Somerville Mayor presents 2027 budget amid layoffs fallout
Somerville Mayor Jake Wilson has unveiled his proposed budget for the 2027 fiscal year, a $394 million spending plan that aims to address the city’s estimated $5.4m financial shortfall while investing in core services, public schools, affordable housing and safer streets. Read more The Lorax comes to Cambridge City Council The plan features the largest […]
The Lorax comes to Cambridge City Council
Trees were at the root of City Council’s latest zoning debate, which at one point even saw “The Lorax” invoked. Read more Let them play: Ahern is strategic for our children and public health The Council voted unanimously to consider updates to its Tree Protection Ordinance, a set of city laws that govern how and […]
Let them play: Ahern is strategic for our children and public health
Missing from articles, letters and other discussion about Ahern Field is the value of play. Read more A recipe for connection in Cambridge Children do not become healthier because adults preserve a field in theory. Kids become healthier when they use the field. The Centers for Disease Control recommends children and adolescents ages 6-17 get […]
A recipe for connection in Cambridge
Each week, 2,000 people get an email from Andrew Little’s Cambridge Recipe Club. Inside, they find a recipe with a few notes about the dish and how to make it — no ads, no website, no social media links. The seasonal recipes exist only in the email newsletter, since Little doesn’t keep a recipe archive. […]
Pesky rabbits and jumping spiders
A reader asks:Why do rabbits eat plants in my garden but not my neighbor’s garden? Read more Four new films explore war, gender, and crime true and comedic This is an excellent question, but unfortunately there is not an easy answer. It could simply be that you grow plants that are more attractive to rabbits. […]
Four new films explore war, gender, and crime true and comedic
“Pressure” ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 4. Who knew that the timing of D-Day was much ado about dueling meteorologists? Obviously, David Haig, whose play about this little-known chapter of the war gets the big-screen treatment in the capable hands of Anthony Maras (the deft thriller, “Hotel Mumbai”) — and Haig, who co-wrote the screenplay. […]
The undead can be funny, new production proves
Central Square Theater resuscitates queer playwright Charles Ludlam’s most produced play, his 1984 “The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful,” bringing it back to life in a hilarious production directed by David R. Gammons. Like the many “undead” characters that haunt it, the play refuses to stay buried. Read more Massachusetts’s slow adoption of […]
Massachusetts’s slow adoption of EV chargers through federal program is ‘mystifying’ to transit advocates
For all the concern about lost federal funding courtesy of the Republican trifecta in Washington, Massachusetts still has not deployed a single electric vehicle charger through a Biden-era program that President Trump has left intact. Read more Events this week: Pride, Shakespeare reinvented, & Fresh Pond Day The Bay State is sitting on the roughly $64 […]
Events this week: Pride, Shakespeare reinvented, & Fresh Pond Day
Thursday, June 4 7 to 9 p.m.First Parish Cambridge Unitarian Universalist, 3 Church St./1446 Massachusetts Ave., Harvard Square. Read more Celebrating youth-based films with DIYDS Eve Plumb book signing$40 with book. Actress, singer, painter and entrepreneur Eve Plumb, best known for portraying Jan Brady in the ABC sitcom “The Brady Bunch,” signs her book, “Happiness Included: […]
Celebrating youth-based films with DIYDS
For teens — especially teens of color or diverse socioeconomic backgrounds — representation on screen can be uninspiring at best, and opportunities behind the camera are next to nonexistent. Thankfully, the Do It Your Damn Self National Youth Film Festival, which screens its yearly showcase Friday at the Brattle Theatre, remains an oasis of youthful […]