Attend meetings on $22M in direct family aid, $787.9M budget, municipal broadband, more
Public meetings this week look at $22 million in direct-aid for lower-income families, the city’s budget for the next fiscal year, a moratorium on construction of labs and offices around Alewife, a Fresh Pond beer garden, bike lanes on Brattle Street, municipal broadband and ideas for improving The Port and the future of Cambridge Street.
The Nextdoor post that really gets Cambridge
Say what you will about Nextdoor, but on Friday a post popped up in my inbox that I have to admit gave me brief, gleeful release from reading grim world headlines.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville: Comedy, Christmas Revels and Chicken Slacks
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are holiday traditions on stage at The Comedy Studio and Christmas Revels ands among vendors’ stalls, a Covid-19 Remembrance and the return – for real – of The Chicken Slacks to The Cantab Lounge.
Comedy Studio coming back to Harvard Square, expecting an equally iconic space on JFK Street
The Comedy Studio is expected to return to Harvard Square in 2022, to a basement space in the new Abbot at JFK and Brattle streets.
Comedy Studio is temporarily at home in Vera’s but pinning down details for a long-term space
The Comedy Studio has relocated from Bow Market to Vera’s restaurant and bar within Somerville’s Union Square, where leaders say they plan to be for the next year while they negotiate a bigger space in the Cambridge-Somerville area.
Viola Davis is Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year, but what year it is makes all the difference to fun
Television and film actor Viola Davis will get a very different Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year celebration Thursday than Elizabeth Banks did in January 2020, before the pandemic locked us down.
Feel like you’re back in the club – with celebrities – during Comedy Studio’s April Fool’s Day Show
Much of the state is racing toward reopening its nighttime entertainment, but Cambridge and Somerville are not – inspiring The Comedy Studio in Somerville’s Union Square to host on Thursday a one-of-a-kind, one-time-only streamed show studded with celebrities.
After allegations that threatened reputation, comedian points out trolls in the community
Allegations against comic Dana Jay Bein last spring might have done serious damage to his reputation if not for one thing: He was part of a live Zoom comedy show at the same time he was supposedly gaslighting a woman into a fake rendezvous and texting her toxic messages.
Oh, you’re spending New Year’s Eve inside? These three livestreams can make it special
New Year’s is bound to be an indoors affair while a pandemic is till raging outside, but there are ways to make the night festive and unique.
Myq Kaplan states terms for joining as co-host with Comedy Studio Podcast: Greater diversity
Boston expat comedian Myq Kaplan has signed on as co-host of the weekly “Comedy Studio Podcast” produced out of the Union Square, Somerville, comedy club, replacing the outgoing Eli Levy. But he had terms.
