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Bates College
Address: 305 College St, Lewiston
Phone: 207.786.8272
Email: vtoppses@bates.edu
Web: OCT 2 AND 3 Bates College Modern Dance Company, noon on Sat
OCT 16 Gregory Maqoma Residency Performance of Beautiful Me
DEC 4 Fall Studio Showing, Merrill Gym, noon, free
Performances are at 7:30 pm in Schaeffer Theater. Tickets are $6, $3 students and seniors; call or go online to www.batestickets.com.
UPCOMING EVENTS
OCT 2 AND 3 Bates College Modern Dance Company, noon on Sat
OCT 16 Gregory Maqoma Residency Performance of
Beautiful MeDEC 4 Fall Studio Showing, Merrill Gym, noon, free
Boothbay Region Art Foundation
Address: 1 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor
Phone: 207.633.2703
Open Mon through Sat from 10 am to 5:30 pm, and Sun from 1 to 5 pm. Closes for the season in mid-Oct.
Bowdoin College
Address: Brunswick
Phone: 207.725.3000
7:30 pm, Studzinski Recital Hall. Call for time and tickets.
CALAMUS BOOKSTORE
Address: 92B South St, Boston, MA
Phone: 617.338.1931
Web: OCT 6 Christopher Bram’s Exiles in America, 7 pm
Boston’s complete GLBT bookstore. Open Mon-Sat from 9 am-7 pm, and on Sun from noon to 6 pm.
UPCOMING EVENTS
OCT 6 Christopher Bram’s
Exiles in America, 7 pm
CALAMUS BOOKSTORE
Address: 92B South St, Boston, MA
Phone: 617.338.1931
Web: OCT 26 Launch party for Joe Hayes's new book, A Map of the Harbor Islands, at Club Cafe, 209 Columbus Avenue, Boston, 6:30 pm
Boston’s complete GLBT bookstore.
UPCOMING EVENTS
OCT 26 Launch party for Joe Hayes's new book,
A Map of the Harbor Islands, at Club Cafe, 209 Columbus Avenue, Boston, 6:30 pm
HARVARD BOOK STORE
Address: 1256 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
Phone: 617.661.1515
Email: info@harvard.com
Web: SEPT 29 Roderick MacFarquhar’s Mao’s Last Revolution, 3 pm
OCT 3 Ari L. Goldman’s Living A Year of Kaddish: A Memoir, Harvard Hillel, 6:30 pm
OCT 6 Professor Lisa Randall, “Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteri
Open Mon-Thurs from 9 am-11pm, on Fri and Sat from 9 am-noon, and on Sun from 10 am-10 pm. Used book-buying Tues-Sat from 10 am-4 pm. All readings taking place in the Brattle Theatre begin at 6 pm and cost $3, unless otherwise noted.
UPCOMING EVENTS
SEPT 29 Roderick MacFarquhar’s
Mao’s Last Revolution, 3 pm
OCT 3 Ari L. Goldman’s
Living A Year of Kaddish: A Memoir, Harvard Hillel, 6:30 pm
OCT 6 Professor Lisa Randall, “Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions,” 3 pm
OCT 9 Professor Marc D. Hauser, “Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Sense of Right and Wrong,” Brattle Theatre, $3, 5:30 pm
OCT 10 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s
Half A Yellow Sun 6:30 pm
OCT 11 Michael Cox’s
The Meaning of Night: A Confession, 6:30 pm
OCT 12 Alice McDermott’s
After This, 6:30 pm
OCT 13 Professor Janet Halley, “Split Decisions: How and Why To Take A Break from Feminism,” 3 pm
OCT 13 Charles C. Mann, “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus”
OCT 17 Nell Freudenberger’s
The DissentOCT 19 Richard Dawkins’s
The God Delusion, First Parish Church, $3
OCT 20 Professor Owen Gingerich, “God’s Universe,” 3 pm
OCT 20 Madhur Jaffrey’s
Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in IndiaOCT 24 William Boyd’s
RestlessOCT 27 Professor Alan Wolfe, “Does American Democracy Still Work?” 3 pm
OCT 30 Ben Schott’s
Schott’s Almanac 2007
LONGFELLOW NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
Address: 105 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA
Phone: 617.876.4491
Open Wed-Sunday from 10 am-4:30 pm through Oct. Visit web site for updated schedule
NEW ENGLAND CRIME BAKE MYSTERY WRITING CONFERENCE
Address: 50 Warren St, Lowell, MA
Phone: 978.452.1200
Email: crimebake@aol.com
The fifth annual New England Crime Bake conference for mystery writers and readers will be held Nov 10 through 12 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Lowell, MA. NY Times best-selling author Lisa Scottoline will be the Guest of Honor. See Web site for scheduling information.
