Orchestra readies Friday fundraising gala

By Marc Levy

Published: April 3, 2011

For a symphony orchestra’s formal fundraising gala, “Anything But Classical” is an unexpected theme — but it’s the theme nonetheless of a Friday event benefiting the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra.

Charter students impress internship partners

By Justin T. Martin

Published: March 24, 2011

Every Thursday, from the beginning of February until the end of May, each member of the senior class at Community Charter School of Cambridge goes not to school, but to work, as part of the CCSC Senior Internship Program.

Gathering seeks path for nations lacking in education

By Marc Levy

Published: April 9, 2010

One of the most educated cities on the planet is hosting a conference Saturday looking at what happens when there is no education — namely in Africa, where some nations in conflict for decades have produced generations who have never been to school.

Editorial: District shouldn’t lock community out of schools

By admin

Published: January 2, 2010

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.

Back to the basics

By Marc Levy

Published: March 24, 2005

It’s either not big news or Lesley University has an ineffective public relations department, but the local press seems not to have noticed there’s a new school in town: Lesley’s School of Integrative and Experiential Studies. It merges Lesley’s Adult Baccalaureate College and Audubon Expedition Institute, proving that combining two things that are vaguely named [...]

Porter Square

By admin

Published: October 1, 2003

Reading Dawn Powell’s “The Locusts Have No King,” specifically the section in which she describes Rubberleg Square, provoked jealousy. So lively. Such a personality this square has, such powerful memories it would compel from its visitors. A roaring, jittering, manic place, a pixilated place, a wisecracking, bitter, passionate nonstop-talker-barfly kind of a place. And then [...]