Scout Cambridge July/August 2015

JULY/AUGUST 2015

NO. 15

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contents 6 // EDITOR’S NOTE 8 // WINNERS & LOSERS Bully for Barry Maiden, bad news for unhealthy lifestyles.

10 // NEWS: ENOUGH HOUSING, BUT FOR WHOM? Cambridge is surpassing its housing goals, and that’s still not enough.

12 // WHAT’S NEW? From Kendall Square to T.T. the Bear’s to outdoor food truck fairs, here’s what’s going on.

16 // SCOUT’S HONORED FINALISTS You choose the winners. Voting ends July 25.

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26 // FEATURE: FIERCE OVER 40 Cambridge all-stars 40 and older who are making this city great.

36 // SCOUT OUT: SECRET GARDENS Some of the best green spaces are where you’d least expect.

38 // SCOUT OUT: HEALTHY ICE CREAM? THAT’S JUST BANANAS Harvard students develop a low calorie frozen treat to help you beat the summer heat.

40 // CALENDAR & SCOUT PICKS 43 // LOCAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY 46 // SCOUT YOU

38 Photo, top: Dancer Anna Myer strikes a pose, photo by Chrissy Bulakites.

Photo, bottom: Just Bananas fans grab a snack during a May popup at Clover Food Labs, photo by Mary Knox Miller.

On the cover: Author Junot Díaz is fierce over 40, photo by Chrissy Bulakites.

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editor’s note Freaked Under 40

By Emily Cassel

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s I walked to meet one of the subjects for this issue’s “Fierce over 40,” I was struck by some lyrics I heard. “Wisdom’s a gift, but you’d trade it for youth,” Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig intoned from my headphones. “Age is an honor, it’s still not the truth.” I was about halfway through my interviews for the story and had become fixated on the way our culture reacts to age—in songs, like that one, to films and ads and TV shows. (Has anyone else been watching Netflix’s Grace and Frankie? Funny, right?)

At 24 years old, a minimum of 16 years separates me from the youngest of the 12 Cambridge mainstays I spoke to for this piece—16 daunting years full of their successes, joys, failures, missteps, hopes, dreams, plans and schemes. I interview people who are older than I am all the time, of course, but these conversations felt different. I was so aware of experiential chasms between us. I was self-conscious. Selfishly (and, in all likelihood, fairly obviously), I was probing them for advice that I could apply to my own career. They were so confident, so self-assured, with their tumultuous twenties long behind them.

Of course, some of us are a bit impatient to get to the success part.

Take the group of first-year Harvard University students who developed a frozen treat so good that they’re already in talks with Whole Foods (p. 38). But, more often than not, good things come to those who work tirelessly for years. It’s as comforting as it is intimidating, the time separating me from these successful, Hopkins (left) and Cassel review materials for Scout’s seasoned community members.

Honored voting. Photo by JS O’Connor.

Would any of the people I interviewed trade their wisdom for youth? I can’t say—I’m too green; I felt it would be forward to ask them. But judging by the way Elizabeth Stagl lights up when she talks about her 40-plus years at Cambridge Naturals (p. 35) or Katiti Kironde pounds her fists into the table as she talks about her work in Uganda (p. 31), I’d have to say they wouldn’t. Age is an honor.

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BARRY MAIDEN Only one Boston-area chef took home top honors in this year’s James Beard Foundation awards: Barry Maiden, who founded Hungry Mother in 2008 (more Hungry Mother news in What’s New on p. 12) and later opened State Park.

Maiden was honored with a medal in the Best Chef: Northeast category, edging out other talented local chefs including Karen Akunowicz of Myers + Chang and Sarma’s Cassie Piuma. Sometimes victory is sweet, and sometimes it tastes like State Park’s slow-cooked beef shoulder.

UNHEALTHY LIFESTYLES Congrats to the Cambridge Food and Fitness Policy Council, which at the end of April was recognized as a “bright idea” by the Ash Center at Harvard University. “Our goals are to make it easier for people to make healthy choices,” co-facilitator of the Food and Fitness Policy Council Dawn B. Olcott told Scout. The group is especially focused on helping low-income residents and immigrant families, and one of their most popular programs has been International Flavors, which allowed community members to submit their own home recipes to be made into school lunches. “The kids love it,” Olcott says.

AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER The American Repertory Theater cleaned up at the Elliot Norton Awards in May, taking home seven awards for three of their productions—“The Shape She Makes,” “The Tempest” and “Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3).” Oberon also netted three honors at the awards ceremony, which each year recognizes the best in local theater. Way to go, all—we’re glad none of you actually broke a leg.

ROBERT ROBINSON TAYLOR The first African-American graduate of MIT, Robert Robinson Taylor, was honored with his own Forever Stamp in May. Taylor studied architecture at the esteemed university and graduated with honors in 1892, making history as what some believe to be the first academically trained black architect in the United States, according to the United States Postal Service.

ECO-VILLAINS In April, the National Journal recognized Cambridge as one of 10 cities nationwide that are making a real commitment to going green, citing innovations in sustainability including urban forestry development and the city’s plan to use LED fixtures in street lights.

And they didn’t even mention the recently passed plastic bag ban or our fleet of green city vehicles!

THE HOARDING ECONOMY “That ‘sharing economy’ label doesn’t necessarily convey the equity problems we’re having,” says City Councilor Nadeem Mazen of the moniker brought about by companies like Uber and Airbnb. “It needs to be more about sharing, it needs to be more pro-bono.” Mazen moderated a May 30 panel, “Making the Sharing Economy Work for Everyone,” which included Janelle Manos of Beta Boston, David Block Shafter at Bridj and Donna Blythe-Shaw, spokesperson for the Boston taxi drivers union. “People assume that because there are strong opinions surrounding these issues and we happen to disagree, these conversations have to happen from afar ... but you can’t build a consensus by hurling stones from the side,” Mazen added.

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MORE HOUSING, BUT FOR WHOM?

