More than a dozen organizations have nearly identical conclusions about redesigns of a nearly 90-year-old Cambridgeport traffic overpass.
No one likes the state’s first attempts at a Reid Overpass redesign
The Independent’s locally themed crossword puzzle: Frankenwords
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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Why doesn’t Phil Eng know how batteries work?
Everyone warned us, but the T switched systems anyway. No U.S. transit professional believes there's anything to learn from systems around the globe.
Somerville meetings, April 6-13: Police cameras and a new two-school campus
Take part in meetings on progress toward a new school, police body camera funding and bike lanes at the Elm-Beacon Connector project.
Cambridge meetings, April 6-13: Ellery Street projects put multifamily housing under a microscope
Two projects on one street are among those shaped by multifamily housing zoning the City Council passed last year, and the experts are watching.
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Political pundits can’t talk about Democratic wins without addressing Republican lies
It matters as Democrats enter a phase of beating Republican candidates and the losers have shown how far to hang onto power.
Apocalyptic satire makes an encore with Bread & Puppet’s song, dance and papier-mâché
A third apocalypse-themed show inspired by modern political culture arrives: The Bread & Puppet Theater’s “The End of the World Never Minding Show.”
Like and subscribe: Cambridge School Committee prepares to push publish on a newsletter (but endorses a podcast)
There’s caution about overwhelming Cambridge families who already get too much information about the goings-on in their school district.
‘Shocked’ by low assessed value at 90 Washington, agency members head off the map
Members of the Somerville Redevelopment Authority were dismayed to find a $3.8 million assessment at a lot that’s cost the city around $35.3 million.
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Independent Film Festival Boston ready for the spotlight
Boots Riley, over 100 films, and a small army of volunteers make the magic happen.
Tufts has chosen its commencement speaker in venture capital health head Ken Frazier
Commencement at Tufts University is 9 a.m. May 17 on the academic quad of Tufts’ Medford-Somerville campus.
Comedian Eugene Mirman is recovering after single-car crash in New Hampshire
Somerville comedian Eugene Mirman was pulled from a burning car after crashing into tolls on a a New Hampshire turnpike on Tuesday.
Porter Square Shopping Center makes space for a business between Cafe Zing and Cambridge Naturals
“Cafe Zing 2.0” is expected to open in three months in Porter Square, but what opens in the remaining space won't be Cambridge Naturals.
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Three destination cafes where no compromise is needed between high-quality food and coffee
There's not always a need to pair prized coffee with a generic muffin or croissant or wash down a to-die-for pastry or bagel with a lesser brew.
Napoli pastry at Yafa Bakery & Café
At Yafa, the pistachio is a major food group that appears on or in many of the treats. With the cone-shaped, chocolatey Napoli, it’s both.
Spice, spice, baby: Racking up some jarring insights about what gives life flavor
For starters, how often do you throw out spices? If you are my mother, the answer is never.
Azeem’s ads have exciting news for riders of the MBTA (in the 1940s)
Those ads about a giant expansion of the MBTA – the red line into Lexington, the green line to Woburn and so on – are accurate. In a way.
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Clover restaurant chain may shut down without a buyer
Less than two years after exiting bankruptcy protection, the Clover chain of restaurants is seeking a buyer and may lay off 182 workers.
Davis Square Neighborhood Plan could be done by fall, becoming a factor in tower decision
Work on a Davis Square Neighborhood Plan will ramp up in early May and finish within three to six months, extending into fall as needed.
Your next cookbook can be found April 11 at a Curio-hosted benefit for World Central Kitchen
The World Central Kitchen, which goes to the front lines of crises to provide fresh meals, gets a little boost April 11 from a sale of used cookbooks.
We have Tuesday office hours, and tonight they’re in Davis Square
Bring story ideas, questions, concerns or complaints – or, even better, come with proposals about how you can become part of the team.
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Worry sets in about new tech’s toll on Cambridge in power and water
AI has begun its creep into municipal business and data centers are coming that can’t be regulated because the new tech isn't in the city’s table of uses.
Resident parking permits in Cambridge will be $75 next time, unless the driver cites a hardship
Most Cambridge drivers could be asked to pay $75 for their next resident parking permit, up from $25, under a policy order passed Monday after four weeks awaiting action by the City Council. The...
Get a $5 burger at Cambridge Common like it’s 1996 again
Also on the Menu this week: Somerville’s Mobile Farmers Market returns next week, Anna’s Taqueria has shrimp and Ten One Tea House has a big to-go box.
