Admit it, you won’t be doing that much reading this Reading Period. Or ever, actually. So why not check out the Mayfair tomorrow, Sunday May 1st, around our beloved (and increasingly dangerous) Square?

Events include “six stages of live entertainment, a charity Hair-Cut-A-Thon, Chalk on the Walk; a Dance Stage; Roaming Railroad Train Rides; A Harvard Student Activities Festival, Hot Air Balloon Rides with donations to charity, three Beer Gardens; and over one hundred thousand happy people!”

We don’t know about Boston/Harvard being happy in general, but the Fair does seem like an exciting event.

One of the hair salons participating in the Cut-A-Thon, which takes place right in front of the T stop, is Plan B Hair Salon. The cut and color boutique, whose name bears no relation to the contraceptive method, is located on 99 Mt. Auburn Street, next to Verizon Wireless. Cuts are $25 (compared to the usual price upward from $50) and 100% of the proceeds go to the Hoffman Breast Center at Mt. Auburn Hospital.

“I started this 3 years ago and have generated over $4000 for the center,” said Richard Fogarty, the salon owner. I’m a fan of the place and they recently teamed up with The Voice for a very exciting project, so the (not so) peripheral point of this post is product placement.

So there you have it, the weather will be gorgeous tomorrow, and you can feel both festive and charitable just by stepping out into the square!

P.S. Please leave Lamont at some point. You’ve probably started to smell. And someone was apparently jerking off in the 3rd floor Reading Room on Thursday night. Not okay.

Here is a .gif(t) for you.

Welcome.

Let’s do this, people!

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Dear Harvard,

Life is short. We have a lot of snow on the ground right now. It will be ugly soon.

The course of action for us is clear. Massive, schoolwide, multi thousand person snowball fight.

But it can’t happen without you. Invite your friends. Post the event on your wall. Forward to lists.

Will your life be filled with lameness or awesomeness?

The choice is yours.

Spread the word!

Harvard Moves Snow!

Sam Novey

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So, basically: 8:30 PM.  Yard.  Be there.

(And please don’t be a jerk.)

I know. I’m as shocked as you are.

As I told my junior gal pal over GChat that I was going to the Spee tonight for “a book reading,” she was flabbergasted. The Spee? Book? Read? What universe are we living in that these three words are used in the same sentence? Who would have thought that one day I would go to a final club to read a book? I was going to ask my gay best friend, my Facebook “wife” as we like to call him, to accompany me. But he passed up the opportunity to be a guest of a final club in favor of a nap. To be honest, I was yearning for a conversation within the confinement of a Final Club that involves more vocabulary than “hey, wassup” and “imsofuckingdrunk!!” On that count, the event delivered beautifully. Big words were verbalized and intelligent questions asked. I was impressed.

Also, I might have been (slightly) intrigued by the “drinks provided” promise. It’s never too early to pre-game a formal. But that is beside the point.

(Image: Sam Munson at The Spee, 05/03/2010. Taken by Michelle Nguyen ’13)

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So what if the weather forecast says the weekend is going to be cold (46-47 degrees) and raining? If there’s one thing we know, it’s that Harvard students like to be challenged. Fix your umbrella, go out and have fun!

Friday

1. SEA Night 2010: SEA Our World – A Night of Food and Festivity

What? Southeast Asian food (8 course dinner), performances, fashion show and an all-expenses paid date for a lucky guest and one SEAsian lady. Calling all Harvard men and women with flaming yellow fever!

@ Lowell Dining Hall. 8:30pm-10pm. $5 (Tickets available at the door)

2. Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Spring Concert

@ Sanders Theater. 8-10pm. Student price $6/8/10

3. Cabaret Sauvignon – A Kirkland Drama Society Original Musical

@ Kirkland JCR. 8-10pm. FREE. Also runs on Saturday, same time & place.

4. Harvard Ballet Company presents: Silhouettes

@ Harvard Dance Center (60 Garden St.). 8-10pm. $8.

5. Notables Concert

@ Lowell Lecture Hall. 8-10pm. $6.

6. BITE M.E. Benefit Dance

@ Pfoho Dining Hall. 10pm-2am. Might cost money but we’re not sure how much.

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For those of you who missed it or simply desire to relive it, here’s a bit more from Boston’s contribution to World Pillow Fight Day:

All photos courtesy Humbi Song.

My first reaction after hearing about the opportunity to watch Repo Men for free, courtesy of NBC, was “HOLYMOTHEROFGOD JUDE LAAAW!!” I will also have to write a review for Noice, but that’s just details. After almost an academic year at Harvard, where boys spend most of their time in sweatpants and food-stained T-shirts, forgive me for wanting myself some clean-cut British goodness. I first saw Jude Law as Oscar Wilde’s lover in the 1994 biopic Wilde, and let’s just say no wonder the literary master fell head over heels in love and subsequently lost his life for this blond angel.

That’s probably telling you more than you ever wanted to know about my obsession with everything Jude. Well, the younger Jude, at least.

(Image courtesy of Google Images)

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