By Emily Hopkins Additional reporting by Emily Cassel

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peaking in simple terms, building more housing in an effort to reduce rent makes sense. Microeconomics 101 will teach you that a lack of supply and high demand drive up prices, so as Cambridge becomes a more expensive place to live, the call for more units seems justified. But are we doing enough to curb housing costs?

According to City Councilor Dennis Carlone, the answer is no.

In a recent blog post prepared by Aide Mike Connolly, he noted that Cambridge is set to surpass the housing units goal set by the Massachusetts Area Planning Council (MAPC), a regional planning agency. Developers are building or have the permits to build thousands of new units, but housing prices in Cambridge continue to rise. Money is coming into the city, which is good for Cambridge as a whole, though not everyone is reaping the benefits.

“Anytime you have development pressures, it does raise the quality of life in general for the city because new money comes in, says Carlone. “So there’s a winner, and the bigger winner might be the city, but there’s also the other side, it’s the person who’s pushed out.”

The need for more housing was predicted by the executive summary for the Population and Housing Demand Projections for Metro Boston, published in January 2014.

There, the MAPC identifies two likely futures for the Greater Boston Area: Status Quo or Stronger Region. The Status Quo reflects a future where current rates of growth have remained constant, while the Stronger Region projections assume that the municipalities will make

changes that support healthy and robust growth for the region. That means retaining more of the young people who attend school or start their careers here, among other things.

MAPC considers the Stronger Region scenario to be “more consistent with the housing, land use and workforce development goals of MetroFuture,” the council’s 30-year plan for the future, and they recommend that cities use that data to prepare. If the city can’t attract—and house—a younger workforce, then it will miss out on critical economic activity.

To comply with this Stronger Region vision, Cambridge would have to build around 6,200 units of new housing since 2010 and by 2030. According to Connolly, the city is on track to surpass that goal way ahead of schedule. Since 2010, he wrote, there have been 6,764 housing units either built or permitted for construction in Cambridge.

So housing? We’ve got it, or will get it soon, but Carlone says that we need to do more than just drive up supply to lower prices.

“People say, you build and build and build and the prices will go down. Here’s the thing: Developers are crafty and very smart, and they will not overbuild,” says Carlone, who has worked for almost 40 years as an architect and city planner and earned a master’s in Architecture and Urban Design from Harvard University.

Of course, Cambridge isn’t the only city that’s being squeezed by rapid development. Boston is in the top five nationally for highest

“Politics are so slow. It seems everything takes five years. And we don’t have five years.”

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median rent. Cambridge can’t thumb its nose at our neighboring city for the ranking, either: Given the nature of the Boston area, our housing data is often grouped into these studies.

What are other cities doing? The first step is admitting you have a problem. Surveyed Cambridge residents regard affordable housing as one of their top concerns. During interviews with Scout, no matter the subject, there’s a familiar refrain: “I love my neighborhood, and I hope I can afford to live there in the future.” Yet Cambridge does not currently have a comprehensive housing plan, like Boston, whose “Housing a Changing City: Boston 2030” was released last year; San Francisco, who adopted a plan earlier this year; or even our cousin Somerville, whose SomerVision city plan for 2030 includes provisions for housing. Connolly points out that housing plays a large role in the citywide plan currently being developed, but that plan will take years to draft and implement.

“Politics are so slow,” says Carlone. “It seems everything takes five years. And we don’t have five years.”

Another important consideration is the number of affordable units required for future development. Currently, new developers must allocate 15 percent of the base units in a building towards affordable housing. According to a recent American Community Survey, 14.4 percent of all persons in Cambridge are below the poverty line, which would indicate that the city is only preparing for that part of the population (even though “affordable” housing units can often be out of reach for low income tenants). What’s missing is consideration of middle income renters, who, according to the city, are experiencing a shortage of affordable housing. Compare 15 percent of affordable units in new development to the 50 percent recently embraced by New York’s city council.

Carlone points to a number of other options the city could pursue, including allocating a percentage of new development that would be reserved for a housing nonprofit to manage in addition to the original allocated units. He also says that more involvement from the state would be integral in maximizing housing projects. What the right answer is, we as a city don’t know yet. But Cambridge does have a problem.

And throwing more units at it might not be the answer.

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BARRE AND SOUL

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arre and Soul’s unique fitness classes, which meld ballet conditioning, cardio, yoga, Pilates and mindfulness, are coming to Cambridge (36 JFK St.). “It’s such a cool spot in the Boston area with so many intelligent, free-thinking people who I think would be a great part of the Barre & Soul tribe,” founder Andrea Isabelle Lucas said of the Harvard Square location in a statement. The studio should be open July 13.

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“You’re not talking about my weight gain, are you?” jokes The Dance Complex’s Peter DiMuro when asked about the studio’s expansion. The Dance Complex, currently reserved to the third floor of their building (536 Mass. Ave.), is expanding downward—they’ll now have studio space on the first and second floors as well. “Instead of people walking by and saying, ‘Where are those drums coming from?’ they’ll be able to actually see it,” DiMuro says. They’ve kept renovations under wraps for a few months, but things are moving along and the revamped space should be ready to go by September.

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Continuing the rapid growth they’ve experienced since starting out as a food truck in 2011, Bon Me is preparing to open a third brick-and-mortar location (201 Alewife Brook Pkwy.). The new spot could open by August, and Boston magazine reports that 12

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they’ll be serving up an expanded menu that includes fried chicken and new types of ramen.

LECHMERE SQUARE

LORD HOBO BREW PUB

Lord Hobo opened their gigantic new Woburn brewery at the tail end of June, but they may not be

done expanding just yet. Boston Restaurant Talk noted that the brewery is seeking a license for a spot called Lord Hobo Brew Pub (2 Canal Park), according to documents found on a License Commission General Hearing page online. Details were scarce at press time, but we’ll keep you in the know as we hear more.

If you work in or even just travel through Kendall Square, you know that issues of mobility are becoming a problem there.

Traffic jams, packed MBTA platforms—it’s harder and harder to get around in the area. The newly formed Kendall Square Mobility Task Force, led by MassDOT, will spend the next year attempting to reconcile the area’s dramatic growth with its stagnant transportation options.

