University Park & Sidney Street (between Franklin & Pacific) in Central Square
Cambridge, MA 02144
(617) 379-0210
Demanding corporate meeting planners choose Alden Castle for inspiring decor, ease of setup and location: minutes from downtown Boston and across the street from green line T-stop. Discerning brides choose it for its romance and vintage feel. See most recent wedding photos at Alden Castle. Tags: wedding reception boston, castle wedding, rehearsal dinner boston, fundraising event, event space boston, holiday parties, bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah
HackMIT is MIT’s headline hackathon, with over 1000 undergraduate attendees from around the globe. Over a 24-hour period from September 17th to 18th, hackers collaborate and experiment on software and hardware projects. This is the weekend to meet other enthusiastic hackers, push your boundaries, and realize the projects of your dreams!
The Taste of Cambridge transforms University Park Common and Sidney Street into a Lush Haven for Gastronomical Exploration and Gustatory Indulgences of the highest order! Each year foodies descend upon the Taste of Cambridge to sample the delicious, creative, healthy and award-winning cuisine found in every square inch that comprises our fine and notable food-loving City! Our event is one of the great food sampling experiences in the region featuring 100+ local restaurants and local specialty butcher, cheese, honey, wine, beer, specialty drinks and coffee purveyors. Feel good for doing a great amount of good by buying a ticket to this benefit event and enjoy eat great foods in our gorgeous landscaped courtyard, featuring café seating, beer and wine gardens, celebrity DJ’s, live bands, and an opportunity to meet the non-profits who benefit directly from this exciting event. Each “Adult” ticket to the Taste of Cambridge includes four glasses of beer or wine from our beer gardens featuring Amstel, Harpoon, John Harvard’s Brew House, and a variety of other specially chosen beers and wines. The Taste of Cambridge (TOC), founded by the Cambridge License Advisory Board (CLAB), is produced by a dedicated CLAB volunteers. CLAB works year-round to prevent underage drinking and to educate and support liquor license holders in their efforts to prohibit sales to minors. The TOC, in addition to being an extraordinary gastronomic experience is also a charitable event! Our participating restaurants, sponsors, and volunteers present the best “Taste of” event to provide financial support to our beneficiaries!
Music | Art | Technology Together Boston is a week-long, city-wide convergence of music, art and technology. With daytime events celebrating emerging ideas, the latest gear and artistic innovation, the creative community then gives back at nighttime events that embrace aspects of all three fields. Featuring exhibits, Q&A with visiting artists and musicians plus a film component, Together contains a multitude of inclusive activities, putting the city and New England at the center of a new festival experience. The festival includes: * Night-time events schedule that showcases local, national and international electronic music talent *Daytime event schedule that includes discussion panels, technology demonstrations, art installations, a synth petting zoo, a STEAM disco, and a record fair
We are extremely grateful for the support of our Trek family. Join us June 24-26, 2016! 1, 2 & 3 day rides will be available. We'll also offer several shorter "family" ride distances. All participation supports ALS TDI's mission to end ALS. Please check www.tristatetrek.com for details.
Here's how OPENHAUS works! --Signing up for OpenHaus grants you standby access to SketchHaus (9pm) --The only way to GUARANTEE your seat in the OpenHaus audience is by going to SketchHaus! Check out the show if you want a for-sure spot in the room. --You can sign up to either: Perform a sketch with your group, have other performers perform a sketch you have written, perform in other people's sketches. There will be sign up sheets in the Lobby until 10:10! --The first FOUR acts on the list will definitely go up, the remaining (however many) will be chosen in a lottery style. We're gonna try to get everyone up but we gotta have a hard close time of 11:05 -- No more than five minutes per act! If you have a properly formatted script, that should mean less than five pages!
The Paradise Rock Club is a 933-capacity music venue located in Boston, Massachusetts. Because of its relatively small size, it appeals to top local rock and alternative performers as well as American bands visiting Boston for the first time . The venue accommodates small music festivals and non music related events. The Paradise is located on the edge of Boston University's campus and draws a student-based crowd. Most shows have an age requirement of eighteen or older.HistoryThe Paradise Rock Club opened as the Paradise Theater on September 22, 1977. It was owned by Don Law Company, a Boston music giant that also controlled the Boston Garden and the Cape Cod Coliseum. Don Law was a former BU student who got his start working as a promoter for the Boston band The Remains. Identifying Boston's large student population as a key music market, Law and colleague Frank Barsalona began purchasing Boston venues to capitalize on the strong local music scene and willing audience.The venue transferred hands to Live Nation, but was purchased back by Don Law and David Mugar in 2009. After the purchase, Paradise was owned by Don Law, Declan Mehigan and Joe Dunne. It is now owned by Law, Mehigan, Dunne and Mugar. Though the Don Law Company is now Crossroads Presents, they are still prominent players in the Boston music scene and own The Paradise, the Orpheum Theater, House of Blues Boston, and the Brighton Music Hall in partnership with Live Nation.
