Patrick John Filer
Patrick John Filer was born at 9:24 pm on May 13, 2026, to the surprise of his parents, who hadn’t expected him for another two weeks. Born at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Patrick weighed 7 pounds 9 ounces and measured 50 cm long. His parents, Michelle Filer and Michael Lee of North Cambridge, […]
In these movies, home is where the hell is
It’s family survival week in a pair of punchy sci-fi thrillers, where death lurks just beyond the mailbox. “The Last House,” on Netflix, finds a Pacific Northwest family sealed inside their house due to mysterious forces at play. Over at the “End of Oak Street,” a big-screen undertaking with Spielberg-ian overtones, dinosaurs move into a […]
ShotSpotter not yet restarted; Wells details community policing goals
More than a week after Cambridge City Council voted to reinstate ShotSpotter for 90 days and form an assembly of residents to assess it, it remains unclear when either will happen. However, that 90-day clock started ticking as soon as the council voted on the policy order, a city spokesperson confirmed. Read more Cautious optimism […]
Cautious optimism on Reid Overpass replacement design
Community members said they were encouraged about the direction of the Reid Overpass redesign presented by Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) at an Aug. 6 meeting in Cambridgeport. MassDOT showed its two finalists for the intersection, where the BU Bridge meets Memorial Drive, connecting Cambridge to Boston. The rotary below the existing overpass often leads […]
Lights! Cambridge! Action! Local youth build skills at Summer Media Institute
Programs like Cambridge Community Television’s (CCTV) Summer Media Institute are few and far between in an increasingly challenging job market for young people. The paid summer art program for teenagers is now in its 36th year, and will graduate 27 middle and high schoolers at the end of this summer with proficiencies in professional media […]
China’s boom in Biotech brings debate to Cambridge
Some of the biggest names in biotech debated China’s impact on biotech and what it means for the United States on Aug. 6, in front of an audience that filled the first floor of MIT’s Koch Institute building. Read more Fermentation fanatics prep for second annual festival in Somerville The event, organized by biotech publication […]
Fermentation fanatics prep for second annual festival in Somerville
Flora Spivak loves fermenting so much that when a swarm of fruit flies invaded her kitchen to feast on her kombucha, she didn’t completely quit. She cleared out the wooden barrel it was brewing in and started over. And when mold began growing in the crevices of that barrel, she was still more inclined to […]
Somerville libraries receive Carnegie Foundation grants
In an echo of their founding, all three Somerville Public Library branches received grants from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation. The Foundation gave $10,000 each to every library originally funded by Carnegie, an industrialist and philanthropist who died in 1919, in honor of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Read more […]
Body found in Fresh Pond
A body was found in Fresh Pond, according to a statement from the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office and Cambridge Police Department. Read more “Binge Thinking” aims to provide an antidote to doomscrolling An investigation is under way. The statement said “preliminary indications are that the body appears to have been in the water for an […]
“Binge Thinking” aims to provide an antidote to doomscrolling
At the Aeronaut Brewery on a recent night in July, there wasn’t an empty table to be found as people greeted each other by the bar and then settled into chairs after walking carefully by the large projector screen at the center of the room. Read more New donut shop owner hopes we’ll all be […]