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12B Extracurriculars Events on and off campus in September and October

12D Harvard Museum of Natural History A stunning array of beetles

12G Kinetic Art Lowell celebrates unique, people-powered vehicles

12L “The Dark Side” Unsavory stories of Boston’s historic North End

12H The Fells Just north of Boston is a wild park filled with forests, lakes, and rocky hills. 12N Comedor Chilean-American cuisine in Newton MIKE RYAN

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BUILDING COMMUNITY of Wild Strawberries, shown at sundown in Extracurriculars Mount Auburn Cemetery. (August 31-October 14) ONE HOME AT A TIME Events on and off campus during September and October Boston Book Festival SEASONAL tre celebrate the filmmaker and his “naked www.bostonbookfest.org Ingmar Bergman Centennial pursuit of the most profound metaphysical This free, day-long fête features 200 au- www.hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/bergman.html and spiritual questions.” Highlights include thors, children’s activities, and an outdoor call us to learn about our new properties coming this fall The Harvard Film Archive, Brattle screenings of Autumn Sonata, with a visit by dance party. Copley Square. (October 13) Theatre, and Coolidge Corner Thea actress and Bergman muse Liv Ullmann, and LECTURES From left: A detail of The New City of Salt (2001), by Kahn & Selesnick, the deCordova Supporting: US Fund for UNICEF, The Mt. Auburn Hospital, Huntington Theatre Company, Sculpture Park and Museum; Ingmar Bergman’s All These Women, Harvard Film Archive; Mahindra Humanities Center and View from Mount Holyoke (ca. 1845) by Thomas Chambers, Fruitlands Museum www.mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu Cambridge Community Foundation, Furnishing Hope of Massachusetts, and Cambridge Jazz Festival FROM KAHN LEFT: & SELESNICK /COURTESY OF THE DECORDOVA SCULPTURE AND PARK MUSEUM; THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE; FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION OF FRUITLANDS MUSEUM, THE TRUSTEES

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180931_Coldwell-GailRoberts.indd 1 7/25/18 10:11 AM Harvard Squared Harvard Squared Nobel Prize-winning writer J.M. Coet changing laboratory in which to explore the Spotlight MCZ after he died last zee visits campus to receive The simple but fundamental act of observation.” year. In the course of nine Mahindra Award for Global Dis- (Through October 2) decades, the prominent bank- tinction in the Humanities, and to er and philanthropist, a longtime read from his work. The event is EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS Harvard supporter and former free and open to the public, but Harvard Ceramics Program Overseer, also amassed insects, primarily tickets are required. Sanders Theatre. https://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/ceramics beetles, from across the globe, such as the (October 17) The In-Between. Signature ceramicware “rare and nearly impossible-to-obtain Bra- and illustrated storytelling by New Bedford- zilian specimens,” Farrell says. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study based potter and educator Seth Rainville, Something bugging you? Head to the Rockefeller and Farrell had met and www.radcliffe.harvard.edu among the 2017-2018 artists-in-residence. Harvard Museum of Natural History to shared their fascination with these adapt- Schlesinger Library 75th Anniversary (August 27-September 30) marvel at The Rockefeller Beetles. The able, industrious creatures, which come in Celebration largest order (Coleoptera) of insects, bee- a mind-boggling array of colors and sizes— Singer/songwriter Shaina Taub performs Harvard Art Museums tles have been honored, eaten, and studied and have been trained to fight, coveted as music from her new show about the life www.harvardartmuseums.org since ancient times. They also comprise a pets, and turned into jewelry and religious and work of Alice Paul, author of the origi- Mutiny: Works by Géricault looks at full quarter of the planet’s animal species, totems. Beetles speak to the “extraordinary nal Equal Rights Amendment, followed by some 40 works by Romantic-period artist says Brian D. Farrell, entomology curator variety and organization of nature,” Farrell a panel discussion. Knafel Center. Théodore Géricault. (Opens September 1) at the University’s Museum of Comparative said of Rockefeller’s penchant during a (October 29) Zoology (MCZ), which holds 7.5 million speech last year: “He saw what Darwin saw: Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient insect specimens—among the largest evolution in action.” Collecting any natural NATURE AND SCIENCE World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and collections in North America—includ- object, Farrell added, offers that “discov- The Arnold Arboretum Kings highlights nearly 60 ornate objects ing four million beetles. ery of the meaning in everything.” www.arboretum.harvard.edu used for social or ceremonial functions. Those on display starting this fall Harvard Museum of In Continuation: Seasons at the Arbore- (Opens September 7) are part of the 150,000-beetle private Natural History tum, Cambridge-based photographer Jim collection of David Rockefeller ’36, G http://hmnh.harvard.edu Harrison, a longtime contributor to this Houghton Library

PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF THE HARVARD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ’37, LL.D. ’69, that was donated to the Opens October 20 magazine, captures nature as a “living, ever- https://houghton75.org/exhibitions-list Through prints, playbills, and scripts, Stage Fright: Or the Fate of Frankenstein re- veals how nineteenth-century playwrights transformed Mary Shelley’s original vision of her “monster.” (Opens September 1)

The Harvard Map Collection’s 200th Anniversary www.harvardmaps200.org From hand-drawn surveys of nineteenth- century Bavaria and Japanese charts from World War II to bird’s-eye images taken by camera-toting pigeons, Follow the Map:

Lisa Rigby Photography The Harvard Map Collection at 200 ELEVATE YOUR EVENT (open through October 27) reflects time- WEDDINGS, CORPORATE DINNERS, HOLIDAY RECEPTIONS, GALAS less efforts to chart the universe. A sympo- sium on the history and future of collecting, researching, and teaching with cartograph- ic materials is also set for October 25-26. Pusey Library.

Davis Museum www.wellesley.edu/davismuseum New shows include: Christiane Baumgar- Triangle Constellation by Carlos Amorales Cheryl Richards Photography Lisa Rigby Photography ten: Another Country (monumental wood- cuts and prints by the German artist); A 781.763.1333 Critical Eye: James Gillray and the Art THECATEREDAFFAIR.COM/HARVARDARTMUSEUMS of Satire (the influential political cartoonist THECATEREDAFFAIR harpooning Napoleon-era Brit- ain); and Sky Hopinka: Dislo cation Blues (the short film

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September 7, 2018– captures unheralded scenes from the 2016 January 6, 2019 Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Stand- ing Rock). (All exhibits open September 21)

deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum www.decordova.org Animal-Shaped Lived Space: Humans and Architecture explores psychological and physical attach- ments to our built environments through Vessels works by more than 25 artists, including Walker Evans, Sarah Malakoff, and Arno STAFF PICK: Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race Rafael Minkkinen. (Through September 30) On September 22, about 20 teams will gather to propel their human-powered 213 Brattle Street Fuller Craft Museum machines—without their feet ever touching the ground—through downtown streets Cambridge | $2,325,000 www.fullercraft.org and a 50-foot mud pit, and then into the Merrimack River, before returning to land 8 Rooms | 4+ BD | 2 BA Uneasy Beauty: Discomfort in Contem- to cross the finish line near the Lowell Heritage State Park. 2,778 Int. SF | 3,154 Lot Size SF Private Patio & Garden porary Adornment. Some 75 examples of Fun and ingenuity are prized over winning, says race co-producer and artist Michael wearable art that test the limits of endur- Roundy, a studio art professor at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell—and the ance and potentially provoke candid conver- contest supports the national STEM/STEAM educational initiative. The creations sations. A curatorial lecture, reception, and utilize all of that knowledge—the physics and mechanics involved in knowing “how fashion show (in partnership with the Mas- to make your way through mud, how to float, how steering works,” he says—along from the sachusetts College of Art and Design) are with hands-on skills and artistry, as in welding and carpentry. slated for October 13. (Opens October 6) Last year, a machine featuring three bicycles and two canoes was built as a summer project by fifth- and sixth-graders in a Lowell STEM-based program. In another ap- Ancient World Fruitlands Museum paratus, “Ice Cream Floats,” co-pilots ably pedaled along asphalt but, once they hit the The Carol Kelly Team www.fruitlands.thetrustees.org mud, climbed up front atop an attached, geodesic-dome-like orb made of lightweight [email protected] Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings harvardartmuseums.org/animalshapedvessels Image © The Trustees of the British Museum 617.835.5008 More than 50 romantic depictions of Amer- plastic and foam tubing and manually rolled their machine (and themselves) through ica are on display in A New View: Land- the pit, says Roundy. “People were really amazed at that!” scapes from the Permanent Collection. A record 5,000 spectators turned out, many in funky hats, www.lowellkinetic.com September 22 (Through November 5) make-up, and costumes, from hot dogs and queens to Vikings SINGLE FAMILY and superheroes. The festivities begin at 8:30 a.m. on Market Street—where anyone IN KIRKLAND VILLAGE MUSIC can meet the teams and see their machines—and end around 4 p.m. with an award COMING SOON! Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum ceremony (there’s even one for the next-to-last finisher) at the park. But throughout www.gardnermuseum.org the day, there are live bands and street performers, along with family-friendly games The Boston debut of Russian violinist and and food trucks. violist Sergey Malov, playing the intriguing The Lowell event, now in its third year, was inspired by the first known kinetic sculp- violoncello da spalla, a small cello held like a ture competition, held in Ferndale, California, in guitar and played high against one’s chest. 1969. That began, Roundy says, with artist Ho- (September 30) bart Brown’s efforts to improve his son’s tricy- cle, and a neighbor who thought he’d do it even Sanders Theatre better and then challenged Hobart to a race. www.boxoffice.harvard.edu That friendly rivalry has blossomed into a three- The Harvard Wind Ensemble, Satur day spectacle that covers 40 miles of water, mud, day Jazz Band, and Harvard University and sand dunes and spawned similar events 1860’s Greek Revival on a quiet side Band join forces for the annual Montage CALVIN LUCINANA across the country. Given the intensive street in Kirkland Village. 3+ bedrooms, Concert. (October 12) creative process required by these inven- 2 baths, open family room and kitchen with a deck that extends to a large yard tions, the Lowell race has no registration with beautiful gardens. Off-street parking. 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The Fells Just north of Boston, a wild park is filled with forests, lakes, and rocky hills. by nell porter brown

n a Sunday afternoon, 20 people troop game- O Clockwise from top: ly into the Middlesex Fells Reservation for a Autumnal mist over Spot Pond; panoram free “Tree Walk” with ic views from a Harvard botanist Wal- craggy summit; Wright’s Tower at IGNITE ter Kittredge. Along the Dark Hollow Pond Trail, sunset; Virginia Wood (the first in the Stoneham section preserved tract, of the park, he points out donated to the a “forest seep communi- Trustees of Reserva ty” rich with ferns, a grove of beeches, and a ven for urbanites. Its tions in 1891 by a mother in honor of SOMETHING sunnier swath conducive to pignut hickory woodlands and abundant reservoirs sprawl her daughter); meandering along the Cross ONLY THE PERFECT CUT CAN UNLEASH and hop hornbeam trees nestled in a sea of across 3,400 acres that abut five communi- Fells Trail in the eastern sector bright green, feathery Pennsylvania sedge. ties—Malden, Medford, Melrose, Stone- A DIAMOND’S BRILLIANCE. In all, more than a dozen habitats are flour- ham, and Winchester—and include more the whole preserve. Routes hugging the shore- ishing along the trail in a landscape essential- than 100 miles of walking and hiking paths. lines of North and Middle Reservoirs have ly left to grow wild for more than a century. Visitors can also mountain bike, picnic, sail the feel of being in rural Maine. A northerly “This is an amazing place that was set aside,” and paddle on Spot Pond, or romp with trail leads to historic Bear Hill Tower, built HEARTS ON FIRE STORES, AUTHORIZED RETAILERS, HEARTSONFIRE.COM says Kittredge, a senior curatorial assistant their dogs (off-leash!) at the Sheepfold. On in 1910. Or head south and take the long way with the University Herbaria & Libraries. a beautiful day, the meadow is often more to Wright’s Tower, the stone building that “Very few cities have anything like this.” alive with happy canines than with humans. looms over Interstate 93, offering panoramic Aptly honoring an ancient word for rug- That 10-acre tract, accessible from I-93 in views of the region. The 1937 Works Progress ged, rocky hills, The Fells, as the state- Stoneham, also connects visitors to jaunts of Administration project was restored in 2008 owned park is commonly called, is also a ha- varying lengths and rigor that zigzag across by the state’s Department of Conservation

