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Cambridge will annex Somerville’s Davis Square and Somerville gets East Cambridge in return, according to a plan laid out Sunday on “The Cambridge Rag,” a Cambridge Community Television show hosted by Roger Nicholson.
Cambridge likes to flatter itself on its enlightened approach to, well, pretty much everything. There may be one woman in the city whose approach to parenting is less enlightened than inflammatory.
Elena N. Bodnar displays her bra gas mask at October’s Ig Nobel Informal Lectures. Time.com put itself in the minority by calling the idea among the worst science of the year. (Photo: Marc Levy)Curious thing about The New York Times’ Ninth Annual Year in Ideas list released this weekend: Two of these “most clever, important, silly and just plain weird innovations” — that cows that have been given names produce more milk and that empty beer bottles make better weapons — were Ig Nobel Prize winners in October.
I think one of the laziest people in the world lives on Walden Street in Cambridge, near Masse’s Hardware. As you will see in this picture, a Christmas tree was put out on the curb sometime Monday — four months and 17 days after Christmas. Now, I too can be a bit of a procrastinator, [...]
Patrick Keaney, second from left, looks at his biodiesel-powered bus from inside the Zeitgeist Gallery on Nov. 25, 2005. (Photo: Schuyler Pisha)It seats about 30, has a stage welded to the top and runs on vegetable oil.
And it could be yours.
Well, part yours. The 1992 green and yellow biodiesel bus, usually found in Jamaica Plain, is already being eyed by the Zeitgeist Gallery and band leader Gill Aharon as sort of a mobile hippie timeshare. The [...]
What are we eating this year? Groceries and specialty stores unique to the area say this Thanksgiving the traditional foods predominate — with little twists.
“Turkeys, of course, fresh and organic,” lists Chris Durkin, at The Harvest Co-op in Central Square. “Potatoes and squash, Tofurky, chestnuts, pecans, lots of rice. Artisan breads. Pies from The Pie [...]
The domain of the Ottoman Turks stretched from Austria to Iraq, from Algeria to Arabia, one of the greatest empires of the world. But by the dawn of the 20th century, Turkey was the “sick man of Europe,” diminished and corrupt and falling behind in an increasingly technological world.
It was one man who, nearly [...]
Many may be familiar with Disney’s rendition of the gargoyle archetype from the cartoon version of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”: singing and dancing demonic effigies befriending social pariahs from cathedral roofs.
This is a rather campy view of these figures, which are normally used to ward off other creatures that go bump in the night [...]
The Drinking Liberally crowd gathers on a November 2005 Tuesday at The Middlesex Lounge in Cambridge for their weekly round of pints and political discussion. (Photo: Ken Winokur)“We don’t unwelcome anyone,” said Heather as she motioned me and my Republican photographer to a darkened corner of the bar.
“That wouldn’t be very liberal of us,” said Baratunde, before ensuring I had a drink in hand.
Heather and Baratunde, along with the elusive Shai, are co-hosts of the Cambridge chapter of Drinking Liberally, where talk [...]
Movies about underage sex, child abuse and teen violence, homosexuality and sexually transmitted diseases — the kinds of things that must be hidden from the view of young people.
In the case of the Do It Your Damn Self! film festival, though, the movies were made by some of those very same young people.
The 10th annual [...]
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A Christmas tree awaits trash pickup May 11 on Walden Avenue in Cambridge. (Photo: Marc Levy) | 
Alp Simsek, a Turkish Ph.D. student at the Massachusetts Institiute of Technology, introduces the documentary “Ataturk” to a group Nov. 21, 2005. (Photo: Schuyler Pisha) | 
This six-inch stone gargoyle — perched between two telephone poles on Orchard and Blake streets, near Porter Square — is charming most people. (Photo: Ken S. Kotch) | 
Truth is the star in teen film festival | 