Indie Bookstore Crawl offers a passport to 25 shops with prizes along the way
If you love books, why not prove it with an act of enormous physical prowess?
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Tax tip of the week: Maybe this is the year you should itemize deductions
With the cap rising it $40,000, more taxpayers may now find that itemizing results in a larger deduction than taking the standard deduction.
Cambridge has surpassed its 1950s population peak, with housing, wealth and race effects
The Human Rights Commission heard findings on age and sex; households and families; race and ethnicity; immigration; income and poverty.
Old friends, public service and a campaign for the community
I believe my perspective is needed on Beacon Hill, where the voices of the vulnerable are too often drowned out by special interests and bureaucracy.
Somerville meetings, March 30-April 6: Affordable homes overlay zoning … and doughnuts
Take part in meetings on 90 Washington and new school plans, affordable homes overlay zoning and hours a Winter Hill Dunkin’.
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Cambridge meetings, March 30-April 6: The city is using AI and talking data centers and turning 400
Take part in meetings on changes to community benefits, tech, events and tourism issues and the future of city-owned properties.
They talk about politeness when they mean compliance
The idea of politeness as “professionalism” is a societal delusion, and too frequently the enforcing of a gracious response to malicious policy.
What’s really in Cambridge’s tap water?
A look at what cities do and don’t test when determining that their tap water is safe.
Protect Act passes in state House of Representatives ahead of weekend Trump protests
An Act Protecting Access to Justice comes “in response to the ongoing fascist ICE crackdown,” state representative Mike Connolly said.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery opens its gates at 6 a.m. for early morning strolls and bird-watching
Mount Auburn Cemetery brings back its Early-Bird Hours starting Wednesday and reopens its Washington Tower for the season.
Sado-Domestics can be your soundtrack
The alt-Americana band Sado-Domestics is one of countless acts bringing life to our stages and soundtracking our nightly revels.
Gypsy punk takes the crown at Royale
Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hütz jumps into the photo pit on a raucous Wednesday night.
A moment of silence honors Olympian Reavis, who set records at Somerville High and nationally
Olympian Phil Reavis was mourned Thursday in Somerville, where he lived and is honored as the namesake of a high school athletic field.
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‘Breaking the Code’ unravels the mysteries of a brilliant mathematician’s inner life
Actors Eddie Shields and Josephine Moshiri Elwood talk about the challenge of bringing Alan Turing's life to the stage.
Plan for affordable homes on Porter Street is a capstone as Johnston retires from CHA
Amid speeches, work got done, including moves toward developing land at 16-28 Porter St., Wellington-Harrington, near the Somerville city line.
In Brownsberger-Lander race for senate, incumbent touts governor’s endorsement
The reelection campaign of state senator Will Brownsberger was endorsed Thursday by governor Maura Healey as “crucial” to state initiatives.
Friendly Toast menu makes some moves under a CEO brought over from Tatte
The menu is getting a minor update at The Friendly Toast, an all-day brunch and bar spot in Cambridge’s Harvard Square.
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Hear First: ‘Bell Biv Barclay’
ET and Haasan Barclay's love letter to Boston and homage to the New Jack Swing era.
Cheesecake as an act of meditation with Duly Lee of Korean Momma
To indulge in the custom Basque cheesecakes of Korean Momma, a customer can expect to wait. And maybe to engage in five minutes of “therapy.”
Entering a budget cycle $5.9M in the red, Somerville city councilors are united on priorities
Somerville city councilors know their wish lists for the city might not happen, but the shared themes were deemed “really striking.”
The music runs all April 5 as McCarthy’s and Toad celebrate their first year in Porter Square
The McCarthy’s restaurant and attached Toad nightclub celebrate their year anniversary April 5 with a party featuring a day of live music.
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Crispy pie: Secrets for homemade pizza, including the gluten-free kind
Very strong opinions from a former pizzamaking instructor who never mastered a perfectly round crust (because it doesn't matter).
Scallion biscuit at Phinista Cafe
$4.25 A group of us set out to find the best banh mi in Cambridge and Somerville and discovered along the way another treat everyone loved – a savory, sweet and substantial scallion biscuit. The...
No Kings rallies pop up regionwide Saturday, with sign-making parties ahead of time
No Kings, a series of protests against the politics of president Donald Trump, returns Saturday to Cambridge, Somerville and Boston.
After a ‘particularly brutal winter,’ Somerville urges pothole reports and prepares road repairs
The repaving of streets and other road improvements are mentioned as budget priorities in memos filed with mayor Jake Wilson by five city councilors.