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180917_LuxBondGreen.indd 1 7/23/18 3:11 PM Harvard Squared Harvard Squared and Recreation (DCR) and named for Elizur with recommended bikeways and hikes, end, it offers responsibly enjoyable ways to Wright, an abolitionist, mathematician, and from the easy one-mile Spot Pond Brook explore the natural world, including Babes pioneering insurance regulator. In the mid Historic Trail to the “difficult” 6.9-mile in the Woods and Hide ’n’ Seek (at Belleview 1800s, as the American industrial revolution Skyline Trail loop. Through mid Septem- Pond), and StoryWalk™ (a self-led walk fea- gathered strength, he and Wilson Flagg (a ber, Boating in Boston also rents rowboats, turing the hunt for pages of a picture book writer and naturalist who attended Harvard) canoes, and paddleboards on Spot Pond. posted along the trail) for younger children were among the first to call for protection of Balancing multiple uses of public space and their caregivers. The Friends also spon- land that became the Fells in 1894. is tricky. “We have had some user-conflicts sors volunteer-led activities, such as Kit- DCR organizes hikes to Wright’s Tower, among the dog walkers, hikers, walkers, tredge’s monthly tree hikes, historic walks along with oth- and mountain bikers,” allows Thomas M. with Douglas Heath (co-author, with Alison er events and Walsh, DCR director of north region park Simcox, of the Images of America books Mid- activities year- operations. “People in general should be re- dlesex Fells and The Lost Mill Village of Middlesex round. Check spectful of others in public and adhere to Fells), the annual Coastsweep Clean-up (Sep- the website for our regulations. We try to create the best tember 29) and Fall for the Fells festival and fall calendar experience here for everybody.” trail run (November 4). listings, public The park is open from dawn to dusk. A new Friends partnership with Earth- transportation Mountain bikers are allowed only on cer- wise Aware, a nonprofit ecological educa- Document1Document1 11/20/03 11/20/03 11:51 11:51 AM AM Page Page 1 1 and parking op- tain trails on certain dates (outside of mud tor of the nonprofit Friends of the Fells. Spot tion organization, has resulted in two year- tions, and maps season), to limit the environmental damage. Pond and the Fells Reservoir are back-up wa- round series: “Fells’ Biobliss: Biodiversity Harvard And, although dogs and their owners love ter supplies controlled by the Massachusetts and Citizen Science,” a monthly group botanist to roam the Fells, there are leash and poop- Water Resources Authority; the other reser- gathering to document ecosystems in areas Walter Kittredge scooping rules in place for aesthetic reasons, voirs, by the Town of Winchester. around Long and Bellevue Ponds and Bear HARVARD MAGAZINE HARVARD leading one of and because nearly a quarter of the park is The 1,500-member Friends group, cel- Hill Trail, explains Earthwise Aware presi- his monthly covered with water. “The Fells is the water- ebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary this dent Claire O’Neill, and the twice-monthly tree hikes; and shed—the kidneys—for the Mystic River. year, promotes “harmonious use” of the park, “Fells Naturalists and Sketchers Circle.” a scenic slice of Quarter Mile And that is extremely important to the Bos- he says, and preservation of “ecological, his-