“We’ve assembled a group of folks who are interested and invested in transportation issues in Kendall Square,” says Matthew Ciborowski, project manager of the task force. The team of government employees, local businesses owners, nonprofit workers and community members will come up with a set of recommendations and policies (both small and large) “to ensure that Kendall Square continues to be a driver of the area’s economy,” says Ciborowski.

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Cambridge City Manager Richard C. Rossi announced in May that he was seeking applicants for a volunteer committee that would evaluate “potential uses, programs and use of shared spaces for creativity and innovation at the Foundry,” according to a statement from his office. The committee is coming together following City Council’s unanimous decision to appropriate $6 million for restorations and improvements to the now-vacant former manufacturing building (101 Rogers St.) in order to facilitate its transformation into a shared-use community space. Taha Jennings, assistant to the city manager, tells Scout that initial interior demolition of the Foundry is scheduled to begin this summer.

SINGING THE BLUES CENTRAL SQUARE

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“Life is a journey and not a destination. And what a journey I have had,” T.T.’s owner Bonney Bouley wrote on Facebook in May when it was reported that the venue would shutter its doors (10 Brookline St.) after negotiations to renew their lease hit a wall. The legendary local club will go out in style with a week of farewell blowout shows, and Scruffy the Cat will play T.T.’s out with a finale show on July 25.

Not even a week after the news of T.T.’s closing broke, Weirdo Records (844 Mass. Ave.) owner Angela Sawyer announced in a statement that her shop could no longer afford to stay open. “[Weirdo Records] was able to have such a good run and run for so long, in the face of a culture that is in no way interested in art, culture, avant garde music, music in general or vinyl ... because of the great record collectors in Boston and around the world who contributed to the shop against their better economic judgment, over and over again,” Sawyer wrote.

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Scelfo is also hoping to open a seafood joint called Waypoint just COMING outside of Harvard Square at 1030 Mass. Ave. Residents aren’t SOON so keen on the idea, though—according to Cambridge Day, a whole host of locals protested the new spot at a May Cambridge Licensing Commission hearing. The commission’s decision has been postponed until Scelfo has a chance to address resident concerns.

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A shelter for young adults age 18 to 24 is coming to First Parish Unitarian Church (3 Church St.) this November.

The project is helmed by codirectors Sarah Rosenkrantz and Sam Greenberg, who explain that there are over 600 young adults in the Boston area who are homeless but only 12 beds in the city specifically reserved for those youths. “Many young adults won’t

stay in adult shelters … so what we are working on is opening a student-run shelter for young adults,” Greenberg says. The Y2Y building will provide a sanctuary within a sanctuary, including “safe and inclusive” showers, laundry services and meals. They’ll also work to connect young adults with health and professional services.

They still have about $230,000 to raise in order to close the funding gap and will need hundreds of volunteers each year, so if

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In a 7-2 vote on May 18, Cambridge City Council passed a zoning amendment allowing Normandy Real Estate Partners and Twining Properties to move forward with their plans to construct a residential tower at Central Square’s Quest

Diagnostics location. If it’s approved following a project review of the proposal, the development would see the creation of 230 units of mixedincome housing, including 50 low-income units. But not everyone on City Council thinks the tower is a good thing. For more on the city’s housing news, we caught up with dissenting voter Dennis Carlone and other concerned residents on p. 10.

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Truly marking the end of an era, Hollywood Express (1740 Mass.

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“Loyal customers, just not enough of them.” Hollywood Express was the last video rental store in Cambridge. So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye.

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Just a few short months after Hungry Mother (233 Cardinal Medeiros Ave.) founder Barry Maiden took home the James Beard Foundation award for Best Chef: Northeast, his restaurant closed its doors on July 3. “We are so grateful for all the support and patronage we have received over the years and honored to have served so many appreciative guests,” a post on Hungry Mother’s website read. The Hungry Mother team (sans Maiden) plans to open a new concept in the space.

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Bergamot’s little sibling, BISq (1071 Cambridge St.), has been COMING serving pint-sized, SOON shareable plates and a unique selection of beer and wine since the end of May. HARVARD SQUARE

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Liquiteria (1440 Mass. Ave.), an NYC-based juice and smoothie shop, opened COMING its first location SOON outside of New York in June.

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as head chef at The Kitchen at Club Passim (47 Palmer St.); this month, we can tell you that the kitchen is now open for lunch service from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. every day.

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Shepard, the new concept from Rene Becker of Hi-Rise Bread Co. and Susan Regis of UpStairs on the Square, is now open at 1 Shepard St. Eater Boston reports that the space features an ever-changing menu made with seasonal, locally sourced ingredients.

LONE STAR TACO BARCOMING SOON

We profiled Lone Star’s forthcoming Cambridge location (635 Cambridge St.) in last year’s November/December issue, and then spent our winter miserable and taco-less. Luckily, a recent Twitter dispatch makes it sound like their opening is imminent.

BioMed Realty Trust is converting the three Cambridge buildings it owns (200 Sidney St., 40 Erie St. and 21 Erie St.) into a research campus that will house smaller tech companies seeking lab space in the city, according to The Boston Business Journal.

“We’re losing the opportunity to keep well-financed, venture capital-backed biotech companies [in Cambridge],” BioMed vice president Bill Kane told the Journal. Kane

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“20 under 20!” “25 under 25!” “30 under 30!”

Each year, companies from Forbes to ESPN to Spotify roll out their lists of the most talented, talked-about young people in their industries. “Look at these prodigies!” they proclaim. “So young, so gifted, so far ahead of their peers.” Cambridge, especially, is full of stories about groups of young people who are starting something, be it a life-changing new app or a revolutionary dining concept.

It’s not that there’s anything inherently wrong with celebrating the successes of the younger stars among us, and there’s certainly something to be said for people who are making waves in their teens and twenties. But isn’t there something more noble about those who have to toil and struggle and claw their way to the top? Who navigate triumphs and failures over the course of decades? Where are the stories about people whose success wasn’t just a flash in the pan, but was instead achieved and sustained through years of hard work, dedication and perseverance?

