A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Dragon Boat festival to days of Juneteenth
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the Boston Dragon Boat Festival and wrestling, celebrity readings and podcast recordings, poetry and music, opera and song cycles, but especially Juneteenth celebrations with events ranging from yoga to jazz and a Black Business Fair.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from a new market in Harvard to SomerPride
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a new Harvard Square Open Market, readings by Bill McKibben and Sloane Crosley, crafting and carnivals, poetry, music and dance, art openings and group sings, a look at Cambridge firsts and a reading of our gravestones, drag and dragon boats, a lit crawl and a smut slam. And more.
Rebooted, revived R.F. O’Sullivan & Son
It’s been a while, but the cozy pub interior of R.F. O’Sullivan & Son is still a homey place to rub elbows and take in a Celtics or Sox game and still the place to go for a plump, juicy burger cooked on an open-flame grill and served with meaty, golden onion rings.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Memorial Day music to a new Open Market
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the Campfire. Festival continues, there’s a Memorial Day observance and Mozart concert to benefit Ukraine, authors and experts explore Asians in American Pop Culture and LGBT tales, you can meet a mini-horse, do some shopping, catch a CRLS “Chorus Line” for free – and much more.
Somernova leases old Artisan’s Asylum space, replacing makers’ hopes with Engine of MIT
Alumni of the Artisan’s Asylum makerspace hoped to rebuild in Somerville after their organization moved to Allston. With an announcement Thursday that the space is being leased to The Engine, a startup found born at MIT, that dream got more complicated.
Memorial Drive tower’s sale for $825M is giant, but the cost of an Inner Belt building leaped 184%
The sale of the 17-story office tower at 1 Memorial Drive, Kendall Square, is being called the biggest of its kind so far in 2021, but think of the three-story building going for $35.5 million. MIT has broken ground on a college of computing, too, and more apartments are going up near Union Square.
Artists in Somerville’s Central Street Studios struggle to find space as leases end abruptly
More than 20 artist-tenants at Central Street Studios learned in mid-June that they will be displaced from their building come Sept. 1. Artist space throughout Cambridge, Somerville and surrounding communities is becoming increasingly rare.
North Point to get 12-story life-science building, MIT buys gas station, advances its Kendall tower
Plenty has been going on in development this spring, including an environmentally focused building planned for North Point’s Parcel U, a slew of MIT moves and more on BioMed Realty’s push into Somerville.
Breakfast bites at Bow Market and Cafe Rustica
Making me croissant happy is the breakfast sandwich Cafe Rustica, the European-styled tuck-away just across the Somerville city line on Beacon Street, while Mike & Patty’s in Bow Market has another classic that comes on doughy, homemade English muffins.
A week’s worth of things to do, live or streaming
The coronavirus lockdown got boring fast, especially once the charm of lying blank-faced in front of Netflix for hours wore off. Fortunately, more entertainment options have begun to return to Cambridge and Somerville, live and streamed.
