New Shit Has Come to Light

I was chat­ting this after­noon with Gus Ran­ca­tore, owner of Toscanini’s (and all-around model cit­i­zen of Cam­bridge). After ban­ter­ing a lot about MIT—he misses his Stu­dent Cen­ter loca­tion “dearly”—I inquired into the where­abouts of Ale­jan­dro Siña and Spin­ning Box.

Ran­ca­tore lit up like a bulb. “Hold on, let me get my bag!”

He emerged from the kitchen with a big color brochure. “I almost for­got, but they have an exhi­bi­tion run­ning right now on New­bury Street and it’s going to be over in just a few days!”

Ran­ca­tore is a huge fan of Ale­jan­dro and Moira Siña’s single-electrode neon. So much, he says, that his Har­vard Square store was designed around the twirly neon work he com­mis­sioned. Spin­ning Box is presently in stor­age, but the artists’ efforts can also be seen at the Cam­brid­ge­side Gal­le­ria and the Red Line plat­form at the Alewife T station.

Any­one inter­ested? The show, called “Light Up Your Night,” ends this weekend.

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