New owner of land holding arts center building wants to rezone to allow in more business types
Another potential rezoning of Somerville’s fabrication – or “fab” – district was met with intense opposition during a meeting of the City Council’s Land Use Committee.
‘My Mother Had Two Faces’ solo performance looks behind a generational mask of perfection
Easy for anyone struggling with a conflicted parental relationship to appreciate, “My Mother Had Two Faces” asks what the mirror uncovers when the makeup is stripped away.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from games and Glow Show to puns and poetry
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, learn how to make sound effects, see a Glow Show with the MIT Spinning Arts Club, play a board game about Puerto Rico. take part in a pun competition and enjoy music, dance, storytelling and poetry.
Cinema celebrates cinema in ‘Pictures of Ghosts,’ free ‘Spaceman’ and ‘Silent Running’ tops the bill
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include “Pictures of Ghosts,” from acclaimed Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho, the ultraviolet 1970s relic “Dirty Harry” and free screenings of the star-studded “Spaceman” and prescient “Silent Running,” as well as new works “Drive-Away Dolls” and “Madame Web.”
Huddled masses yearning to hear new music make for one reason a band goes the fest route
There’s a certain point in the life cycle of a local band when the itch to tangle with the Music Industry arrives and they start to eye the “industry fest” circuit.
PRB ham and cheese on le baguette
The cafe foods that come to mind when Americans dream of Paris are at the PRB Boulangeries in Cambridge’s Kendall Square and Somerville’s Ward 2.
Tobacco sellers making a mint from menthols get more regulation in Somerville as of March 1
Tobacco retailers are getting new regulations from the Somerville Board of Health this spring. The sweeping changes range from limiting e-cigarette flavors to requiring ID checks and limiting how any sales permits to issue.
Somerville families are redirecting their wealth into community, starting with Comedy Studio
An informal group of approximately 20 families in Somerville is directing newfound wealth into an initiative to invest locally, seeking to blunt some effects of gentrification and ensure that properties and businesses remain in community hands.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from the Foundry Festival to asking about AI
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a weeklong Foundry Festival with a variety of things to do, astounding art, ice skating, a Ladysmith Black Mambazo performance and a dramatic session exploring “What if AI use goes too far?”
Go Bugs for school break, get 24 hours of sci-fi and catch echoes of the picaresques and biopic
These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include the annual school vacation week Bugs Bunny Film Festival, sci-fi festival 24-hour marathon, “The Sweet East” and “Easy Rider,” new “Bob Marley: One Love” and repertory showings of Ousmane Sembène’s “Guelwaar.”
