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26 Pinckney Street Unit 3, Somerville $155,000 Cozy, studio condo with private storage room in basement. Walk to Assembly Row/Assembly Orange line T stop or Sullivan Sq. Listing Agent: Brendon

52 Hamilton Road, Somerville $525,000 Bright corner first floor 2-bedroom, 1-bathroom condo with private side yard and front and back porches. Exclusive basement storage and laundry. Near Teele and Davis Sq. Listing Agent: Thalia

26 Adams Street Unit 3, Somerville $869,000 Stunning Winter Hill 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom condo with central air, 2-car garage, and wrap-around deck with panoramic views. Listing Agents: Thalia and Brendon

50 Hamilton Road, Somerville $888,000 Walk to Davis and Teele Sq. from this beautifully renovated 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom, 2-level condo with 2-car garage, 2 private porches, and private backyard. Contemporary finishes blended with lovely original details. Listing Agent: Thalia

Free Classes How to Buy and Sell at the Same Time for homeowners contemplating a move Wednesday, August 17th 6:30-7:45 pm

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If trying to figure out the logistics of selling your home and buying a new one make your head spin, this workshop will help make the process understandable. This workshop, led by our agents and a loan officer from a local bank, includes a 45-min presentation and 1/2 hour Q&A session. Handouts and refreshments provided. To reserve space in any class, please email Adaria@ThaliaTringoRealEstate.com. Admission is free, but we appreciate donations of canned goods for the Somerville Homeless Coalition.Â

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36 Hudson Street, Somerville ~ $1,200,000 Beautiful, oversized Spring Hill 2-family lived in and loved by the same family for six decades. Lower unit has 2 bedrooms, 1 bath; upper unit has 5 bedrooms, 2 baths. Wonderful original details, large corner lot, driveway. Listing Agents: Team Jen & Lynn

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Lynn C. Graham

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About our company... 983 Memorial Drive Unit 302, Cambridge ~ $979,000 Spacious 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom co-op in classic brick building along the Charles River in Harvard Sq. Elevator building with professional management, on site super. Listing Agent: Thalia

Coming Soon Davis Square Single Family ~ Beautiful 4-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom Victorian on a large lot in a premier location.

We are dedicated to representing our buyer and seller clients with integrity and professionalism. We are also commi ed to giving back to our community. Our agents donate $250 to a non-profit in honor of each transaction and Thalia Tringo & Associates Real Estate Inc. also gives $250 to a pre-selected group of local charities for each transaction. Visit our office, 128 Willow Avenue, on the bike path in Davis Square, Somerville.

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contents 6 // EDITOR’S NOTE 8 // WINNERS & LOSERS Go-getting fourth graders are protesting the PARCC exam; Old Cambridge Baptist Church uses graffiti for good. 10 // WHAT’S NEW? Cafes for days, plus burgers, bao and barbecue. 14 // MEET THE REGULARS You can almost always find a familiar face at these local watering holes. 18 // RECLAIMING THE LOVE, PEACE AND SOUL Greater Boston may be known as a rock and roll town, but there’s a robust (and growing) community of funk and soul lovers here, too.

22 // NEWS: COMMISSION ON IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP More than 28 percent of Cambridge residents are foreign born. A recently reconvened city commission aims to give that population a voice. 24 // FEATURE: THE FLAVORS OF CAMBRIDGE International eateries bring dishes from around the world to the table. 30 // FOOD, FAMILY, HISTORY The fusion and soul found on The Coast Cafe’s menu is, in many ways, a mirror to its neighborhood. 35 // SCOUT’S HONORED FINALISTS You choose the winners. Voting ends July 25. 38 // SCOUT OUT: NIGHTS AT THE ROUNDTABLE The Boston Comics Roundtable is mobilizing a thriving community of artists and writers—one anthology at a time.

40 // SCOUT OUT: HIP HOP AND YOU DON’T STOP “I was stuck in the studio all summer instead of the streets, and it’s made all the difference.” 42 // CALENDAR 44 // MARKETPLACE 46 // SCOUT YOU

Photo, top: Harinder Singh takes a seat outside Punjabi Dhaba in Inman Square, which he runs with his father, Mohan. Photo by Jess Benjamin. Photo, bottom: NYC-based DJ Luis Flores spins records at Soulelujah. Photo by Nick Minieri. On the cover: Muqueca Restaurant owner Fatima Langa. Photo by Jess Benjamin.

