steel and electric guitar, Jason Pipkin on banjo and mandolin, and Brian Griffin on drums. After a warm-up gig at Brooklyn's Roots Café, Williams got a call from The Civil Wars, the Grammy Award Winning duo that he'd befriended while they were playing at the Lower East Side's Rockwood Music Hall. They asked if he and his new cohorts would open for them in Philadelphia: "We rehearsed for three days straight to try and get our act together and went to Philly and played our first real show as a group. It was so life giving, everything that everyone was playing had the overarching values of honesty, friendship and vulnerability, I felt like we really connected with this group of people in Philadelphia who'd never heard of us before." Willams met with Civil Wars producer Charlie Peacock when the Lone Bellow played the Bowery Ballroom and took him to the Rockwood, the modest but well-regarded two-room venue that Williams had long considered his musical home: "When Charlie came up, I said, let's walk around the block. I want to show you the venue. The owner, Ken Rockwood, was there and they just hit it off. Charlie was walking around, snapping his fingers close to walls, looking at the glass windows in front of the large room, and he said, 'You should make your record here'. Ken gave us the room for three days and three nights. We lived there. Our eight-piece band recorded twelve songs there and Charlie magically made them something worth listening to. I will never forget that experience." Peacock captured the spirit and the sound of these individuals, both at their most confident and their most vulnerable. Their recording of "Teach Me To Know," an infectious folk/gospel sing-along, was the by-product of some spontaneous late-night carousing, according to Williams: "We were ten songs in, I was exhausted, my vocals were completely gone, it was like one a.m and it started pouring down rain. Our piano player Brian ran outside and lied down on the sidewalk. So we all ran outside. Two of the band members started dancing in the rain and the rest of us started running around Allen Street with our shirts off. It was a beautiful moment. And while we were out there being dumb, Charlie set up the mics completely differently. When we came back inside, soaking wet from the rain, he said, we're recording 'Teach Me to Know' right now. And we laid it down. And that was the way it was making this record. It was all about capturing moments. We didn't play to a click; we were just in it. It was absolutely wonderful. I felt like the city just soaked through the windows into the recording." Afterwards, Williams, Kanene Pipkin and Elmquist joined Peacock down in Nashville for overdubs and fixes with some additional players at his studio, the Art House – an abandoned old church he had retrofitted on a small piece of land – and that location proved to be as well-suited to the band's sensibility as the Rockwood. The results of their efforts, the Lone Bellow's debut, are earnest, inspiring and fun. Everyone listening – and undoubtedly singing and stomping along – will surely feel like part of the family too.



When: Jun 14, 2013 8 PM in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: $13.50 advance / $15 day of show (Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20 )
Full Tang with People's Champs , Brother Sam Slideshow & More
When: Jun 20, 2013 8 PM in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: USD 0.00 (Thu, 20 Jun 2013 20 )
FluidicMEMS June 3 2013

What: FluidicMEMS is an informal gathering of people from academia, medicine, industry, and business to meet and explore how microfluidic and BioMEMS technology will impact healthcare, research, and beyond.

Speaker: Brian Hutchison, leader of the Advanced Technology group at RainDance Technologies. RainDance Technologies has developed and commercialized droplet microfluidics technology to enable applications in medical research which benefit from interrogation of single molecules.  The presentation will highlight development progress in applications and technology, including highly successful partnerships with Sony DADC and Continuum Advanced Systems, leading to their most recent product launch - the RainDrop digital PCR system.

When: Monday June 3, 6 PM - 9 PM

Where: Microsoft New England Research and Development (NERD) Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA. Paid parking is available in 1 Memorial Drive.  Directions: http://bit.ly/1Jw4I3

Sponsorship:  Our June 2013 event is co-sponsored by SonyDADC and Continuum Advanced Systems.  We are generously hosted by Microsoft.


                          



When: Jun 3, 2013 6 PM to Jun 3, 2013 9 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: Microfluidics Professional 0.00

Microfluidics Student 0.00

(Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18 )
How to Build a Mobile App with HTML5

How to Build a Mobile App with HTML5

Max Uhlenhuth, Co-founder of SilviaTerra

Monday, June 3rd from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pmDeveloping mobile apps can involve a lot of new and unexpected challenges. Beyond needing to learn a whole new programming language (Objective C for iPhone, or Java for Android), one common complaint among new app developers is that the development environments for those languages are confusing, hard to use, and poorly documented. One alternative to this approach is developing in PhoneGap, which allows developers to build apps with HTML5 and JavaScript (standard tools for most web developers switching to mobile).
This class will serve as a simple and practical introduction to the PhoneGap platform; we’ll cover the theory behind PhoneGap, pros and cons (as compared to direct development), and how PhoneGap can be used to design and implement mobile apps. We'll also look at a case study - a mobile app developed in PhoneGap called Plot Hound - which uses compass and geolocation APIs, local storage, WebSQL, and jQueryMobile.
Prerequisites: This is a beginner/intermediate course - some knowledge of HTML and JavaScript will help things go more smoothly. For a refresher, check out W3schools' tutorials on HTML and Javascript.
Required Materials/Software:Please bring a laptop with either Firefox or Chrome installed.

