For the ’23 Pink Pages fundraiser, Alice Hoffman unites Diamant, Picoult and more famed authors
The novelist and Anita Diamant, Lisa Genova, Ann Leary, Elinor Lipman, Jodi Picoult, Laura Zigman and Hank Phillippi Ryan raise money Monday for The Hoffman Breast Center at Cambridge’s Mount Auburn Hospital.
Mary-Catherine Deibel, a Harvard Square restaurateur and advocate, dies at age 72
Mary-Catherine Deibel – a Cambridge restaurateur known as the “unofficial mayor of Harvard Square” – passed away at age 72 on Thursday.
Attend meetings in Cambridge from May 15-21 on unhoused families and digging up Mass. Ave.
Public meetings this week look at a new shelter for unhoused families, a geothermal energy test, the use of land in Wellington Harrington, the proposed city budget, building more triple-deckers and a two-mile roadwork project on Massachusetts Avenue.
Foodstuffs: Kendall Square Farmers Market, breast cancer bakes, Phantom Gourmet gala
What’s happening in Cambridge and Somerville kitchens? The Kendall Square Farmers Market is underway for the first time in three years; pastry lovers can indulge citywide and help the fight against breast cancer; two more Somerville eateries have closings; there’s new restaurant space in Alewife; and “The Phantom Gourmet” show plans a birthday event.
The promise of Jerry’s Pond
What we’ve known on Rindge Avenue is not Jerry’s Pond. It’s Jerry’s Pit. Jerry’s Pit has a rich and interesting history. Jerry’s Pond has yet to be created.
CitySprouts event honoring founder Jane Hirschi gets a touch of drama beyond raising its $20,000
The annual Dig It fundraiser for CitySprouts on Thursday brought the nonprofit $20,000 for its urban-gardening mission and some drama, as founder Jane Hirschi fainted during the event and was taken to the hospital.
Jerry’s Pond grant money goes to a bridge study, leaving dissatisfaction over managers’ approach
City concerns about a nature reclamation project at Jerry’s Pond in North Cambridge scuttled a study Monday that would have been its first step, and without first telling the neighbors who have worked on the plan for years.
Earth Day celebration Jerry’s PondFest is May 7, looking forward to clearing fences up since 1961 (updated)
Earth Day will be celebrated with live music, food, dance performance and arts and crafts at the seventh annual Jerry’s PondFest on Sunday, but the most important part of the event is expected in the not-so-distant future: the reopening of public access to the pond.
Passim founds Folk Collective with a mission: Return a musical genre to its original diversity
An effort to diversify the music and culture of Club Passim was announced by the Harvard Square nonprofit with roots reaching back six decades.
Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House is ending after-school program as city eyes wider problem (corrected)
An after-school program that has served generations of families in The Port neighborhood is closing even as the city of Cambridge looks to fill gaps citywide.
