Attend meetings on reviewing the city’s charter, zoning for off-street parking and a Cava eatery
Public meetings this week look at charter review on public records, conflict of interest and more; a Central Square apartment project and offstreet parking zoning; and a Cava Mezze Grill coming to Harvard Square.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from bubbles to ‘Come to Pass,’ a hip-hop play
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s plenty of music (including new Sol Y Canto and Clem Snide) and theater (including the hip-hop musical “Come to Pass” and a production of “Eurydice”), and a return of the Evolution of Hip-Hop Festival, Floor Lords Breakdancing and MIT Swapfest, as well as bubbles and mini-horses.
In repertory, Liz Taylor’s ‘Identikit’ reemerges, classic horror; Reviews of ‘Day Shift’ and ‘Fall’
These looks at what’s on screens in the coming week include repertory films such as “Identikit,” “The Birds,” ““The Night of the Living Dead,” “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” and John Carpenter’s deft remake of “The Thing,” as well as the new vampire-hunting “Day Shift” and acrophobia-inducing “Fall.”
This year’s Honk! fest is back to a full weekend and striving to recapture some pre-Covid feel
The Honk! festival of activist street bands returns to a full weekend schedule this year after a 2020 virtual version and one last year shrunken to a single day by Covid concerns.
No landmarking study for Harvard Square’s Pit, where history of use upstages the architecture
The celebrated area surrounding the Harvard Square subway station known as The Pit will not become a historical landmark, the Historical Commission decided last week.
Gallery 24/7 turns ATM, an icon of consumerism, into a free space for exhibit of artists’ inspiration
A former Bank of American ATM in Harvard Square has morphed into Gallery 24/7 – an all-day, all night collaborative that begins its exhibits with works by five local artists.
Brattle Square Florist thrives after move nearby, but still finds it’s cultivating new customer base
Though Brattle Square Florist owner Stephen Zedros said he is still trying to gauge foot traffic in the shop’s new home within Harvard Square, sales have not dipped despite the business’ biggest shift in more than 100 years.
Attend meetings on advancing Alewife zoning, catering from within a condo, a Harvard bank
Public meetings this week look at Brattle Street safety improvements, schools’ nondiscrimination policy, a caterer in Porter and bank and apartments in Harvard, and Alewife zoning recommendations.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from a nature walk to ‘violin from the future’
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Fresh Pond nature walk and Nature in the City Festival, “Cinema Strange” and free screenings of new Pixar classics, classes in augmented reality and a “Yart Sale” – a citywide yard sale for art.
In repertory, odd ‘El Topo’ is back at The Brattle; Reviews of ‘Resurrection’ and ‘Take the Night’
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s “El Topo” and “Holy Mountain” return to enthrall and bewilder audiences, but there’s Judy Garland and Josef von Sternberg-Marlene Dietrich to balance it out, as well as John Frankenheimer’s “The Train,” Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train” and the new Brad Pitt action film “Bullet Train” (and more) to keep you on your toes.