About the Instructor

Max Uhlenhuth is the co-founder and technical lead of SilviaTerra, a high-tech forestry company. Often combining many diverse technologies into a single project, he enjoys working on projects ranging from robotics and cloud computing to GIS and mobile. A 2012 graduate of Yale University, Max was recently named by Forbes as one of America's top college entrepreneurs.

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When: Jun 3, 2013 6 PM to Jun 3, 2013 8 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: Single Ticket - Early Bird 22.09

Single Ticket 32.64

At The Door (At The Door) 30.00

(Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18 )
Legal S#!t Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know

Entrepreneurs in all industries face common questions when starting a business, such as: Where should I organize my business? What is vesting? Do I need to know the difference between a “contractor” and an “employee”? When do I need to hire a lawyer??

In this program, Rick Lucash and Ben Hron of McCarter & English will discuss common legal issues startups encounter and what you can do to avoid the most common legal pitfalls.

Rick Lucash (http://www.mccarter.com/Richard-M-Lucash/) concentrates his practice on high technology companies, and the organizations and individuals who invest in those companies. His experience includes working with companies involved in a wide range of technologies, and the corporate, financing, technology transfer and intellectual property issues required for their growth. He works with Internet-based, software, mobile and medical device companies and interactive media businesses.  Rick co-founded the LaunchPad and SideCar angel investment groups and co-chairs the McCarter & English seminar series for entrepreneurs at the Cambridge Innovation Center.

Ben Hron (http://www.mccarter.com/Benjamin-M-Hron/ ) focuses his practice on advising private companies, most in the life sciences and information technology industries, on general corporate matters, angel and venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions, securities law compliance and strategic collaborations. He also represents investors in connection with the financing of private companies. Ben has extensive experience working with entrepreneurs and emerging companies, often getting involved when a business is still in its infancy and helping guide the founders through the formative early stages of their company's development. Ben also co-chairs the McCarter & English seminar series for entrepreneurs at the Cambridge Innovation Center

 

Doors will open for networking at 9:30am.

This program is part of McCarter & English’s ongoing series at CIC on legal and business topics for entrepreneurs and emerging companies.  Programs are held once or twice each month and are open to members of the CIC and their guests, as well as to the greater Boston entrepreneurial community.  Contact: Rick Lucash, 617-449-6568, rlucash@mccarter.com, @ricklucash  Benjamin Hron, 617-449-6584, bhron@mccarter.com, @HronEsq 

About the McCarter & English Emerging Companies Group 
McCarter’s Emerging Companies Group is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs build and finance their businesses. The group is composed of tech-savvy lawyers who have helped build, grow, sell and take public companies across the full spectrum of businesses, including Internet, software, medical devices, new media, life sciences, cleantech, healthcare, consumer products, biotechnology, retail, e-commerce, entertainment, financial services, insurance and telecom.



When: Jul 3, 2013 9 AM to Jul 3, 2013 11 AMin Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: Ticket 0.00

(Wed, 03 Jul 2013 09 )
Hands-On Jam Making Workshop with Bonnie's Jams (July 2013)

The time is summer and all the fresh fruits and berries are growing right in our Massachusetts back yard.  With summer comes longer days, brighter colors and the smells of ripe fruit and blooming flowers.  Summer is a time of hope and happiness, of relaxation and reflection.  July is the time of blackberries!  Join Bonnie Shershow of Bonnie's jams and learn how to jar that feeling and those flavors.  Bonnie will share some of her favorite recipes and jam-making secrets.  Bonnie cooks her jam to match the flavors she remembers from a childhood spent in her family home surrounded by orchards of fruit trees and berry bushes in Southern California. We will be exploring basic preservation and learning what to do with all that extra summer fruit!

NOTE: This class is held at our classroom annex, not our retail location. The annex is located at 67 Smith Place in Cambridge, and we highly recommend reviewing the directions available here

Please be aware of our cancellation policy.



When: Jul 14, 2013 12 PM to Jul 14, 2013 3 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: General Admission 85.00

(Sun, 14 Jul 2013 12 )
Fireside Chat with Semyon Dukach, Angel Investor

Fireside Chat with Semyon Dukach

Tuesday, June 18th from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Join us for an evening with Semyon Dukach, who will share his experiences as a serial entrepreneur (Fast Engines, Vert, AccuRev, SMTP.com, GottaFlirt.com, PDFFiller.com) and an angel investor (Double Robotics, Terrafugia, PlayTell, Crunchbutton, Strong Arm, Rallyt, Fashion Project, CoachUp, Bolt, SurePod, BoatBound, Cangrade, Meograph, TennisHub, Outline, MileWise, Chupamobile, Myomo, Mapkin, coUrabanize, Faraday Bicycles, ViralGains, Bia Sport, Codeship, HelmetHub, SimplePrints, Trefis, Open Watch, Berlin Startup Bootcamp, Enertiv.com, Ovuline, Sproutel, Wanderu, Preply, iAMscientist, ChromaTan, UFoodGrill, GoLoco).  In addition, we will discuss Semyon's take on the health of Boston's startup ecosystem, the mechanics of working with angel funding, and key lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs.