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EDITOR’S NOTE

t 7.1 square miles, Cambridge is not a sprawling metropolis like Los Angeles (503 square miles) or Chicago (234 square miles). Its population of just over 107,000 dwarfs in comparison to Philadelphia’s 1.5 million or Houston’s 2 million. Its skyline is not the jagged, iconic vision of New York City or even Seattle. But that doesn’t necessarily make Cambridge a less anonymous municipality, doesn’t make it inherently easier to find a home or a sense of place here. It’s not that common to know your neighbors. Photo by Jess Benjamin What skyscrapers there are can still feel imposing. When the Scout staff was tabling at community events like River Festival this spring, we met many people who had recently moved to the area and who grabbed a copy of the magazine hoping that it would demystify the city. The good news for those new neighbors is that—no matter who you are or what you’re into—there is a place for you in Cambridge. There are restaurants helmed by people who brought the flavors of their home countries here from all over the world (p. 24). Soulelujah has been encouraging positive vibes through dance and song every single week since 2003 (p. 18). The Boston Comics Roundtable connects area artists and writers with each anthology it publishes (p. 38). And even in a sea of 107,000 people, there are regulars who are as much a fixture at their local watering hole as Norm was at Cheers (p. 14). Whether you’re brand new to Cambridge or have lived here for decades, there are communities that make the city feel like home—if you know where to look.

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STATIONERY, BUT NOT STATIONARY University Stationery continues its 87year legacy with a new location. (Photo by Reena Karasin.) scoutcambridge.com/university-stationery

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HOW ADIA VICTORIA UNSTUCK HERSELF FROM THE SOUTH We caught up with the “gothic country” singer before her recent set at the Lizard Lounge. (Photo by Nick DiNatale.) scoutcambridge.com/adia-victoria

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LOSERS

GRAHAM AND PARKS SCHOOL STUDENTS Area elementary school students are fed up with the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) exam—so fed up that in late May, a group of young go-getters from the Graham and Parks School organized their own protest against the test. The two-hour rally in Harvard Square was led by fourth grader Lily Grodzins and classmate Gita Drummond, who told the Cambridge Chronicle that standardized tests create stress for elementary students and can actually widen the achievement gap. “I think PARCC testing is okay in high schools, but not in elementary and middle schools,” Grodzins told the Chronicle. “[The tests] are written by people who don’t know education well … or don’t know education of people around my grade.”

GENERAL DECENCY In “Not The Onion” news, here’s a June 11 headline from the Cambridge Chronicle: “Police: Cambridge man punched in face after saying ‘good morning’ to stranger.” According to the Chronicle, a 30-year-old Cambridge resident was walking near Porter Square at around 5:30 a.m. on June 3 when he greeted another man approaching him. In return, the suspect reportedly said, “What did you say to me? I hate homosexuals,” before allegedly hitting the man in the face.

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES This year, the second Monday in October will still be a holiday—just a holiday that’s on the right side of history. The Cambridge City Council voted unanimously in June to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day. “I view changing Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day as a cleansing for me, as an Italian-American,” said Vice Mayor Marc McGovern before the vote, according to the Boston Globe. “I do not want Christopher Columbus to be representing my culture.” MORRIS VANEGAS MIT grad student Morris Vanegas made headlines around the internet and the world in May when he used a romantic photoshoot to bid a playful farewell to his master’s thesis. “We both knew the time was coming to an end, and eventually, we would have to separate,” he joked in an interview with the Boston Globe. “I guess, in relationship terms, it was like having a summer crush.” Vanegas posted the photos of the pair splitting a milkshake, having a beer together and standing hand-inbinder clip along the Charles River to Imgur, where the gallery has racked up hundreds of comments and more than 50,000 views.

VANDALS For months, Old Cambridge Baptist Church in Harvard Square has proudly displayed a Black Lives Matter sign. But the banner has been repeatedly vandalized, and on May 12 it was again filled with racist messages. The congregation responded creatively later that month by filling in the sign with countergraffiti of their own—positive messages like, “Justice for all, no exceptions,” “Cambridge isn’t a community without our black neighbors,” and, “Hope rises, love endures all.” We couldn’t agree more! EVERY COLLEGE TOWN THAT ISN’T US It’s no surprise that Cambridge is the best college town around; even Malia Obama will attend Harvard come 2017. Now, we actually have cold, hard data to back up that claim. The apartment rental platform RentLingo recently used a delightful little self-developed tool they named the Charm Index to analyze America’s college towns for—you guessed it—their overall charm. Taking into account amenities like parks and restaurants, the number of locally owned businesses, crime statistics and more, the index determined that Cambridge is the most charming college town around and that JFK Street is the most charming street in the city. Stars Hollow ain’t got nothin’ on us.

