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MIT Museum Store makes its missions about play and fun, with just enough school-branded merch

by Linda Given October 1, 2026

MIT's museum store is about science and the school without being boring or overly academic, and is so successful in helping fund the museum that it may expand.

LET’S GO SHOPPING

Tiny Turns Paperie grew into a browser’s paradise of puzzles, toys and games, mugs, magnets and hourglasses

by Linda Given September 24, 2026

Stationery was the focus of the store as it opened, and it remains serious about writing, but Tiny Turns grew and found room to add gifts and a miscellany of small items.

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The Independent’s locally themed crossword puzzle: A latte options

by Marc Levy September 19, 2026

The Independent’s seventh locally themed puzzle explores some of our local coffee shops. Much like in a crossword puzzle, many of them are in squares.

LET’S GO SHOPPING

Henry Bear’s Park is stuffed with games, books and toys (many of them also stuffed)

by Linda Given September 17, 2026

A column devoted to the many great independent shops of Somerville and Cambridge visits Henry Bear’s Park, a toy store with roots back to 1976.

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The Independent’s locally themed crossword puzzle: Hit the Books

by Marc Levy September 5, 2026

The Independent’s sixth locally themed puzzle has something to teach you about our colleges and universities.

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The Independent’s locally themed crossword puzzle: Training montage

by Marc Levy August 22, 2026

The Independent’s fifth locally themed puzzle hops onto the MBTA, with its “lines” of various colors, getting some insight why those colors were chosen.

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The Independent’s locally themed crossword puzzle: That’s Implazable!

by Marc Levy August 8, 2026

The Independent’s fourth locally themed puzzle celebrates the many squares of Cambridge and Somerville.

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The Independent’s locally themed crossword puzzle: Frankenwords

by Marc Levy July 25, 2026

The Independent’s third locally themed puzzle celebrates the combining of thoughts into a new thing, or even the combining of things into a new thought.

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The Independent’s locally themed crossword puzzle: Bumpy Road

by Marc Levy July 11, 2026

The Independent’s second locally themed puzzle celebrates a facet of Somerville history that is, in a way, reflected in ancient Cambridge history.

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Try The Independent’s first locally themed crossword puzzle

by Marc Levy June 27, 2026

Whether you’re looking across or down, everyone seems to have a puzzle these days – and so does The Independent, coming every other Saturday.