Five things to do this weekend: Jan. 5-6
Start your winter farmers market shopping. Turn yourself or your kid into an action movie star. Take in some art – well, a hell of a lot of art – free. Get your fill of singer-songwriters. Or fulfill your Cambridge destiny with a fiction and poetry reading.
Turnout at midday shows Cantabrigians eager to vote, willing to wait
A little over halfway through voting hours Tuesday, a full 60 percent of active voters in Cambridge had already been to their polling places, an elections official said.
Tonight begins Lesley’s weeklong Reading Series, with poets, playwrights and an Oprah pick
What do two award-winning poets, playwright Molly Smith Metzler and an author who wrote a book popular enough to be on Oprah’s summer reading list have in common?
Your guide to Cambridge’s farmers markets
With the Harvard University farmers market starting at noon Tuesday, Cambridge has a market for every day of the week through Oct. 27. How to keep track, though? How about a handy graphic of where the markets are and when they run?
Exhibit of CRLS art has reception Thursday
For those inclined to look at art and complain, “My kid could have done that,” here’s an art exhibit where they probably did. But with the level of accomplishment at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, that’s hardly an insult.
Basement units pass 6-2, pause a week for ‘reconsideration’
A test basement apartment program is almost, but not quite, in place for 13 buildings in Cambridge, having been stalled for a week in a parliamentary maneuver called “reconsideration.”
Artist’s 70-year path started with escape from Nazis
The more you know about Jacek von Henneberg, the humble artist and architect down Walden Street, the more amazing he gets.
The snow day, ideal result of imperfect processes
Horrible weather is a wonderful excuse for all sorts of retrograde behavior, and it’s all encouraged by the city’s indifferent coordination of snow-clearing.
Agassiz Thanksgiving potluck set for Tuesday
The 39th annual Agassiz Baldwin Thanksgiving Potluck Feast, a community gathering at which the nonprofit provides the turkeys, is set for Tuesday.
Fixes delayed at derelict home of famed author
Repairs at a badly deteriorated house once lived in and written about by the great, if largely forgotten, William Dean Howells have been delayed by the Historical Commission for lack of details.
