Harvard Square
The Ways We Listen
The coexistence of music players from every era directs debates about the function and meaning of music today.
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Tokyo Kid, located in the Garage, is letting its inventory of DVDs, manga, figurines, and other anime merchandise sell out as it plans to close.
Local Food
Kimball Farm offers a variety of produce, including these heirloom tomatoes, as well as "pick your own" opportunities.
Local Food
The Charles Square Farmers Market featured these Cortland apples from Kimball Fruit Farm in Pepperell, MA. They're perfect for baking.
Local Food
Grateful Farm in Franklin, MA, brought in these sugar pumpkins. Produce has been coming in weeks early because of the unusually hot summer.
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"It's about getting people excited about old-fashioned skills, which people in the city are becoming interested," says Alexa Photopoulos '05, standing at the jam booth.
Local Food
A booth offers lessons on jam-making at the Third Annual Urban-Ag Fair. The event, held Sunday afternoon in Harvard Square, showcased locally-grown foods and encouraged visitors to try urban agriculture.
Local Food
The Urban-Ag fair emphasized foods that are easy to produce with limited land in the middle of the city: jam, honey, herbs, and small plants like tomatoes.
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An increasing number of local businesses and student groups are using Square to accept credit cards.
Square Spreads to Local Business and Student Groups
An inch-wide device named Square, which—when plugged into the headphone jack of a smartphone—allows any individual or business to accept credit card payments via a free mobile application.
