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In today's newsletter:

• How 1960s Cambridge helped shape Margaret Atwood’s dystopian imagination

Also on today's calendar: New Series! MINDFULNESS-BASED STRESS REDUCTION with Sunada Takagi - 8 Wednesdays and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: I am on a seafood diet. 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Sunday: Rain and drizzle in the a.m., with a high of 44 and low of 25 degrees.
• Monday: Partly sunny; breezy, colder, temps: high: 38, low: 30.
• Tuesday: Times of clouds and sun, with a high of 44 and low of 37 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• No True Believer (thebulwark.com) — Cambridge readers may appreciate that Margaret Atwood drew on 1960s Harvard and surrounding Cambridge as one of many real-world influences for The Handmaid’s Tale. A new review of her memoir, Book of Lives, explores her unconventional upbringing, literary rise, nuanced feminism, and resistance to being boxed into any political camp, while touching on how shifting politics reframed her most famous work.
   

📸 Around Cambridge

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Cambridge

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★ Featured events ★

Wednesday January 21

• New Series! MINDFULNESS-BASED STRESS REDUCTION with Sunada Takagi - 8 Wednesdays
  The Arlington Center, 369 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington
  6:30 pm

Wednesday January 28

• Free Webinar: Helping Your Aging Parents Thrive
  Via Zoom ,
  12:00 pm

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Other local events

Saturday January 10

• Sarasa Ensemble Presents 'Patron Lobkowitz'
  Friends Meeting At Cambridge , 5 Longfellow Park , Cambridge
  7:00 pm
• Hamilton De Holanda
  Regattabar, 1 Bennett St, Cambridge, MA, 02138
  7:00 pm
• Patty Larkin, John Gorka, Cliff Eberhardt and Lucy Kaplansky
  7 Medford St , Arlington
  7:30 pm

Sunday January 11

• Bambara Kitchen & Bar Celebrates National Mocktail Week, January 11th-17th
  25 Edwin H Land Blvd , Cambridge
  12:00 pm
• Pups + Pints at CanalSide Food + Drink
  CambridgeSide , 100 Cambridgeside Pl , Cambridge
  2:00 pm
• Dumpling Making Party In Massachusetts (Sundays)
  The Historic Windsor Inn, 85 Windsor Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
  3:00 pm
• Sushi Making 101 - Cooking Class by Classpop!
  Trillium Brewing Company - Fort Point, 50 Thomson Pl, Boston, MA 02210
  4:00 pm

Tuesday January 13

• DVUS Winter Arts Night (chorus/drama) in Carolyne Turke Auditorium
  Darby Vassall Upper School , 183 Vassal Ln , Cambridge
  5:30 pm

Wednesday January 14

• Watercolors w/ Eli Portman
  Fenway Community Center , 1282 Boylston Street , Boston
  5:00 pm
• CanalSide at CambridgeSide Hosts FREE Music Bingo
  CambridgeSide , 100 Cambridgeside Pl , Cambridge
  6:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic posted a job opening for Medical Receptionist in Cambridge. Apply here.
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🗞 Nearby News

Somerville

• The Somerville Museum presents: Crafting the Mind exhibition (thesomervilletimes.com)
• Somerville-based Gene Research Company Implements Large-scale Layoffs: Report (patch.com)
• Mystery Solved, Time To Lawyer Up (thesomervillenewsweekly.blog)

Watertown

• Watertown Wrestling Coach Kevin Russo Notches His 500th Win (watertownmanews.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

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