A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville: David Boobie is back, and holiday shopping fairs
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Niki Luparelli’s David Boobie burlesque returns for its 10th year, there’s gift buying at an East Somerville Holiday Market and Cambridge Arts’ Holiday Art Market, music, film and dance.
Musical Fence is installed at Cambridge Crossing after travels to Boston and role in Kevin Hart film
A Musical Fence interactive art installation is back in Cambridge permanently in the common at Cambridge Crossing, inspired by works seen on the streets of Central Square in 1980.
Four people – and now an alpaca – are infected with West Nile, raising local virus risk to ‘high’
State health officials raised the risk of West Nile virus in Cambridge and 26 other communities on Friday to high from moderate. The Department of Public Health acted after reporting the first infection in an animal this year, diagnosed in an alpaca in Middlesex County.
Summer’s heavy rains meant many mosquitoes, but so far just a ‘moderate’ risk of West Nile virus
No human cases of West Nile virus have been reported so far this season in Massachusetts, but state health officials reported Thursday that a mosquito sample in Cambridge has tested positive for the virus.
Project Restore Us adds 150 families to its work delivering culturally appropriate food support
Project Restore Us, launched last year by restaurateurs Tracy Chang of Pagu and Irene Li of Mâe Asian Eatery, has expanded by partnering with the Asian American Resource Workshop and Vietnamese American Initiative for Development.
Senior communities rallied from Cambridge, supporting troops with care packages for 975
When Teresa Burns, executive director at The Cambridge Homes Independent and Assisted Living, got her son’s deployment date overseas, she acted to ensure his entire unit would have essential travel items.
Cambridge, freezing Covid reopening in place, has approval for vaccination sites but no doses
In a reversal, Cambridge won’t follow the state’s lead in letting large sports and entertainment venues reopen and increasing gathering limits, and now has a local vaccination partnership in place with Somerville, Arlington, Tufts and others – but no vaccine.
Transit in 2020, driven by coronavirus pandemic, must sort through mixed signals of coming year
The Covid-19 pandemic has had far-ranging effects on how we get around Greater Boston – all of which will have to be rethought as the pandemic ebbs in the coming year.
Holiday hunger and dark kitchens have solution with funds for Project Restore Us food initiative
Project Restore Us assembles customized boxes of goods for delivery to food-insecure communities through a volunteer network. With the holidays here, there’s a push for funds to keep the nonprofit functioning – and growing.
Demands for return of ousted judge Sragow include threat to dismantle Homeless Court
In removing judge Roanne Sragow Licht, state District Court leadership has picked a fight with Cambridge city and church officials.