Following the the discussion, there will be open Q+A and networking; refreshments will be served.
 

Semyon Dukach was born and raised in Moscow, Russia, coming to the U.S. with his family as a 10-year-old kid in 1979. He studied computer science at Columbia University (where he co-authored work on virtual worlds at IBM Research in 1988) and went on to grad school at MIT, where he created the Simple Network Payment Protocol (one of the earliest ways to transfer money on the Internet) and became a major player in the now-infamous MIT blackjack team. After university, Semyon played key roles at several startups, including Fast Engines (an enterprise software solution to speed up Web apps using the FastCGI protocol), Vert (producing bright outdoor displays on top of cabs with location-specific video ads), GottaFlirt.com (an online dating game), AccuRev (version control software), SMTP.com (a bootstrapped email delivery provider) and PDFFiller.com (online platform for editing and filling PDF forms).

In 2012 he left his position as CEO of SMTP to focus full-time on angel investing, mentoring young entrepreneurs, and supporting causes like the Carter Center and his own Troublemaker Award. He also serves as a judge for MassChallenge, and for the Lemelson / MIT student inventiveness prize. He windsurfs whenever possible and rides his bike through red lights, but sold his helicopter to quit while he's ahead.

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When: Jun 18, 2013 7 PM to Jun 18, 2013 8 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: Single Ticket 0.00

(Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19 )
The Big Trail
Harvard Film Archive
24 Quincy Street
Sun., June 2, 2013, 4:30 – 6:35 p.m.



Before we left for Yuma, Wayne came to me with another husky young man over six feet tall who played on the same football team. ‘Mr. Walsh, can you find a part in your picture for this friend of mine?’ He sounded apologetic, as though he might be asking too much. When I inquired the friend’s name, he answered ‘Ward Bond.’ I hired Ward as a wagon-train driver. He was to drive many more wagons in later years. In helping a pal, Wayne had done picture fans a favor. …

I needed a clincher, something to bring home to viewers how the pioneers actually put their lives on the line during such migrations…. The opportunity I had been waiting for came when a transverse cleft stopped progress. The cut was deep and precipitous and there was a white curl of water in the bottom. In other circumstances, I would have called it a day, but I wanted the train to cross that canyon. …

The last wagon to go down gave the sequence more reality than I had bargained for. About halfway in its swaying descent, a knot must have slipped. The wagon hung lopsided just long enough to heighten the suspense. Then it went crashing to the canyon floor to make a pile of wreckage in the white water.

The Big Trail, after all the worries and doubts, ended fortunately and made money. In spite of weather extremes and frequent changes in location and the bellyaching of the Broadway element, my new leading man had made a fine frontiersman. His acting was instinctive, so that he became whatever or whoever he was playing. Later, under the direction of John Ford, he joined the ranks of movie immortals. There is a lot of pride in the knowledge that I discovered a winner. Not only that. I also found a great American. - Raoul Walsh

Gazette Classification: Film
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive
Directed By: Raoul Walsh
Cost: $9, $7 non-Harvard students, seniors, Harvard faculty and staff. Harvard students free
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When: Jun 2, 2013 12 AM in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Sun, 02 Jun 2013 00 )
Gentleman Jim
Harvard Film Archive
24 Quincy Street
Sun., June 2, 2013, 7 – 8:40 p.m.



I remember when I was doing Gentleman Jim with Ward Bond playing John L. Sullivan. After Flynn defeated him in New Orleans and became the world’s champion, Flynn’s manager threw a big party at the hotel and Ward Bond came and played a magnificent scene where he handed Flynn the World’s Championship belt and there’s some marvelous dialogue between the two of them and finally some tears came to Ward’s eye and he walked out. And when the scene was over, the whole cast, the electricians, the crew and everybody applauded. That was the kind of camaraderie they had. They were all marvelous people. - Raoul Walsh

Gazette Classification: Film
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive
Directed By: Raoul Walsh
Cost: $9, $7 non-Harvard students, seniors, Harvard faculty and staff. Harvard students free
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When: Jun 2, 2013 12 AM in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Sun, 02 Jun 2013 00 )
Raoul Walsh Marathon: The Horn Blows at Midnight
Harvard Film Archive
24 Quincy Street
Sun., June 2, 2013, 12:15 – 1:35 a.m.



