Intense line-up powers festival’s steampunk party

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Published: March 24, 2010 at 02:54 PM

The Boston Underground Film Festival — which takes place entirely in Cambridge — has a brilliant opening-night party planned for Thursday: a four-band steampunk party at T.T. the Bear’s Place.

Tenant dispute brings infamous landlord back to court

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Published: March 24, 2010 at 02:08 AM

Controversial developer and landlord Husam “Sam” Azzam was back in court Monday, this time in a dispute with tenants who felt Azzam should return rent money for the time they spent displaced by a late-night fire.

Hangover over, a flashback to St. Pat’s and the other green monster

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Published: March 23, 2010 at 11:07 PM

St. Patrick’s Day is fading into memory for another year — for those of you who can remember it at all — but this flashback was too good to pass up.

Rains ease off, relieving emergency workers and flooded residents

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Published: March 23, 2010 at 10:58 AM

Forecasters backed off on predictions of heavy rain throughout Tuesday, and city workers — watchful after last week’s intense rainfall and flooding — said they’ve noticed the better weather already.

Yerxa Road developer gets 30-day reprieve, and tenants can stay

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Published: March 23, 2010 at 12:31 AM

The developer of the 45-47 Yerxa Road condominiums was given 30 days to resolve two of the several complaints raised by neighbors and cited by Cambridge inspectors: that units are being leased illegally, and that there is debris on the site that should be cleared away.

Gates committee report is posted as councillor complains

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Published: March 22, 2010 at 07:52 PM

A progress report by the so-called Gates committee was posted Monday on the Cambridge Police Department Web site, estimated by city councillors to be going up about three weeks after promised.

Screening to help theater that was Central front in ‘Bride Wars’

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Published: March 20, 2010 at 04:42 PM

Paying $35 to see “Bride Wars” doesn’t make sense until it’s explained that the money goes to repairing and updating the Julie Ince Thompson Theatre in Central Square’s historic Odd Fellows Hall.

‘Concept concert’ asks audience to choose the ending

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Published: March 17, 2010 at 10:35 PM

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.

Celebration of Women in Comedy leads with Bamford, a woman in comedy to celebrate

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Published: March 17, 2010 at 09:33 PM

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

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Published: March 16, 2010 at 05:07 PM

Blogger Martha Nichols has a critical look at the Cambridge Main Library featured at slate.com.

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