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NEWS FROM THE NORTH Here’s just some of what you’ll find in the July/August edition of our sister publication, Scout Somerville.

MORE THAN MEMES City archivists are connecting residents to decades past using a decidedly modern platform: Facebook.

POST-INDUSTRIAL PLACES As Somerville’s economy shifts away from manufacturing, former factories are getting brand new tenants.

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WHAT’S NEW? PET PROJECTS NORTH CAMBRIDGE

BOSTON DOG

oston Dog Company, which already has outposts in East Cambridge, Acton, Chelmsford and Wilmington, recently opened a fifth location in North Cambridge (2512 Mass. Ave.). Kent Leung, Boston Dog Company’s managing director, explains that the daycare sets itself apart thanks to its rigorous application process—only 5 to 10 percent of applicants are accepted. “We have been called the Harvard of the dog day care world,” he says, adding that Boston Dog’s goal is to be “the safest dog day care in the world.”

CITY HALL RENOVATIONS

In mid-May, Cambridge Day reported that the city is currently exploring a possible four-year, multi-million-dollar renovation and expansion COMING project for City Hall. According to the paper, SOON the biggest goal of the expansion would be to create a “legislative floor” at City Hall, as councillors “have expressed frustration at their limited meeting space for legislative functions and meetings with constituents, as well as the lack of office space for councillors aside from the mayor and vice-mayor.” The renovations would also consolidate the city’s growing IT department, which is currently spread across multiple (crowded) floors at the Michael J. Lombardi Municipal Building.

GRAND JUNCTION PATH

In early June, city officials and activists met at Main Street and Galileo Galilei Way to celebrate the completion of the first section of the Grand Junction Community Path. The new bike- and pedestrian-friendly stretch of path features gardens, chairs, tables and benches. It will eventually connect the Boston University Bridge to the planned Somerville Community Path.

“It feels incredible to have put so much time and effort into this park,” Jason Zogg, Cambridge Redevelopment Authority project manager for the Grand Junction Park and Path, told the Cambridge Chronicle. “I really, in many ways, wanted to add a little bit of joy and discovery and beauty to a long-forgotten corner of Kendall Square, and something that could become part of someone’s everyday experience.” KENDALL SQUARE

MIT KENDALL PLAN

After six years and hundreds of community meetings, the Planning Board unanimously approved MIT’s proposal for the redevelopment of Kendall Square in midMay. The plan involves the construction of six new buildings on current parking lots, with residential, retail and research space, according to the Cambridge Chronicle. Development will unfold over the next decade and will see the completion of 290 affordable and market-rate housing units, 250 graduate student residences and 100,000-plus square feet of retail space, according to the Chronicle.

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KIDDIE ACADEMY OF CAMBRIDGE

“I have a lot of friends in Cambridge, and they have a tough time finding daycare,” says Elaine Ho, who opened the doors to Kiddie Academy of Cambridge (299 Prospect St.) on April 26. “Everybody is on waitlists.” 10

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Kiddie Academy has four independently owned locations in Massachusetts, but this is the first in Greater Boston. Ho, who has two daughters herself, says that the main pillar of the daycare center is “character education” for its little learners, who range from six weeks old through preschool age. Kiddie Academy offers an after-school program and music classes thanks to a partnership with Kindermusik—and even has a kitchen with its own chef.

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OOM YUNG DOE

A Cambridge couple opened a brand new martial arts school at 31 Belmont St. in early June. Will Hanna and Danielle Brown are now teaching eight East Asian martial arts styles at Oom Yung Doe, along with classes in Chinese weaponry. “I love Cambridge; it’s such a special place,” Hanna told the Cambridge Chronicle in June. “Cambridge is a trailblazer for new, progressive ideas, and ironically, what’sCOMING most old and SOON ancient has become what’s new again.”

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NORTH CAMBRIDGE

UPPERWEST

Once a wine bar planned for Mass. Ave., Upperwest is now a “community food hub” located at 1 Cedar Street. The concept has been in the works since 2014, and Kim Courtney and Xavier Dietrich are finally offering classes, tastings, seminars and more in their new location. “It’s been a long road,” the pair said on the Upperwest website, “and we are so grateful [for] all of the incredible COMING support we have SOON received from the community.”

