Smart glasses and other wearable technologies were banned from Cambridge Public Schools by a policy order passed Tuesday by ...

An engine made by Cambridge’s Blake & Knowles Foundry in 1916. (Photo: Digital Commonwealth) This week, as Cambridge joins the rest of the country in marking the Labor Day holiday, we also mark the ...

Q: What’s the difference between a refundable and nonrefundable tax credit, and why does it matter? A: Both can reduce the taxes you owe, but a refundable credit can go one important step further and ...

Fall is the best moviegoing time of the year. In anticipation of garnering year-end award recognition, Hollywood puts its best foot forward, presenting many of its most ambitious, challenging and ...

A Harvard shuttle travels Cambridge’s Baldwin neighborhood in January. (Photo: Marc Levy) The Independent’s sixth locally themed puzzle – they come every other Saturday courtesy of local creator ...

Somerville city councilor JT Scott, left, talks with former mayor Joe Curtatone at the city’s Jan. 3 inauguration at Somerville High School. (Photo: Marc Levy) Five-term Somerville city councilor JT ...

Find more of Rusty Epstein’s cartoons here. Rusty Epstein’s work has been published in the New Yorker, the Times Luxury, and Private Eye, among others, and is wildly popular with women over 65 who ...

New MIT professor Thomas Rose died Wednesday from injuries sustained in an Aug. 21 collision at Memorial Drive and Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, where he was riding a bicycle, according to the ...

A move is not always up. (Photo: Michal Balog via Unsplash) It is the first of September and it is raining. Two landlords are emailing me, each with a list of escalating demands: my prior landlord, ...

Graham & Parks principal Kathleen Smith, in white jacket, leads an April 11, 2024, meeting of the school council. (Photo: Marc Levy) Graham & Parks principal Kathleen Smith told staff at a June ...