April Cambridge Poetry MashUp promises verse after year of pandemic lacking rhyme or reason
With the cancellation of Cambridge’s two weekly slams, the past year of coronavirus lockdown has been distinctly drained of live poetry. That ends in April with the introduction of a four-week Cambridge Poetry MashUp.
Candidates for Tobin and Vassal project public art will take public’s questions and ideas Wednesday
The four finalists for public art planned for the new Tobin Montessori and Vassal Lane Upper Schools complex will take questions and comments, thoughts and ideas at a 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday virtual meeting.
Eight holidays created by geeks, nerds, wonks and the counterculture grown since the 1970s
Sure, our calendars are filled with increasingly commodified holidays, but they’re also filling up with new days of nationwide significance.
The best of Cambridge in 2020
If the obvious worst thing about this year was the coronavirus, the best thing is just as apparent: Our response to the pandemic as a city and as individuals.
The Top 10 Films of 2020
Relegated largely to the small screen, many of our favorite films looked inside as well, from the psychology of “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” to the forced interiority of “Sound of Metal,” or just shrank the American dream, from “Nomadland” to “First Cow.”
Coronavirus edition, XLII: The ends of the Earth, then back to North Adams to explore Mass MoCa
This coronavirus edition of movies to shelter takes the watcher from Uzbekistan to 1980s Sri Lanka and the Britain of West Indies immigrants in the 1960s and 1970s – but also into action with Gerard Butler and Anthony Mackie and through Mass MoCA, the museum success story of North Adams.
Choice of artists for Canal District Kendall work paints a subtle connection with Central Square
In a city of villages that can feel very distinct from each other, BioMed Realty made a choice in Kendall Square that offers a sense of connection: selecting Cedric Douglas and Julia Roth, artists also known as Vise and Julz, to paint a vent shaft in its Canal District Kendall.
The Hungry Urbanist: Baked goods from Bondir embody bond of food sellers and neighborhoods
The relationship between a food establishment and a neighborhood can be complex. This weekend you can taste it in three places through Jason Bond’s special croissant from squid ink, a unique sake-flavored sesame paste and some salmon.
Slabs of smoked salmon (and we don’t mean lox)
When most folks think about smoked salmon it’s of lox atop a bagel. You haven’t fully appreciated the oily, rich goodness of the fish until you try Whole Foods’ “hothouse salmon” or Urban Hearth’s 8-ounce smoked fillets.
Coronavirus edition, XLI: Films to shelter with say that ‘I’m Your Woman,’ but it’s ‘His House’
This coronavirus edition of movies to shelter with includes a slew of new cinema, from a retro thriller with the marvelous Rachel Brosnahan to proof George Clooney’s kept his eyes on the stars. There’s an inspiring “Crip Camp” doc, an intriguing horror flick called “His House” and much more.
