From chef and restaurateur Ken Oringer and pastry chef Monica Glass comes Verveine Cafe & Bakery, a daytime counter service restaurant devoted to gluten-free goods that opened May 6 in Central Square.

A proposal to encourage construction of multifamily housing across Cambridge is only at the start of its process, city councillors assured alarmed commenters at their Monday meeting. Residents could ...

A scaled-back plan to expand the Somernova tech and business campus was filed May 6 with the city of Somerville and announced Monday to the public. The plan is now for 1.6 million square feet instead ...

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 ...

Cambridge’s MIT and Harvard became over the weekend the only two campuses with pro-Palestinian encampments remaining in Boston. Though other protests of violence in Gaza continue around the nation and ...

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, ...

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 ...

Somerville’s Homans Site, empty acreage that has long frustrated its neighbors, will have a temporary makeover this summer as the organization CultureHouse creates a three-month “outdoor community ...

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 ...

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 ...

Keen-eyed consumers of the Cambridge-based Chang Shing Tofu may have been surprised to see a Stoughton address listed on recent packages, rather than the brand’s longtime East Cambridge location.

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 ...