NELL PORTER BROWN/ PORTER NELL Pond ton area,” says Ron Morin, executive direc- torical, and recreational resources.” To that Yet without the activists Flagg and Wright, and others who joined their effort, sketchers would have scant trees, plants, and wildlife to record. Though the land had long VOX CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE CONSULTING LLC been used as a respite by city-dwellers, it We Help Students Navigate the College Process had also been farmed and logged since the Every home has a story, ASSISTEDASSISTEDLIVINGLIVINGRETIREMENTRETIREMENTCOMMUNITYCOMMUNITY Independent and Assisted Living 1700s. From 1640 to 1896, Spot Pond Brook Specialized Memory Care was a locus of mill development, including let me help you tell yours. Here’sHere’s what what people people are are the Hayward Rubber Company, founded Whatsayingsaying do Harvard about about us. alumni us. by Nathaniel Hayward, co-inventor, with have in common? Charles Goodyear, of the vulcanization of rubber, according to Simcox and Heath. Hik- Cadbury Commons Vox Cambridge provides highly personalized, custom college consulting with ers can still find archaeological remnants of A Remarkable Senior Residence sensitivity and warmth. We help students gain insight into their true personality the industrial community of Haywardville, and character, then express it in a way that turns Admissions Oﬃ cers’ heads. like mill ponds and ancient foundations. In 1879, Sylvester Baxter, a newspaper Contact Kathleen Moore 617-320-2724 // www.voxcambridge.co writer and city-planning promoter, took As one of the top ten real estate agents in Cambridge, I credit my success to local Name:Name:MiltonMilton R. R. up the conservation cause, introducing the Occupation:Occupation:PostalPostal Supervisor, Supervisor, Retired Retired term “fells” in a piece for the Boston Herald market knowledge, a strong repeat and Hobbies:Hobbies:Reading,Reading, Walking, Walking, Exercising Exercising supplement: “…northerly from Boston lies referral network, and my background in Lifestyle:Lifestyle:Independent,Independent, Active Active building and renovations. I love bringing Choice of Senior/Assisted Living: a great tract of country, all stony hills and Choice of Senior/Assisted Living: THE MAHINDRA HUMANITIES my enthusiasm and fresh perspective to CadburyCadbury Commons Commons CENTER AT HARVARD THE MAHINDRA HUMANITIES table-lands, almost uninhabited, and of The Harvard alumni who chose CENTER AT HARVARD the home-buying and selling process. “There“There is a is stable a stable and and gentle gentle atmosphere atmosphere ANNOUNCES wonderful picturesqueness, and wild rug- Cadbury Commons may have ANNOUNCES of helpof help and and empathy empathy throughout throughout the the ged beauty...The nature of this region cannot community.retiredcommunity. from I feel Iwork, feelassured assured but that not thatI am fromI partam part oflife. of The Mahindra Award others’others’ lives, lives, as they as they are ofare mine. of mine. For Formyself, myself, for Global Distinction The Mahindra Award be better characterized than by the appli- I feelIMuseum feel that that Cadbury CadburyVisits Commons • CommonsPlay Reading provides provides a a in the Humanities for Global Distinction cation of the old Saxon designation fells, a Selling Cambridge homes for over a decade wellSymphonywell trained trained and andcaring Selections caring group group of •people ofLecture people who who in the Humanities common enough word in England, meaning are interestedare interested in my in welfare.”my welfare.” • • a tract of wild stone hills, corresponding to SeriesCall (617) Yoga 868-0575 Organic to arrange Gardening a personal Call (617) 868-0575 to arrange a personal the German word Felsen.” tour,Calltour, (617) or visit or 868-0575 visit www.cadburycommons.com www.cadburycommons.com to arrange a personal tour, J.M. COETZEE J.M. COETZEE WhereWhereor visitThe www.cadburycommons.comThe Emphasis Emphasis Is On Is OnLiving Living WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2018, 5:00 PM WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2018, 5:00 PM George E. Davenport, a fern expert, bo- SANDERS THEATRE, 45 QUINCY STREET SANDERS THEATRE, 45 QUINCY STREET tanical writer, and photographer (some of 66 Sherman6666 Sherman Sherman Street, Street, Street, Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridge, EVENT IS FREE, BUT TICKETS ARE REQUIRED | MAHINDRAHUMANITIES.FAS.HARVARD.EDU 171 Huron Avenue | Cambridge, MA 02138 EQUAL EQUAL MA MA02140 02140 ◆ (617) ◆ (617) 868-0575 868-0575 HOUSING HOUSING MA 02140 • (617)868-0575 OPPTY OPPTY his papers and about 700 of his specimens [email protected] | 617.593.3120 | www.MaggieCurrier.com