Directed by Raoul Walsh. With Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran
US 1945, 35mm, b/w, 80 min
Well, yeah, a lot of people liked it. You know why? Because I panned it so much that everybody said, 'Gee, it can't be that bad.' And they looked at it and said, 'It isn't. I had somebody just the other day in Portland say to me, 'Gee, I saw The Horn Blows at Midnight and I liked it.' And I said, 'Well, you liked it because I didn't.' – Jack Benny

Gazette Classification: Film
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive
Directed By: Raoul Walsh
Cost: $12 special engagement - price covers all four films
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When: Jun 2, 2013 12 AM in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Sun, 02 Jun 2013 00 )
Vineyard 101 (6/2)

Vineyard 101: Discovering Vineyard

In this one-afternoon session, you'll learn about what it means to grow in involvement with the Greater Boston Vineyard – what you can hope for in terms of our support for your growth in God and in your calling, what our vision for our own growth and ministry is, how we came to be what we are today, our understanding of what God is doing in the world, and a bit about Vineyard churches in general. You'll also learn about the nature of membership here and have the opportunity to consider joining.

Before Vineyard 101, consider attending our free Welcome Lunch in the Sanctuary Chapel at 1:00 pm.

Prerequisites: None

Questions: Email 101@bostonvineyard.org

You can see all scheduled Vineyard 101 classes on the Vineyard website at:

http://www.bostonvineyard.org/classesprograms/core/101/



When: Jun 2, 2013 2 PM to Jun 2, 2013 5 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: Free Adult Registration 0.00

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(Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14 )
The Boston Abolitionists Project
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center - Experimental Theater
64 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Fri., May 24, 2013, 7:30 p.m.

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 passes and sends panic through the North Slope of Beacon Hill. Slave Catchers are on the hunt in northern cities like Boston. Thousands of free African Americans are fleeing the country. Abolitionists are challenging The Constitution of the
United States. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin has become a national literary phenomenon. Anthony Burns, a former slave living freely in Boston is arrested. People in Boston and as far away as Worcester are rallying to save Burns from a return to slavery, as the country heads toward the Civil War.

Developed as part of The National Civil War Project, The Boston Abolitionists Project is a devised theater piecethat explores the turmoil surrounding the people of Massachusetts during the mid-eighteen fifties leading up to the dawn of the Civil War.

Gazette Classification: Theater
Organization/Sponsor: American Repertory Theater
Directed By: Steven Bogart
Cost: Free and open to the public; tickets required
Ticket Web Linkwww.americanrepertorytheater.org
Contact Info: 617.547.8300
More infowww.americanrepertorytheater.org


When: May 24, 2013 7 AM in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Fri, 24 May 2013 07 )
TBA
Fri 8/9/13
TBA
8pm Doors

When: Aug 9, 2013 12 AM in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Fri, 09 Aug 2013 00 )
Jeffrey Gaines
'One of pop's finest singers, Jeffrey Gaines is the voice of a new generation.' Rolling Stone Magazine http://www.jeffreygaines.com


When: Jul 19, 2013 8 PM in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Fri, 19 Jul 2013 20 )
Vivi and the Peacocks
Regattabar at the Charles Hotel
1 Bennett Street
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Berklee alumna and Austria native jazz singer Veronika Anna Morscher has returned to Boston to record her first EP of original music and to perform with her friends from Berklee. Veronika grew up in Lauterach, Austria, where she began to take saxophone, piano, and voice lessons around the age of 13. She attended various workshops and entered jazz competitions throughout Europe. After graduating from high school, she moved to Boston to pursue a degree in professional music at Berklee College of Music. After graduating from Berklee, she moved back to Vienna to start her master’s degree in vocal performance at the Konservatorium Wien.
Admission: Free

When: Jul 1, 2013 6 PM in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: (Mon, 01 Jul 2013 18 )
Regattabar Kids' Summer Music Series:Mister G
Regattabar Kids' Summer Music Series:Mister G

A leading figure in the children's music world, Mister G (Ben Gundersheimer) is a former indie rocker who was awarded the first songwriting scholarship in the history of Berklee College of Music. He toured internationally prior to earning a Masters of Education and becoming a full-time family musician and teaching artist.

His award-winning 2012 release, Chocolalala, is a collection of original, bilingual (Spanish/English) songs. Inspired by his concert tours throughout Latin America, the album spans a wide range of musical styles from bossa nova to ska, funk to folk.

Mister G's 2011 bilingual CD, BUGS, is a genre-hopping exploration of the natural world. The video for "Vamos a la Playa" was featured on national television during Hispanic Heritage Month. Mister G burst on to the family music scene in 2010 with his debut children's album, Pizza for Breakfast, which includes radio favorites "Sneaky Chihuahua" and "Pony with a Problem."

