Cambridge
57°
Nerd alert: Zombie lecture, then heavy drinking, is planned
By Marc Levy
Published: February 19, 2010 at 12:50 PM
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 at 12:13 PM
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 at 09:00 PM
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.
Final Double Feature of comedy one-act plays arrives
By Marc Levy
Published: February 16, 2010 at 03:13 PM
Friday is the final night of ImprovBoston’s Double Feature of one-act plays, with both filled with campy dread.
Cheung, Toomey ask that Cambridge bid for Google’s ultrafast Internet
By Marc Levy
Published: February 15, 2010 at 05:11 PM
The city manager has been asked to submit Cambridge as a test cite for Google’s ultrafast Internet program, in which the company will stretch fiber-optic cable that moves data at one gigabit per second —100 times faster than what most people have, even in Cambridge — to between 50,000 to 500,000 people.
Vostok 4′s retro rock warps space, time and energy
By Marc Levy
Published: February 15, 2010 at 02:16 PM
There are a couple of reasons Sean George is sweating. One is that the band he sings for, Vostok 4, has packed in a crowd, and the club is stifling. The other is that Vostok 4 believes in putting on a good show, and George is dancing like a madman
Poetry, dance, drumming, film screening offered for Black History Month
By admin
Published: February 13, 2010 at 01:14 AM
A premier drummer, local poet and groundbreaking filmmakers will be on hand this month to bring added meaning to Black History Month.
Harsh truths, discomforting questions arise at forum on race
By Marc Levy
Published: February 13, 2010 at 01:01 AM
There was no shortage of blunt talk Thursday at a forum sparked by the July 16 arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., a black man, by white police Sgt. James Crowley.
Classes for kids on vacation: Duct tape fashion, video blogging
By Marc Levy
Published: February 12, 2010 at 05:55 PM
Adults looking at the February Vacation Week schedule from Cambridge Youth Programs may think it’s enough to make them want to be in school again … so they could be on vacation … so they could take part.
Case on chickens, ducks migrates to council after loss with zoning board
By Marc Levy
Published: February 12, 2010 at 01:19 AM
An East Cambridge co-op with two pet chickens and three pet ducks lost its case before the Board of Zoning Appeal, which voted 4-1 on narrow legal guidelines that keeping fowl was not a “customarily incidental” use in the city. It means the fowl have to go, for now.