Cambridge
News and stories from Cambridge, Massachusetts, covering local government, politics, schools, universities, business, development, culture, public safety, and the issues affecting the community.
Cambridge Real Serious About Enforcing Leaf Blower Restrictions
The city of Cambridge enforces its current restrictions on leaf blowers stringently, a city official said earlier this week. The city bans…
Cambridge Public Library To Host ‘Family Pride Concert’
Cambridge Public Library is set to host a "Family Pride Concert" with Carrie Ferguson, "a queer and gender nonconforming…
Cambridge Effectively Decriminalizes Magic Mushrooms
The War on Drugs just got a little smaller in Cambridge, Massachusetts this week. On Monday, the city council voted 8-1…
Cambridge Mayor Calls Video Of Black Harvard Student’s Arrest ‘Disturbing’
CAMBRIDGE — Police have released an onlooker's video depicting the takedown-style arrest of a naked black Harvard student police say…
Mr. Bartley’s Founder Was ‘Mayor of Harvard Square’
Harvard Square has steadily lost non-chain businesses in recent years, but Mr. Bartley's Gourmet Burgers on Massachusetts Avenue still…
UMass-Boston Admins Say White Supremacist Posters Have Popped Up On Campus
BOSTON –University of Massachusetts-Boston students were instructed Wednesday to be on the lookout for a series of posters and fliers purportedly…
AG Healey Adamant, Will Not Challenge Baker In 2018
Her stardom may be on the rise nationally, but Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey insists she has no aspirations to challenge Governor…
Harvard Law profs challenge federal sex-assault ‘guidance’
CAMBRIDGE – A collection of prominent law school professors, including Harvard's Alan Dershowitz, shot back at President Barack Obama's…
Creating community: Boston cohousing
Lifestyles and living habits are changing in many Boston-area neighborhoods. Many younger people are opting for multiple housemates to off-set…
Russell House Tavern: Specialty Cocktails
Nestled behind the red brick façade of Harvard Square, Russell House Tavern is an attractive get away with decorative outdoor lighting and…
Baraka Café transports customers to North Africa
Tucked away on Pearl Street near Kendall Square in Cambridge, Baraka Café transports customers to the sands of North Africa. The small…
Our top 10 bars in the Hub for meeting people
BOSTON – In a time when social meet ups are often done online, meeting new people face-to-face is becoming increasingly difficult.…
MIT grads often choose Cambridge for startups
CAMBRIDGE – While Boston's colleges and universities are thought to provide engines for much of the city's urban and…
MIT Senseable City Lab envisions future cities
CAMBRIDGE – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its researchers have long been reshaping our reality. Teachers at the school and its alumni…
Brewing up a business can unlock a new career
Forty years ago in the U.K., the term "microbrewery" emerged to describe new small-batch operations independent of the…
Portuguese fest draws out varied Hub community
CAMBRIDGE – On a warm Thursday evening, both young and old Portuguese-Americans packed the Filarmónica de Santo António Cultural Center in East…
WATCH: Exploring the best of Harvard Square
CAMBRIDGE — Even for non-students, living near a world-famous college has its perks. In the last few months alone, I'…
Salsa dancing gives growing crowds fun way to meet friends
CAMBRIDGE – Couples paired off on the dance floor Saturday night as instructor Liliana Jimenez shouted out some moves. "You always want…
African art show opens at Harvard’s Cooper Gallery
CAMBRIDGE – Walking into the gallery located off Brattle Square in Cambridge, a visitor immediately confronts a doll-like female figurine, but one…
Cambridge pro-Palestine activist group rips Markey over Israel
CAMBRIDGE — A Massachusetts-based pro-Palestinian group is looking to put pressure on U.S. Sen. Ed Markey over the lawmaker'…
Harvard defends itself in Title IX lawsuit
BOSTON — Harvard University is not backing down from challenging a female graduate's federal lawsuit claiming the school was negligent in…
Harvard Museums unveil resplendent renovations
Housing one of the most captivating collections in Boston, the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture offer a distinctive repository of wonder,…
Cambridge excoriates Columbus, sets Indigenous Peoples’ Day
BOSTON – Across the Charles River from the seat of Bay State power sits the city of Cambridge, the intellectual heart of the…
Harvard professors join chorus against club leadership ban
CAMBRIDGE – The drumbeat questioning the decision to punish Harvard College students who join single-sex social organizations is growing louder as a…
Warren tears into Trump in fresh Twitter assault
BOSTON – Donald Trump waited until Wednesday morning to escalate his return fire after U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren accused him of being…
Asian-American Lin to head national campus Christian group
MADISON, Wisc. – One of the nation's leading organizations serving Christian college students has named Tom Lin its next leader. He…
Outside candidates look to crash Harvard Overseers race
CAMBRIDGE — Three out of five members of the slate of candidates running for seats on the Harvard's second most powerful…
MIT hosts lecture tying global warming to Islamophobia
CAMBRIDGE — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted a lecture Monday that went where few lectures have gone before: the intersection of Islamophobia…
Harvard women protest ‘blacklist’ targeting single-sex clubs
CAMBRIDGE – Women in Harvard College sororities and other gender-exclusive organizations are fighting back after administrators at the Ivy League school announced…
Harvard prof says treat conservative ‘losers’ like post-war Germans
CAMBRIDGE — Liberals have won the culture wars, and should start taking advantage of their victory, Harvard Law School Professor Mark Tushnet wrote…
Fateful meeting looms for Green Line extension
BOSTON – The fate of the cost-burdened Green Line Extension depends in large part on the new budget that will be presented…
Harvard steps may lead down a thorny path
CAMBRIDGE – The latest call by students at Harvard University for the school to purge terms or symbols deemed offensive by a vocal…
Harvard Final Club fights back
CAMBRIDGE – Harvard College's Final Clubs, the exclusive social institutions unaffiliated with the Ivy League university but targeted by administrators over…
Malia Obama to enter Harvard in 2017 after taking gap year
WASHINGTON (AP) — A year off between high school and college is becoming a popular choice for U.S. students and it has…
Brothers under a Mystic roof
"So why do you think people find the choice you've made to be such a novelty, even a kind…
