Program feeding households isolated for Covid wins for health department, CEOC, Food for Free
Cambridge’s Public Health Department and partners got national recognition for a program supplying food to individuals and families isolating after a positive test for Covid.
Plans by Eversource to install a high-voltage line are pointed to train tracks and away from homes (updated)
The City Council urged Eversource to place a high-voltage electrical line away from homes, where there’s concern at the prospect of heavy construction and health effects.
Proposed bus cuts will make transit unusable
Unless you’ve been a regular bus rider, you won’t understand the impact minor changes can have on the feasibility of using transit. After this proposal, I must wonder if any MBTA planners have relied on the service they want to change.
Memorial Drive changes are off to a good start, but groups still share five significant concerns
The state’s changes to Memorial Drive could – and should – fully separate paths by repurposing the existing roadway, implement additional traffic calming measures and more.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from a nature walk to ‘violin from the future’
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Fresh Pond nature walk and Nature in the City Festival, “Cinema Strange” and free screenings of new Pixar classics, classes in augmented reality and a “Yart Sale” – a citywide yard sale for art.
In repertory, odd ‘El Topo’ is back at The Brattle; Reviews of ‘Resurrection’ and ‘Take the Night’
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s “El Topo” and “Holy Mountain” return to enthrall and bewilder audiences, but there’s Judy Garland and Josef von Sternberg-Marlene Dietrich to balance it out, as well as John Frankenheimer’s “The Train,” Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train” and the new Brad Pitt action film “Bullet Train” (and more) to keep you on your toes.
Bullfrogs can and will eat almost anything, getting big enough that we then eat them
Bullfrogs will eat just about any animal smaller than they are. Scientists have found in bullfrog stomachs rodents, lizards, snakes, small birds, spiders and even bats – with a tongue that propels out like a slingshot so frogs can use their hands to stuff large prey into their maws.
‘Thirteen Lives’: 2018 cave rescue in Thailand gets straightforward, inspiring dramatization
A respite from the seemingly endless stream of doom and gloom in the newsfeeds, Ron Howard’s “Thirteen Lives” is an inspiring tale of triumph over tragedy.
Classics at Buddy’s Diner
The menu’s handwritten and hanging up over the griddle. You sip your coffee and watch the cook whip, pour and fold your omelet on the steel hot-top just feet away. That’s old-school.
Tasty Burger’s plans to open in Central Square are delayed by snafu from city’s permit system
Tasty Burger is taking a second swing at the Central Square market. The eatery walked away from a 2013 bid to replace a nearby bakery after license commissioners voted against allowing late-night beer and wine in a residential area.