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LONGFELLOWS WAFFLES & LAMPLIGHTER BREWING

When Lamplighter Brewing opens (imminently) at 284 Broadway, you’ll be able to get way more than just beer and bar bites. During the morning hours, the brewery will welcome a new concept called Longfellows Waffles to serve up cold brew, pastries, parfaits and more out of its space. “It’s a no-brainer for us to have someone use the space in the a.m. when we’re not around, and there’s the added bonus (or necessity?) of always having really good coffee in close proximity,” Lamplighter co-founder Cayla Marvil wrote in a May post on the Lamplighter blog. KENDALL SQUARE

STUDY AT AMES

In June, neighboring sibling restaurants Ames Street Deli and Study closed up shop for a few days and reopened as Study at Ames (73 Ames St.). Co-owners Tse Wei Lim, Diana Kudayarova and

Sam Treadway wrote in a press release that Study’s “techniquedriven, daily-changing menu became increasingly more difficult to execute with the limited restaurant and kitchen staff available in the Boston area,” so they’ve reimagined the menu with a brand new spread of sandwiches, snacks and soups.

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The people behind the shared co-working space Cove know how hard it is to get work done sans caffeine, which is why they’re teaming up with coffee roaster Barismo to open Barismo 295. The forthcoming collaboration (295 Third St.) will cater to Kendall’s tech scene with high-quality roasts and “nitro bloom” draft coffee. “We think a productive experience and a good cup of coffee go hand in hand … Barismo is known for being innovative in the coffee space, and we think there is a good alignment there,” Cove founder and CEO Adam Segal said in a statement.

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What’s New?

EAT IT delicious, stuffed, steamed buns) chain that has 200-plus locations, according to Eater Boston. He’s bringing the bao to the Crimson Galeria (84 Winthrop St.) early this summer. CENTRAL SQUARE

LITTLE DONKEY

How seriously do you take your nacho game? Probably not as seriously as Jamie Bissonnette, who will open Little Donkey (505 Mass. Ave.) with Ken Oringer in July. “There’s going to be a nacho plate where each individual chip will be done … the perfect nacho is when you have one chip that has every little thing on it,” he told Eater Boston in June. “So we’re going to plate it that way, where every chip has every little thing on it.” Little Donkey will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner, with a raw bar and a menu that’s “on the small side,” according to Eater, but that features cuisine from all over the world.

NORTH CAMBRIDGE

URBAN HEARTH

AU REVOIR

ater this year, Urban Hearth chef-owner Erin Miller will establish a permanent outpost for her pop-up eatery in the former L’Impasto space (2263 Mass. Ave.), which shuttered in late May. Urban Hearth has operated as a catering company for the last two years and will make its formal brickand-mortar debut as a 24-seat supper club with communal seating, themed meals and locally sourced ingredients. Miller tells us she’s shooting for an October grand opening, with a few “welcome to the neighborhood” preview dinners scattered throughout September.

CAMBRIDGEPORT

SURYA INDIAN KITCHEN

A new Indian eatery at 114 Magazine St. is a haven for those with dietary restrictions. As Eater Boston reported in early June, Surya Indian Kitchen serves only gluten- and nut-free entrees, and all of its meats are certified halal. Vegan? Vegetarian? There’s a ton of food on the menu for you, too, available to eat in, take out or order by delivery. COMING KENDALL SQUARE

SULMONA

SOON

He’s been running the muchloved Amelia’s Trattoria since 1999, and later this year, Delio Susi

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will continue bringing authentic Italian fare to Cambridge with Sulmona Ristoranti (610 Main St.). There aren’t a lot of details on the eatery just yet, but the restaurant is slated to debut this fall, according to its website. EAST CAMBRIDGE

HARVARD SQUARE

TOM’S BAO BAO

“Full steam ahead,” Tom’s Bao Bao owner Tom Tong recently joked on Facebook of the eatery’s forthcoming Cambridge location. Tong founded Ganqishi, a Chinese bao (those are

LE’S SUSHI BAR

“Fantastic sushi,” “unforgettable spring rolls” and “amazing pho” are all on the menu at the new Le’s Sushi Bar (425 Cambridge St.), which opened up its doors at the very end of June. The eatery’s sprawling list of offerings also includes tempura, wings, gyoza, salads and other sides, along with a handful of dessert options.

