Today is Tuesday Oct 20. And tonight at 8PM is the first appearance
of roots rockers Session Americana at the Brattle Beer & Wine Theatre.
I’ve usually seen Session Americana at the Lizard Lounge, where they
also have lesbian rice wrestling. The Brattle is bigger and much
less intimate. The band will be onstage instead of gathered around a
nearby table. They play old rock, country, blues and what is broadly
described as roots rock. They also attract a wonderful assortment of
guests. Music, beer, wine and popcorn. What an evening.

Also the Harvard Book Store has its New York Review of Book Classics
Windedown. Join series editor Edwin Frank for a glass of wine and a
discussion about the amazing NYRB Classics series. Tickets are
available at the store or at
harvard.com

The Harvard Bookstore is busy sponsoring Ariel Sabar at the Enormous
Room in Central Sq, above Central Kitchen. isit one of Cambridge’s
hippest bars, and listen to a National Book Critics Circle
Award-winning author discuss his book, My Father’s Paradise. Please
RSVP for this free event at tickets@ncacboston.org.

Tomorrow is Wednesday and the bookstore celebrates -in its own
wonderful space in Harvard Square- Princeton without mentioning Scott
Fitzgerald or John O’Hara. In order to get fueled up for Saturday’s
Harvard v. Princeton game, we’re having an afternoon Princeton-themed
celebration with the likes of Marjorie Garber, Joseph Nye, Alan
Lightman, and Hobson Woodward–plus light hors d’oevres and wine,
right in the store.

Here in Lafayette Square there is always a sort of hysteria as the
Harvard Princeton football game approaches. People root through
closets looking for orange and black scarves and argue about their
favorite eating club.

Far away in Brookline, on Beacon Street, Cafe Fixe will be featuring
new Ethiopian coffees from Barrington Roasters in western Mass. and
Novo in Denver. The new beans will be ready after Wednesday.

The City of Cambridge is sponsoring a discussion about the retail mix
here in Central Square. This happens at St. Paul’s Christian Life
Center, 85 Bishop Allen Dr. 6PM>830PM. This street was named after
the great Harvard rock band, The Bishop Allens.

People constantly worry about Central Square becoming more like
Harvard Square. This constant worry actually alternates with the idea
that Central Square is going down the drain. Robert Winters once said
that “So long as Harvard Square exists it is mathematically impossible
for Central Square to become Harvard Square.”

Uber restaurant Clio had a $35 fried chicken prix fixe event on
Sunday. An unfrocked member of the French diplomatic corps was our
waiter and the first thing he described was a special appetizer
consisting of tagliatelle pasta with white truffles from Alba. The
“market price” was $105. “Market price” is a term that should be
embraced by pot dealers. That was just about the amount three of us
were planning to spend for the entire evening. We passed on the
shaved truffle with shells or ziti. We did order the chestnut soup
and “concatenations of red”. Both were amazing. The chestnut soup
was actually sublime. The fried chicken with a Korean glaze was also
excellent so get over to the Algonquin Club or visit Koreanna on
Prospect St. There also may be more fried chicken at Clio this
Sunday.

Rick Roth from Mirror Image visited the store when he delivered big
boxes containing our latest t-shirt design. The design was created by
Gill Fishman. Our logo is printed in white on an industrial grey
shirt. The shirts are $20 and only available instore. Mirror Image
prints museum quality art shirts as well as shirts for all the other
usual reasons. Rick regaled us wtih stories about very rare 2009 Red
Sox World Series shirts and other sad moments in Boston sports
history.