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Water and sewer bills, drought, ‘forever chemicals’ and a Charles River footbridge get council action
A bike lane and footpath bridge across the Charles River got a thumbs up from Cambridge city councillors, while concern greeted water issues.
We have Tuesday office hours, and tonight they’re in Central Square
Bring story ideas, questions, concerns or complaints – or, even better, come with proposals about how you can become part of the team.
No one likes the state’s first attempts at a Reid Overpass redesign
More than a dozen organizations have nearly identical conclusions about redesigns of a nearly 90-year-old Cambridgeport traffic overpass.
Somerville meetings, April 6-13: Police cameras and a new two-school campus
Take part in meetings on progress toward a new school, police body camera funding and bike lanes at the Elm-Beacon Connector project.
Cambridge meetings, April 6-13: Ellery Street projects put multifamily housing under a microscope
Two projects on one street are among those shaped by multifamily housing zoning the City Council passed last year, and the experts are watching.
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Like and subscribe: Cambridge School Committee prepares to push publish on a newsletter (but endorses a podcast)
There’s caution about overwhelming Cambridge families who already get too much information about the goings-on in their school district.
‘Shocked’ by low assessed value at 90 Washington, agency members head off the map
Members of the Somerville Redevelopment Authority were dismayed to find a $3.8 million assessment at a lot that’s cost the city around $35.3 million.
Tufts has chosen its commencement speaker in venture capital health head Ken Frazier
Commencement at Tufts University is 9 a.m. May 17 on the academic quad of Tufts’ Medford-Somerville campus.
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Porter Square Shopping Center makes space for a business between Cafe Zing and Cambridge Naturals
“Cafe Zing 2.0” is expected to open in three months in Porter Square, but what opens in the remaining space won't be Cambridge Naturals.
Three destination cafes where no compromise is needed between high-quality food and coffee
There's not always a need to pair prized coffee with a generic muffin or croissant or wash down a to-die-for pastry or bagel with a lesser brew.
Napoli pastry at Yafa Bakery & Café
At Yafa, the pistachio is a major food group that appears on or in many of the treats. With the cone-shaped, chocolatey Napoli, it’s both.
Advertisement
Spice, spice, baby: Racking up some jarring insights about what gives life flavor
For starters, how often do you throw out spices? If you are my mother, the answer is never.
Azeem’s ads have exciting news for riders of the MBTA (in the 1940s)
Those ads about a giant expansion of the MBTA – the red line into Lexington, the green line to Woburn and so on – are accurate. In a way.
Clover restaurant chain may shut down without a buyer
Less than two years after exiting bankruptcy protection, the Clover chain of restaurants is seeking a buyer and may lay off 182 workers.
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Davis Square Neighborhood Plan could be done by fall, becoming a factor in tower decision
Work on a Davis Square Neighborhood Plan will ramp up in early May and finish within three to six months, extending into fall as needed.
Your next cookbook can be found April 11 at a Curio-hosted benefit for World Central Kitchen
The World Central Kitchen, which goes to the front lines of crises to provide fresh meals, gets a little boost April 11 from a sale of used cookbooks.
Worry sets in about new tech’s toll on Cambridge in power and water
AI has begun its creep into municipal business and data centers are coming that can’t be regulated because the new tech isn't in the city’s table of uses.
Advertisement
Resident parking permits in Cambridge will be $75 next time, unless the driver cites a hardship
Most Cambridge drivers could be asked to pay $75 for their next resident parking permit, up from $25, under a policy order passed Monday after four weeks awaiting action by the City Council. The...
Get a $5 burger at Cambridge Common like it’s 1996 again
Also on the Menu this week: Somerville’s Mobile Farmers Market returns next week, Anna’s Taqueria has shrimp and Ten One Tea House has a big to-go box.
Tax tip of the week: Maybe this is the year you should itemize deductions
With the cap rising it $40,000, more taxpayers may now find that itemizing results in a larger deduction than taking the standard deduction.
Advertisement
Cambridge has surpassed its 1950s population peak, with housing, wealth and race effects
The Human Rights Commission heard findings on age and sex; households and families; race and ethnicity; immigration; income and poverty.
Somerville meetings, March 30-April 6: Affordable homes overlay zoning … and doughnuts
Take part in meetings on 90 Washington and new school plans, affordable homes overlay zoning and hours a Winter Hill Dunkin’.