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COMING SOON

RIALTO, WEST SIDE LOUNGE, FOUR BURGERS

Lots of great eateries are making their way to Cambridge this summer, but we’re bidding farewell to some longtime favorites, too. Rialto (1 Bennett St.) closed on June 22 after more than two decades in Harvard Square; chef Jody Adams will be focusing her efforts on a forthcoming seafood eatery in Back Bay, among other projects. West Side Lounge (1680 Mass. Ave.) also shuttered thisCOMING spring, SOON though Eater Boston reports that owner Charlie Christopher will continue working with his other eateries, Cambridge Common and Christopher’s. And in Central Square, Four Burgers (704 Mass. Ave.) closed in midJune to make way for another burger joint: Mainely Burgers.

Photo, top left, courtesy of Urban Hearth. Photo, top right, courtesy of Caffè Nero.

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CAFFÈ NERO

Caffè Nero is adding a Cambridge location to its ever-growing caffeine empire. According to Eater Boston, the coffee chain—which already has nearby locations in Jamaica Plain, Downtown Crossing, the Longwood area, the South End and Andover—will soon open in Central Square at 589 Mass. Ave. KENDALL SQUARE

KENDALL SQUARE CINEMA TO ADD BEER AND WINE

As if catching a flick at Kendall Square Cinema could possibly become a more enjoyable experience, you’ll soon be able to get beer and wine along with your popcorn and nachos. “We tend to play to an older crowd, some would say a more sophisticated crowd,” General Manager

Howard Sandler said, according to Cambridge Day, adding that many theatergoers visit Kendall because the theater is the only one in the region showing a specific film. The cinema will join other area theaters, including the Brattle in Harvard Square, the Somerville Theatre and the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, in serving alcohol in addition to other snacks. KENDALL SQUARE

CATALYST CAFE

After opening Catalyst (300 Technology Sq.) in late 2011, chef/ owner William Kovel and his team appear to be readying to expand. Details are scarce for now, but Eater Boston reports that a project called Catalyst Cafe is in the works for the development at 75-125 Binney St. A rep for the restaurant would only tell Eater that Catalyst was “in the planning phases for a new venture.”

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Cambridge 2-Family PENDING

SCOUT CHECK Wherein we follow up on news that we’ve covered recently—in print or online. • Andy Husbands’ much-anticipated Smoke Shop (1 Kendall Sq.) is now dishing out barbecue (and lots of whiskey). •H oneycomb Creamery was juuuust about ready to open its doors at 1702 Mass. Ave. when we went to press; keep an eye on facebook.com/ honeycombcreamery for updates on this smallbatch ice cream shop. • You have a few new options for a quick meal in East Cambridge. Fava Bean is now serving hummus, falafel and other Mediterranean fare in the level 1 food court at the Cambridgeside Galleria; fastfire’d pizza chain Blaze Pizza debuted at 1 Canal Park in early June. • Sibling restaurants The Blue Room and Belly (1 Kendall Sq.) are looking toward a mid-July reopening after an August fire shuttered the eateries for months of renovations.

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COMMUNITY

MEET THE REGULARS

BY MATT ELLIS PHOTOS BY JESS BENJAMIN

Bartender Tim Guidry (left) shares a smile with Pete

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t’s easy to get a feeling for why a regular fits into their favorite bar when you see them there, laughing and catching up with patrons and staff members as though they were seated at their own dining room table. That relationship with a bar isn’t one sided either—it’s symbiotic. It’s great to unwind at a place that feels like home, and a friendly face across the bar goes a long way in making a shift more tolerable. We stopped by a few local watering holes to chat with staffers and the regulars they’ve befriended and find out what makes their relationships so special.

Joe Sent Me Joe Sent Me sits on Mass. Ave. between Davis and Porter Square. Its inviting interior includes a bar that stretches the length of the building, practically begging for a person to be slid across it as if they were in a Spaghetti Western saloon brawl. (The staff, it should be noted, heavily discourages this kind of behavior.) Here, the bartenders have formed a bond with one of their regulars—Pete—that borders on something closer to family and reaches well outside the boundaries of the bar. Pete has been coming in a few times a week for more than 20 years. His presence is such a given that, when work prevented him from dropping by on a relatively slow Sunday in June, the bar felt the weight of his absence. “There’s been many times where Pete has saved our night,” bartender Bob Callahan says. Pete is a pillar at Joe Sent Me and comes as close as possible to achieving the ultimate— especially in this area—goal for a regular: the classic Norm entrance from Cheers. He’s an amiable fixture, and he’s always a part of whatever conversation is carrying on. Even on a busy night, staffers stop to talk with Pete and walk away with a chuckle. It’s not surprising that a bond would form over two decades of visits, but the relationship between Pete and the Joe Sent Me staff goes beyond a casual familiarity. Pete offers small gestures of appreciation by bringing in cookies and candy for employees—a welcome respite from (or accompaniment to) the bar food they usually eat during shifts. According to bartender Tim Guidry, in addition to invitations to come watch the occasional Celtics game, current and ex-employees have been welcomed to stay at Pete’s Cape house during the summer. Guidry describes Pete as “the ideal customer,” but thanks to the relationships he’s established here, he’s more than that—he’s the ideal regular.

