2026
Lander lands Wu endorsement in race against Brownsberger
Just days after state Senate candidate Daniel Lander announced an endorsement from Sen. Elizabeth Warren in his campaign, he added Boston Mayor Michelle Wu to his list of backers in his challenge to incumbent state Sen. Will Brownsberger. Read more Dragon Boat Festival draws tens of thousands Lander, 34, stated in a June 22 press […]
Dragon Boat Festival draws tens of thousands
As many as 60,000 people came to last weekend’s Dragon Boat Festival, which has grown out of the first such event in North America, held back in 1979. This year’s festival saw a different novel moment, as the first-ever dragon boat team from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School competed. Read more CRLS senior wins state […]
CRLS senior wins state LGBTQ+ award
A recent graduate of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) is one of 10 students to be awarded a state leadership award for his LGBTQ+ advocacy. Read more Toy Story’s 5th another fine production Finn Graham was awarded the Jeff Perrotti Award from the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ+ Youth in late May for working to expand the […]
Toy Story’s 5th another fine production
“Toy Story 5” ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 4. The latest installation of the “Toy Story” franchise extends its record as one of the most adaptable film franchises. Perhaps its success comes from its palpable themes of vulnerability — being replaced, being outgrown or forgotten, becoming irrelevant. Maybe it’s the potpourri of misfits, voiced by […]
Amazon, AI and local media at 617 Day small business summit
The second annual 617 Day small business summit took an optimistic tone, with panels directed at helping local business owners succeed in the age of AI and Amazon. Read more ‘The Death of Robin Hood’ 617 Day is a small business holiday created by Cambridge Local First, a network of more than 400 businesses. It […]
‘The Death of Robin Hood’
⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 4. Revisionism is a powerful dispeller of myth. Consider how Oliver Stone, Francis Ford Coppola, and Stanley Kubrick reframed the public understanding of the Vietnam War. Or how Sergio Leone, Sam Peckinpah, and Clint Eastwood cut the morally righteous reins on the American Western. Read more At the Middle East, […]
At the Middle East, singing for his mental health
“I won’t open the door,volunteer to the dark, where the demons wait patient to make me their mark.” Read more Trinity’s Touch salon celebrating 20 years These lyrics might be something the dinner crowd hears Kev G Mor sing on Thursdays at The Corner Bar or every fourth Friday at Zuzu Restaurant. Mor plays in the […]
Trinity’s Touch salon celebrating 20 years
It took Trinity Do five minutes to decide to buy the salon she has now run for 20 years. Her friends thought she was being impulsive, but as Trinity’s Touch gears up for its big anniversary, her confidence then seems justified. Read more Cambridge lacrosse wins championship Do believed in her business from the start […]
Cambridge lacrosse wins championship
The Cambridge-Arlington 7/8 grade boys Massachusetts Youth Lacrosse Division 2 Select Lacrosse used a second-half surge to secure the division championship on Friday. Read more Juneteenth at five: Cambridge’s Black community reflects on ‘our 4th of July’ Trailing North Andover 4-2 at the half, the Arlington-Cambridge Demolition Crew, or AC/DC, as the team is known, had […]
Juneteenth at five: Cambridge’s Black community reflects on ‘our 4th of July’
Five years after Juneteenth became a federal holiday, the spirit of racial liberation that drove it has fizzled. Demands for racial justice are not as loud or widespread. The Trump administration has undermined the preservation of the history of slavery and the Supreme Court recently gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act meant […]