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Modest Matt D. takes top prize in Magners Comedy Festival
By Marc Levy
Published: January 30, 2012
Cambridge comedian Matt D. has to update his bio: He won the Magners Comedy Festival last weekend.
When conservatives were on the sauce
By Marc Levy
Published: January 16, 2012
Do you remember W Ketchup? It’s a conservative condiment named after, um, Ronald Reagan.
MLK Day events to put words into action
By Marc Levy
Published: January 6, 2012
In Cambridge, Martin Luther King Day is not just a day off. City groups have planned events that make it easy for people to not just recognize the contributions and call to action by King — but to actually take action.
Harvard Square nightclub gets licensing OK
By Marc Levy
Published: January 3, 2012
The Sinclair, a live-music hall and two-story restaurant, is on track for a fall opening in Harvard Square.
For New Year’s Day, ImprovBoston has ’100 First Jokes’
By Marc Levy
Published: December 19, 2011
As the world waits for all of the firsts of 2012, the ImprovBoston theater in Central Square plans to kick off the year with two Jan. 1 shows at which 100 comics will tell their first jokes of the year.
Central Square can take 1,000 new homes, commission says
By Marc Levy
Published: December 14, 2011
Along with the rest of an exciting, arts-based vision for Central Square described Monday came a call for 1,000 units of housing to be built atop what are now parking lots or one- or two-story buildings.
Vision for Central Square to be unveiled Monday
By Marc Levy
Published: December 9, 2011
The Mayor’s Red Ribbon Commission on the Delights and Concerns of Central Square gets its unveiling Monday, with a call for middle-class housing, a center for the arts and a hall hosting local food and products.
Deng transforms China and, on Monday, Toscanini’s ice cream
By Marc Levy
Published: December 4, 2011
The lifetimes of Deng Xiaoping and Toscanini overlapped for more than a half-century, but it’s a good bet they never met until now, as Toscanini’s ice cream hosts Harvard’s Ezra Vogel on Monday for a signing of his new Deng biography.
Food Will Win the War: Worst name, great music, plays Sunday
By Marc Levy
Published: November 30, 2011
You may remember Brooklyn band Food Will Win the War as a winner of “The Worst Band Names Of ’07,” but reviews by Interview, Time Out New York and The Boston Phoenix say you’ll want to see them anyway. They play Sunday at The Middle East.
Political, economic complaints spark Central Square teach-in
By Marc Levy
Published: November 14, 2011
Last week was a bit of the Sixties all over again, including a teach-in in Central Square with a possible follow-up Thursday.