Boston Beer Works manager and Grendel’s Den regular Drew Nelson

Grendel’s Den Deviations from the norm are, well, the norm at Grendel’s Den in Harvard Square. First, there’s the name of the bar, taken from the epic poem Beowulf, in which the titular hero comes to the aid of a king who’s being terrorized by the monstrous Grendel. Grendel has taken a liking to attacking the king’s mead halls, regularly ruining drunken revelry with bouts of bloodshed. Naming a bar after the lair of one of literature’s all-time vindictive teetotallers is an inspired choice. Even on a beautiful Cambridge day, you’ll find this dimly-lit, subterranean establishment bustling. Upon entering, it’s nearly impossible to distinguish between employees and patrons. Bartenders and servers seamlessly intermingle with guests, pleasantly chatting as though they were old friends.

The bar itself is an enormous horseshoe that dominates the space. Grendel’s Den keeps the focus on what’s really important: good, old-fashioned drinking. Drew Nelson, a manager at Boston Beer Works and a regular at Grendel’s, can often be found here blurring the line between customers and staff. On a sunny May afternoon, he’s catching up with with two employees—one who’s seated on the stool next to him, another behind the bar. For the past eight years, Nelson has been stopping by once or twice a week. He’s known some staff for more than a decade and often hangs out with them outside of the den. “I’ve never worked here, but I could if I want,” he says. “I could hop behind the bar and just start working. It’s that type of friendly atmosphere.” Winning over an industry veteran is an impressive achievement for a bar. So what makes Grendel’s an attractive

spot to someone so acutely aware of what works and what doesn’t when it comes to drinking establishments? “It’s the perfect little watering hole,” Nelson explains. “It’s got an eclectic beer mix. It’s got a good food menu. The staff is awesome. It’s homegrown; it’s not a corporate restaurant. It’s been here forever.” The low-key, slow-paced atmosphere at Grendel’s Den places it in stark contrast to Nelson’s hectic work environment, which makes it an ideal spot for him. And maybe that’s what the eponymous Grendel was really after—a place where he could find some peace and quiet while having a drink after a long day. If only those drunkards in the mead hall could’ve fostered a relaxed, inclusive environment like the one at Grendel’s Den, maybe all that violent unpleasantness could have been avoided.

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Charlie’s Kitchen The best bars are those that take the old adage “you can’t go home again” and throw it right in the trash. God willing, your favorite bar will never change. The same songs will play through the speakers, your beer of choice will eternally be on draught and there will always be a familiar friend or two willing to lend an ear. But in an ever-changing city like Cambridge, it’s hard for this arrangement to go on forever. Things change: new jobs, new cities, new bartenders, new restaurants. We all have to leave home eventually, no matter where that home is. But Charlie’s Kitchen in Harvard Square is the kind of place built for return visits, no matter how much time has passed since you last dropped in. You’d be hard pressed to find much that’s changed since it opened in 1951—except maybe the solar panels on the roof. While Charlie’s boasts one of the best beer gardens in Cambridge and its first floor features an authentic retro diner aesthetic, you won’t find too many regulars at either of those oft-crowded spots. No, the regulars really reside on the second floor, which is 16

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accessible only by a flight of stairs with no signs indicating that a dive bar Shangri-La awaits at the top. Up here, where it feels like the middle of a long night no matter what time of day it is, you might find loyal friends like Logan Hodson, who grew up in Boston and first started going to Charlie’s in the early ‘90s to hear loud bands that couldn’t get booked anywhere else. Over the course of 10 years, he became a regular. Today, Hodson is a videographer living in New York. But in May, when he found himself back in Cambridge for the first time in more than five years to shoot a show at The Sinclair, his first stop in town was Charlie’s—luggage in tow. “I didn’t even think about any other spot to go to. I just immediately had to come here,” Hodson laughs, his suitcases and bags nestled at the foot of his stool. “You can’t fabricate this,” he adds, gesturing to the bar’s beer-stained floor and old jukebox. “If you look hard enough, this is not stuff you can buy in a warehouse. The sort of cache that comes with that is appealing by itself.” It’s also the sort of cache that wins over regulars—even those who have moved hundreds of miles away.