Well, here are 12. From City Councilor Denise Simmons to choreographer Anna Myer to Brattle Theatre projectionists Dave Leamon and Fred Hanle, we spoke with some of the community’s more seasoned mainstays to bring you their stories—where they came from, how they got where they are today.

It’s one thing to be trendy under 25. It’s another thing entirely to be fierce over 40.

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his is one of my favorite movies, actually.”

Dave Leamon scurries around the Brattle Theatre’s projection booth, getting ready for a Friday evening show while a trailer for “The Long Goodbye” plays to the audience behind him. He’s probably more entitled to this opinion than most—he’s been at the Brattle longer than any other staffer and has watched thousands of movies on the theatre’s silver screen.

If you’ve seen a film at the Brattle within the last 30 years, there’s a good chance that it was either Leamon or Fred Hanle, the Brattle’s third-longest-running staffer, behind the screen making sure everything went smoothly.

They’ve been at this since the analog days of switching film reels, when “every 15 minutes the bell would ring, and—like Pavlov’s projectionist—you’d drool, get up and do your thing,” says Hanle with a laugh. Both have spent countless hours alone with the projectors and have a feel for what Leamon poetically refers to as “the heartbeat of the booth.” They can almost sense when something is about to go awry before it does. They have fond memories of hosting latenight press screenings for local critics like Jay Carr in the days before members of the press corps reviewed movies on their laptops, and they have nicknames for their favorite regulars over the years, like “Chief,” a guy who used to come by the Brattle to catch a movie only to promptly fall asleep in the back row.

The Brattle still screens movies on film as often as possible, but with the advent of digital, the job is different now.

(Hanle jokes that he spends a lot of time behind the screen reading.) But both take immense pride in their work, and they love being a part of the Brattle team.

“The Brattle’s kind of like a family,” Leamon says. “It’s a really small staff,” adds Hanle.

“There are nights when we can say, ‘Wow, we ran this whole movie with three people, and we had 400 people show up.”

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Selena Tan

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our years ago, Selena Tan took a huge leap when she quit her day job to found O Positive Coaching and HR Services, a career coaching company with a focus on helping people of color.

Tan grew up in Taipei and later moved to New York, but has been living and working in Cambridge since the mid-’90s.

“I grew up in a neighborhood in New York that was very diverse and very underserved,” she says. “I see the ways in which we’re treated differently.” With O Positive, she hopes to use her years of business experience to give a leg up to those who grew up in poor communities.

Soon, you might be able to find Tan’s advice without using O Positive’s services—she’s also working on a book.

“If I were in the position of starting all over again, I would love for somebody who understands how it is to help me work my way through figuring things out,” she says.

Her focus on helping the marginalized extends beyond her career coaching platform. As a founding board member of Asian Women for Health, a nonprofit committed to promoting wellness in Asian women through education and advocacy, she’s working toward a future where everyone has access to the healthcare they need.

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erry DeLancey retired from her position at the Agassiz Baldwin Community earlier this July after more than 30 years as its executive director—a pretty good tenure for someone who says she wound up at the nonprofit almost by accident.

A certified teacher, DeLancey had just moved to the area in 1981 when she heard the center was looking for an after-school teacher. “I thought, ‘Oh, that’s perfect! I’ll do that for a couple of years, and then I’ll go out on the job market and get a real job.’” For both professional and personal reasons, she says that she never ended up reentering the job market. The executive director position opened up a few years after she started working at the community, and she took it.

DeLancey has spearheaded numerous campaigns over the years, including Agassiz Baldwin’s pursuit of nonprofit status. The organization bought its current location on Sacramento Street from Harvard under her leadership after years of negotiations, and the Maud Morgan Arts Center was conceptualized and completed with her guidance.

But she gives a lot of credit for the changes at the center to the Cambridge residents who gather there for meetings, classes and celebrations.

“Everything that we did here came out of the community,” she says. “People said, ‘We want arts, there’s no art center in Cambridge,’ and so we eventually built one.”

From after-school teacher to executive director, few days in DeLancey’s career have been the same. And that, she says, is exactly how she likes it.

“Over the years, things have grown and changed, and it’s been really fun to stay,” she says.

“You know, I get bored easily, so having this job has worked well for me.”

Terry DeLancey

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE AGASSIZ BALDWIN COMMUNITY

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Anna Myer

CHOREOGRAPHER, ANNA MYER AND DANCERS

always believed in justice and equality—I’m a Libra” says choreographer Anna Myer. “What I really want to do is give voice to individuals and communities that don’t have a voice.”

Dance and activism might sound like strange bedfellows, but then, Myer’s company isn’t like most. A trained ballet dancer who melds her classical instruction with hip-hop, modern and postmodern dance, she’s orchestrated performances at grand theaters in New York and on basketball courts in housing developments.

She works with dancers of all ages and from different cultural backgrounds, combining the lush melodies of string sections with physical movement and spoken word pieces about race, sexuality and gender. And, while it’s certainly not a traditional way of approaching taboos, she argues that dance is actually a perfect medium for tackling tough issues.

“Because of the physical aspect, I think there’s a lot of trust between dancers,” she says, “and I think it’s a little less scary to talk about some of the subject matter we’re talking about.”

The resulting performances are not just a combination of seemingly disparate artistic elements, they’re a combination of the causes Myer cares most deeply about.

“It’s a way for me to give back, it’s a way to talk about the issues,” she says. “And I make my art.”

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y intelligence—whatever I call my intelligence—was assembled by that kid I was between the ages of 26 and 36 who just did not stop reading,” Díaz says. “That kid built the edifice which I currently claim as my own.”

Díaz is the critically acclaimed author of Drown, This is How You Lose Her and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Today, he teaches writing at MIT and edits fiction at the Boston Review—not a bad resume. But that’s not to say that he’s a stranger to failure, and while nearly 20 years have passed since his first collection of stories was published, he’s not necessarily comfortable in his successes. “The pat-myself-on-the-back reflex is super atrophied in me,” he says. “I’m always thinking about what I haven’t done.” He pushes back at the suggestion that he’s an overachiever, though, joking, “If I was an overachiever, I’d work more.”

