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Sea Monsters: Wonders of Nature and Imagination
Embark on a daring voyage into the depths of human imagination at the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s new exhibition, Sea Monsters: Wonders of Nature and Imagination. Featuring ancient mariners' maps, literature, works of art, and natural history specimens, this exhibit explores the allure of serpents, krakens, and other monsters of the deep. Peer into […]
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Look beyond the Sea Monsters special exhibition to explore other items in the collections. Pick up the Sea-ing Monsters scavenger hunt sheet at any of the four Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. Find this symbol throughout the galleries of all four museums marking contenders for the title of Sea Monster and decide for yourself—sea […]
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Manifest: Thirteen Colonies
Manifest: Thirteen Colonies is a photographic engagement with African American material culture housed in collections throughout the thirteen original United States colonies and Washington, D.C.
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HARVARD SQUARE CAMBRIDGE CHOCOLATE TOUR
A unique "bean to bar" Boston Chocolate Tour through historic Harvard Square! Calling all chocoholics! Let us romance your senses on a Harvard Square, Cambridge Chocolate Tour! Ready to park your cah in Hahvahd and have some fun? Join us for a delectable adventure through historical Harvard Square where you’ll hear interesting stories about the […]
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When You Read This Letter (Quand tu liras cette lettre…)
Dismissed by Melville in its time as “a very conventional, very sensible film” made in part to fund his film studio, When You Read This Letter is a slightly uncharacteristic but nevertheless fascinating swerve in the director’s early career into the realm of melodrama. On a tonal spectrum opposite the laconic moodiness of something like Le samouraï, Letter is a […]
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Le samouraï
Melville’s icy, pinpoint-precise masterwork about a taciturn contract killer dealing with the aftermath of a job gone awry offers the template for generations of similarly laconic thrillers such as Walter Hill’s The Driver, John Flynn’s Rolling Thunder and Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control. But few of these descendants can match the dark void opened by Alain Delon’s steely anti-hero, […]
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Laura van den Berg at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes LAURA VAN DEN BERG—Senior Lecturer on Fiction at Harvard University and author of The Third Hotel—for a discussion of her latest novel State of Paradise. She will be joined in conversation by SHUCHI SARAWAT—senior editor of AGNI.
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GATSBY [MAY 25 – JUL 21, 2024]
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s legendary novel The Great Gatsby comes to new life in this world-premiere musical with a score by international rock star Florence Welch (Florence + The Machine) and Oscar and Grammy Award nominee Thomas Bartlett (Doveman), and a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok (Cost of Living). Gatsby is staged by Tony Award-winning director […]
Find out moreClasse tous risques (The Big Risk)
Written by ex-con José Giovanni, Claude Sautet’s debut feature emanates an insider’s view of the postwar Parisian crime world, as well as a tenderness sometimes pointedly lacking in Melville’s hardened milieu. Grizzled former wrestler Lino Ventura plays Abel, an aging French gangster in exile in Milan after his last job left him persona non grata […]
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KARAOKE NIGHT
Give those pipes a workout! Come to Charlie's Kitchen for Karaoke Night!
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