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Celebration of Women in Comedy leads with Bamford, a woman in comedy to celebrate

By Marc Levy
The Second Annual Women in Comedy Festival has a headliner: Maria Bamford, who proves that with lightning-fast wit, keen observation, a total lack of vanity and an impressive array of dead-on impersonations, you can wrench hilarity out of near-debilitating depression and abject failure.
By Marc Levy
The organizers of the Boston Urban Exchange are looking to hand off responsibility for the event, a roughly monthly gathering of planning and development nerds that launched in Cambridge last summer.
By Marc Levy
Today is the first day of South by Southwest, the festival of music, technology and film that manages to draw the world’s attention to Austin, Texas, for at least a fortnight. Some Cantabrigians are going; for those who aren’t, there are some local alternatives.
By Marc Levy
Does Cambridge have a predisposition to doing things the hard way? Some recent news items suggest it does.
By Marc Levy
For the Chagall Performance Art Collaborative, “Choose Your Own Adventure” is not a cute, nostalgic but ironic name for a night of music, poetry and dance. The collaborators are serious: They really want people to come Friday and decide the path the artists will follow.
By Marc Levy
The Dance Complex has been named a top nonprofit by the 2010 Art Appreciation Campaign, an honor that also makes it more visible to donors, its founder said Tuesday.
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Brittany Smith, a former Harvard student, has pleaded not guilty of involvement in the May shooting of a Cambridge man in a Harvard dorm, The Boston Globe reports.
By Marc Levy
Art gallery and live music venue Outpost 186 continues to be a home for experimental and challenging music. Wednesday brings a quartet of percussion, trumpet, synthesizer and theremin, that unique electronic instrument that is played without being touched.
By Marc Levy
Cambridge will annex Somerville’s Davis Square and Somerville gets East Cambridge in return, according to a plan laid out Sunday on “The Cambridge Rag,” a Cambridge Community Television show hosted by Roger Nicholson.
By Marc Levy
The city’s third and final climate congress was held Saturday, wrapping up its four-month span with votes to ask city government to organize and lead the fight to decrease greenhouse gas emissions in Cambridge, but leave room for citizen involvement.
By Marc Levy
Cambridge Day had the chance to speak last week with Marian Darlington-Hope, a member of what’s known informally as the “Gates committee,” about the thought processes and motivations of the committee members. There were some surprising answers.
By Marc Levy
A 19-year-old Cambridge man was arrested without violence early today on suspicion of shooting a man at 6:23 p.m. Feb. 10 on Columbia Street, police said.
By Marc Levy
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A sign in the Somerville Avenue window of the Uno Chicago Grill in Porter Square, Cambridge, announces the restaurant’s closing and reminds diners another store in the chain remains in Harvard Square. (Photo: Marc Levy)

A sign in the Somerville Avenue window of the Uno Chicago Grill in Porter Square, Cambridge, announces the restaurant’s closing and reminds diners another store in the chain remains in Harvard Square. (Photo: Marc Levy)  | read this item
The Uno Chicago Grill in Porter Square closed for good Monday, part of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy Uno Restaurant Holdings Corp. filed for in January. The West Roxbury company is still said to have about 160 restaurants, including one in Harvard Square.
By Marc Levy
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Work has been done lately at the decaying Faces nightclub property on Route 2 in Cambridge, but not to replace the building itself. (Photo: Marc Levy)

Work has been done lately at the decaying Faces nightclub property on Route 2 in Cambridge, but not to replace the building itself. (Photo: Marc Levy)  | read this item
The work seen lately at the decaying Faces nightclub property on Route 2 is on infrastructure — sewage or piping, according to a city Web site — not construction to replace the building itself.
By Marc Levy
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Jenny White

Jenny White  | read this item
Boston University professor Jenny White reads from her latest book of historical mystery fiction Monday at Toscanini's, just part of the ice cream shop’s race toward spring with iced coffees and a new flavor: Pancakes.
By Marc Levy
A progress report by the so-called Gates committee remains missing from the Cambridge Police Department Web site, but can be read and downloaded here.

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