He’s referring to the long stretches of time that separate his three major works. Drown was published in 1996, but his follow-up didn’t hit shelves until 2007. “I definitely wrote a lot,” he says of the 11 years that separated his debut from The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. “But I also spent a lot of time nice and depressed and dysfunctional.”

Díaz may not have been producing “work” during that time, but he was working—particularly as an advocate against police brutality. Today, he continues to work with organizations including the DREAM Project, which provides educational programs for at-risk children and teens in the Dominican Republic.

Díaz is a real people person and says he enjoys celebrating the successes of others more than his own. He jokes that this is likely why he’s “the slowest writer alive,” and it’s probably part of what makes him such a beloved professor. And, truthfully, that suits him just fine.

“When I think about who I am as a writer, I feel more old-school in the sense that I definitely am always much happier when no one’s paying me any attention,” he says. “I’d go crazy if I wrote any faster.”

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AUTHOR, MIT PROFESSOR AND ACTIVIST

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Katiti Kironde

PRESIDENT, KIRONDE EDUCATION AND HEALTH FUND

atiti Kironde is no stranger to making headlines. In 1968, the Harvard University graduate found herself thrust into the national spotlight when Glamour magazine put her on the cover of its college issue, making her the first black covergirl of a mainstream American fashion magazine.

“This was during a time of great racial strife,” Kironde recalls.

“The beauty editor … really made me feel good—that I, too, could be beautiful, even if I wasn’t blonde or white.”

As a designer, Kironde has remained involved in the fashion world throughout the years.

Locally, you can find her clothing at Tess in Harvard Square, and she taught Harvard’s first-ever Introduction to Fashion course in 2010. But on an international level, she’s also the president of her family’s organization, the Kironde Education and Health Fund, an aid group working in her native Uganda with the radical idea that if you want to help someone, the best way to do so is to ask them what they need. “Everybody knows that everybody needs water and clean toilets,” she explains. “But five years down the line, when the toilet’s stuck and the well is silted over, nobody knows what to do. There’s all these broken-down projects all over Uganda.”

Her organization works within communities to solve problems from a systemic angle, promising incentives to those who demonstrate a commitment to being proactive in their area. In one village, the the Fund trained families to install and maintain their own rainwater collection systems, but only after they agreed to take in an orphaned child.

According to Kironde, that community has since flourished.

The children are able to attend school because they’re not busy collecting water, and a local economy has built up around villagers with fewer children selling extra water to neighbors who don’t have a filtration system. They’re currently trying to raise enough money to build a business center.

“You would not believe the difference it made in these people’s lives,” Kironde says. “It has liberated these people.”

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Fierce Over 40

Bob Hurlbut

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

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t’s a truism,” laughs Bob Hurlbut, reminiscing on his drive to the office that morning, “that the week they start doing construction and tearing up the roads each year is the same week of Harvard graduation.” He would know—a lifelong Cambridge resident, Hurlbut’s connection to this city runs deep and wide. As an eight year old, while his father was serving as a Navy medical officer in World War II, Harvard Square business owners would invite him to stop by their shops after class each day to talk about his schooling.

Hurlbut has tried hard to pay his city back for its generosity. He cares deeply about the work he’s doing and about the people and nonprofits in Cambridge who need a little help. “Citizens are always asked to contribute money, i.e., their taxes, but that goes where the city thinks it should go,” he explains. “Why not have funds collected that can, in fact, go where there are risks or people in real need?”

Hurlbut was headmaster of the Parks school in Brookline for 25 years before joining the Cambridge Community Foundation and says that he wasn’t sure what to expect from this role before taking it on.

In his 21 years with the organization, he’s worked with the executive directors of 180 agencies and nonprofits throughout the city, of whom he is extremely reverent. “They’re very dedicated people,” he says.

“They do this stuff because of a real love of people and because of the struggles and hopes of a municipality.” He enjoys working in the community so much that not long into his tenure, he worked with the board to move his role away from fundraising in order to work more closely with nonprofits in the area.

Hurlbut will retire from the foundation at the end of July, leaving it in the very capable hands of the Boston Foundation’s Geeta Pradhan.

But that doesn’t mean you’ll stop seeing him around town.

“I’m not going anywhere,” he says. “Cambridge is my home.”

Susan Fleischmann

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CCTV

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usan Fleischmann’s media career began when she was a freelance photographer doing political work for publications including a woman’s newspaper called Equal Times, Gay Community News and a handful of other alt-weeklies.

But when she heard about public access television, her interest was piqued. “I thought about how much more effective video might be able to be,” Fleischmann recalls.

This was the early ‘80s, before CCTV, SCATV in Somerville or Boston Neighborhood Network, so she went to Peabody, where she was able to work with one of the founders of the public access movement. She was instantly hooked.

Fleischmann joined the CCTV team when the station opened in 1988, and she became Executive Director in 1993. Her position means she doesn’t get to do as much of the political activism that initially drew her to community access television, and she jokes that these days she’s something of a “petty bureaucrat.” But she feels good that she spends her time providing a platform for people who want one.

“I’m still passionately committed to helping people tell their stories and have control over their own message,” she says.

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“I

didn’t wake up at around eight years old and decide, ‘I think I’m going to be a city councilor,’” says Denise Simmons. “It was not that well planned out.”

While Simmons looks perfectly at home sitting behind a sprawling table in a gorgeous conference room at City Hall, her path to politics was a winding one. After graduating from college, Simmons joined Cambridge’s Civic Unity Committee in 1980, where she worked with religious and ethnic minority groups in the city around issues of fairness.

It was through her position as executive director of that organization that she attended a school committee meeting to lobby the board for a fulltime affirmative action officer.

Simmons says that the school committee members were supportive, at least initially. “But when we left the room, the issue left with us,” she recalls. “I knew at that point if you really wanted to make a difference, it wasn’t enough to get to the political body. You had to have someone on the other side of the bar.”

She ran for and won a school committee position in the ‘90s and was elected to City Council in 2002.

Now in her sixth term as a city councilor, Simmons is fighting for many of the same causes she has been throughout her career—issues of housing, safety and fairness for all citizens regardless of race or gender.

