This Weekend at The Middle East
Today is Thursday, July 30, 2009. We Are Scientists return to the Middle East Downstairs tonight with Brooklyn’s Bear Hands and all-girl band Bad Girlfriend. Moving Mountains return to the Middle East Upstairs stage tonight with local band Clouds (Hydrahead Records), playing one of their last shows for a while. Brooklyn buzz band Goes Cube [...]
TRUTH VALUES: ONE GIRL’S ROMP THROUGH M.I.T’S MALE MATH MAZE Comes to Cambridge’s Central Square Theater 9/10
Are women inherently inferior to men in math and science, as Lawrence Summers, then President of Harvard, suggested several years ago? Writer/performer and recovering mathematician, Gioia De Cari offers a woman’s perspective on this question in TRUTH VALUES: ONE GIRL’S ROMP THROUGH M.I.T.’S MALE MATH MAZE, an autobiographical solo show coming to Cambridge’s Central Square [...]
Phoenix Landing to add outdoor seating
Phoenix Landing has applied for a license to add 19 Tables and 38 seats. They would be on an outdoor sidewalk patio. A public hearing will held Monday evening August 10, 2009 at five o’clock at 831 Massachusetts Ave.
Clean Streets and Graffiti Removal in Central Square
If you live or work in Central Square you know that street cleanliness and graffiti are both concerns and challenges for community members, business owners and landlords alike. The City of Cambridge in conjunction with the Central Square Business Association has been working diligently to support an improved condition in Central Square. In particular, The [...]
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Cambridge resident showcases photos of senior citizens in Central Sq.
By Jeanne Amy Cambridge — The thought of posing for a yearbook photo may conjure up some unflattering self-images, but Susan Young of Antrim Street in Inman Square has made over 90 senior citizens very happy by taking their portrait in the past few months. “Everyone gets their school picture taken starting from a young [...]
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Toscanini’s in Central Square Best Ice Cream
Rachel Travers of the Boston Globe points out that Toscanini’s in Central Square is one of the best places to get Ice Cream. Toscanini’s in Central Square — with its blond wood, retro couches, and crowds of students and professors — is a neighborhood meeting place with a global feel. How Cambridge. You can also [...]
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A Portrait Exhibit of Senior Citizens from the Cambridge Citywide Senior Center.
Susan Young, a local independent photographer, is working with the Clear Conscience Café again and has captured images of one of the unique assets of Central Square and Cambridge: it’s senior citizen population. An exhibit of some 50 portraits will open on Monday July 20th, 2009 at the Clear Conscience Café located at 581 Mass [...]
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$5 will get you a clambake at Cambridge Whole Foods
Whole Foods Market will serve a seafood feast, “Goodwill from the Gill,” Saturday, July 25, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. to raise awareness about the importance of sustainable seafood practices. Local, ocean fresh mussels and clams, potato salad, grilled corn and a drink will be offered for $5. Proceeds will benefit MIT’s Sea Grant [...]
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Mohan Singh loves to talk about Indian food.
Mohan Singh loves to talk about Indian food. The local restaurateur spent the better part of 20 minutes discussing garam masala, a mixture of ground spices used abundantly in Indian cuisine to flavor meats and vegetables. The spice mixture is a principal ingredient in many of the dishes that Singh serves at Haveli, Punjabi Dhaba [...]
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Shift Mob Recap
By all measures, theworld’s first ShiftMob on July 25, 2009 was a major success. Hundreds of shoppers converged on the Harvest Co-op Market and the Clear Conscience Cafe, creating a mob-scene in Central Square, Cambridge. “ShiftMobsters” shared in the excitement of the event, listened to local community leaders talk about building the local economy, were [...]