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School Committee OKs contract, resists roundtable and chooses leader
By Marc Levy
Published: January 21, 2010 at 10:11 PM
In addition to hearing public comment Tuesday on middle schools, the School Committee approved an educators contract; appointed a leader to serve with whoever becomes mayor; and considered an approach to solidify goals and communication on some 10 districtwide issues, starting with how to group students. The contract, covering teachers and administrators through August 2012, [...]
Parents speak against changes to K-8 school structure
By Marc Levy
Published: January 20, 2010 at 09:25 PM
Parents packed Tuesday’s meeting of the School Committee to plead the case of the K-8 school in the coming reworking of the city’s middle grades, with some two-thirds of the crowd representing the Amigos dual-language school. The committee needs to hear from more people, though, for changes likely to take place September 2011.
Trying to claim a bit of Coakley history, after she’s become it
By Marc Levy
Published: January 19, 2010 at 11:56 PM
You read it here first: Martha Coakley is the Bill Buckner of politics.
Mystery novelist Parker, 77, dies at desk
By Marc Levy
Published: January 19, 2010 at 04:53 PM
Mystery novelist Robert B. Parker, of Ash Street in Cambridge, died Monday morning at 77.
Editorial: Keeping proportional representation is smart thing to do
By admin
Published: January 18, 2010 at 05:21 PM
Every four years there is a call to abolish the U.S. electoral college. In Cambridge, elections incite calls to end proportional representation — our rare form of voting in which candidates are ranked instead of just chosen or rejected. Let’s not.
Blah, blah, blah and ha, ha, ha: The sound of open-mics, contests and festivals
By Marc Levy
Published: January 18, 2010 at 12:15 AM
An open-mic night at The All Asia. A storytelling slam in The Enormous Room. And a Women in Comedy Festival podcast in your ears. It’s all happening.
King celebration adapted to include vigil for Haiti
By admin
Published: January 16, 2010 at 12:59 PM
Cambridge is adapting its annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. to recognize the devastation wreaked on Haiti by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake.
Oberon keeps box office service low, online service fees high
By Marc Levy
Published: January 15, 2010 at 10:03 AM
You could have bought tickets early for tonight’s Naked Girls Reading (or another event at Oberon) if you feared the show would sell out. If it was about saving money, though, you needn’t have bothered. With service fees, advance tickets that seem to save 25 percent off the full price in reality save only 7.5 percent.
Original music, words of inspiration in MLK addition
By admin
Published: January 14, 2010 at 07:18 PM
There’s a musical and poetic addition to Cambridge’s honors to Martin Luther King Jr., courtesy of the Harvard Square Business Association.
It’s scary how things repeat themselves. And it’s funny how things repeat themselves.
By Marc Levy
Published: January 13, 2010 at 10:17 PM
Comedy, the cliché goes, is pain plus time. ImprovBoston’s Double Feature of one-act plays, “Blood Farm!” and “The Red Stare” suggest comedy is also hysteria, paranoia and terror plus time. Both set their action decades ago.