She’s particularly proud of a collaboration with the YWCA called Girls Only Leadership Development (GOAL), which aims to teach young women to look at their education as a way to get the career they want.

Above all else, she believes in participatory government and wants to ensure that the city’s residents have a say in what happens at City Hall.

“Once you get elected, that’s not enough,” she states.

“Yes, people cast a vote for you, and that is certainly a level of involvement. But you then need to know how they feel about the issues.”

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Michael Kanter & Elizabeth Stagl FOUNDERS AND OWNERS, CAMBRIDGE NATURALS

he natural foods movement may be booming today, but there wasn’t much of a movement to speak of in the United States—let alone in the Boston area—when the husband and wife team of Michael Kanter and Elizabeth Stagl opened Cambridge Naturals in 1974.

“We were what we call the pioneers,” Stagl jokes. “We were the lead wagon train that went out West when there weren’t cities and towns there.”

As anyone who’s studied American history (or played “Oregon Trail”) knows, the first wagon trains to forge a path out West were also the ones most likely to meet a tragic end. Kanter and Stagl were only 22 when Cambridge Naturals opened its doors and had little business experience between them—in fact, Kanter had studied history in college. So how has the pair been able to keep their business afloat while scores of other natural foods shops in the Cambridge area (including Organic Food Cellar and Erewhon Trading Company, among others) have come and gone?

“We never rest on our laurels,” Kanter says. “We have friends who are performers, and they could have a great show, but then, you know, they go on to the next show. It’s like every day for us is a show.” The pair works to find the best new products and prides themselves on offering outstanding customer service.

They also work closely with area organizations like Community Cooks and Cambridge Local First (where Michael is a board member), and they are committed to paying their employees a fair wage.

At the end of the day, they’re mostly just happy that the causes that are important to them have resonated with people in the Greater Boston area.

“It’s nice to earn a living doing something we believe in,” says Kanter.

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Parks

Scout Out! Secret Gardens

Text by Dan Richards Illustration by Laura Quincy Jones

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hen talking to city officials about Cambridge public space, one thing becomes immediately clear: The design and maintenance of the area’s parks are taken very seriously.

“Cambridge is a dense, built-up city,” explained Taha Jennings, assistant to the city manager. Given this reality, Jennings said, “the small parks and playgrounds that run throughout the city play a vital role in Cambridge’s open space.”

This understanding helped lead the city to create the Healthy Parks and Playgrounds Task Force in 2009. Made up of residents, city officials and experts in urban design, child development and community planning, the task force met with the goal of maximizing public green areas.

One of the task force’s suggestions was that the city increase the variety of “play environments” throughout Cambridge, asking designers to consider “what play was like when it depended less on commercially manufactured play equipment, and more on environment, objects and materials found in the everyday world.” In other words, how can we rethink the now commonplace metal, wood and plastic play structures found in so many parks today?

“With every new or renovated park we look for opportunities to try new things, as well as build on things that have been successful, with the intention of continuously improving the city’s parks and open spaces,” said Jennings.

LONGFELLOW PARK

After touring Cambridge’s more playful urban oases, this park’s conventional feel may come as a breath of fresh air. Symmetrical paths encircle a stone altar of a bust of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, making the space feel more like an academic quad or a memorial than like an urban park. No wacky play structures or man-made hills here; this island of serenity seems to take pride in the fact that it’s so last century, designed for quiet contemplation and brief, leisurely strolls. With only birdsong and the faint hum of traffic from Memorial Drive, this is an ideal spot to relax, read some poetry and think about life at times when Harvard Square feels just a little too bustling.

Perhaps Longfellow felt the same.

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OLD MORSE PARK

Most Cantabrigians have probably passed this gemstone, located on Brookline Avenue, on their way from Boston to Central Square. Sleek, concrete ping-pong tables and massive granite stones anchor the front of the park visually, and wonderfully varied seating options abound. Head to the corner of the park farthest from Brookline Avenue and find yourself in another playscape entirely, largely hidden from view. Filled with intimidatingly abstract climbing structures, you’ll feel like you found a Richard Serra sculpture you’re finally allowed to climb. What more could a middle-schooler—or art history major—ask for?

CORCORAN PLAYGROUND

Small parks are wonderful, but sometimes you want to just throw a ball as far you can, or run around on a wide open field. At Corcoran Park in North Cambridge, visitors can satisfy that urge without sacrificing the types of pleasant, intimate spaces found in Cambridge’s smaller venues.

At the park’s high point on it Southeastern corner, a small cul-de-sac with benches creates an intimate overlook, allowing visitors to enjoy the soccer field, baseball diamond and basketball courts below, all from a comfortable distance. At the park’s northern corner, a small hill buffers a playground from the rest of the field. These modest landscaping features create a collection of interesting spaces designed for a variety of users, allowing Corcoran Park to serve the neighborhood’s athletes while saving it from being just another suburban, utilitarian sports field.

FRANKLIN STREET PARK

ROBERT PAIN SQUARE PLAYGROUND

This little Swiss Army knife of a park is hard not to love. Swings, a sandbox and a rope-climbing structure serve children of all ages, while ample shade-covered benches and picnic tables give parents and wandering hipsters plenty of space to chill. This playground is also home to the city’s most adorable not-quite-half basketball court, a semicircle at the park’s entrance that screams fun.

From the moment one walks under this park’s pagoda-like stone entryway, it’s clear that this is a spot for grown-ups. Grab one of the many single-occupancy benches near the bamboo stand and take a minute to catch up with yourself. Admire the mysterious silver orb emerging from the ground at the back of the park. This is a place where people—from the businessman sipping Dunkin’ coffee to the older gent quietly staring into the distance—can just be alone, together.

SQUIRREL BRAND PARK

Sitting next to the former Squirrel Brand Nut Factory, Squirrel Brand park is more than just the glorified lawn it reads as from the street.

Several interconnected paths and seating options create a pleasant little promenade for visitors, and a collection of shiny minimalist children’s play equipment both charms and befuddles.

