Housing Authority plans 22 rooms in Baldwin, hits a snag in purchase from Lesley University
The Cambridge Housing Authority wants to buy a house now used as a Lesley dorm in a neighborhood with little low- and moderate-income housing.
Paid legal notices for Cambridge for April 11-18
Cambridge public notices for the Board of Zoning Appeal and Cambridge Historical Commission, Planning Board definitions for hotels and motels and for the Khalida Griffin-Sheperd zoning petition, and an ordinance about the Fresh Pond Golf Course Pro Shop Fund.
Neville Place assisted-living gets $5.7M loan from city despite unexplained lapses in terms
Cambridge is increasing a loan to its city-affiliated Neville Place assisted-living facility near Fresh Pond despite a failure to accept the original loan for undisclosed reasons. Neville Place did not carry out many requirements attached to the original.
Bagelsaurus acquires Cambridge Clogs storefront for May expansion – and that means more bagels
Bagelsaurus will add an additional 500 square feet to its store next month, which means more room for needed refrigerator units to prepare more bagels.
Dx Arcade is focused on games, games, games while readying May opening in Harvard Square
In its nearly 400-year history, Harvard Square has never seen race cars, Nerf blasters and dinosaurs under the same roof. That will soon change.
Somerville’s Climate Forward plan needs more, especially around schools, and sufficient funds
Somerville must show leadership in the climate crisis by reducing emissions by all means available and protecting the future of our youth. The children of Somerville deserve ambitious action. Please do not let them down.
Millipedes are bizarre in a dozen different ways, but they don’t bite and curl up when threatened
Millipedes don’t have 1,000 legs – though biologists once found one with 1,306 legs hundreds of feet below ground – but if you are afraid of getting bitten, it’s centipedes that worry you, not these rather helpful nighttime dentrivores.
Joyous play about parenting a trans tween, ‘Mermaid Hour,’ near at Arrow Street Arts
“Mermaid Hour,” which flips a traditional coming-of-age narrative on its head by focusing on the parents, is coming to Arrow Street Arts.
‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’: Team fighting Nazis is true to life with a blast of Richie
Real-life derring-do from a ragtag team of World War II commandos trying to cripple the Nazi naval war machine – with the flash of Guy Ritchie.
‘Challengers’: Triples tennis, lacking in rules
Luca Guadagnino’s latest is a fierce, fast passion play in the ranks of pro tennis with two former besties and the woman who’s literally between them.
Happy Record Store Day! Celebrate responsibly (Checking to see if impulse buys are union made)
After all the yammering this column has yammered since January regarding a wintry Record Store Day Walk, you didn’t think we’d watch the actual Record Store Day pass without comment? It’s almost 4/20, dude! Put on your walking shoes.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Paul Giamatti’s podcast to Earth Day events
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s Paul Giamatti’s “Chinwag” podcast, The Bread and Puppet Theater, Record Store Day, “Secret Sounds of Ponds” and other Earth-related events, cake decorating and Shakespeare’s 460th Birthday.