Somerbridge Smackdown?
After two weeks of bickering and hair-pulling, the reps from sister cities Somerville and Cambridge sat down with WGBH’s Emily Rooney to work through their issues. The fight, which started when...
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Why We Should Pay People to Bike to Work
Photo via ThinkStock This morning, it took me 40 minutes to drive 3.5 miles from my house in Jamaica Plain to my office by Symphony Hall. That’s about 5 miles per hour, a pace that makes me want to...
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‘This Is Scary, He Could Be Anywhere. He Could Be Anywhere.’
Standing on the corner of Cambridge and Elm Street this morning, I overheard two teenage boys talking. “This is scary, he could be anywhere,” one of them said. “He could be anywhere,” the other agreed....
View ArticleWhen Normalcy Finally Started to Creep Back
During Friday’s lockdown, someone in our house kept turning on all our lights. I’d spent the morning reading up on the Red Cross’s rules of sheltering in place and setting about lowering our shades,...
View ArticleCambridge Wonders What Went Wrong with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
It’s been a few days now since we learned that the alleged marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, lived on Norfolk Street in Cambridge, and it doesn’t make any more sense now than it did...
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The Country’s Largest Poetry Slam Competition Is Coming Back to Boston
Photo courtesy of Marshall Goff. In August, it will be impossible not to walk into a bar in the Boston and Cambridge area that isn’t playing host to groups of word-slinging artists equipped with...
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New Map Database Shows Where Cambridge Crime Happens
via Cambridge Police Finding out where certain crimes happen in Cambridge is as easy as clicking a button. On Tuesday, the city’s Police Department announced a new initiative, in partnership with BAIR...
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High-Tech Blooms for Brides
Photo by Marta Locklear/Courtesy of H. Bloom In need of fabulous petals or yummy treats for your Big Day? H.Bloom is a new online floral provider serving Boston, Cambridge, and Brookline. Brides sign...
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Cambridge Crime Prevention: Cardboard MBTA Cops and a Cyclist’s Curse
The MBTA made national headlines this week after it was revealed that they are now relying on 2-D, life-sized portraits of their transit officers in order to scare off criminals and keep them from...
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Little Free Libraries Are Making Book Borrowing More Interesting
Photo Via James Fox/Friends of the Somerville Library As digital everything continues to grow, a small but intriguing facet has tapped into a simpler way of attracting people to print while promoting...
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See Boston’s Skyline From 120-Feet In The Air
Photo by Craig Silva Food trucks, festivities, and a free ride on a Ferris wheel: It’s all happening in Cambridge this week. Education First is giving attendees a chance to take a whirl on the...
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Facebook Sends Cease and Desist to Developer Claiming His Website ‘Infringed’...
Facebook Photo Uploaded by Scott Beale on Flickr Facebook allegedly threatened to fine a software engineer from Cambridge who created an app that let users cut back on time they spent on the social...
View ArticleKevin Bacon Wants People To Skip The Department Stores And Shop Locally
A grassroots movement that started as a collaboration between two organizations in Somerville and Cambridge, and has since turned into a national campaign, is calling on the help of actor Kevin Bacon...
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Clover Food Lab Cooked Up Breakfast for 135 Plow Drivers
Photo courtesy of Ayr Muir Although the snowstorm that hit the area didn’t leave as much of the powdery white stuff in the Greater Boston region as expected, plow drivers were still out during all...
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Ready, Set, Smash: It’s the Battle of the Autonomous Robots
Courtesy Photo They’ll smash, they’ll bash, and they’ll destroy one another—all in the name of a championship title. At the “Grand Finale” of Cambridge’s Science Festival in Central Square in April,...
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By the Book: Familiar Places in Susanna Kaysen’s New Book, Cambridge
Photograph courtesy of Knopf “From the swimming pool by the river at Magazine Street where my mother took me in the dog days to the Star Market on the way to Watertown where she dragged me weekly was...
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Bench Diary: Write Your Thoughts in a Community Journal
Image via Bench Diary If you see a small pink or purple journal seemingly abandoned on a park bench somewhere in the Boston area, don’t turn it in to the lost and found. Instead, take a seat and write...
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Cambridge Businesses Are Taking Advantage of the MBTA’s Late-Night Service
Image via Kendall Square Cinema on Facebook With the MBTA running later as part of a one-year pilot program, Cambridge businesses are thinking creatively by petitioning city officials so they can keep...
View ArticleCambridge Officially Declares May 8 ‘Keytar Bear Day’
Let it be known across the lands (or at least the shores surrounding the Charles River) that May 8 is now officially known as “Keytar Bear Day” in Cambridge. The designation of such a day is the...
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Bicycle Commuting Is an Easier Sell in Cambridge
Cycling photo by Louis Oliveira via Flickr Because Cambridge sits next to Boston, it sometimes makes it easier to see the differences between smaller and larger cities. One of those differences:...
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