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Cambridge prepares for World Cup to overflow
Throngs have flocked to the metro Boston area for the FIFA World Cup, which will see seven matches at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough between Saturday, June 13 and July 7. Locals have already spotted soccer fans donning kilts as they roam the streets ahead of Saturday’s game between Scotland and Haiti. Read more Best bites […]
Best bites and sips at Taste of Somerville 2026
The Taste of Somerville returned to Boynton Yards in Union Square on Wednesday for the 28th year of the food festival. Read more Immersive play at City Hall revives 1976 recombination debate The 55 vendors dished out their bites and poured drink pairings as quickly as they could to the 1,500 attendees with several vendors […]
Immersive play at City Hall revives 1976 recombination debate
Coming to a city hall near us: the theater of today’s politics is pausing for the theater of the past. The new play “No Recombination Without Representation” will bring to life the 1976 public hearing that debated the safety of DNA recombination research at Harvard University. Throughout June, six performances will take place in Sullivan […]
Will new Cambridge buildings get cut down to size?
It took five months, but the biggest issue of last year’s city council race landed on the council’s agenda for the first time this term, as councillors defended or decried proposed changes to last year’s residential upzoning measures. Read more Cambridge robotics team makes the podium in Greece The most immediate impact will come from […]
Cambridge robotics team makes the podium in Greece
Like many a modern success story, the Juicebox Robotics team began this season in a Cambridge basement and ended it earning recognition on an international stage. Read more MIT Professor takes on Congress The team capped off a season of four top four finishes with a trip to Greece for the FIRST Lego League (FLL) […]
MIT Professor takes on Congress
MIT has asked a court to dismiss the first count of a lawsuit filed against it by Michel Anne-Frederic DeGraff, a linguistics professor at the university. DeGraff in March sued MIT, the U.S. House Committee on Education & Workforce and chair of the committee Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) for violating his First Amendment and civil […]
A new kind of close encounter with the aliens among us
“Disclosure Day” ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3.5 out of 4. When Steven Spielberg makes a movie about aliens, it’s a good idea to pay attention. His latest, “Disclosure Day,” brings the Spielbergian pop mystique, while also being one of the most singularly weird original blockbusters in ages. Josh O’Connor plays Daniel Keller, an operative who goes rogue […]
‘We’re walking on eggshells,’ say some Graham and Parks staff
For the second time in three years, Graham and Parks School Principal Kathleen Smith faces allegations of creating a toxic culture and calls for a change in leadership by parents and staff. Read more The many names of the wood louse Similar allegations were made in 2024, when parents’ complaints led to an external investigation […]
The many names of the wood louse
There are quite a few types of wood lice, but the Armadillidiidae family of wood louse is unique in that it can roll up into a ball, or conglobate (pronounced “con-glow-bate”). Many nonscientists have acknowledged this unique trait with their own descriptive names: pill bug, roly poly, basketball bug or curly bug. Read more Winding […]
Winding down with old friends at Tampopo
When 2025 became 2026, Yasumasa Ito decided 34 years was long enough and it was time to shut down Tampopo, the venerable Japanese noodle and donburi bowl bodega in the Lesley Building in Porter Square. Cambridge Day posted an appreciation piece highlighting our favorite dishes, and lauding Ito for maintaining high quality over the years. […]