FULLMORE PARK

While it does connect Peters Street and Sidney Street, this park is way more than just a shortcut. A collection of massive wooden building blocks is perhaps the most unique feature Fullmore park has to offer, though the rough-hewn lumber play structures throughout provide folks of all ages with their weekly dose of whimsy. As seems to happen at this park, you may be greeted by a wandering chicken, looking for scraps. [Ed. Note: We can confirm the existence of this mystery chicken.] In a park this other-worldly, you may find the chicken fits into the surroundings better than you do. scoutcambridge.com July | August 2015

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Scout Out Food

MORE THAN JUST BANANAS

By Emily Hopkins Reporting by Emily Cassel Photos by Mary Knox Miller

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e live in the age of dairy alternatives. The days of fetishizing the bovine beverage are in the decline, and more people than ever are reaching for creamy substitutes. Our sweet tooths are satisfied by dark chocolate, and when we get to the frozen food aisle, we reach for something else: soy, almond, hemp, rice.

Well, there’s a new frozen treat in town. And it comes with a peel.

Just Bananas, a frozen banana treat that has been popping up at Clover’s incubation space (1075 Cambridge St.) and Aeronaut Brewing Company in Somerville, has unlikely origins. As part of their curriculum, a group of five first-year students at Harvard Business School designed a start-up business plan. They had a customer in mind and created a product for that customer. They soon realized that their idea bore much more fruit than they’d anticipated.

“We thought that this would be great for the mom who is looking for something healthy for their kids, but we realized it’s so much more than that,” said Patricia Branch-Zakkour. After some market research and feedback from customers, they found their product could have a much wider reach. “We realized this product has really mass appeal and to people who may feel like they’re forgotten by the health food industry.”

Earlier this year, the group was invited to Clover Food Lab’s food development meeting, where Clover staff develop new flavors and

recipes. Soon thereafter, they were invited to do a popup at the Inman Square incubator. Today, you can regularly find their product at Market in the Square. But if everything goes as planned, within a few months they could be stocked in Whole Foods.

“The key thing for us is building our brand, starting small and really developing those relationships, and we think that’s going to be the way to do it,” said Joanna Bromley.

What’s in the carton? What makes it tick, or, perhaps more specifically, makes it thick? The bananas naturally have a high concentration of pectin, the same material canners use to make jams and jellies gel. Naturally occurring pectin means that Just Bananas doesn’t need to add anything to the recipe to make the faux ice cream bind. That’s important to the group, who first came together thanks to their shared interest in healthy and natural eating.

“Even the things that are labelled healthy are loaded with additives and preservatives,” Bromley said. “I think, for us, the key is going to be staying true to what we think this product should be, which is no added sugar, no preservatives.”

Just Bananas cofounders Joanna Bromley, left, and Giulia Siccardo

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Honeybees in Action 9 a.m.-5 p.m., $12 Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St. The Museum of Natural History got some new tenants: honeybees!

Come check out the workings of the hive at this super cool exhibit.

Every day through July 31

Wax and Paper: Encaustic Printmaking 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Free Maud Morgan Arts, 20 Sacramento St. Encaustic prints by MassWax members will be on display at Maud Morgan Arts through July.

Reception on July 9 from 6-8 p.m.

Every day through August 16

Memory: Witness of the Unimaginable Wednesday-Friday: 12 p.m.-9 p.m., Saturday: 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Free Le Laboratoire Cambridge, 650 East Kendall St. Located at the intersection of

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science and art, Le Laboratoire Cambridge’s “Memory” is a sensory exhibit that explores the way sounds and scents factor into our recollections.

Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass. Ave. Every week, Lizard Lounge welcomes some of the coolest poets around to its stage for a slam and open mic.

Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St. Celebrate the museum’s newest exhibit (Islands: Evolving in Isolation) with this tropical party. 21+.

Every day through August 28

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July 22

Women of Vision 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m., Free Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St. This summer, stop by the Multicultural Arts center to check out art by the Mass. chapter of the National Association of Women Artists. These contemporary works span genres and tell a visual story of women today.

Summer Residency Showcase 7-9 p.m., Free Gallery 263, 263 Pearl St. Pop into Gallery 263, where they’re kicking off their six-week summer residency program featuring Michele Lauriat, Lucy Lindsey, Suzanne Mahoney and Diana Jean Puglisi.

Honoring an Everyday Object

by Martha Werman Hours vary by day, Free Dwelltime, 364 Broadway St. Stop by Dwelltime and check out Werman’s “Honoring an Everyday Object” series, which features new and old works.

Story and Song 6-8 p.m., Free Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway Spend a splendid summer evening on the grass of the public library, where they’ll be dishing out ice cream while local band Bagboys serenades everyone with bluegrass tunes.

Sundays

July 17

Every Day Through August 3

Poetry Jam with the Jeff Robinson Trio 7:30 p.m., $7

MUSIC | August 6-8 Boston Fuzzstival 2015

3 p.m. doors, $12 in advance, $15 day of or $30 for a three-day pass Middle East Upstairs/ Downstairs, 472-480 Mass. Ave. The annual surf, fuzz and noise rock extravaganza is bringing the buzz to the Middle East for three days this August, featuring local faves that include Ghost Box Orchestra, Nice Guys, Earthquake Party!, Drug Rug and a whole bunch more. Here’s a tip: Bring earplugs. Or don’t, we’re not your mom.

Tropical Island Night 7 p.m., $30 for members, $35 for nonmembers

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ARTS | July 16

Trailer Treats 6 p.m., $28 The Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St. If you’re one of those people who loves going to the movies to check out the films that are coming soon, Trailer Treats is the event for you. Join the Brattle staff as they screen both great and terrible trailers from their collection, and cast your vote in the “trailer smackdown” contest, which pits teams of amateur filmmakers against each other. BBQ at 6 p.m., Trailer Treats at 7 p.m.

Luminarium Dance Company 10 a.m., Free Bergin Park, 80 Haskell St. Luminarium Dance Company merges art and performance with light and science in wholly original and fully fascinating ways.

Presented by the Cambridge Arts Council.

