A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from a Poetry Brothel to hip-hop history exhibit
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s an Illuminated Block Party, “Rocky Horror,” a Poetry Brothel and lots of other Halloween fun, Roxane Gay and Dallas Goldtooth, the Thrill Kill Kult and the exhibit “Day One DNA: 50 Years in Hiphop Culture.”
Attend meetings in Somerville from Oct. 20-27 for a Rossmore parklet and Broadway bike lanes
Public meetings this week look at road reconstruction on West Broadway, a parklet proposal near Union Square, ward-by-ward neighborhood meetings and more.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from helping plant a forest to Cirque of the Dead
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, plant a Miyawaki Forest in Somerville, take in a “Dark Exhalation” of sci-fi opera or Sleeping Weazel’s Experimental Cabaret, celebrate Yuck Fest, eat a foraged banquet, hear the “Confessions of a Candy Snatcher” and gasp at Cirque of the Dead.
Mole and grasshoppers at Barra
Barra slings Mexico City inspired-cuisine that brims with quality and authenticity from the mole enchiladas to the appetizers you can get with grasshoppers.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Honk! and Oktoberfest to ‘Sweeney Todd’
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the Honk! festival of activist street bands and Oktoberfest in Harvard Square, Devendra Banhart and Eugene Mirman, Kristen Emack talking about her “Cousins” photos and the arrival of “Sweeney Todd” in a new theater.
Somerville releases initial Union Square redesign, with next steps following ‘before the end of 2024’
Initial plans for a “Union Square Plaza and Streetscape Redesign” project were released Wednesday after around five years of public engagement.
Pop-up community space will open in January, reusing empty Rogers Center in Union Square
A vacant storefront at 64 Union Square will be repurposed starting Jan. 10 into a “living room for the community,” said CultureHouse and the Union Square Neighborhood Council . The pop-up is taking ideas through December.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Science Festival’s end to the start of Honk!
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the Cambridge Science Festival and carnival, the start of the Honk! festival of activist street bands, Central Square Dumpling Festival and “Smoke This” Rib Fest, Ashley Judd for Ms. Magazine and Walter Isaacson for “Elon Musk” and much more.
A guide to finding karaoke (almost) every night of the week
If you need a place to convince others you’re secretly a star, look no further. Here’s a guide on where to find karaoke almost every night of the week
All She Wrote Books trades in Assembly Square for community and flexibility in East Somerville
The bookstore All She Wrote is leaving Assembly Square for East Somerville. Owner Christina Pascucci Ciampa expressed excitement about a space that will have a more “neighborhood feel.”
