Businesses can bring in the bicycling crowd, one $5 lifetime helmet sticker at a time
Those $5 Bicycle Benefits stickers are still around, and the number of Cambridge-Somerville area businesses accepting them is back on the rise.
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 18-25
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.
City staff aren’t requesting delays on bike lanes – bad politics are
There is no logistical need to delay bike lanes. There is only a political desire by some on the council, not supported by the public.
Skate wing at June Bug
Late last year the Field & Vine crew opened June Bug with the same local, seasonal and sustainable aims, a veggie and pescatarian lean and a slate of wood-fired pizzas and intriguing small plates that include a rare skate wing.
Buenas beef empanada
This beef empanada from Bow Market’s Buenas shop was hot, fresh and seriously delicious – even better than the store’s frozen goods in local stores.
Victor Lodato explores what it means to come home in ‘Honey’
In his third novel, Victor Lodato uses 82-year-old Honey, the daughter of a mobster, to reckon with the role biological and chosen families play in our lives.
‘Future Minded’ photographs at Harvard Art Museums
The Harvard Art Museums freshens up their collection in various mediums with “Future Minded,” but photography selections are particularly noteworthy.
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.