My boyfriend and I love our little apartment above a Chinese restaurant. It’s spacious, well-lit, and reasonably priced for our hip little Cambridge neighborhood. But if there’s one thing we could change, it would be our backyard  – aka a parking lot and loading zone for the candy factory next door to the building. As we often to sing to each other, “All we want is a grill somewhere…“ Yes, a grill (or a Big Geen Egg) one day would be loverly. But for now we take advantage of

On March 8, 1971, at the burgeoning of the women’s liberation movement, several hundred young activists marched from an International Women’s Day rally at Boston Common into the city of Cambridge and ended up seizing a Harvard University building in the name of feminism. They called it “The Women’s Center.” The activists were young, spirited, and savvy, drawn to the feminist scene in Boston the way some activists are drawn to progressive Oakland today. They barricaded the doo