A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from the Chromic Duo to robots and eclipses
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the tiny-piano-using Chromic Duo and Cambridge Symphony Orchestra; robots, AI and eclipse prep; Joie de Vivre, horrors of the sea, edible insects and more; and Brexit and tech writer Kara Swisher.
Reports from violent Elbit protest in Cambridge look at limits of city’s policies handling dissent
Cambridge police were outnumbered and almost overwhelmed Oct. 30 as they tried to prevent demonstrators from vandalizing the Central Square office building that houses a unit of Elbit Systems, according to documents the city has tried to keep secret.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from DNA dancing to Family Opera and fungi
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s St. Patrick’s Day and Prince, choreography by Crispr DNA editing, the North Cambridge Family Opera, a Danehy Park documentary and fascination with fungi.
Sinclair boycott of Israeli singer-songwriter doesn’t sound progressive to a letter writer
A refusal to serve customers because of personal beliefs, as happened at Harvard Square‘s Sinclair music club, is not usually seen as progressive.
From a Democratic State Committee caucus seat, Danielle Allen urges more people to get involved
Over the past few years, I’ve been rebuilding my ward in Cambridge. As a state committee member, I look forward to supporting all chairs in our district.
The Sinclair boycott was bottom-up leadership
Imagine that your venue is an empty vessel, free of ideology, open and available to whoever might want to use the stage. Imagining something to be the case, though, doesn’t make it so. A business is the sum of the efforts of the workers who keep it operating,
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Sofiane Pamart, pies and St. Patrick’s Day
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s an outdoors Parka Dance Party, comic book drag, music for St. Patrick’s Day, storytelling and brain science and visits from the Blind Boys of Alabama and Alan Cumming.
‘No preference’ protest voters ate into Biden win; Davis and Klekota are seated in primary balloting
Pro-Palestine activists chipped away at President Joe Biden’s landslide victory in the state’s Democratic primary on Super Tuesday, while Henrietta Davis and Justin Klekota were among State Democratic Committee winners with comfortable margins in Cambridge and Somerville.
Pair of weekend rallies call for economic reform, cease-fire in the Middle East and message at polls
Activists from the Poor People’s Campaign marched Saturday to the Massachusetts State House as part of a national week of action, while pro-Palestine protesters marched to MIT to decry an anticipated Israeli ground invasion.
Covid halted trainings against ‘suicide by cop’ possibly crucial for fatal encounter with Faisal
When a Cambridge police officer killed Arif Sayed Faisal on Jan. 4, 2023, in what some regarded as a “suicide by cop,” most officers had not received the latest training on the issue, according to a consultants’ report.