Cambridge meetings, March 30-April 6: The city is using AI and talking data centers and turning 400
Take part in meetings on changes to community benefits, tech, events and tourism issues and the future of city-owned properties.
Advertisement
Protect Act passes in state House of Representatives ahead of weekend Trump protests
An Act Protecting Access to Justice comes “in response to the ongoing fascist ICE crackdown,” state representative Mike Connolly said.
A moment of silence honors Olympian Reavis, who set records at Somerville High and nationally
Olympian Phil Reavis was mourned Thursday in Somerville, where he lived and is honored as the namesake of a high school athletic field.
Plan for affordable homes on Porter Street is a capstone as Johnston retires from CHA
Amid speeches, work got done, including moves toward developing land at 16-28 Porter St., Wellington-Harrington, near the Somerville city line.
Advertisement
In Brownsberger-Lander race for senate, incumbent touts governor’s endorsement
The reelection campaign of state senator Will Brownsberger was endorsed Thursday by governor Maura Healey as “crucial” to state initiatives.
Friendly Toast menu makes some moves under a CEO brought over from Tatte
The menu is getting a minor update at The Friendly Toast, an all-day brunch and bar spot in Cambridge’s Harvard Square.
Cheesecake as an act of meditation with Duly Lee of Korean Momma
To indulge in the custom Basque cheesecakes of Korean Momma, a customer can expect to wait. And maybe to engage in five minutes of “therapy.”
Advertisement
Entering a budget cycle $5.9M in the red, Somerville city councilors are united on priorities
Somerville city councilors know their wish lists for the city might not happen, but the shared themes were deemed “really striking.”
Crispy pie: Secrets for homemade pizza, including the gluten-free kind
Very strong opinions from a former pizzamaking instructor who never mastered a perfectly round crust (because it doesn't matter).
Scallion biscuit at Phinista Cafe
$4.25 A group of us set out to find the best banh mi in Cambridge and Somerville and discovered along the way another treat everyone loved – a savory, sweet and substantial scallion biscuit. The...
Advertisement
After a ‘particularly brutal winter,’ Somerville urges pothole reports and prepares road repairs
The repaving of streets and other road improvements are mentioned as budget priorities in memos filed with mayor Jake Wilson by five city councilors.
Water and sewer bills, drought, ‘forever chemicals’ and a Charles River footbridge get council action
A bike lane and footpath bridge across the Charles River got a thumbs up from Cambridge city councillors, while concern greeted water issues.
Looking at this winter convinces a councillor that Cambridge needs a snow corps to call in for help
A wild winter with extreme outcomes for city workers and finances leads to exploration of a volunteer “snow corps”; another idea emerges from Somerville.
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City gains confidence about finding money for a bridge over train tracks to Danehy Park
Staff are confident that money to pay for a bridge over Fitchburg Line train tracks will be found after designs are in place, which could be in around 18 months.
Cambridge Housing Authority, now a regional force in affordable homes, appoints a chief executive
Clara Fraden, a Cambridge resident who has been at the Cambridge Housing Authority eight years, is the agency’s new chief executive.
Tax tip of the week: The IRS sends refunds before it finishes checking what you file
A refund isn’t the finish line. Your return is generally “closed” only once the IRS statute period expires.
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Somerville meetings, March 23-30: Public school upkeep and budget priorities
Take part in meetings on setting budget priorities, maintaining public schools, Mystic River sewage and affordable-unit rent collection.
Cambridge meetings, March 23-30: Designing a train tracks bridge, adding Twin Cities affordable housing
Take part in meetings on a bridge over rail tracks; snow season's costs; Central Square planning; and affordable homes in two parts of the city.
Nicotine users will have even fewer choices by May after a Somerville clampdown
Somerville is taking more aggressive action against tobacco products that have sneaked onto store shelves without explicit government approval.
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Options for East Cambridge’s closed school will be seen in May; better busing brings changes
Three to six options for the future of 158 Spring St. are expected to be presented to Cambridge Public Schools families in May, district superintendent David Murphy told School Committee members at a...
Democratic Socialists seek more state seats but fell short of endorsing Uyterhoeven, its sole incumbent
The DSA fell a few votes short of endorsing Erika Uyterhoeven, who is running without its field team, and the issue was largely not about policy.
Mourning Dove: No lease renewal offered by shopping center, Sign of the Dove artists need a new home
“For people in the community who are looking to support local artists and purchase local artwork, losing these spaces makes it harder for them to do that.”
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Why doesn’t Phil Eng know how batteries work?
Everyone warned us, but the T switched systems anyway. No U.S. transit professional believes there's anything to learn from systems around the globe.
