CharlieCard applications, reservations go online for seniors and disabled in MBTA site upgrades
The MBTA introduced changes to its website Monday to make it easier for seniors and other reduced-fare customers – including the blind and people with disabilities – to get CharlieCards, the reusable plastic cards for subway and bus rides.
Daily Table vs. Formaggio? Comparing prices among staples brings results you might expect
Formaggio Kitchen opened its (re)located Huron Village shop Monday, a sparkling space that offers the amenities of the original site and more. Does it make good on fulfilling the gap left by the Fresh Pond Market it replaced?
City has an unpublicized vaccination ‘call list’ that serves as fallback for eligible; CHA as well
While many Cambridge residents scrambled to find appointments for scarce Covid-19 vaccine, the Cambridge Public Health Department maintained a “call list” of people who could be offered vaccination at short notice if doses might be wasted otherwise.
Attend meetings on easing way for businesses, real estate transfer fee, two new eateries, more
Public meetings this week look at surveillance technology, tear gas and why the Planning Board doesn’t like proposed green roofs zoning; bao coming to Central Square and felafel to Porter Square; an overhaul of what and where businesses can be; and enacting a real estate transfer fee.
Broad Institute adjusted its protocols last month, decreasing Covid positives (including false ones)
A change in protocols early last month at The Broad Institute slightly reduces the number of results reported as positive. Some scientists believe the change better reflects the number of people who test positive and are truly able to spread the virus.
Talks, resource guide, walking tour will connect present with 18th century’s Black Cantabrigians
How did enslaved people create community in 18th century Cambridge? How did unfreedom persist despite the legal end of chattel slavery in Massachusetts? Though there’s tremendous research to build on, current residents can also offer tips, leads or ideas to follow up.
Neighborhood group conversation started well, but so far doesn’t answer questions or conflicts
A City Council committee hearing about neighborhood groups – their successes and challenges and how the city can better support them – was great, but not all groups attended. And there is still work to be done at making all feel welcome at neighborhood meetings and City Council meetings.
One lesson of Covid-19: Experts in health care should shape policies determining well-being
The coronavirus has shown that medicine must reconsider its at-times misplaced boundaries. Our responsibility does not start when a patient enters the hospital, or end with their departure.
Cambridge, Harvard and MIT must shelter homeless better for next months with Covid
As we approach the start of the second year of this pandemic, the large institutions of Cambridge and city government need to act differently than in 2020. Studies have shown that the non-congregate shelter option is a public health option that works.
Coronavirus edition 53: Women’s History Month and ‘Coming 2 America’ lead off movies of March
This coronavirus edition of movies to shelter with includes four milestone selections to view during Women’s History Month, brings Prince Akeem of Zamunda back to America (via Amazon), boasts a Quentin Dupieux flick and some restorations at the Brattle, and much more.
‘Raya and the Last Dragon’: Lore as reimagined by Disney, brought to animated, triumphant end
Anchored by a moving performance from Kelly Marie Tran and outstanding animation in the film’s most action-packed scenes, “Raya and the Last Dragon” has considerable strengths.
Hot pressed sandwiches from Montrose Spa
Montrose Spa celebrated its 45th anniversary just last month, a source of not just cheap breakfast food and delicious pressed sandwiches, but information about Cambridge dating back some five decades.
‘Chaos Walking’: On this sci-fi New World, displays of masculinity are clear, dangerous
On a far distant planet two centuries into the future, a colony of humans lives in what feels like a Western frontier town atop a forested hilltop – at war with the planet’s indigenous species and totally lacking in women, until one crash lands there.
The Hungry Urbanist goes to the new Formaggio
The new Formaggio is much bigger and brighter than the old, with more and bigger piles and displays of wonderful things to eat. And radicchio at a price you may have never seen.
Coronavirus edition 52: Billie Holiday biopic, greats at The Brattle and silly ‘Tom and Jerry’
This coronavirus edition of movies to shelter with brings Billie Holiday back to life, streams greats at The Brattle – including a rediscovery of “Smooth Talk” from 1985 – and looks at new releases such as “Tom and Jerry,” “My Zoe” and the docs “Sex, Drugs & Bicycles” and “Downstream to Kinshasa.”
CharlieCard applications, reservations go online for seniors and disabled in MBTA site upgrades
The MBTA introduced changes to its website Monday to make it easier for seniors and other reduced-fare customers – including the blind and people with disabilities – to get CharlieCards, the reusable plastic cards for subway and bus rides.
Neighborhood group conversation started well, but so far doesn’t answer questions or conflicts
A City Council committee hearing about neighborhood groups – their successes and challenges and how the city can better support them – was great, but not all groups attended. And there is still work to be done at making all feel welcome at neighborhood meetings and City Council meetings.
City has an unpublicized vaccination ‘call list’ that serves as fallback for eligible; CHA as well
While many Cambridge residents scrambled to find appointments for scarce Covid-19 vaccine, the Cambridge Public Health Department maintained a “call list” of people who could be offered vaccination at short notice if doses might be wasted otherwise.
Attend meetings on easing way for businesses, real estate transfer fee, two new eateries, more
Public meetings this week look at surveillance technology, tear gas and why the Planning Board doesn’t like proposed green roofs zoning; bao coming to Central Square and felafel to Porter Square; an overhaul of what and where businesses can be; and enacting a real estate transfer fee.
One lesson of Covid-19: Experts in health care should shape policies determining well-being
The coronavirus has shown that medicine must reconsider its at-times misplaced boundaries. Our responsibility does not start when a patient enters the hospital, or end with their departure.
Broad Institute adjusted its protocols last month, decreasing Covid positives (including false ones)
A change in protocols early last month at The Broad Institute slightly reduces the number of results reported as positive. Some scientists believe the change better reflects the number of people who test positive and are truly able to spread the virus.
Cambridge, Harvard and MIT must shelter homeless better for next months with Covid
As we approach the start of the second year of this pandemic, the large institutions of Cambridge and city government need to act differently than in 2020. Studies have shown that the non-congregate shelter option is a public health option that works.
