1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (540+ words) Esh Circus Arts is under a big top – the building where it’s been teaching trapeze, juggling and other physical fun for more than a decade is 6,000 square feet. But its classes are so popular that the school expands this fall…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (307+ words) And in the background of this domestic turmoil, the radio makes passing mention of ripples in space of unknown origin and with unknown effect. After a blinding light and a particularly violent storm, Oak Street and the surrounding neighborhood loses…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (552+ words) Issues of academic rigor and student success dominated the Cambridge School Committee’s summer meeting, with discussion Aug. 4 of elementary literacy standards, eighth grade algebra and high school graduation requirements – namely whether years of effort to expunge one standardized test would…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (674+ words) In the reshaping of local restaurant and bar licensing, the later last calls that revelers enjoyed during the World Cup appear to have been taken off the menu. The opportunity for cities and towns to create “conviviality districts” with to-go…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (320+ words) The bass player for opening act Swamphead celebrated his birthday Thursday while onstage at Somergloom, the four-day “heavy” music jamboree at Deep Cuts and Crystal Ballroom, that dropped decibels by the thousands on last weekend’s dog days heatwave. Or rather,…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (276+ words) “The Samurai and the Prisoner” has one of the more captivating setups in recent memory: a mystery set in feudal Japan, with a peace-seeking Lord desperately trying to solve a murder in order to keep his followers loyal in the…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (316+ words) A free gathering space for Somerville kids called Teen Time@The Dojo has received a $100,000 boost from the Somerville Department of Health and Human Services, it was announced Wednesday. The grant allows The Dojo to serve more Somerville teens by…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (229+ words) Although Massachusetts is a blue state with Democratic legislative leadership, the Legislature is among the worst in the country by important criteria: Performance. It is the least productive in the country. Last year 8,456 bills were introduced, and seven were passed....

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (315+ words) The car thermometer read 95 when I pulled up to Call Me Honey on Friday. I was wilted and draggy but on mission. I’d heard that Curio, long closed, was now Call Me Honey (sometimes called “Honey’s”) and still offering Liège…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (158+ words) Cucumber? at Darling Cambridge | Somerville Independent - $8 It is not, shall we say, the most fun thing on a very fun menu of dim sum. Any cucumber would struggle to compete with a Filet O Fish Bao and a Bang Bang…...