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espite the lingering presence of small clubs like The Cantab Lounge in Central Square, soul music largely remains a footnote in the books of Greater Boston’s musical history, dwarfed by dense chapters on the city’s contributions to rock. The Sugar Shack, a premier soul club nestled between a strip of adult theaters on Boylston Street during the ‘60s and ‘70s, was erased years ago along with downtown Boston’s seedier nightlife. Its surviving artifacts are sparse. Yellowing pictures of James Brown and Al Green locking shoulders with owner Rudy Guarino can be found online, along with George Clinton of Parliament Funkadelic’s stories of early experimentations with LSD outside the club. Slightly more lucid recollections from amateur historians hoping to preserve the Shack’s understated glory remain online, as well. But despite their enthusiasm, no Google query can return more than a few results that fully encapsulate what these clubs once meant to the region. On our side of the river, though, Cambridge dance night Soulelujah and Somerville record label Cultures of Soul are doing more than just eulogizing the city’s soul history: They’re aiding in its rebirth, building a renewed interest that both honors and expands on that legacy.

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n 2003, years before the boom of EDM reimagined the club scene nationwide, a cast of local DJs was looking to establish an old-school dance night—Soulelujah—in Boston. They found a home for their vinyl-only celebration of soul at ZuZu in Central Square, and the collective worked to establish its name in the city while founders Carrie D’Amour and Sean Quinn, also known as DJ Claude Money, assisted in the behind-thescenes work of maintaining a weekly dance night. “We never really thought we would be running anything this long besides our mouths,” Quinn jokes, “so we weren’t really keeping track of a whole lot.” Also a fan of vinyl, Cultures of Soul founder Jeff Swallom released the label’s first 7” in 2010, as the resurgence of records coincided with the rise of an online network of crate-scouring wax collectors worldwide. “I always wanted to start a label as a kid,” Swallom says. “You know, starting a band at a young age, getting into different kinds of music in college, working for a record label … I was always trying to find music that I’d want for my own label. It’s just taken me all this time to actually do it.” Swallom tried his hand as a DJ at a dance night similar to Soulelujah’s, but his earliest sets left him wanting to showcase more of his eclecticism. “I wasn’t catering towards the dance floor necessarily when I first started,” he affirms with a laugh. “I just played what I wanted, and I absolutely wasn’t playing new music.” In Cambridge’s rock-heavy music scene, hesitation can be the first reaction to divergent voices. In their early years, both Soulelujah and Cultures of Soul worked tirelessly to cultivate enthusiasm for soul music in a city of college-aged transients. “This is certainly a rock-based town, but rock has always had its roots in Soul and R&B music and, if anything, that just means that there are lots of people out there that just love music,” Quinn explains. “Because of the high density of college-age people, though, we continually search for a balance between keeping things interesting and keeping the crowd happy.” “As a label, we’re trying to get people back,” Swallom adds. “First, we’re trying to get our artists out there, but that’s followed up by trying to get people to listen to older music in the clubs.” “When you hear Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder or Otis Redding in the right context, the dance floor just starts taking on its own energy,” Quinn says confidently. “Show me someone that doesn’t like Otis Redding. Seriously— find me one person.”

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hile winter in the city often breeds bitter pessimism and reduced mobility, the winter of 2006 was the beginning of Soulelujah’s upward trajectory towards citywide recognition. “It was a classic Nor’easter-type scenario, coming to dump a few feet of snow on us just in time for one of our Saturday night parties,” Quinn recalls. “We basically