The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, known informally simply as The Pudding, is a theatrical student society at Harvard University, known for its burlesque crossdressing musicals. The Hasty Pudding Theatricals was described by John Wheelwright in 1897 as a "kindly association of men of all ages in a gay evening of simple enjoyment".HistoryFormed in 1795 as an artistic-minded fraternity, the Pudding began hosting mock trials of such phenomena as timely Harvard presidents and the study of mathematics. The Pudding put up its first full performance, of a well-known tragic burlesque entitled Bombastes Furioso, on December 13, 1844. It has performed a production every year since, except twice during World War I and twice during World War II. After a period of producing popular comedies written by established playwrights, the Pudding began to write its own shows, starting with a production of Dido and Aeneas written by Owen Wister in 1882.Previous members of Hasty Pudding have included Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Randolph Hearst, lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, Oscar winner Jack Lemmon, humorist Andy Borowitz, artist Henry Ives Cobb, Jr., and former Massachusetts governor William Weld. In 1948, Felisa Vanoff (1925–2014) became the first female choreographer of the company.
Out of Town News is an iconic newsstand located in the center of Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts.The newsstand was long noted for stocking the leading newspapers from around the nation and around the world. Customers, especially academics, would come long distances to get the most recent editions of their home town paper, or of newspapers from parts of the world where important news events were unfolding.In 2008, it was announced that the newsstand might go out of business because its unique function of supplying yesterday's Times of India or Le Monde, flown in overnight, was made obsolete by the ability to read them online. However, in January 2009 a new owner signed a lease to take over the newsstand and keep it alive.Since the MBTA Red Line extension was finished in the 1980s, the newsstand has been housed in the former MBTA kiosk, a National Historic Landmark built in 1928 as a shelter for the Harvard Square stop on the Boston Elevated Railway, a precursor to the MBTA.
Charlie's Kitchen is a restaurant serving American fare with New England specialties in the Harvard Square neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts. “Charlie’s” houses bars on two separate floors; additionally, a front patio and backyard beer garden are open seasonally. The Boston Phoenix named it one of the best dive bars in Boston in 2009.HistoryOpened by Charlie Lambrose in 1951, Charlie's Kitchen is considered to be one of the last vestiges of "old" Harvard Square. It is located at 10 Eliot Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Waitress Helen Metros has waited tables at Charlie’s for over 50 years.Green InitiativesDespite the grungy exterior, Charlie’s Kitchen's management has undertaken several eco-friendly initiatives. Solar panels on the roof heat water for kitchen-use and the restaurant composts all of its food waste and recycles. Some plastics, including the beer garden cups, are also compostable. Three vehicles run on the restaurant’s waste fry oil.AwardsCharlie’s Kitchen’s jukebox has won the Boston Phoenix’s reader-polled "Best of Boston Award for Best Jukebox" for the past five years, most recently in 2010. It also won The Improper Bostonian’s Boston’s Best Bar for the Harvard Square Neighborhood in 2010 and the Weekly Dig’s Dig This Award for Best Outdoor dining in 2009.
Divinity Hall, built in 1826, is the oldest building in the Harvard Divinity School at Harvard University. It is located at 14 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts.The Hall was designed by Solomon Willard and Thomas Sumner, and dedicated on August 29, 1826, with William Ellery Channing giving the dedicatory speech, "The Christian Ministry." It was the first Harvard building constructed outside Harvard Yard. As George Huntston Williams wrote in his 1954 history of the Divinity School, theological students needed to be isolated from undergraduates lest they drink up "more of the spirit of the University than of the spirit of their profession." A decade later, on July 15, 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his famous Divinity School Address, "Acquaint Thyself at First Hand with Deity," in the Hall.The building is a rectangular two story brick building, laid in Flemish bond, with only minimal brownstone trim. It has a hip roof that is only broken by a gable at the center of the long side, part of a projecting central section three bays wide. The build has a pair of entrances on either side of this central section, which are framed by Greek Revival Doric porticos.In its early days, Divinity Hall contained the entire Divinity School. It was later used as a dormitory, then classrooms. Notable residents have included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, and philosopher George Santayana. Its chapel contains a fine organ by George S. Hutchings, recently restored.