Marc Levy, Author at Cambridge | Somerville Independent

Cambridge meetings, Aug. 31-Sept. 7: The future of tech in schools and the K-Lo campus

by Marc Levy August 30, 2026

Take part in meetings on Setting preservation grants, school policies around the Protect Act, smart glasses and K-Lo, and restaurant rules and regulations.

NEWS

Somerville meetings, Aug. 31-Sept. 7: Student physical restraint and school discipline policies

by Marc Levy August 30, 2026

Take part in meetings on student restraint and discipline, apartment projects and Dunkin’ hours and expanding the Target at the Twin City Plaza.

BUSINESS

Somerville’s Out of the Blue art gallery is on the move back to Allston

by Marc Levy August 27, 2026

The Out of the Blue Art Gallery is packed to leave Somerville for the Jackson Mann Community Center in Allston, with some art scattering to Cambridge, Medford and Waltham.

NEWS

These are the longest red and green lights in Cambridge and Somerville. Guess which square has it worst.

by Marc Levy August 26, 2026

The longest red light on Cambridge and Somerville streets will keep drivers and riders waiting a full 2 minutes, 30 seconds (spoiler alert, it’s in Somerville’s Union Square).

FOOD

Spindler Confections is building a Harvard Square shop within a shop at the 143-year-old Leavitt & Pierce

by Marc Levy August 26, 2026

What is already among the most fascinating shops to browse in Cambridge will get a whole other category of delights to discover: Spindler handmade candy.

FOOD

You might not know you could have a 12-inch pita

by Marc Levy August 26, 2026

Giant pitas, the right size for wraps, are back at Foodland, the North Cambridge halal grocer. I’m dreading that this sensible but all-but-unknown option will disappear again.

BITE

Falafel skewer platter at Clover

by Marc Levy August 26, 2026

The Clover chain is down to five locations after its scrape with a shutdown in May, but three of those stores are in Cambridge and are still serving good, fresh and healthy food.

ARTS

Sign of the Dove arts collective has a new home in Porter Square

by Marc Levy August 25, 2026

The art store Sign of the Dove reopens Sept. 1 at Lesley’s University Hall – next to Porter Square Books – in time for the Cambridge Arts Open Studios.

LIT

What Cambridge and Somerville readers are buying: Russo returns with ‘Under the Falls’

by Marc Levy August 25, 2026

Two novelists with extensive catalogs return to the lists: Pulitzer-winning Maine author Richard Russo for “Under the Falls” and Ann Patchett for “Whistler.”

NEWS

West Nile Virus risk levels in Cambridge and Somerville are raised to ‘high’ after two county cases

by Marc Levy August 24, 2026

The risk for West Nile Virus in seven metro Boston communities was raised Monday to high as the state revealed a second human case in Massachusetts this year.