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...book stores. After browsing for forgotten classics, eat Thai (Soi is a favorite), Indian, Greek or Ethiopian (the newly opened Abyssinica), or have a drink at the Mozambican-flavored Xai Xai Lounge, pictured. If you don't linger you can catch a show at the Market Theatre in artsy Newtown...
...used-book stores. After browsing for forgotten classics, eat Thai (Soi is a favorite), Indian, Greek or Ethiopian (the newly opened Abyssinica), or have a drink at the Mozambican-flavored Xai Xai Lounge. If you don't linger you can catch a show at the Market Theatre in artsy Newtown...
Mary Kazmierezak Newtown Square...
Settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony built Harvard Square in 1630 as the colonial village of Newtown. The irregular pattern of streets formed by Massachusetts Avenue, Mount Auburn Street, Eliot Street and Boylston Street—now JFK Street—continue to frame the layout of the Square. Though a riverbed no longer courses by Eliot Street, and the boîte stores have often made way for larger businesses, Cambridge still breathes of the past. But the intersection of these time-honored streets has become a 20th century cultural phenomenon as well...
...democracy was hard on central Johannesburg. Crime forced many businesses to flee to safer suburbs; even the stock exchange moved out. But over the past few years the government and business groups have begun redeveloping the city, and visitors are starting to come back. One big success is Newtown, long the city's theater district and now full of restaurants and other attractions. Access to the area is easier with the opening of the Nelson Mandela Bridge over a number of railway tracks. The mainstay of the district remains Market Theatre, which defied apartheid laws against mixed audiences long before...