A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from games and Glow Show to puns and poetry
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, learn how to make sound effects, see a Glow Show with the MIT Spinning Arts Club, play a board game about Puerto Rico. take part in a pun competition and enjoy music, dance, storytelling and poetry.
Tobacco sellers making a mint from menthols get more regulation in Somerville as of March 1
Tobacco retailers are getting new regulations from the Somerville Board of Health this spring. The sweeping changes range from limiting e-cigarette flavors to requiring ID checks and limiting how any sales permits to issue.
‘The Manic Monologues’: Leave feeling better from intense, optimistic show on mental health
The play explores what it means to live with conditions such as depression and OCD, and to be close to someone who does. You may leave feeling encouraged and inspired.
Attend meetings in Somerville from Feb. 16-23 about digital equity, poll work (and skip the flu)
Public meetings this week look at digital equity, goals for the Human Rights Commission and becoming a poll inspector for the March 5 presidential primary election. There’s also a flu vaccine clinic coming Friday.
Unarmed responders will start with day calls only upon launch in March; Heart program is set aside
The city’s new emergency response team that will serve as an alternative to police will start taking calls through 911 next month but without expected night and weekend coverage; meanwhile, chances have dimmed for a long-sought city contract with a homegrown police alternative.
End of subsidized Covid tests came too early, Somerville councilors say in a pair of orders
Support was heard at a Somerville City Council meeting to allocate funding for the city to continue providing Covid rapid tests and masks at public libraries.
City-commissioned study shows bike lanes have no impact on business
If you ask business owners, many are concerned about the installation of bike lanes and claim they affect revenue. Objective measures show no meaningful economic differences between streets with and without recently built bike lanes.
Mental health play ‘The Manic Monologues’ comes to studio space at new Arrow Street Arts
“Manic Monologues” brings to life true stories that challenge what it means to be touched by a mental health condition – a structure and mission that will seem familiar from the taboo-breaking ”Vagina Monologues.”
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, with hip-hop dancing and writing sex scenes
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s hip-hop dance, Valentine’s, Galentine’s, Mardi Gras, Lunar New Year and Black History celebrations, operatic ballet not seen since the 1700s, “How to Steal a Presidential Election” and the arts of writing love poetry and sex scenes.
Mount Auburn geriatric care levels will stay high despite closing of Quimby Center, exec assures
Though Mount Auburn Hospital is closing two centers in 2024, none of their services are leaving the Cambridge area. Mount Auburn says it is is upgrading some of its facilities and investing heavily in new technology.
