As the country contends with a burst of measles cases, almost all Cambridge schoolchildren are fully vaccinated against measles and other childhood diseases, figures from the state health department ...

These are just some of the municipal meetings and civic events for the coming week. More are on the City of Somerville website. Fair Housing Commission, 3 p.m. Thursday. The commission meets to ...

The Cambridge Street Hospitality Group plans to open a 4,000-square-foot multifunction hall called the First Street Market this summer in East Cambridge with a restaurant called Amba, weekly, ...

Just like your plans to move out of your mom’s basement have been delayed, so are Ryan Howe’s plans for his Duck Duck Goofs comedy club to leave the basement of the Cambridge Community Center. The ...

A policy order about bike lane installation in Cambridge that some saw as a “delay” and some saw as an “extension” to be used only if needed passed the City Council early Tuesday on a 5-4 vote. The ...

Even among the many wild and wonderful film festivals Greater Boston has to offer every year, the Independent Film Festival Boston stands alone. Since 2003, IFFBoston has served as the city’s de facto ...

A proposed zoning amendment to use money from the Affordable Housing Trust to help finance new city-backed rent vouchers is encountering roadblocks on two fronts. The city’s legal chief says Cambridge ...

We write to express our alarm at the decision by administrators at many U.S. institutions of higher education to suppress peaceful expression by their students in support of Palestinian civilians in ...

Chinese food is one of the most popular varieties of dine-in and takeout cuisine in Cambridge and beyond. But this was not always the case – before the mid-20th century, many Americans had never ...

With millions of development dollars pushing lab and office towers skyward, a new green line T stop now just part of the background, a thousand homes projected to be built and another 150,000 square ...

The deepest quality of the human condition, perhaps, is the desire to be accepted. To be loved for who you are – not just for your good parts, but also for your flaws, your mistakes, your insecurities ...

After growing up on a cherry farm in Yamhill, Oregon, and attending Harvard and then the University of Oxford, Nicholas Kristof joined The New York Times as a reporter in 1984. Over the course of his ...