Creative Music Series returns to Assembly Square with jazz, free-form artist Eric Zinman and band (updated)
The return of warmer weather means the return of the free Creative Music Series to Saturdays at Assembly Square, starting with an Easter Weekend concert led by Boston musician and composer Eric Zinman.
Feel like you’re back in the club – with celebrities – during Comedy Studio’s April Fool’s Day Show
Much of the state is racing toward reopening its nighttime entertainment, but Cambridge and Somerville are not – inspiring The Comedy Studio in Somerville’s Union Square to host on Thursday a one-of-a-kind, one-time-only streamed show studded with celebrities.
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.
Less space for cars and more for bicyclists in plan for McGrath, but lanes aren’t separated for safety
The Department of Transportation plans a major revamp of McGrath Highway that will put it on a “road diet” and see the installation of bike lanes, but legislators say bicyclists need to be kept safer from passing cars and trucks.
Disturbance from MBTA rail yard sounds familiar to East Cambridge, first rattled by trouble in 1999
Residents in East Cambridge have reported disturbing noise and vibrations over the past two months that recall an issue with a nearby MBTA commuter rail facility more than two decades ago.
Tear gas ban could be in place within 60 days, though council’s authority is rejected to do it
A policy prohibiting the use of tear gas, rather than a law, is “in the works,” Cambridge’s police commissioner said, because a surprise Law Department opinion says the City Council doesn’t have the power to enact one. Councillors say they may try anyway.
Daily Table vs. Formaggio? Comparing prices among staples brings results you might expect
Formaggio Kitchen opened its (re)located Huron Village shop Monday, a sparkling space that offers the amenities of the original site and more. Does it make good on fulfilling the gap left by the Fresh Pond Market it replaced?
Somerville’s Curtatone opts out of reelection
Joe Curtatone, 54, has been mayor since 2004, making him the city’s longest-serving mayor.
Cambridge has a baguette subscription service, but there’s un petit problème with its approach
Arguing for the creation of a baked goods subscription service – specifically of baguettes – brought advice from a savvy reader that there already is one, and from Cambridge’s own Iggy’s Bread. It just isn’t one everyone can use.
Showing technology change since CCTV moved, Somerville Media Center could use smaller space
A relocation for the Somerville Media Center that was threatened in 2019 is finally coming due, and its television, radio and podcasting studios and labs will have to be packed and moved by June 30.
