Block party mural painting takes street art to a new level in Cambridgeport
You can’t top the residents of Cottage Street in Cambridgeport for colorful creativity, even if you drive over the evidence: a mural painted on the roadway.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville: Making pupusas, Bollywood and Latin music
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s AfroVybe and Bastille Day festivals, pupusa making, herbal tea blending and free cookies with music, poetry, music and a third annual Bollywood night at Starlight Square.
Painted lines for pickleball serve up a conflict with the tennis devotees at Hoyt Field courts
Competition for court time, noise and a lack of notice have raised tennis player hackles at Hoyt Field as increasingly popular pickleball needs space in Cambridge.
Historic Cambridge Women’s Center is refreshed with millions of dollars from anonymous donor
The Cambridge Women’s Center, with a half-century of history, cut the ribbon Friday on a multimillion-dollar renovation paid for by an anonymous benefactor.
Giveaway will rescue Peter Valentine’s artwork before home conversion; Come by Wednesday
A giveaway of art and other items is planned for 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the former home of Peter Valentine, the Cantabrigian artist who died last year.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville: Artbeat to AfroVybe, with Women of the World
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, we go from Artbeat in Davis Square to AfroVybe in Union Square with pauses for kayaking on the Charles, a reading from Colson Whitehead, a Barbie drag show, a Women of the World music and dance showcase and much more.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville: Korean potluck to a Taylor tribute and Cthulhu
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a tribute to Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey, Poets vs. Rappers, a “Call of Cthulhu” role-playing game for adults, kayaking the Charles, cooking Korean, fashion shows, family games, dancing and theater.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville: Bel Canto Opera to a Starlight silent dance party
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Nature in the City Festival, Italian Bel Canto Opera concert and Summer Boston Celtic Music Fest, “Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet” podcast recording, silent headphone party and more.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville: Dancing in the streets to a reading of Douglass
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the City Dance Party, a Sci-Fi Aerial Cabaret, Black Boy Joy Cookout, Moth Story Slam, Frederick Douglass reading, silent “Safety Last!” screening, Nature in the City Festival and much more.
Growing up in Cambridgeport from the 1930s into the 1950s with Patricia Ann Smith Lucas
Ann Lucas grew up on the eastern edge of Cambridgeport surrounded by members of her extended family after her grandparents arrived from North Carolina during the Great Migration of African Americans from the Southern states.