Mister G has performed public concerts and educational workshops for children throughout the US, Europe and Latin America.Audio/video clips



When: Jul 21, 2013 4 PM in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: $12.00 (Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16 )
Dharma & Chai

Speaker: The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi

Time: 8:00p–9:00p

Location: 4-303

Weekly lectures and discussions on Buddhist philosophical texts under the guidance of Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi. Sometimes classes are held through webcasts ("CyberDharma") at MIT.

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/metta/www/

Open to: the general public

This event occurs on Thursdays.

Sponsor(s): Buddhist Community at MIT

For more information, contact:
Nancy Boyce
617-253-2327
nboyce@mit.edu

This event is categorized as: personal development, religious



When: May 30, 2013 8 PM to May 30, 2013 9 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts (Thu, 30 May 2013 20 )
Regattabar Kids' Summer Music Series: Elizabeth Mitchell and You Are My Flower
Regattabar Kids' Summer Music Series: Elizabeth Mitchell and You Are My Flower

Elizabeth Mitchell, a Grammy nominated Smithsonian Folkways Recordings artist, has been recording and performing handmade kid's folk music since 1998. What sets her apart from the many wonderful people making music for children today is that she is playing music with her family- Elizabeth records and performs with her husband Daniel Littleton, their eleven year old daughter Storey, who plays ukulele and alto recorder, and a host of aunts, uncles, cousins and some honorary cousins! Elizabeth is also bringing family music to wider audiences, as the curator of the family stage of the Newport Folk Festival, and for many years as the host of a series of Kid's Rambles with Levon Helm at his home in Woodstock. Elizabeth has also collaborated with artists including Natalie Merchant, Dan Zanes and Ziggy Marley. She lives in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York.

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When: Jul 14, 2013 4 PM in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: $12.00 (Sun, 14 Jul 2013 16 )
MIT Aikido Club

Time: 5:30p–7:00p

Location: W-32, Meets in Excerise Room or Squash Court 5

Beginners are always welcome to come by and observe a practice or join us on the mat.

Aikido is a Martial art that emphasizes blending with the attacker, rather than confronting the attacker with hard techniques such as punches and kicks.

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/aikido/

Open to: MIT-only

This event occurs on weekdays.

Sponsor(s): MIT Aikido Club

For more information, contact:
Charles Hale
chale@mit.edu

This event is categorized as: recreation



When: May 24, 2013 5:45:00 PM to May 24, 2013 7:15:00 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts (Fri, 24 May 2013 17:45:00 )
Location Lighting Workshop with Rick Friedman



Join award-winning photographer Rick Friedman for his two-day, hands-on Location Lighting Workshop.

This intensive, interactive seminar is designed for wedding photographers, portrait photographers, corporate and event photographers, photojournalists and serious amateurs who want to improve their knowledge of lighting.

This workshop begins with ways to create wonderful light using a single Speedlite then build on that knowledge by adding a second then third Speedlight and eventually progressing to using studio strobes.


Topics Include:

• Multiple light situations
• Balancing available light with strobes
• Mixing speed lights with studio strobes as well as determining when Speedlights are really the better option
• The correct way to do color balances, color correction, cross filtering and adding and controlling color in your photographs

Students will work with many different types of light modifiers and see the effects of soft boxes, umbrellas, light panels, screens, grids, snoots, reflectors, gobos and barn doors. You will learn how to create lighting for different types of portraits and lighting situations, both indoors and outside.

Friedman will also explain the various ways to fire strobes, how to create your own light modifiers and cover the essentials of building your own gaffer’s kit. He will also be available for portfolio reviews, so please bring up to 15 images.

This class explains both Nikon and Canon systems.

What to bring:
Your camera, lenses, Speedlight(s), fully charged batteries and plenty of media cards.


About the Instructor
Rick Friedman has been a photojournalist for over three decades. Based in Boston, he travels the world for numerous publications, corporations, advertising assignments and film and television productions. His published work appears in Time, Newsweek, U.S. News, The New York Times, USA Today, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Stern, Discover and many other publications. He has produced over 75 book and magazine covers. The books Hillary Clinton, Infra Structures, and The Gourmet Prescription are a few of his projects.

He is currently the President of the Boston Press Photographers Association. Friedman has won awards from the American Society of Media Photographers, the National Press Photographers Association, and the Boston Press Photographers Association. To learn more about Friedman, his work and workshops, visit: http://rickfriedman.com


Sponsors
Calumet, PocketWizard, Dynalite, Expoimaging, ExpoDisc, Ray Flash, Rogue Flash Benders, X-Rite, Think Tank and Rosco

Tuition: $225 if registered before May 16th; $250 thereafter




When: Jun 1, 2013 12 AM to Jun 2, 2013 12 AMin Cambridge, Massachusetts (Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00 )
SP End of term BBQ and Movie

Time: 6:30p–11:00p

Location: NW86

Join us to celebrate the end semester with a BBQ and outdoor movie on Sidney Pacific's giant outdoor movie screen. Come, relax and have some fun with your fellow graduate students. Thirsty ear will also be serving beer and wine at their cash bar!

