How an East Cambridge gingerbread tradition comes together: It takes, and makes, a village
Every December, the Elmendorf bakery shop window is taken over by gingerbread, fondant, icing, candy and pretzels – construction materials for a whole village, a cathedral and a castle or, this year, a sprawling collection of interconnected treehouses.
Tell us Cambridge’s bests and worsts of 2023, shaping what makes our end-of-year listicles
We all love a list – and, in journalism terms, a listicle. We’re doing it too, preparing top-fives of The Best in Cambridge and Worst in Cambridge from 2023. You can help remind us of moments that stood out since Jan. 1 and maybe shape what’s published.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from ‘Solstice’ to ‘The Slutcracker’ and ‘Revels’
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, a cemetery hosts the “Solstice” light show, “Slutcracker” is in Davis and Revels’ “Feast of Fools” is in Harvard along with holiday sales, an illuminated-home tour, comedy, musical theater, klezmer and Open Mike Eagle and much more.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from a holiday cookie swap to George Santos
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s “The Slutcracker,” Stephanie Vecellio’s “Scenes from Somerville,” the end of a literary journal, a Sweet Exchange, bake-off and cookie swap, “Real Women Have Curves: The Musical,” dark comedy and the author of “The Fabulist” about noted liar George Santos.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from holiday markets to urban bee storytelling
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s David Boobie Burlesque, holiday markets, a Pee-wee Herman tribute, heavy metal, cooking with the chef of France’s Le Mirazur, Urban Waggle bee stories, “Head Over Heels” at CRLS and “The Slutcracker.”
Celebration and advocacy for Native American history goes well beyond November
In National Native American Heritage Month, remember that Indigenous stories are still being created as well as commemorated in the past. The story of Indigenous Cambridge is still being written.
At a time the turkey can become a target, celebrate fowl that’s back from extinction
Turkeys roamed North America 10 million years ago. The subspecies we are most familiar with, the Eastern wild turkey, descended from these ancient birds – and so did the Mexican turkey, the grandparent of what we eat for Thanksgiving.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Thanksgiving to a ‘Neo & Nubia’ reading
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, including ThanksLIVING, Cranksgiving, THANGsgiving, the Gobble, Gobble, Gobble run, Falcons vs. Highlanders football, Brickbottom’s open studios, “Something Strange” and David Boobie and the Onyeagoros and their “Neo & Nubia.”
Veterans Day began after WWI as Armistice Day, with real hopes for an enduring American peace
It is worth remembering its origins as Armistice Day and understanding the sense of hope that accompanied the end of World War I and what the world hoped would be a new dawn of international peace and security.
‘Reading Frederick Douglass Together’ events mark the Fourth poignantly and powerfully
Public readings of “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” have become increasingly widespread and popular as an American celebration of how far we have come and contemplation of how much we have left to do.