PORTER SQUARE BOOKS
Address: 25 White St, Cambridge, MA
Phone: 617.491.2220
Email: info@portersquarebooks.com
Web: SEPT 28 Jacqueline Winspear’s Messenger of Truth
SEPT 29 Lee Montgomery’s Things Between Us
OCT 3 Claire Messud’s The Emperor’s Children
OCT 4 Patrick Somerville’s Trouble
OCT 6
All events begin at 7 pm and are free of charge, unless otherwise noted. Check the Web site and weekly Phoenix listings for updated schedules.
UPCOMING EVENTS
SEPT 28 Jacqueline Winspear’s Messenger of Truth
SEPT 29 Lee Montgomery’s Things Between Us
OCT 3 Claire Messud’s The Emperor’s Children
OCT 4 Patrick Somerville’s Trouble
OCT 6 Greg Spatz and Alexander Parsons’s Fiddler's Dream and In the Shadows of the Sun
OCT 11 Emily Franklin’s The Girl’s Almanac
OCT 13 Debbie Brisson’s The Museum of Kitschy Stitches
OCT 18 Karen Cushman’s Loud Silence of Francine Green, 10:30 am
SMITH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART
Address: Elm St at Bedford Terrace, Northampton, MA
Phone: 413.585.2760
Email: artmuseum@smith.edu
Web: THROUGH DEC 31 "William Kentridge: What Will Come"
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THROUGH DEC 31 "William Kentridge: What Will Come"
OCT 9 THROUGH FEB 28 "Touch Fire: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics by Women Artists"
Permanent collection consists of works dating from 2500 BC to the present, with emphasis on 19th- and early-20th-century American art. Open Tues through Sat from 10 am to 4 pm, on Sun from noon to 4 pm, and on every second Fri of the month from 10 am to 8 pm (4 to 8 pm free admission). General admission $5 adults, $4 seniors, $3 students, $2 children six through 12. Free to members, Smith College students and faculty, and children under six.
UPCOMING EVENTS
THROUGH NOV 1 "Framework V: Restoring the Boundaries"
THROUGH DEC 31 "William Kentridge: What Will Come"
OCT 9 THROUGH FEB 28 "Touch Fire: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics by Women Artists"
University of New Hampshire
Address: Paul Creative Arts Center, Durham NH
Phone: 603.862.2290
Web: OCT 7 THROUGH 11 Curtains
NOV 4 THROUGH 8 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, $12.50
DEC 2 THROUGH 6 Tintypes, at the Hennessy Theatre
Performances are held in the Johnson Theatre and cost $15.50, unless noted otherwise. Shows start at 7 pm Wed through Sat, with 2 pm matinees on Sun and select Sat. Tickets can be purchased at the MUB box office on weekdays from 10 am to 4 pm, by phone, or online.
UPCOMING EVENTS
OCT 7 THROUGH 11 CurtainsNOV 4 THROUGH 8 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, $12.50
DEC 2 THROUGH 6 Tintypes, at the Hennessy Theatre