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to enlighten. “I just love Boston,” he says. “I gave 167 tours last He stops at the site of the Great Brink’s Robbery, near the JR./GETTY IMAGES TANGNEY DENNIS has long nourished a sugar maple-oak- are all over these woods.” year alone.” corner of Prince and Commercial Streets. What’s now a garage The “Dark Side” also delves into a range of other unsavory, was, in 1950, a Brink’s vault building from which an armed crew immoral, and horrifying events. Among them: the anti-Stamp Act extracted nearly $3 million (almost $30 million today) in a me- mob that in 1765 destroyed the North End mansion of lieutenant ticulously planned theft; then authorities “spent another $29 governor Thomas Hutchinson (class of 1727), and the Colonial million investigating,” he adds, and finally caught the robbers a era’s annual “Pope Night,” celebrated throughout New England, few days before the statute of limitations ran out—thanks only MYRA & AMY during which North End and South End gangs fought for the to a snitch seeking leniency for a different crime. honor of burning an effigy of the Catholic leader. George Wash- By far, the most haunting story Perkins tells on his signature ington finally forbade his troops to participate, in part because tour is that of slaves Mark and Phillis, he wanted the French Catholic Canadians’ help in invading Can- driven to poison their Charlestown www.bostonbyfoot.org Nighttime in the North ada, Perkins notes. master John Codman (a man known As sisters who grew up in Belmont, we have a End (above); The Boston Moving to the early twentieth cen- to be violent) in 1755. Mark, also distraught by being separated passion for the unique communities we serve, and Post reports the 1919 tury, he highlights the Spanish flu epi- from his family, procured arsenic from another slave who molasses flood; a the neighbors we know. With parents in real estate, nineteenth-century demic of 1918, the first American worked for a doctor in the North End, and after seven doses we have lived the commitment required to serve depiction of the Sons of cases of which appeared among sailors were hidden in his food, Codman died. When the plot was clients with our heart and soul. We welcome every Liberty protesting the living on Commonwealth Pier. By the uncovered, the two slaves were tried (all three justices and the client like a member of our family, and treat each Stamp Act by attacking end of that year, some 4,794 Boston- prosecutor were Harvard alumni), and executed: she burned at the home of lieutenant one with equal respect and care. governor Thomas area residents had died, many in the the stake and he hung at Gallows Lot, on what is now Avon Hill, Hutchinson in 1765. overcrowded North End. Within a in Cambridge. Mark’s body was then moved to a spot along a Bringing your dreams to life, Charlestown (now Somerville) thoroughfare. in the community we love. And 20 years later, in Paul Revere’s own ac- count of his famous midnight ride, he mentions ~ Myra & Amy passing “‘Charlestown Neck, and got nearly opposite where Mark was hung in chains,’” Perkins says: either the spot was by then still [email protected] a well-known landmark, or “the bones of Mark 617.834.0838 were still there.” These are, Perkins notes, “maybe some of [email protected] the Boston stories the Chamber of Commerce 301.802.3284