Open to: MIT-only

Cost: 0

Sponsor(s): GSC Funding Board, Large Event Fund (LEF), Sidney-Pacific Graduate Community

For more information, contact:
Jack Ahern
617-452-4753
spec@mit.edu

This event is categorized as: social



When: May 24, 2013 6 PM to May 24, 2013 11 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: 0 (Fri, 24 May 2013 18 )
Baby Made Rebel, Seth Wonkka
Baby Made Rebel https://www.facebook.com/babymaderebel Exiting from the pits of basements, low income housing and the occasional closets Baby Made Rebel emerged from a well dressed lady's cocoon onto the Boston scene in 2009 with their debut single, The Recipe For An Everlasting Cigarette. The band's latest releases juxtapose indie rock & American style Brit-Pop. The music of Baby Made Rebel appeals to both fans and non-fans alike. Seth Wonkka https://www.facebook.com/sethwonkkamusic Seth Wonkka and his band have appeared at mainstays of the local Boston music scene (Hard Rock Café, Davis Square Theatre, TT The Bears, Precinct, McGanns) as well as venues on the North Shore, and Portland, ME. Their sound, inspired by artists Amos Lee, Ray Lamontagne, Jason Mraz, and Howie Day can best be described as acoustic rock with hints of folk, pop, and even a little country.



When: Jun 1, 2013 10 PM to Jun 1, 2013 11:55:00 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: 5 - 5 USD (Sat, 01 Jun 2013 22 )
Tech Model Railroad Club of MIT meeting

Time: 5:00p–11:00p

Location: N52-118

An informal meeting where we design and build the layout and run trains. Visitors welcome. Students welcome to join the club. (Club members go to dinner between 6:30 and 7:30, room may be empty at that time.)

Web site: http://tmrc.mit.edu

Open to: the general public

This event occurs on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Sponsor(s): Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC)

For more information, contact:
Thomas N. Paulsen
253-3269
tmrc-www@mit.edu

This event is categorized as: science/engineering, interest clubs/groups



When: May 25, 2013 5 PM to May 25, 2013 11 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts (Sat, 25 May 2013 17 )
Holy Eucharist

Time: 5:15p–6:30p

Location: W15, MIT Chapel

A service of scripture, singing, and Holy Eucharist. Everyone in the MIT community is welcome. Dinner and discussion follow in W11 Main Dining Room. See our website for update on discussion topics.

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/lem

Open to: MIT-only

This event occurs on Wednesdays, except April 8, 2009, December 23, 2009, December 24, 2008, December 30, 2009, November 25, 2009, December 31, 2008, February 17, 2010, February 24, 2010, March 31, 2010, December 8, 2010 and February 2, 2011.

Sponsor(s): Lutheran-Episcopal Ministry

For more information, contact:
Patricia Weinmann
3-0108
lem@mit.edu

This event is categorized as: religious



When: May 29, 2013 5:15:00 PM to May 29, 2013 6 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts (Wed, 29 May 2013 17:15:00 )
Second Fridays at the MIT Museum

Time: 5:00p–8:00p

Location: N51, MIT Museum

Second Fridays
Jump-start your weekend with the MIT Museum.

Program details to be announced

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/calendar.html

Open to: the general public

Cost: free

This event occurs on the 2nd Friday of every month through December 13, 2013, except January 11, 2013, February 8, 2013, March 8, 2013, April 12, 2013, May 10, 2013 and June 14, 2013.

Sponsor(s): MIT Museum

For more information, contact:
Josie Patterson
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu

This event is categorized as: art/architecture/museum, science/engineering



When: Dec 13, 2013 5 PM to Dec 13, 2013 8 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: free (Fri, 13 Dec 2013 17 )
Second Fridays at the MIT Museum

Time: 5:00p–8:00p

Location: N51, MIT Museum

Second Fridays
Jump-start your weekend with the MIT Museum.

Program details to be announced

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/calendar.html

Open to: the general public

Cost: free

This event occurs on the 2nd Friday of every month through December 13, 2013, except January 11, 2013, February 8, 2013, March 8, 2013, April 12, 2013, May 10, 2013 and June 14, 2013.

Sponsor(s): MIT Museum

For more information, contact:
Josie Patterson
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu

This event is categorized as: art/architecture/museum, science/engineering



When: Sep 13, 2013 5 PM to Sep 13, 2013 8 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: free (Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17 )
Second Fridays at the MIT Museum

Time: 5:00p–8:00p

Location: N51, MIT Museum

Second Fridays
Jump-start your weekend with the MIT Museum.

