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Brahms comes home to Cambridge in Sunday celebration

By Marc Levy
If Cambridge had an official classical composer, it might well be Johannes Brahms. He was as opinionated, controversial, prickly but generous and brilliant as anyone here now — in fact, he will be here Sunday, in a Cambridge Symphony Orchestra celebration.
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
Seth Grahame-Smith will be at The Brattle Theatre at 6 p.m. Monday to read from and sign copies of “Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.”
By Marc Levy
There were 49 businesses created or renewed in February — all but eight new businesses. It’s an unusually high percent of new businesses — 84 percent, compared with 67 percent in January.
By Marc Levy
The only thing less funny about the second performance of the new Bastards Inc. show is the catchphrase, “March Fourth. Into the Future.” Because the performance is Thursday. Right: March 11.
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Marc McGovern, vice chairman of the Cambridge School Committee, writes in support of Senate Bill 2283, the anti-bullying legislation.
By Marc Levy
Buses running red lights and a raft of problems surrounding the Cambridge Main Library — unused meeting and cafe spaces, shortened hours, parking snarls and a failure to incorporate students from the neighboring high school — have caught city councillors’ attention.
By Marc Levy
The decline of Central Square drew debate from city councillors at their Monday meeting, but also signs of hope for two prominently empty storefronts on Massachusetts Avenue.
By Marc Levy
A $137.5 million proposed schools budget was unveiled Tuesday to the School Committee and a room full of watchful parents and educators.
By Marc Levy
Larger issues were raised when long-standing traffic issues sparked testy exchanges Monday between city councillors on one side and the city manager and director of the Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department on the other.
By Marc Levy
The U.S. Census is holding a job fair Monday in hopes of hiring 1,000 people to serve mainly as enumerators, also known as census-takers — the people who go door to door to find people who failed to answer the census packets that will be mailed to them this month.
By Marc Levy
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Plans for remaking Lechmere Square when the T stop moves includes transforming a garage area seen at top into a year-round, 30-stall public market like the one seen above. (Photo: On Land LLC)

Plans for remaking Lechmere Square when the T stop moves includes transforming a garage area seen at top into a year-round, 30-stall public market like the one seen above. (Photo: On Land LLC)  | read this item
First came a torrent of public support, then a unanimous City Council vote supporting a plan to remake the area around the Lechmere T stop with a 12-story hotel, plaza and year-round, 30-stall public market.
By Marc Levy
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TD Bank will join at least eight other banks in Central Square, as seen in this Google map.

TD Bank will join at least eight other banks in Central Square, as seen in this Google map.  | read this item
TD Bank is coming to Central Square, with the last impediment ending Thursday with a unanimous vote by the Board of Zoning Appeal.
By Marc Levy
Does Cambridge have a predisposition to doing things the hard way? Some recent news items suggest it does.
By Marc Levy
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Nicholson  | read this item
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
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Fuller  | read this item
A panel presentation of Cambridge women activists past and present — starting with Transcendentalist and suffragist Margaret Fuller — is scheduled as part of an International Women’s Day celebration at 6 p.m. Monday.

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    Performing at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 17, at The Comedy Studio in the Hong Kong Restaurant, 1238 Massachusetts Ave., Harvard Square, Cambridge. Also appearing: Steve Albert, Doug Chagnon, Janet Cormier, Cameryn Moore, Tom E. Morello, Scott Palmer, Ted Pettingell, Niraj Shah and Raj Silvaramian. | Map it

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