Live ‘CSI’ parody has final performance Saturday
By Marc Levy
Published: June 23, 2010 at 07:43 PM
“CSI: Boston, Special Comedy Unit” holds its last live, improvised episode Saturday. Once this “CSI” has its season finale, you won’t be able to catch it on reruns.
Police grateful to mall officer who struggled with armed suspect
By Marc Levy
Published: June 23, 2010 at 05:00 PM
A struggle with an armed shoplifting suspect has earned Peter J. Brown, security manager at the Macy’s Department Store in the CambridgeSide Galleria, an award from the Cambridge Police Department.
Nice shot: Still not as long as Monopoly
By Marc Levy
Published: June 23, 2010 at 03:50 PM
How long does it take to finish the game of Life? More than 30 years, apparebtl
Farmers Market accepts, doubles value of SNAP food stamps
By Marc Levy
Published: June 22, 2010 at 09:52 PM
The Central Square Farmers Market is accepting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits as payment, and a grant is doubling the money spent using the benefits
Youth center, parks getting Wi-Fi, but telecom committee has much more to ponder
By Marc Levy
Published: June 22, 2010 at 04:05 PM
Cambridge’s youth centers and parks are all being equipped as free Wi-Fi hotspots, with the newest of each already functioning. The youth centers are the priority, with assessments to be done over the summer and gear installed and working within several months. But that’s just a start of what the city could do.
Councillor: Anthropologie coming to Harvard Square
By Marc Levy
Published: June 21, 2010 at 09:15 PM
The empty, glass-front building at 48 Brattle St. in Harvard Square — until Jan. 25, 2009, a Crate & Barrel housewares store — will be an Anthropologie clothing store, city councillor Ken Reeves said Monday in a City Council meeting.
Gates committee report misses deadline; now due in summer
By Marc Levy
Published: June 21, 2010 at 07:31 PM
The Cambridge Review Committee missed its own spring deadline to post a report resulting from the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.
‘Grease’ lovers: ‘Lube’ up at ImprovBoston
By Marc Levy
Published: June 19, 2010 at 06:53 PM
For all the “Grease” lovers for whom “Grease 2” was inadequate, or an outrage, there is finally a sequel bringing back the characters from the original for a reunion.
Library hosts young environmentalists who wrote ‘Energy Lite’
By Marc Levy
Published: June 17, 2010 at 08:14 PM
The Cambridge Main Library is hosting six King Open School students — and co-authors of a new book — using their energy to make people around the country think about how they’re hurting the environment by wasting theirs.
Free summer courses offered high schoolers in Harvard, city collaboration
By Marc Levy
Published: June 17, 2010 at 06:51 PM
“Introduction to Robotics,” “Banned Books and the Classics” and “African-American History and Music” are just some of the courses offered for free to high schoolers starting July 6 at the Cambridge Harvard Summer Academy.
