First Le Grand Prix Elmendorf du Pain calls it: Brookline’s Clear Flour has the best baguette
The first Le Grand Prix Elmendorf du Pain French bake-off is now in the books, after 50 amateurs and 11 professional baking companies submitted their finest sourdoughs and baguettes for blind judging on Sunday in East Cambridge.
Cambridge teen is accused of stealing a BMW, from which he threw out the dog found inside
A teen from Cambridge was taken into custody by police Wednesday after a five-day investigation involving a BMW stolen out of Brookline with a dog inside.
After second illness related to West Nile virus, area’s risk level raised to high from moderate
Cambridge is now at high risk from West Nile virus after a second person became ill from it – though it was after an exposure in Suffolk County, authorities said Friday.
Alert for Covid and monkeypox? Add West Nile, as Cambridge is now in ‘moderate’ risk category
The risk of West Nile virus infection in Cambridge was raised to “moderate” from “low” on Thursday after positive-testing mosquitoes were detected in Somerville, Boston, Brookline and Waltham.
Mumblecore ‘godfather’ Andrew Bujalski is back, and still finding his cinematic role ‘Funny Ha Ha’
Harvard grad Andrew Bujalski is often referred to as “the godfather of mumblecore,” and his first film, “Funny Ha Ha” is widely considered a cornerstone of the canon. Bujalski is in town for a 20th anniversary screening of the film and Q&A with Cantabrigian filmmaker and critic Gerald Peary – but we talked with him first.
In February, Cambridge and Brookline connect exploring ‘Black experience in slavery, freedom’
A virtual History Café on Feb. 3 about “Local History and the Black Experience in Slavery and Freedom” will speak with Barbara Brown of Hidden Brookline about how Cambridge can learn from work done across the river – including a look at Florida Ruffin Ridley, whose life and work intersected closely with that of Cambridge’s own Maria Baldwin.
Four people – and now an alpaca – are infected with West Nile, raising local virus risk to ‘high’
State health officials raised the risk of West Nile virus in Cambridge and 26 other communities on Friday to high from moderate. The Department of Public Health acted after reporting the first infection in an animal this year, diagnosed in an alpaca in Middlesex County.
Summer’s heavy rains meant many mosquitoes, but so far just a ‘moderate’ risk of West Nile virus
No human cases of West Nile virus have been reported so far this season in Massachusetts, but state health officials reported Thursday that a mosquito sample in Cambridge has tested positive for the virus.
What some affordable housing proponents miss
There are far safer and better ways of providing affordable housing than Cambridge’s current zoning approaches.
Police misled burglars about having warrant, leading to SJC decision questioning evidence
A man convicted of a string of home burglaries in Cambridge and Brookline in 2012 should get a second chance to suppress results of a search stemming from police entering his apartment unlawfully, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled Friday.
