Cambridge Archives

BAILEMOS: BODIES WITHOUT BORDERS

The Dance Complex, like other havens for the arts but on a regionally incomparable scale, supports immigrant populations of all kinds and resists discrimination and negative cultural stereotypes.

MICAELA KIMBALL November 27, 2018

LIVING ON SCRAPS

Boston is aiming to achieve “zero waste,” which some say can create more living-wage jobs. Is part of this lofty goal rooted in the region’s dirtiest hypocrisy?

COLE ROSENGREN July 12, 2018

FINAL CRIES

Plight of EMF musicians echoes a longstanding Cambridge reality

OLIVIA DENG June 20, 2018

STEPPING OUT

Pro dancer Ana Masacote opens up about being bisexual in the salsa scene

MICAELA KIMBALL June 5, 2018

MORE POTENT THAN RODENTS

Poisons meant for pests are killing animals and impacting humans in Mass

LAURA KIESEL May 31, 2018

Photos by John Brewer “We try to position each artist on the lineup as their own thing, and try to promote them as a star. … We aren’t just trying to put people on a bill and have a show.” “It was [Jay-Z’s] Hard Knock Life Tour.” DJ Real P,

G. VALENTINO BALL March 28, 2018

THE FANTASY ROBOTS OF BOSTON DYNAMICS

Image via Boston Dynamics / YouTube Relax—we’re a lot further away from an automaton takeover than you may think The MIT spinoff company Boston Dynamics has become famous from its videos on YouTube showing off its nine robot creations: Atlas, Spot, Spot-Mini, BigDog, Wildcat, LS3 (a kind of robotic mule),

GARY ZABEL March 21, 2018

LESSON PLAN

Photos by John Brewer How Cambridge MC Millyz skipped Harvard and MIT to go worldwide Historically, categorically, and definitely musically, Cambridge is a lot more than the Hub’s little brother. One of the first towns settled in Mass (as Newe Towne), Cambridge has a legacy all its own. It’s a

G. VALENTINO BALL September 21, 2017

#CONDEMBTA (THE RECAP)

A public conversation about transit infrastructure As regular Dig readers couldn’t have possibly missed, along with the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ) we asked ace photographer Derek Kouyoumjian to spend a month snapping pics of utterly dilapidated MBTA tracks, stations, and trains. His images of so much beautiful decay,

BINJ ONLINE August 2, 2017

THE BALLAD OF BIKING IN BOSTON

Dispatches from my daily dance with death en route to work I edge off the sidewalk. I look left and then right. Then left and then right again. One more time to be sure. I merge towards the rightmost edge of the street, but there is no bike lane so I teeter

KATIE CAMPISI July 9, 2017