Program details to be announced

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/calendar.html

Open to: the general public

Cost: free

This event occurs on the 2nd Friday of every month through December 13, 2013, except January 11, 2013, February 8, 2013, March 8, 2013, April 12, 2013, May 10, 2013 and June 14, 2013.

Sponsor(s): MIT Museum

For more information, contact:
Josie Patterson
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu

This event is categorized as: art/architecture/museum, science/engineering



When: Nov 8, 2013 5 PM to Nov 8, 2013 8 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: free (Fri, 08 Nov 2013 17 )
Second Fridays at the MIT Museum

Time: 5:00p–8:00p

Location: N51, MIT Museum

Second Fridays
Jump-start your weekend with the MIT Museum.

Program details to be announced

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/calendar.html

Open to: the general public

Cost: free

This event occurs on the 2nd Friday of every month through December 13, 2013, except January 11, 2013, February 8, 2013, March 8, 2013, April 12, 2013, May 10, 2013 and June 14, 2013.

Sponsor(s): MIT Museum

For more information, contact:
Josie Patterson
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu

This event is categorized as: art/architecture/museum, science/engineering



When: Oct 11, 2013 5 PM to Oct 11, 2013 8 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: free (Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17 )
Second Fridays at the MIT Museum

Time: 5:00p–8:00p

Location: N51, MIT Museum

Second Fridays
Jump-start your weekend with the MIT Museum.

Program details to be announced

Web site: http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/calendar.html

Open to: the general public

Cost: free

This event occurs on the 2nd Friday of every month through December 13, 2013, except January 11, 2013, February 8, 2013, March 8, 2013, April 12, 2013, May 10, 2013 and June 14, 2013.

Sponsor(s): MIT Museum

For more information, contact:
Josie Patterson
617-253-5927
museuminfo@mit.edu

This event is categorized as: art/architecture/museum, science/engineering



When: Aug 9, 2013 5 PM to Aug 9, 2013 8 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: free (Fri, 09 Aug 2013 17 )
PuMaGraSS (Pure Math Graduate Student Seminar )

Speaker: TBA

Time: 12:00p–1:00p

Location: 4-153

TBA

Web site: http://math.mit.edu/seminars/pumagrass/

Open to: the general public

This event occurs on Thursdays and Fridays.

Sponsor(s): Mathematics, Department of

For more information, contact:
John Binder, Ruthi Hortsch, Padmavathi Srinivasan
binderj@math.mit.edu, rhortsch@math.mit.edu, padma_sk@math.mit.edu

This event is categorized as: lectures/conferences



When: May 24, 2013 12 PM to May 24, 2013 1 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts (Fri, 24 May 2013 12 )
ImprovBoston Family Show
Time(s): Saturdays at 6:00 p.m.



When: Jan 1, 2013 12 AM to Dec 16, 2013 12 AMin Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: $7.00 for children and students, $12.00 for adults, $10.00 for seniors (Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00 )
The White Mandingos
When: Jun 16, 2013 8 PM in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: $13.00 (Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20 )
Fucked Up

