Can Toad swallow The Doctors Fox? Band may be big draw at small club

By Marc Levy

Published: December 22, 2009

Toad had better brace itself. The Doctors Fox plays Wednesday at the tiny Porter Square bar and music venue — so small its stage often doesn’t fit whole bands — and it has been packing larger houses lately.

Walsh brothers return for holiday comedy show

By Marc Levy

Published: December 14, 2009

The Walsh brothers, whose Great & Secret Show became a years-long highlight of the Cambridge comedy scene, return Wednesday to the East Coast for their annual holiday visit. According to David Walsh, their only scheduled time on stage is Sunday as hosts of the Comedy Studio’s Christmas Party.

Cantab ends Comedy Sleepover show

By Marc Levy

Published: October 22, 2009

The Greater Boston Alternative Comedy Sleepover was abruptly ended by the Cantab Lounge, the Central Square bar that hosted the weekly free comedy show in its basement bar, co-founder Chris Coxen said Wednesday. The show ran every Monday since June, including this past Monday, often with packed houses but more recently with erratic crowds and [...]

With ‘Quiet Desperation,’ comedy show, album, it turns out life is a reality sitcom

By Marc Levy

Published: September 30, 2009

Life and art in the local comedy and music scene are chasing around imitating each other in such a tight, fierce circle that you can expect a tornado to tear through town any day now. Alternate Mondays at the Sleepover comedy show, viewings of “Quiet Desperation” online and the excellent Super Time Pilot album and you can become a bit player in a unique experiment in theater in the round.

Sleepover: Weekly event could be new comics’ community

By Marc Levy

Published: June 3, 2009

There was more than one thing in the air Monday at the Cantab Lounge. The first was a fecal stench. The second, fortunately, was the possibility Cambridge has found a successor to the Great and Secret Show — the long-running alternative comedy night that recently ended its run at another Central Square venue, ImprovBoston. The [...]

Poet as rock star, with band as backing

By Alex Fleming

Published: November 4, 2005

In a dim, red-lit room with low ceilings and Persian rugs, the metallic hiss of a cymbal, the low, somber notes of a bass and the plaintive, winding melodies of a saxophone evoke a spooky, almost otherworldly atmosphere in which J*me, the night’s featured poet, prances, half stumbling, around the stage, spewing fine mists of [...]

Sideshow

By Marc Levy

Published: October 26, 2004

The Twinemen’s second album, “Sideshow,” is out. Don’t hesitate to pick it up, or to see them live, although Massachusetts has a while to wait until the band comes around again; the Cantab Lounge’s CD release party last Saturday was it until at least November, according to the schedule on the band’s revamped Web site. [...]

Animal House

By Marc Levy

Published: July 2, 2004

Search via Google for “Cambridge events” and you’ll find a slightly confusing “Cambridge in America” headline and a much more reassuring “cantab.org” link. Reassuring because it’s obviously the Web site of the Cantab Lounge, that delightfully wheezy Central Square gin-and-jazz joint, home to the legendary Little Joe Cook. But it’s obvious where this is going: [...]