Political pundits can’t talk about Democratic wins without addressing Republican lies
It matters as Democrats enter a phase of beating Republican candidates and the losers have shown how far to hang onto power.
Apocalyptic satire makes an encore with Bread & Puppet’s song, dance and papier-mâché
A third apocalypse-themed show inspired by modern political culture arrives: The Bread & Puppet Theater’s “The End of the World Never Minding Show.”
Independent Film Festival Boston ready for the spotlight
Boots Riley, over 100 films, and a small army of volunteers make the magic happen.
Advertisement
Comedian Eugene Mirman is recovering after single-car crash in New Hampshire
Somerville comedian Eugene Mirman was pulled from a burning car after crashing into tolls on a a New Hampshire turnpike on Tuesday.
We have Tuesday office hours, and tonight they’re in Davis Square
Bring story ideas, questions, concerns or complaints – or, even better, come with proposals about how you can become part of the team.
Indie Bookstore Crawl offers a passport to 25 shops with prizes along the way
If you love books, why not prove it with an act of enormous physical prowess?
Old friends, public service and a campaign for the community
I believe my perspective is needed on Beacon Hill, where the voices of the vulnerable are too often drowned out by special interests and bureaucracy.
Advertisement
They talk about politeness when they mean compliance
The idea of politeness as “professionalism” is a societal delusion, and too frequently the enforcing of a gracious response to malicious policy.
What’s really in Cambridge’s tap water?
A look at what cities do and don’t test when determining that their tap water is safe.
Mount Auburn Cemetery opens its gates at 6 a.m. for early morning strolls and bird-watching
Mount Auburn Cemetery brings back its Early-Bird Hours starting Wednesday and reopens its Washington Tower for the season.
Sado-Domestics can be your soundtrack
The alt-Americana band Sado-Domestics is one of countless acts bringing life to our stages and soundtracking our nightly revels.
Advertisement
Gypsy punk takes the crown at Royale
Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hütz jumps into the photo pit on a raucous Wednesday night.
‘Breaking the Code’ unravels the mysteries of a brilliant mathematician’s inner life
Actors Eddie Shields and Josephine Moshiri Elwood talk about the challenge of bringing Alan Turing's life to the stage.
Hear First: ‘Bell Biv Barclay’
ET and Haasan Barclay's love letter to Boston and homage to the New Jack Swing era.
The music runs all April 5 as McCarthy’s and Toad celebrate their first year in Porter Square
The McCarthy’s restaurant and attached Toad nightclub celebrate their year anniversary April 5 with a party featuring a day of live music.
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No Kings rallies pop up regionwide Saturday, with sign-making parties ahead of time
No Kings, a series of protests against the politics of president Donald Trump, returns Saturday to Cambridge, Somerville and Boston.
We have Tuesday office hours, and tonight they’re in Central Square
Bring story ideas, questions, concerns or complaints – or, even better, come with proposals about how you can become part of the team.
Repairs to ‘Gift of the Wind,’ the Porter Square T stop sculpture, could be budgeted this year
The first step is determine the cost of reviving the art. Estimates heard at a Porter Square Neighbors Association meeting ranged up to $600,000.
Pop-up booksellers, poetry on demand, and literary drag trivia make March a less cruel month
A sunny Saturday welcomed the 7th annual Bow Market Book Fair.
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Hear First: ‘Foggy Mountain Mental Breakdown’
Hear First premieres the debut album from DIY folk rock pickers Sweet Petunia.
A memorial for Charles Coe is planned for April 11 in Boston
The late Cambridge author, poet and musician Charles Coe is honored by the literary and arts community on April 11 across the river in Boston.
Near possibly the most important election in U.S. history, The New York Times is in a state of quantum news
By deciding which stories to cover and how, our greatest newspaper in content and readership has the power to set the agenda. That’s a concern.
The end is nigh for ‘The End is Nigh,’ a raucous and rollicking riot of a romp
When questions posed by the plot become too thorny, the ensemble stabs or punches someone or simply runs in circles to explode the tension.
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Multicultural Arts Center showcases works by high schoolers
The show tends toward up-close, pensive portraits of youth and the surreal, part of the center’s mission to show the bold and new.
Boston Bitdown redux: dinosaurs on Saturday and a Sunday scare
A final afternoon of chiptune music saved by a barcade that came to the rescue in downtown Salem.
The date is set for Porchfest’s 15th year in Somerville
Porchfest returns to Somerville on May 9, and residents can apply through April 21 to host a band.
