A Winter Holiday Shopping Guide has been released by Cambridge Local First in partnership with the city – making it easy to find hundreds of nearby small businesses and nonprofits during a holiday shopping season that months of coronavirus lockdown makes particularly important.

Cambridge and Somerville have birthed plenty of podcasts, but there are a handful that not just capture something about the nature of the cities, but are ongoing enterprises you can subscribe to and expect to see pop up on a feed with regularity.

The Crab Apple Gardenerz got Karened, but they didn’t let it stop them. Instead, they’ve distributed small food crops grown in Cambridge community plots, and celebrated with a Poets In The Garden event.

Halloween is going to be different this year, with block parties and municipal holiday events canceled and trick-or-treating discouraged. Audrey Day-Williams, a parent from The Port, has co-created an alternative: The Play Trick-or-Treat board game.

What started as a local mentorship program has grown into a national contest for girls in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

The Cambridge Community Foundation gave out its second annual Imagined in Cambridge Social Innovation Awards on Thursday, recognizing five community projects that tackle pressing social issues.

The Cambridge Community Foundation gave out its second annual Imagined in Cambridge Social Innovation Awards on Thursday, recognizing five community projects that tackle pressing social issues.

If you’ve ever been to a Cambridge or Boston area poetry reading, you’ve probably heard Charles Coe deliver one of his truths in his deep baritone voice. That voice resounds through Roberto Mighty’s short film, “Charles Coe: Man of Letters.”

It was just in April that a group of Buckingham, Browne & Nichols students came up with the idea of starting a tutoring service. And already their Boston Covid-Tutoring has a slick website, relationships with regional nonprofits, some hundred volunteers – and signups from as far away as Taunton.

Whether it’s the Cambridge Bike Delivery Program, Cambridge Bike Give Back program or Black Lives Matter rides, bicyclists are ride or die when it comes to social justice and helping the community.