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Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 TASTE AND TABLES Harvard Squared warmth to the place, which can draw a crowd for Sunday brunch. The interior is all muted tones of brown, gray, and vanilla except for the artwork. One painting features a swath of sugary pink horizon and a toothy shark cresting Comedor the surf, depicted with splotches of color like a pop-art patchwork quilt. The work is by the international artists known as the A homey Chilean-American restaurant in Newton Couto Brothers, who also created the world by nell porter brown map by the bar. An image of the U.S. and the Chilean flags spliced together hangs nearby, but little else at Comedor seems to explicitly reflect Chile. And for a place so thought- fully designed otherwise, the background music might lend more of a South American flavor. Instead, we heard only overplayed pop tunes. Maybe that’s because so much attention has been poured into the drinks. Try the autumnal Black Unicorn, a milk punch of bourbon, brandy, cardamom, and black tea, with a touch of figginess ($12) or the Prince of Cats, a sultry mix of rye infused with urfa biber (Turkish chile pepper), chocolate and vanilla liqueur, and sour-cherry mash ($12). The house-made white or red sangrias ($12, or $29 for a pitcher) are always refreshing, and we also liked the non-alcoholic hon- ey rosemary limeade ($5). The bartenders, meanwhile, seem game to concoct whatever cocktail or mocktail suits your mood. Leadership & Team Building Programs Menu standouts include the Chef’s Burg- er ($13) with rotating toppings and sides, designed for your organization! Billed as “creative Chilean and the salmon with a basil tzatziki and cuisine with a dose of American almond couscous ($15). The carrot dip, ingenuity,” the dishes at Com- with walnuts and cardamom ($11), was too edor begged to be deciphered. It sweet alone, but came alive when spread “We learned a lot about ourselves and our team. turns out that the restaurant’s over house-made black-sesame crackers. We learned about leadership skills owners, Jakob and Fernanda The French fries ($7) will make the “extra- White, freely cook what they crispy” groupies happy, but the salty scal- and ultimately communicating together.” like—and we mostly did, too. lion and cotija-cheese crumble (a zesty al- The husband-and-wife team At Comedor, diners, bar-loungers, and ternative to the standard ketchup offering) - Matt Linblad, Boston Bruins Player Development Camp met as culinary-arts students chefs share one big room, although the wouldn’t stick to them; we had to resort sidewalk tables are also a popular spot on a at Boston University, and play sunny day. Try the baked stuffed oysters to a tricky press-it-on-with-your-greasy- with food inspired by their re- (above), or finish a meal with the delicate fingers maneuver. spective backgrounds: his Amer- panna cotta with lemon preserves. Desserts were a highlight. “Jakob’s ice ican, hers Chilean. But they also and quiet, and the bar is a welcoming strip cream” ($7) is reliably delicious, as is the happily incorporate other culi- of stools at a wooden countertop. Shelves quivering cup of buttermilk panna cotta nary influences, like Greek and hold liquor bottles, spices, and pickled ($9) with Meyer lemon jam. That’s another Middle Eastern. One evening, the specials salad with too few chunks of nectarines and goods like ginger, lemons, and celery, that foodstuff worth bottling for take-out, along featured fried chicken ($13) cooled with a avocados ($16). are enticingly arrayed along a brick wall with the strawberry salsa. dollop of Meyer lemon labne and a zippy, The couple’s flexibility is embodied in with high arched windows. Tables for The service is fine—the wait staff is fresh strawberry salsa (we’d gladly have their tidily decorated, one-room storefront diners take up the other side of Comedor, knowledgeable and relaxed. Everything brought a pint home). Two skewers of lamb space. The open kitchen, but the layout fosters easy was appealing. But we couldn’t help but anticucho were less successfully paired with which includes part of the Comedor rapport among those con- hope that this talented couple who promise THOMPSON ISLAND 105 Union Street, Newton, MA OUTWARD BOUND (617) 830-5114 chili butter (perhaps too oily for such fatty street-side wall of win- 857-404-0260 suming, waiting, and cook- creativity push for more from themselves, EDUCATION CENTER [email protected] www.comedornewton.com meat) and a dauntingly peppery “baby cress” dows, is surprisingly calm ing, lending a chattering and for us. Boston Harbor Islands www.thompsonisland.org

