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Governor visits Cambridge incubator to launch state initiatives, start-up contest
By Marc Levy
Published: February 23, 2010
The Cambridge Innovation Center business incubator would have made a splash anyway in announcing a near-doubling in size by summer — with 240 tenants, it’s already reputed to be the largest grouping of start-up companies on the East Coast — but Tuesday its leaders were able to do it with Gov. Deval Patrick on hand.
Decker’s change of heart allows election of Maher as mayor
By Marc Levy
Published: February 22, 2010
David Maher became mayor Monday, having won five votes from fellow city councillors — a total of six votes that, on a motion by councillor Denise Simmons, was made officially unanimous
Norwegian symphony holds free concert at MIT
By admin
Published: February 22, 2010
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology invites the public to a free concert, “Northern Night,” at 8 p.m. Friday at Kresge Auditorium. The performers are the Studentersamfundets Symfoniorkester, a student symphony orchestra from Trondheim, Norway, led by its regular conductor, Gavin David Lee. Most of the students in the 70-member orchestra are from the Norwegian University of [...]
Cambridge filmmaker examines ancestors’ actions in slave trade
By admin
Published: February 22, 2010
Cambridge filmmaker Katrina Browne and professor Tulaine Shabazz Marshall, of Lesley University and the Episcopal Divinity School, will be on hand Thursday at a screening and discussion of Browne’s “Traces of the Trade: A Story of the Deep North.”
Nominations open for 100 unsung state heroines
By Marc Levy
Published: February 21, 2010
Nominations for the seventh annual Unsung Heroines of Massachusetts are open through Saturday.
‘Dinner Rush’ screens for those in the know
By Marc Levy
Published: February 21, 2010
A semi-regular food film series with an underground feel continues at 6 p.m. Monday with “Dinner Rush,” a behind-the-scenes look at a fancy New York restaurant.
Square’s palette shifts toward the palate
By admin
Published: February 21, 2010
As an art store, video store and florist closes, more cuisine finds its way into Central Square.
Nerd alert: Zombie lecture, then heavy drinking, is planned
By Marc Levy
Published: February 19, 2010
NerdNite — a combination of partying and PowerPoint presentations slowly spreading to geek meccas around the world — is holding its latest event Monday at Middlesex Lounge in Lafayette Square.
TD Bank hearing for Central Square is a sign of the times
By Marc Levy
Published: February 19, 2010
Next week sees another step in TD Bank opening a branch in Central Square, in the Massachusetts Avenue space that used to house The Gap. Despite unhappiness over the coming of another bank, the move takes 7,000 square feet of empty real estate off the market just as another several thousand open up.
Smooth bond sale benefits high school renovation, sewer project
By Marc Levy
Published: February 17, 2010
The city’s $32.2 million bond sale went through as expected Tuesday, budget director David Kale said, providing $25 million for high school renovations and about $7.2 million — the remainder — for sewer improvements.