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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.- Link: Cantabrigian wanders library, finds it empty
- It’s simple: Rindge senior’s portfolio earns award
Organizers plan to replace themselves at Urban Exchange
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.Whether staying or going, Cambridge is a bit South by Southwest
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.Taking tangled paths to uncertain destinations
By Marc Levy
Does Cambridge have a predisposition to doing things the hard way? Some recent news items suggest it does.
‘Concept concert’ asks audience to choose the ending
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.Dance Complex earns honor as top nonprofit
By Marc Levy
Link: Harvard student will fight charges from May shooting
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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.Theremin reappears in experimental band Wednesday at Outpost 186
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.TV satirist draws line: He’ll give up East Cambridge to get Davis Square
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.Climate Congress ends with votes for city positions, pleas for citizen involvement
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.Interview: City can move beyond Gates incident without investigating, committee member says
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.Police arrest suspect in Feb. 10 shooting
By Marc Levy
Pizzeria Uno closes in Porter Square
By 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)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
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)
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