Supporting Acts: PAWS, Twin Peaks

Fucked Up

Fucked Up have the most perfect name for any band in rock history. In two words it bluntly states the truth that lies at the heart of the white noise maelstrom – things are different from what you expect. Right from the start this Toronto band has been pushing musical and conceptual boundaries. Forming ostensibly as a punk band, they swiftly took on hardcore and twisted it into their own version, with a psychedelic edge, unexpected instrumentation like flute and keyboards, and songs stretched to perverse lengths. They initially released a series of impossible to find 7” singles, all with related artwork that sometimes landed them in trouble, and sometimes looked like they came from the late 60s, when minds were melting with possibilities. There were also albums that continued this theme, each one more bold and adventurous. Meanwhile, the band’s gigs took on legendary status. Frontman Damian Abraham’s nude stage dives and blood-strewn face were becoming a lunatic motif for a take on the hardcore genre that constantly upended assumptions: lyrics about plants and rebirth, moneys to charities for battered women. All the time, there was a sense of a narrative, and even in their loudest moments there was a deep intelligence to their music. The narrative itself has come to full fruition on their new album, the 78-minute David Comes To Life rock opera, an album set to a play. In the punk wars the rock opera was held up as the ultimate example of decadent capitalist-pig rock, the kind of opulent, navel-gazing fodder of faded rock dictators clinging onto power by their filthy fingernails and their tediously long records. It breaks the strict rules of punk and is precisely the reason why Fucked Up have presented this mammoth work. Their whole history has been mashing ferocious but highly thought-out music with brilliant concepts and Situationist philosophy. They have now made their ultimate statement, tying up all the loose ends and question marks in this sprawling, yet consistently brilliant album. In anyone else’s hands, David Comes To Life might be a disaster, but Fucked Up are in a different lineage – the concept album, after all, was invented by the Kinks or the Pretty Things and even the Who’s huffing-and-puffing Tommy and Hawkwind’s Space Ritual. You could even include some of the Crass albums as concept albums if you really thought about it – darkly powerful works that let you enter a parallel universe. Though no less monumental, it is far more melodic than their breakthrough The Chemistry of Common Life. There are more female vocals, which work in perfect contrast to Abraham’s highly effective wounded bull growl. The band sound tighter and with more space for the flourishes and imaginative songwriting that entwine their love of fey British indie pop with heavy riffing, and some genuinely twisted turns. Perhaps most grippingly, the triple-guitar interplay between Mike Haliechuk, Josh Zucker and Ben Cook has risen to symphonic levels. They channel musicians from Angus Young, Pete Townshend and Noel Gallagher to Bob Stinson and Lyle Preslar with ease and grace. The result is better than Sham’s That’s Life, less desperate than SF Sorrow, a finer cultural self reference than Arthur and Village Green, a better tribute to plants than Dopesmoker, and more a unmixable album than Loveless. But you can hear all these musical touchstones in David’s multi-layered melodic filigree. And then there comes the story… David Comes To Life is a story of lost love, global meltdown, depression, bombs, guilt and madness. Or is it? A modern day morality tale set to the dour backdrop of a British industrial town in the late 70s, it’s a four-part play that follows the dark moods and inner psyche of the titular hero. At the same time, the reliability of the narrator gets called into question, the tables are turned, responsibility shifts, and the story goes meta. David loses his lover in a bombing during an undisclosed war . The story then turns into an internal dialogue between David and the narrator, Octavio St Laurent. The ensuing plot sees the roles and characters shapeshifting as the dialogue about love and hate battle it out. It’s a fantastically complex concept that somehow works. The mind-altering subject matter sits perfectly with the intense and at times gorgeous music. Of course you could always ignore the backstory and just listen to a fiercely imaginative, powerful 78 minutes of blistering, melodic rock’n‘roll crossed with all manners of psychic weirdness. Your choice.



When: Jun 13, 2013 8 PM in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: $15 (Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20 )
6/8 - First Things First / A Cityscape / Stainless / Grace Under Fire / For The Year / Cannon Hills / Static In The Radio / 1 more TBA @ All Asia (Cambridge, MA)
[Description] June 8, 2013 Keynote Company presents: First Things First (https://www.facebook.com/FirstThingsFirstMusic) A Cityscape (https://www.facebook.com/ACityscapeBand) Stainless (https://www.facebook.com/wearestainless) Grace Under Fire (https://www.facebook.com/GraceUnderFireOfficial) For The Year (https://www.facebook.com/ForTheYearBand) Cannon Hills (https://www.facebook.com/CannonHills) Static In The Radio (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Static-In-The-Radio/140921065933261) 1 more TBA - ask to play this show! *Order TBD All Asia - 334 Mass Ave - Cambridge, MA 1:00 P.M. - $8 adv, $10 doors - All Ages www.facebook.com/keynotecompany Directions: http://allasiabar.com/directions_to_all_asia.html Also we do not have a one drink minimum on our shows, but please remember to support the venue. They have a full bar open to those 21+ as well as food for sale too! https://www.facebook.com/AllAsiaBoston



When: Jun 8, 2013 1 PM to Jun 8, 2013 6 PMin Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: 8 - 8 USD (Sat, 08 Jun 2013 13 )
Xenia Sky - Abby Brown


When: May 30, 2013 8 PM in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Thu, 30 May 2013 20 )
Tom Appleman
We Play at 10

When: May 30, 2013 10 PM in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Thu, 30 May 2013 22 )
Eleanor and the Tasties
We're back at John Harvard's--this time with the full band! So come join us as we get mighty soulful in the Square.. :)

When: May 30, 2013 9 PM in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Thu, 30 May 2013 21 )
Goodnight, Texas - The Hill and Wood
Thu 7/25/13
Goodnight, Texas
The Hill and Wood
Larcenist
18+ $10
TIX - Facebook Event
8pm Doors

When: Jul 25, 2013 8 PM in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: USD 0.00 (Thu, 25 Jul 2013 20 )
Chemistry Student Seminar: Daniel Tofan, Cummins Group **LOCATION CHANGED TO MOORE ROOM**

Speaker: Daniel Tofan, Cummins Group

Time: 10:00a–11:00a

Location: 4-163

Daniel Tofan Chemistry Student Seminar

**LOCATION CHANGED TO MOORE ROOM**

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): Chemistry Department

For more information, contact:
Alexandra Velian
avelian@mit.edu

This event is categorized as: lectures/conferences



When: May 24, 2013 10 AM to May 24, 2013 11 AMin Cambridge, Massachusetts (Fri, 24 May 2013 10 )
Caravan Of Thieves
Age Limit: All Ages

Caravan Of Thieves




When: Aug 16, 2013 8 PM in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: $13 member / $15 non-member (Fri, 16 Aug 2013 20 )

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