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FALLING FOR ART: Creative Classes in Cambridge and Boston School’s back in session for students—but those of us with diplomas can learn new things, too, thanks to autumn classes, lectures, and workshops at cultural hubs in Harvard Square and beyond. Here’s where to brush up on ballet, practice poetry, or even design your very own Greek animal-head mug. Stuck in a recipe rut? Visit the Cambridge Center for Adult Education to cook staples from the American South, the Caribbean, and Africa in a six-week, three-hour Sunday night class. Ballet classes: “Oldways: A Taste of African Heritage” focuses age 3 / - teen on spices and herbs, leafy greens, whole grains, adult and pointe beans, tubers, fruits, and vegetables. Cook, eat, and take home recipes from Roxbury-based chef Fall classes start Samantha Anson. www.ccae.org COURTESY WWW.OLDWAYSPT.ORG OF OLDWAYS, Monday, 9/10 Or bring smaller chefs to the Boston Public Market to cook alongside vendors at the family-friendly, hour-long Saturday morning Kids in the Kitchen series, each View Fall schedule: with a theme that spotlights local products. Make chocolate éclairs using ingredients freshpondballet.com from Somerville’s Taza Chocolate, or join farmers from Phillipston’s Red Apple Farm to bake apple bread pudding. Classes are geared toward “toques” ages 6-12. Visit us on Facebook: www.bostonpublicmarket.org facebook.com/FreshPondBallet Speaking of novices: Brush up on ballet at the José Mateo Ballet Theatre, which Nina Alonso, Director, FPB holds 10-week, 90-minute introductory fall sessions for adults—no experience 1798a Mass Ave required. If you’re confident, drop into 90-minute classes designed for dancers who Cambridge, MA 02140 have mastered the basics and want to sharpen their skills. www.ballettheatre.org 617.491.5865 Or leave dancing to the professionals and visit the Boston Ballet for Genius at Play, a celebration of choreographer Jerome Robbins, staged at the Boston Opera House. The performance highlights three Robbins works: Interplay, set to jazz; Fancy Free, a collaboration with composer Leonard Bernstein set in 1940s New York; and Glass Pieces, a tribute to urban life scored by Philip Glass. The company joins the audience for a

GENE SCHIAVONE, COURTESY OF BOSTON BALLET lecture on September 7. www.bostonballet.org If you long to adopt a pet but worry about maintenance, consider Plan B: form and decorate ceramic vessels in the style of ancient Greek animal-head mugs, guided by Harvard Ceramic Studio’s Kathy King. Tuesday and Saturday workshops dovetail with the Harvard Art Museums’ exhibition “Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings.” www.harvardartmuseums.org OFFICE & ART SUPPLIES For a more laid-back experience, visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s FINE STATIONERY Bertucci Education Studio, which hosts drop-in art-making activities every Saturday throughout the fall, inspired by current exhibits. The workshops are family-friendly & WRITING INSTRUMENTS and free with museum admission. www.gardnermuseum.org CARDS & GIFT WRAP The Museum of Fine Arts launches a collaboration with advocacy group Mass Poetry this season. Notable poets guide guests through writing exercises during free INVITATIONS drop-in classes on Wednesday evenings through the fall. www.mfa.org & ANNOUNCEMENTS Or find your voice (literally) at the New School of Music. Their weekly, audition- free group vocal classes focus on classical and folk songs. They’re designed to help beginners learn basics such as breath. www.newschoolofmusic.org 30 Brattle Street Meanwhile, Cambridge comedy studio ImprovBoston— Cambridge, MA 02138 known for its interactive shows—hosts free, introductory 617.547.1230 workshops for aspiring comics on Saturday afternoons www.BobSlateStationer.com throughout the fall, led by the theater’s improvisers. No experience is required, but as with any new class, a sense

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