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Copper Mill’s revised proposal still doesn’t work
The “new” proposal by Copper Mill includes a proposed structure that is 24 stories, down from 26 stories. Those are on top of the existing retail floors. And, yes, 24 stories for Davis Square is unquestionably still too high. The structure violates Mass Housing’s Chapter 40B design guidelines, and the project undercuts Somerville’s plans set […]
MIT grad students rally on commencement day, Harvard students picket
MIT graduate student workers rallied before the university’s commencement Thursday, while those at Harvard picketed outside Harvard Yard during graduation ceremonies. Read more Events this week in Camberville: Pride Patio Party, Celtic art, & Eve Plumb Over 100 people gathered outside MIT’s Lobby 7 at 77 Massachusetts Avenue to rally in support of graduate student […]
Events this week in Camberville: Pride Patio Party, Celtic art, & Eve Plumb
Thursday, May 28 5 to 9 p.m.Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., near Harvard Square. Read more Chicken sub and froyo at Saloniki ArtsThursdays: A Free Night at the MuseumsFree and all ages. Experience the world-famous Blaschka Glass Flowers, a new rubies installation in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Gallery and “Swimming with Sharks: […]
Chicken sub and froyo at Saloniki
To me, Greek cuisine inherently makes for quintessential fine casual. It’s hearty, affordable, simple, and for the most part healthy and lite. It all lines up perfectly, at Saloniki, the Jody Adams co-founded Greek eatery with locales in Harvard Square and the edge of the MIT campus and Boston. Read more CRLS Sports: Crew teams […]
CRLS Sports: Crew teams shine at championship events
At the USRowing Northeast Regionals in West Windsor, N.J. on May 17, the Cambridge Rindge and Latin girls’ first varsity crew of Laurel Moldrem, Sinead O’Gorman-Jones, Imogen Wu, Isla Agnew and coxswain Ada LaMaster finished third with a time of 7:27.54 at the USRowing Northeast Regionals, the second time in school history girls’ crew advanced […]
Marilyn Monroe centennial, dance horror classics, Demme on (Laser)Disc
This week marks what would have been the 100th birthday of Norma Jeane Mortenson, better known to the world as Marilyn Monroe. More than 60 years after her death, Monroe remains one of the most famous people in the world, her name, face and iconography even more inescapable than during her too-short lifetime. Often overlooked […]
Somerville, Cambridge incubators receive climate tech grants
Two startup accelerators in Cambridge and Somerville received close to $7 million in Mass Leads Act grants to expand their technology base, in a bid to provide more support to entrepreneurs working on mitigating climate change. Read more On the ballot 2026: Ewen-Campen and Gilligan-Corsetti vie for 27th Middlesex Greentown Labs, which bills itself as […]
On the ballot 2026: Ewen-Campen and Gilligan-Corsetti vie for 27th Middlesex
In one of several rounds of musical chairs in the State House, representative Erika Uyterhoeven’s quest for the state Senate opened her seat representing the 27th Middlesex District. Read more On the ballot 2026: Ewen-Campen and Gilligan-Corsetti vie for 27th Middlesex Competing for her seat are Ben-Ewen Campen, councilor from Somerville’s Ward 3, and Olivia […]
On the ballot 2026: Ewen-Campen and Gilligan-Corsetti vie for 27th Middlesex
In one of several rounds of musical chairs in the State House, representative Erika Uyterhoeven’s quest for the state Senate opened her seat representing the 27th Middlesex District. Read more Cambridge housing does follow economic laws Competing for her seat are Ben-Ewen Campen, councilor from Somerville’s Ward 3, and Olivia Gilligan-Corsetti, a former political aide […]
Cambridge housing does follow economic laws
In a recent letter to the editor, resident Sam Christy alleged that increasing the supply of housing in our city will not help to bring down the cost of housing. Read more Small businesses face 13% health insurance increase To suggest that the laws of economics — namely supply and demand — do not function […]