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Virtual Frets, Actual Sweat
By Katie Zezima, Cambridge MA- Sunday July 15, 2007

" Kevin Doyle and Ivan Wine strode to the front of River Gods and picked up the guitars with the confidence of two guys who had played this bar and those instruments many times before..." [READ MORE]

New Gastropubs Offer a Little Something Extra
By Elizabeth Navisky, Globe Correspondent | March 26, 2008
"Tell someone you're going to eat at a gastropub tonight, and the likely response will be "Gastro-what?.." [READ MORE]

Local heroes
By Billy Baker, Globe Correspondent | March 16, 2008
"Once a month, at a bar called River Gods, the gods come to play. Or at least the creators of a wildly popular game do, alongside devotees..."[READ MORE]

James Crowley, Henry Louis Gates Jr. meet up for beer
summit, part 2
By Marie Szaniszlo, Boston Herald - Friday, October 30, 2009
"Maybe we can all just get along!In a setting a tad less formal, with no president or national press on hand, the Harvard professor and the Cambridge cop at the heart of last summer's White House "beer summit" met for a second round - this time, at a local pub.Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley met for drinks Wednesday at River Gods, a popular River Street bar outside Central Square, not far from where their lives first intersected..." [READ MORE]

Questions For Henry Louis Gates Jr. After the Beer Summit

By DEBORAH SOLOMON

"You’re a Harvard professor and a scholar of African-American literature; what led you to undertake your new PBS series, “Faces of America,” in which you research the ancestry and genetic makeup of a dozen mostly white celebrities, including Meryl Streep and Stephen Colbert?.."

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