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11/02/2024

Laugh:

Amma Marfo writes at https://bit.ly/3YAiavw.

11/02/2024

Though a silent flyer, barred owls can be seen in daylight while on the hunt for rodents. They also make a distinctive call and noises sometimes described as catlike screams, monkey chatter or demonic laughter.Educational writer Jeanine Farley is your guide to Wild Things at https://bit.ly/3YNJsjl.

11/02/2024

Filling holes, replacing doors and inspecting ceiling tiles are just some of the steps being taken to keep rats out of Somerville school buildings. But city councilors want to look at more creative options too, including going back to composting.

Danielle Howe reports at https://bit.ly/3UAnhuq. (Photo: Julia Levine)

11/02/2024

The Cambridge Kiosk will be a cultural incubator, community gathering space and visitor information center when it reopens on a renovated brick plaza.

See https://bit.ly/4htQ3qC.

11/01/2024

Cambridge Local First, a small-business advocacy nonprofit with more than 500 members, celebrated former executive director Theodora Skeadas on Sunday as it welcomed Katie Labrie, who returned to Cambridge to take the reins with a vision for storytelling.

Chloe Jad reports at https://bit.ly/4eijQzv.

11/01/2024

A $3 million contribution from the city may not be enough to address problems at the affordable-homeownership building in The Port neighborhood.

Sue Reinert reports at https://bit.ly/3YOsOAn.

11/01/2024

The Canalside food hall, which was announced in February, opened last week, with two eateries still to come.

Madeleine Aitken writes at https://bit.ly/3NRcisO.

10/31/2024

What we’re having: I hadn’t been to the Cambridge Brewing Co. in a while and was happy I popped in before it closes Dec. 20. It feel like reconnecting with an old friend.

Tom Meek offers a taste at https://bit.ly/3NPEX1E.

10/31/2024

Each fall, volunteers conduct hawk watches across New England, as the raptors migrate south. This year I joined in.

Greg Harris writes at https://bit.ly/3C4IZQZ.

10/31/2024

Public meetings this week look at toughening energy-use laws, the economic impact of zoning and after-school programming.

See https://bit.ly/4hqdiSo.

10/31/2024

Public meetings this week look at the city's response to a Cobble Hill land owner's appeal; the SomerNova expansion process; the reopening of a Magoun Square park; and housing over Lyndell’s Bakery and plans for a nine-story lab building.

Matthew Sage has the roundup at https://bit.ly/48B09C4.

10/31/2024

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events we see out Halloween and Día de los Mu***os; there's a Buffalo Tom arts festival; we have opera and election drag; and study sugar, make Vietnamese spring rolls and learn “How Beer Helped Win World War II.“

Monica Velgos has the roundup at https://bit.ly/4frBHoI. (Photo: Eduardo Dorantes via Unsplash)

10/31/2024

There’s film ahead! It's the time of year studios tend to release their most prestigious films in hopes of capturing the hearts (and occasionally short-term memory) of awards voters. Thankfully, the Independent Film Festival Boston has curated another Fall Focus series.

Oscar Goff has the trailers at https://bit.ly/3AavBKH.

10/31/2024

Sean Baker nabbed the Palme d’Or at Cannes for this Cinderella tale about a s*x worker whose fortunes change when she hooks up with a freewheeling ne’er-do-well with limitless financial resources. “Pretty Woman” this is not, though.

Read Tom Meek’s film review at https://bit.ly/3Uxu7Rp.

10/30/2024

Snack: Great Chinese food served fast from an unlabeled truck that is parked daily near MIT.

Madeleine Aitken writes at https://bit.ly/3YGzLDq.

10/30/2024

Businesses that found themselves locked out of vendor contracts with city halls in Cambridge and Boston are being welcomed in, with city leaders joining in a ceremony to launch a Boston Cambridge Certification Compact.

See https://bit.ly/40oO1BT. (Photo: Mike Mejia)

10/29/2024

The original Bred was opened in Dorchester in 2014, where owner Tambo Barrow discovered the location’s previous restaurant had left behind its smoker. The new location is in good company.

Madeleine Aitken writes at https://bit.ly/4eZiTNO.

10/28/2024

Drivers are modifying their car exhaust systems to sound like gunfire – and unsurprisingly, police are not happy about it and the risks it can spark.

Julia Weeks reports at https://bit.ly/3Urav1A. (Photo: Oscar Sutton via Unsplash)

10/28/2024

Ed Rodley writes for History Cambridge: A very peculiar petition began making the rounds of Old Cambridge in December 1842 aiming to roll back the clock, as it were, to when the three neighborhoods of Cambridge were a single village centered around the common and Harvard College.

Did You Know? at https://bit.ly/3Aj3lW5.

10/27/2024

John Gall is known for designing book covers for authors such as Haruki Murakami and Margaret Atwood. In 2008, he decided to start making collages on the backs of book covers in an effort to “forget what he knew about design.”

Claire Ogden writes at https://bit.ly/40fwZWW.

10/27/2024

Cambridge started regulating short-term rental units in August 2017, but neighbors and officials worry that the law lacks the bite of enforcement.

Alyssa Chen reports at https://bit.ly/3ArKKai.

10/27/2024

Read: The “Beyoncé of abortion storytelling” argues for a world with easier health care decisions and corrects the narrative that abortion – around for 6,500 years – was secured as a right by mostly white women in the late 1960s and ’70s.

Madeleine Aitken writes at https://bit.ly/3YpOGjQ.

10/26/2024

Laugh: In a moment it’s not always easy to believe what you see, hear or read, Langston Kerman and David Gborie's “My Momma Told Me” podcast is either here to help … or to invite many more questions.

Amma Marfo writes at https://bit.ly/3NIvklc.

10/26/2024

When Europeans first settled these shores in the 1600s, Canada geese were abundant and praised for reasons modern fans may find hard to relate to: “so fat,” a hunter raved, “the flesh far more excellent” than the fowl of England.

Educational writer Jeanine Farley is your guide to Wild Things at https://bit.ly/40D6A5J.

10/26/2024

Actor Anna Kendrick makes her directorial debut with “Woman of the Hour,” a true-crime-adjacent serial-killer chiller set in the world of late ’70s misogyny and game shows.

Read Tom Meek's film review at https://bit.ly/3NDh6SH.

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