Anne Fadiman gets personal with her latest essay collection, ‘Frog’
The would-be love child of John McPhee and Virginia Woolf shares a few amphibian-related regrets.
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With Metacom’s Resistance, colonists set Indigenous nations at war with each other
Metacom’s Resistance is a lesser-known, three-year war that is part of 350 years of conflict, coexistence and Indigenous presence.
Oscars 2026 results include a rare tie
The annual film awards were held last night in Hollywood. Did The Brattle have a premonition about a rare Oscars tie?
The Renty daguerreotypes find a home, but Harvard’s legal fight lingers
Harvard chose to explore its legacy as an enslaver of 70 or more people at the same time it fought claims by a descendant of slavery.
Somerville could have skipped these police grants that come with strings attached
The Somerville City Council accepted nearly $200,000 for police over two meetings filled with fractious debate. Is this money worth what it costs?
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Booksellers and librarians gather Wednesday to talk about ‘Getting the Story Out’ to new readers
A couple of decades ago, some 400 newspapers published book reviews in arts and culture sections. Now it may be as few as 40.
Boston Bitdown redux: the chiptune spectacle spans three cities on Friday
A visual spectacle engulfs the interior of Capital Theatre while Boston Bitdown artists take to the stage in Arlington, Medford and Somerville.
Somerville gives an extra week to get through a 117-page application to be an Armory tenant
Somerville has extended its submission deadline by a week for artists, makers and creative organizations to lease space in its Armory building.
Boston Bitdown redux: Thursday
Relive what went down Thursday night at the world's largest chiptune festival, Boston Bitdown 2.
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Tracking The Monster and his Bride through the many versions of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’
Right now cinemagoers can double their Frankenstein pleasure with “The Bride!” and Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” up for the Best Picture Oscar this Sunday. Sure, “Frankenstein” is streaming on...
We have Tuesday office hours, and tonight they’re in Central Square
As part of its mission of community, The Independent plans weekly “office hours” at two convenient locations in Cambridge and Somerville.
Decriminalization of sex work is explored with experts in a Thursday conversation
A film screening and panel of experts grows a collective understanding of the experience of sex workers amid an erosion of freedom and democracy.
Why Somerville still doesn’t have public toilets
The company that makes the Portland Loo is not licensed by Massachusetts, so its structures are not allowed (except in several neighboring cities).
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To save the creative, arts advocates say to get real about housing, planning and the Legislature
Along with calling on residents to push for the creation of cultural trusts, arts advocates talked about increasingly regional efforts to save the arts. That included a digital mapping project that could help identify problems and improve municipal planning.
In Rebecca Kopycinski’s ‘Thotbot,’ obsolete tech rewinds into a dark future that predicts our present
The “ThotBot Implantation Center,” an immersive art installation and multimedia concert rounds out its latest run of sold-out shows at Bow Market.
Andrew Della Volpe’s sitcom is limned before a live studio audience
It’s what audiences can expect Friday during Della Volpe’s new hour at The Rockwell in Somerville.
Middle East co-founder Joseph Sater is mourned
The death of Joseph Sater, the co-founder of Cambridge’s Middle East nightclub and other arts venues, was confirmed Tuesday by brother Nabil Sater. The cause was believed to be a heart attack, Nabil Sater said through an intermediary.
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A Fuzzstival reunion of sorts comes together to celebrate an LP release by Landowner
The icy claw of winter didn’t deter a near sellout crowd for Landowner, a postpunk band out of Western Massachusetts celebrating an LP release.
Hear First: ‘Lane Says’
Hear First spotlights Lane's nod to Jane's Addiction, “Lane Says.”
Women’s History Month in Cambridge is a restoration project of scattered and missing stories
The work is meticulous and often challenging. Many women left few written records, and their contributions were not always preserved in traditional archives.
Hearing could be decisive for the Out of the Blue art gallery, a fixture in Somerville’s Armory
The owner of the Out of the Blue art gallery in Somerville has won a City Council hearing for her attempts to stay in the city-owned Armory arts building or get a new space if she’s forced to leave.
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Between a Foot Locker and TJ Maxx, a mall hosts Michelangelo
The exhibit “Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel” displays 34 of 60-odd Vatican frescoes, life-sized reproductions visible “like no pope has ever seen them.”
Protest surveillance: What State Police saw from the sky as we spoke against killings by federal agents
I asked State Police for helicopter flight and mission plans, reports and photographic, video or biometric records captured from protests I went to Jan. 10.