TV satirist draws line: He’ll give up East Cambridge to get Davis Square

By Marc Levy
Published: March 7, 2010
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Cambridge will annex Somerville’s Davis Square and Somerville gets East Cambridge in return, according to a plan laid out Sunday on “The Cambridge Rag,” a Cambridge Community Television show hosted by Roger Nicholson.

Census job fair coming Monday seeks to hire 1,000

By Marc Levy
Published: March 3, 2010
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The U.S. Census is hiring workers for its 2010 count. A job fair is scheduled for Monday in Somerville. (Photo: Adria Richards)

The U.S. Census is hiring workers for its 2010 count. A job fair is scheduled for Monday in Somerville. (Photo: Adria Richards)  | read this item

The U.S. Census is holding a job fair Monday in hopes of hiring 1,000 people to serve mainly as enumerators, also known as census-takers — the people who go door to door to find people who failed to answer the census packets that will be mailed to them this month.

Neighborhood team envisions Lechmere with hotel, plaza, public market

By Marc Levy
Published: March 1, 2010
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Plans for remaking Lechmere Square when the T stop moves includes transforming a garage area seen at top into a year-round, 30-stall public market like the one seen above. (Photo: On Land LLC)

Plans for remaking Lechmere Square when the T stop moves includes transforming a garage area seen at top into a year-round, 30-stall public market like the one seen above. (Photo: On Land LLC)  | read this item

First came a torrent of public support, then a unanimous City Council vote supporting a plan to remake the area around the Lechmere T stop with a 12-story hotel, plaza and year-round, 30-stall public market.

Escape into dungeons, learn impropriety at Dire Literary Series

By Marc Levy
Published: March 1, 2010
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Escape into dungeons, learn impropriety at Dire Literary Series  | read this item

The long-running Dire Literary Series of readings at the Out of the Blue Art Gallery has announced its lineup for Friday, starting with Ethan Gilsdorf, the Somerville author of travel memoir and pop culture investigation “Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms.”

First Monday to give taste of open studios, Taza chocolates

By Marc Levy
Published: February 27, 2010
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Visitors check out an exhibit at the CAC Gallery on Broadway in Cambridge. (Photo courtesy: Cambridge Arts Council)

Visitors check out an exhibit at the CAC Gallery on Broadway in Cambridge. (Photo courtesy: Cambridge Arts Council)  | read this item

Even for people without a taste for art, this First Monday @ CAC Gallery is likely to be irresistible: At the free Monday reception for “100 from Cambridge: Preview Exhibition for Cambridge Open Studios,” there will be a product tasting of Taza Chocolate, of Somerville.

Progressive group looks forward after campaign loss

By Marc Levy
Published: February 3, 2010

The volunteer community group Cambridge-Somerville for Change is hosting a meeting called “Debrief, Regroup and Go Forward” on Tuesday in Central Square.

Somerville woman dies after fire engine accident

By Marc Levy
Published: January 28, 2010

Cambridge police are seeking witnesses to a fatal accident Tuesday involving a loose hose on a Cambridge Fire Department engine.

Original music, words of inspiration in MLK addition

By admin
Published: January 14, 2010

There’s a musical and poetic addition to Cambridge’s honors to Martin Luther King Jr., courtesy of the Harvard Square Business Association.

Editorial: District shouldn’t lock community out of schools

By admin
Published: January 2, 2010
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Erika Lawson shows off her 3AM Confections line in December as the final Design Hive show in Cambridge gets under way. (Photo: Marc Levy)

Erika Lawson shows off her 3AM Confections line in December as the final Design Hive show in Cambridge gets under way. (Photo: Marc Levy)  | read this item

December was the last month at the Maria L. Baldwin School for Design Hive, the fashion and crafts fair run by Cambridge resident and business owner Valerie Fox. This is bad for Cambridge, its schools and its students.

Diesel brings back its mugs (if customers will)

By Marc Levy
Published: December 22, 2009

Your eyes, stomach and bladder are not deceiving you: Diesel’s large drinks have indeed gotten bigger.

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