And so that happened: On Sunday afternoon, 300-ish people formed a human chain from Porter Square Books in Cambridge’s Porter Square Mall to its soon-to-open replacement location in a Lesley ...
It’s 2024, and yet, for every dollar a man makes in Massachusetts, a woman earns 84 cents. Despite major efforts to address women’s equality in the workplace over many decades, significant gender and ...
The geographic range for Will Gilson and the Cambridge Street Hospitality Group may be limited to clusters in Inman Square (Puritan & Co. and the Puritan Oyster Bar) and Cambridge Crossing (Cafe ...
In a single decade Francis Ford Coppola made not just one but four cinema-defining films: “The Godfather” (1972) and “The Godfather Part II” (1974); “The Conversation” (1974); and of course ...
The cyclist struck Monday by an SUV on Memorial Drive in Cambridge has died. The cyclist, identified as John Corcoran, 62, of Newton (state police initially gave the name as “John Cochran” in an email ...
The annual Honk! festival is back Oct. 4-6, bringing the sounds of brass, drums and social justice to the streets of Somerville. It’s one week earlier than usual for the festival of activist street ...
Massachusetts Avenue Planning Study community meeting, 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday. The group held a process already looking at a segment of the avenue from Porter Square south to Cambridge Common; now it ...
More than 700 bicyclists came Friday to ride three times around the Cambridge rotary where Memorial Drive intersects with the Boston University Bridge – once for each of the riders who have died on ...
Because of standardized tests, I thought snipe were fictional birds. When I was in school, every spring we took assessments called Iowa tests. One year, I read a passage about a group of kids who ...
A proposal for multifamily-building zoning, which could allow apartments of up to six stories in all residential areas of Cambridge, has been delayed until Monday due to concerns that sending the ...
The cuts to hours at Somerville’s Central Library to avoid disruptive and violent teen behavior took many by surprise, including city councilors now coming together to press for solutions. A meeting ...
I’ve lived in Cambridge for more than half a century, and I vividly recall the dozens of bookstores (yes, dozens!) we had in earlier years. That era is long gone, but we still have several bookstores ...