A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from holiday markets to urban bee storytelling
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s David Boobie Burlesque, holiday markets, a Pee-wee Herman tribute, heavy metal, cooking with the chef of France’s Le Mirazur, Urban Waggle bee stories, “Head Over Heels” at CRLS and “The Slutcracker.”
At a time the turkey can become a target, celebrate fowl that’s back from extinction
Turkeys roamed North America 10 million years ago. The subspecies we are most familiar with, the Eastern wild turkey, descended from these ancient birds – and so did the Mexican turkey, the grandparent of what we eat for Thanksgiving.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Thanksgiving to a ‘Neo & Nubia’ reading
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, including ThanksLIVING, Cranksgiving, THANGsgiving, the Gobble, Gobble, Gobble run, Falcons vs. Highlanders football, Brickbottom’s open studios, “Something Strange” and David Boobie and the Onyeagoros and their “Neo & Nubia.”
Tiny chipmunks are retreating underground toward a semi-hibernation known as torpor
Many predators eat chipmunks, so these little critters don’t waste time pausing to eat the food they find; they stuff it into their cheek pouches to take back to the safety of their burrows, where they sleep 15 hours a day and settle into a torpor from now until spring.
Red foxes are a bit of dog, a bit of cat, and pounce on prey in a way that’s unique among mammals
Your house cat probably weighs more than a red fox, but the only way you might get close enough to see is if they den under a porch or shed with newborns.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, MIThenge to the CSO and an owl named Alfie
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s hip-hop history, the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra and an Anarchist Woodstock, MIThenge, a cozy mystery and fall by a fireside, lessons from a baby owl and the science of “Eat, Poop, Die.”
Brooding over Cambridge backyard chickens now about the details at Planning Board stage
The board gave a unanimous positive recommendation for the keeping of backyard chickens in Cambridge, with a note to make sure the zoning regulations were straightened out with the Health Department regulations.
The spotted lanternfly invasion has reached us. Here’s what to do if you see one or its egg mass
Damage is significant in states with these stowaways from East Asia, where wasp predators we don’t have keep them in check. Here, the line of defense is us.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from a Poetry Brothel to hip-hop history exhibit
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s an Illuminated Block Party, “Rocky Horror,” a Poetry Brothel and lots of other Halloween fun, Roxane Gay and Dallas Goldtooth, the Thrill Kill Kult and the exhibit “Day One DNA: 50 Years in Hiphop Culture.”
Paid legal notices for Cambridge for Oct. 27-Nov. 3
Cambridge public notices about backyard chickens, cannabis retailing and Affordable Housing Overlay zoning.
