Even from Pennsylvania it’s obvious Somerville is ‘Hippest City in America’
A Pennsylvania blogger – and former Cantabrigian and Harvard Law student – has unscientifically declared Somerville the hippest city in America, as well as the city that is more Portlandia than Portland.
Come hang out with Myq Kaplan (while he films a one-hour comedy special)
Comedian Myq Kaplan is inviting fans and possibly hobos to free tapings of a one-hour comedy television special in April.
Four things to know before Caveman plays Harvard Square on Wednesday
You’d be forgiven for not knowing Caveman. They’ve come to town twice in three years, skipping last year. But on Wednesday The Sinclair in Harvard Square hosts the second stop on Caveman’s tour, mesmerizing drum circle vibe
The clerks of Central Square share stories at Wednesday’s J.M. Rodney’s Medicine Show
The J.M. Rodney’s Medicine Show coming Wednesday finds its comedy in a weird place – what founder Ryan Douglass calls “this awful, terrible human cesspool in between Harvard and MIT”: Central Square.
Online rights activist Aaron Swartz, 26, found dead
Aaron Swartz, 26, co-founder of the popular Reddit site, a “technology whiz kid” and recently a defendant on federal hacking charges, killed himself in a New York apartment.
Eugene Mirman’s connections to Cambridge include seafood, time as executive VP at ad agency
The premiere Friday of a Eugene Mirman comedy special, “Eugene Mirman: An Evening of Comedy in a Fake Underground Laboratory,” brought the requisite profile on Splitsider that goes all too briefly into his professional roots in Cambridge. Here’s some more.
‘Crush Hour’ forum nears in a flurry of attention and housing debate
With visions of massive development around the city resulting in more than 100,000 car and public transportation trips a day, a residents group is hosting a forum Saturday called “Crush Hour in Cambridge.” A local think tank, meanwhile, calls for housing production to double or even triple between now and 2020.
Months later, health advisers still lukewarm on limiting restaurant soda sizes
While New York’s controversial and groundbreaking 16-ounce limit on sodas is scheduled to take effect in March, a similar initiative in Cambridge is bogged down amid doubts about its effectiveness and what one activist called timidity.
Comedians’ ‘Please Be Seated’ sounds as funny now as in Cambridge recording sessions
The comedy music album recorded Dec. 13-14 by Myq Kaplan and Micah Sherman before two packed audiences at ImprovBoston in Central Square is out, along with two videos of songs from the album.
‘Dumber Faster’ looks at the fine print of humanity’s smartphone plan
There was a time comic and storyteller David Mogolov couldn’t imagine how he was going to raise a daughter. Now he can’t even work a smartphone.
