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At Chef Zhang, spicy tofu skin and creative spicy spins with noodles and chicken
The Hunan cuisine places around Camberville are either headline-grabbers like Sumiao Hunan Kitchen in Kendall Square or old favorites like Zoe’s Chinese on Beacon Street, Changsho in Porter Square and House of Chang in Huron Village. By contrast, Chef Zhang’s Cuisine and Bar in Harvard Square is relatively under-the-radar. Read more Cambridge NAACP to elect […]
Cambridge NAACP to elect new leadership
The Cambridge branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) will elect its leadership Nov. 30. All eight officer positions and up to 24 at-large seats on the branch’s executive committee are up for election, according to branch secretary Ayesha Wilson. Read more Amigos School move to 158 Spring Street looks […]
Amigos School move to 158 Spring Street looks likely
The Amigos School is poised to get a new home, after years in an outdated building on Upton Street. Superintendent David Murphy will recommend it take over the vacant school building at 158 Spring Street at Thursday’s special meeting of the School Committee. The School Committee, however, will make the final decision. Read more Harvard’s […]
Harvard’s ultimate frisbee founder ‘pulls’ alumni back after 50 years
Cross-legged on Cumnock Fields at Harvard University under a breezy, sunny sky, Sara Schechner told stories of playing ultimate frisbee during her high school days in the early 1970s in Maplewood, New Jersey. Schechner was a part of the group of students who created the now internationally recognized sport. She then founded the ultimate frisbee […]
Boys’ soccer defeats Wayland, achieves highest ranking in school history
Boys’ soccer: After suffering its first loss of the season on Oct. 6 to Lincoln-Sudbury, 3-2, the Cambridge Rindge and Latin boys’ soccer team (3-1-3) bounced back for a 3-1 defeat of Wayland on Thursday. The win moved the Falcons up to No. 4 in the MIAA Division I power rankings, the highest in school […]
Cambridge, Somerville vaccine clinics launch
Cambridge and Somerville have both announced the schedule for free public vaccine clinics for flu and COVID-19. Read more Pressley takes EZRide trip to promote transit Cambridge will have five clinics, starting today, Wednesday, at the Senior Center between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. The last one will be October 30 from 1 p.m. to […]
Pressley takes EZRide trip to promote transit
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) led a group of city councillors, interest group members and private partners onto an EZRide shuttle alongside commuters in an effort to keep the service free and running throughout the day. Read more Galiot Press marks one year of publishing genre-defying books Pressley said she took the shuttle “to demonstrate in […]
Galiot Press marks one year of publishing genre-defying books
Galiot Press is one year into publishing books. How does the Boston-area press fit into the publishing landscape?
Your view: Photos from Honk! Parade
Things were lively in Harvard Square Sunday, with the Harvard Square Business Association’s Oktoberfest, the 5th Annual Filipino American festival, plus the Honk! parade in its 21st edition and the subsequent mini-concerts around Harvard Square. (See our piece on the first 20 years of Honk!) Read more Huang rejects MWRA plan to permanently fence off […]
What should Harvard Square’s KiOSK be? A new residency model revives an old debate
On a recent Wednesday evening, a handful of strangers sat around a table inside the Harvard Square KiOSK, cutting up old magazines and turning the scraps into postcards. The free workshop, organized by local artist Missy Arellano, was one of five weekly sessions hosted this fall by the Radical Collage Collective, a group she founded. […]