Reach: Teen Dance Program 25th Anniversary Celebration 7 p.m., Free Bishop Allen Drive Parking Lot (Behind Quest Diagnostics) For 25 years, Reach has been bringing arts education to teens in the Greater Boston Area.

Join them on July 22 for a free performance showcasing their training.

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The Movielife 7 p.m. doors, $22 The Sinclair, 52 Church St. Reunited and it feeeeels so good.

See The Movielife’s return to the spotlight, with support from Somos and Such Gold.

July 16

Jaill 8 p.m., $10 Out of the Blue Too Art Gallery, 541 Mass. Ave. With support from Lady Bones, Blinders and L.A. Jeff. 18+.

July 24

Rhett Miller 10 p.m., $15 Atwood’s Tavern, 877 Cambridge St.

The Old 97’s frontman brings his solo to the city in support of his newest record The Traveler.

July 26

Cambridge Jazz Festival 12-6 p.m., Free University Park Commons, Sydney St. and Mass. Ave. Eguie Castrillo and the Latin Jazz Connection, the Laszlo Gardony Sextet, JoAnne Brackeen and more will grace the stage at this year’s Cambridge Jazz Festival.

July 30

RJD2 8 p.m. doors, $25 Middle East Downstairs, 472-480 Mass. Ave. Dance ‘til you’re sweaty. With support from Blueprint, Supastition and DJ Rare Groove. 18+.

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Sh*t-faced Shakespeare 7:30 p.m., $15-$25 Oberon, 2 Arrow Street Sh*t-faced Shakespeare answers one of the greatest questions of our time: “What would happen if we got really wasted and performed the works of the Bard?”

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Caitlin Moran 5:30 p.m. doors, $5 ($18.75 with book) Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St. Caitlin Moran of How to be a Woman fame stops by the Brattle to read from her second book and first novel How to Build a Girl. The book tells the story of Johanna Morrigan, who, after a traumatic public humiliation, invents a different persona and devises a new rock and roll life.

Presented by Harvard Book Store, who, if you need another reason to attend, call the novel “The Bell Jar written by Rizzo from Grease.”

August 13 & 14

An Evening With Delta Spirit & Friends 8 p.m. doors, $25 The Sinclair, 52 Church St. They’ve relocated to Brooklyn and returned to their roots—catch the fun-loving, foot-stomping Delta Spirit at the intersection of oldmeets-new. 18+.

August 21

The Timberfakes 8 p.m. doors, $12 The Middle East Downstairs, 470482 Mass. Ave. Combining our love of Justin Timberlake and our affinity for puns, it’s The Timberfakes.

Half-Priced Menu 5-7:30 p.m., No Cover Grendel’s Den 89 Winthrop St. Buy a beer, get anything else on the menu half off. They don’t make deals like this anymore.

Mondays

25-cent wing night 5 p.m., No Cover The Asgard, 350 Mass. Ave.

FOOD & DRINK | July 14

Taste of Cambridge 5:30-8:30 p.m., $50 for GA and $75 for VIP University Park Common, 38 Sidney St. More than 100 Cambridge restaurants will be on hand at this year’s Taste of Cambridge celebration, where they’ll serve up signature dishes and give attendees a chance to try some of the best food the city has to offer.

New restaurants this year include Alden and Harlow, H-Mart, Life Alive and Bondir, but all of your old favorites will be hanging out too. Grab tickets and learn more on Eventbrite.

Nothin’ quite like getting 40 wings for 10 bucks.

Mondays

Market Mondays 5 p.m., Price Varies Puritan and Company, 1166 Cambridge St. On Mondays, Puritan and Company’s Will Gilson stops by local farmers markets to grab the freshest locally grown produce around for that night’s menu.

Follow Gilson on Twitter (@ wdgilson) for each week’s picks.

Tuesdays

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Grilled Cheese Tuesdays All Day, No Cover Restaurant Dante 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

The grilled cheese changes week to week, but the price is always a low, low two bucks.

Books July 10

Bill Wolak and Srinivas Reddy 7 p.m., $5 suggested donation Grolier Poetry Shop, 6 Plympton St. Poet Bill Wolak reads English and Persian Hafez translations while accompanied by Srinivas Reddy on sitar.

July 15

Benjamin Markovits 7 p.m., Free Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave. Markovits stops by to read from his new novel You Don’t Have to Live Like This.

July 17

Joseph LeDeux 7 p.m., Free Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave. Stressed? Join author Joseph LeDeux as he discusses his book Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety.

July 24

Megan Kimble 7 p.m., Free Porter Square Books, 25 White St. Kimble’s Unprocessed chronicles the year she spent avoiding all processed foods—no Oreos, no Cheez-Its, no nothing.

July 27

Kevin Hill 7 p.m., Free Porter Square Books, 25 White St. Parent concerned about your teen’s pot use? Suffering from an illness and wondering about weed’s medicinal value?

Marijuana author and expert Kevin Hill will clear the air

surrounding marijuana facts and myths.

August 6

Nicole Galland 7 p.m., Free Porter Square Books, 25 White St. Galland’s new book Stepdog is a rollicking rom-com about a man who loves a woman and a woman who loves her canine.

Kids & Teens Sundays

Idea Hub 11 a.m.-3 p.m., $10 adults, $5 for youth under 18 MIT Museum 265 Mass. Ave. Every Sunday, drop by the MIT Museum for hands-on workshops that rotate between 3D printing, circuitry and more. Free with museum admission.

July 7

10 a.m., Free Jungle Jim Superhero Training Program Donnelly Field, 67 Berkshire St. Let your kid unleash their inner Wonder Woman or Batman at this superhero training workshop.

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Rose Guillaume, a 10th grader at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, celebrates Haitian Flag Day A boy collects money in Harvard Square for earthquake victims in Nepal

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FOLLOW. POST. WIN. While all your favorite local businesses are competing for the top Scout’s Honored prize, our readers now have a chance to get in on the action! Announcing the Scout’s Honored Readers Giveaway. To be entered for a chance to win a Scout prize pack filled with Scout swag and other goodies, here’s what you have to do: 1. Follow us on Instagram @Scoutmags. If you already follow us, you’re halfway there!

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