Posted by Bella Wang on October 17, 2009 at 10:36 am
Halloween will be upon us in only two weeks, and if you’re anything like 95% of the people I’ve talked to in the last week, midterms and papers have frazzled you far beyond the point of thinking about things like costumes (or sleep, or joy and happiness…). To help you out, we’ve come up with a few ideas to help you out with costume design:
Posted by Bella Wang on October 9, 2009 at 3:57 pm
If you’re looking for the artsy equivalent of Five Dollar Footlongs (that is, if Subway were cuisine and not fast food), let me introduce a new and exciting concept into your money-grubbing yet cosmopolitan hearts: student rush tickets. Unlike Broadway tickets in Manhattan, most venues in Boston have a fair number of empty seats, especially on weeknights, and they’ll be more than happy to give you a nice, juicy discount as long as you appear at their box office one or two hours before the show and show them your Harvard ID. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Bella Wang on October 9, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Courtesy of The Boston Phoenix at thephoenix.com
Last night, in a desperate bid to get out of Cambridge, avoid thoughts of impending midterm doom, and actually experience that major Northeastern city that happens to reside three miles away from our campus (what’s it called again? Oh yeah, Boston.* I think the average undergrad here is lucky to go there once a month), my suitemate and I headed out to the theater district to get a glimpse of some culture and watch Giselle, a romantic ballet currently being performed by the Boston Ballet. We grabbed our $20 rush tickets around five o’clock, ventured into Chinatown for dinner,** and came back to the Boston Opera House slightly before seven o’clock to find our seats and watch the show. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Bella Wang on October 2, 2009 at 5:00 pm
The pretty colored version of what I foisted on some of you earlier today. Tell me you don't like the pink feathers.
Bella Wang ’12 explores the trials and tribulations of that ubiquitous Harvard staple: the flyer distributor.
eing the trustworthy and dutiful Harvard Ballroom team member that I was, I spent my lunch hour today bugging the crap out of any of the good citizens of Harvard University that were unlucky enough to pass through the paper gauntlet that spans the stretch between Annenberg and the Science Center. Now, whenever you go flyering, you always face the moral dilemma between being a nice, kind, and polite person and making sure that no one misses what undoubtedly will be the A Capella Ballroom Dancing Health Policy Debate Speech Gala Extravaganza of the Century. Trust me, guys, you have to come see Burn the Floor this Saturday evening because when you’re sixty years old, your grandchildren will be asking you about the time you watched the Adams, Currier, and Quincy house masters square off in tango, Dancing with the Stars style. If you don’t come, those grandchildren will cry, and then you’ll regret fixedly staring at the floor/sky/person in front of you/Invisible Pink Unicorn instead of meeting my eyes and just taking the damn flyer. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Bella Wang on October 2, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Harpoon Brewery. Fo' free.
The US Constitution may not have remembered to include free alcohol along with free speech and a free press in the First Amendment, but Boston won’t let you down. Today, some hints on how to start trading up from your red Solo cups into a more elitist appreciation of ethanol:
Wine Gallery, located in Brookline, has free wine and spirits tastings periodically, along with a free sip from the Wine Jukebox at all hours. 21+, obviously.
Best Cellars has a featured wine every day, in case you happen to be in the Back Bay and are thirsting for more than water.
Harpoon Brewery offers a free beer tasting every Tuesday through Friday afternoon, along with a $5 tour and tasting on weekends. Located in the Marine Industrial Park.
Samuel Adams Brewery has a tour and tasting several times every day. They claim they’re “America’s World-Class Beer,” so I guess if you’re over 21, you can find out for yourself. Off the Stony Brook T-stop on the Orange Line.
Next week: stuff that isn’t free but might still be cheap!
Image courtesy of yelp.com
Posted by Bella Wang on September 25, 2009 at 5:00 pm
September 25, 1949: Four Harvard students returned from a government-sponsored expedition to the Arctic (link is an announcement of the trip from March). For one dollar a day, you, too, could wander around the North Pole doing construction work for the federal government.
September 25, 1969: Twenty or thirty people attacked the Center for International Affairs (CFIA), roughing up employees and spray-painting “Pig,” “Fuck U.S. Imperialism,” and “Imperialists Screw All Women” on the walls, supposedly to protest the CFIA’s “complicity in counter-revolutionary warfare.” I assume they confused the CFIA with the CIA.
September 25, 1981: $1441 was stolen from the freezer of the Greenhouse Cafe, so I guess they only hide the money and not the bodies in the Science Center’s freezers.
Posted by Bella Wang on September 25, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Cost for regular people: $15. Cost to you as a Harvard student: $0. Ca-ching!
Now that we’ve all returned from our summers and are once again acclimating to life as a starving college student (presumably in preparation for our futures as starving grad students, starving artists, and, uh, starving investment bankers), it’s time to look at the bright side and remember all the free stuff Boston has to offer.
Today, the classy, artistic, and historical stuff:
The Harvard Voice Magazine Harvard FML
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