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After 30 years, Lizard Lounge club and Cambridge Common restaurant close in early 2027 with expected property sale

by Marc Levy October 31, 2026

Owners Holly Heslop and Charlie Christopher say they are in talks with a buyer for the property between Harvard and Porter squares.

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Reviewed: ‘Ancient Algorithms’ is experimental and lots of fun, but complicates by adding AI to the canon

by Josh Cook October 6, 2026

Playful, and goofy, here a handful of poems are translate, mistranslated, subjected to complicated rewriting policies and run through technologies to create new works.

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Reviewed: ‘Designated Stranger’ is a poetry road trip that isn’t trying to escape

by Josh Cook August 4, 2026

Gion Davis repairs that myth of the open road by helping it grow into a more mature celebration of the joys of fearless living, not messiness.

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Step into the unknown with ‘The Flowers of Evil’

by Shira Laucharoen April 14, 2026

A course examining French poet Charles Baudelaire's seminal collection is coming to the Cambridge Community Center.