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resigned ourselves to the fact that we were going to play some great records to an empty room.” While that particular night “didn’t set any attendance records,” Quinn was surprised to find a nearly-full room of fans had arrived at ZuZu to dance through the storm. “That sort of raised my eyebrows a bit, knowing that people were willing to trek through that mess just to dance with us.” For Swallom and Cultures of Soul, the first brush with success was the result of a year-long hunt for an obscure hero of record collectors. Within a year of Cultures’ birth, Swallom went on a mission to compile the highly sought-after singles from prolific local session musician Andre Evans’ and his ‘70s disco project, Evans Pyramid. “We contacted the Evans Pyramid keyboard player, who had Andre’s contact information. Then, for some reason, the contact info got lost, so we had to track down the keyboard player again,” Swallom recalls of the lengthy process to connect. “Eventually, we found the guitarist of Evans Pyramid, which lead to talking with Andre.” Evans was disinterested at first. The session drummer, who once played for the likes of Little Anthony and the Imperials, Isaac Hayes, and the Delphonics, preferred discussing his new material over reflecting on past singles. But Swallom eventually warmed Evans to the idea of a compilation by using a since time-tested tactic—“pestering him SCOUT’S HONORED: VOTE NOW UNTIL 7/25 AT SCOUTCAMBRIDGE.COM/VOTE

for pretty much a whole year.” “In those meetings every other month, there was just so much history and so many stories he shared, which is what you find in these older musicians that have seen a lot,” Swallom adds. Between childhood jam sessions with jazz legends John Patton and Grant Green, recording his first major session with Dyke and the Blazers at age 14 and leaving rising act Green Machine as major label interest began swirling to form Pyramid, Evans was solidified as a folk hero of the soul circuit. You can find Swallom’s written history in the Evans Pyramid compilation notes. Many of the artists Swallom has worked with since have had similar brushes with fame, though often, their ascension ended abruptly when a label asked for too much control, paid too little attention or simply shut the door on their chances. “A lot of the stuff on our compilations wasn’t intended for DJs or clubs because that culture never existed for some of these artists. It’s giving it a new life, almost.”

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o truly understand Cultures of Soul and Soulelujah is to understand that neither the city’s soul scene nor its musicians disappeared—they just didn’t know where their

home was for a while. Over the last several years, Soulelujah tripled its capacity by taking over The Middle East’s upstairs space—right next door to ZuZu—on Saturday nights. While Quinn says notable friends like the Grammy-nominated Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings and local favorite Eli “Paperboy” Reed are always welcome to “come by to spin a few 45’s” when they’re in town, Soulelujah also strives to offer its decks and dancefloors to soul lovers worldwide. “I’m always really happy to see a reflection of the community getting down together, and for Cambridge, that means all sorts of people,” Quinn says. “The Middle East staff also does an amazing job of addressing overly eager dancers. We don’t really tolerate aggressive behavior, and the music certainly discourages that sort of nonsense. Music can be super therapeutic, and over the years there have been times in my personal life where a sweaty soul dance party was just what the doctor ordered.” This inclusive message has pulled DJs from Miami to California, and even as far away as Cologne, Germany, to spin. “Being able to create a playground and invite DJs we admire to share their musical taste with our community has hopefully been as rewarding for our crowd as it has been for us,” Quinn says. Just as Soulelujah worked to extend invitations to international artists, Cultures of Soul began stepping outside the realm of Boston-based cult favorites, shifting its focus worldwide. “Since I started collecting disco, funk and soul records, I noticed it was hard to find something like Nigerian or African dance records because they’re still in Africa or scooped up by crate diggers,” Swallom says. “One day, I picked up a bunch of great Caribbean records that were kinda funky. I thought, ‘Maybe I should pull together a compilation of Caribbean disco music,’ and that’s how Tropical Disco Hustle was created.” Since Hustle, Swallom has released seven other globespanning compilations of dance music that take listeners from India’s belated 1980s disco interests (Bombay Disco Vol. 1 and 2) to Brazil’s vast eclecticism beyond bossanova (The Brazilian Boogie Connection; The Brasileiro Treasure Box of Funk and Soul). Cultures of Soul’s global network has left Swallom with some one-of-a-kind music industry tales, including mailing a band’s licensing contracts to a bus stop in Nigeria, as well as losing contact with a DJ in Johannesburg after faulty generators forced the DJ to buy some illegal power supplies from Russia. “You can’t really write a textbook on this stuff,” Swallom confirms. “I’ve read so many books on the music industry, but you end up throwing out half of the stuff because it doesn’t apply to what I do.” But Culture’s roots are here in the local scene, and Swallom’s commitment to supporting local artists remains strong. In addition to releasing an expansive box set on Boston’s creative jazz scene earlier this year, Swallom released an EP for local psychedelic rock act Creaturos, Cultures of Soul’s youngest signees. “It came to a time where I realized I had been doing this label for five years and, yeah, people were digging the reissues and compilations, but I wanted to put out new music that I’m passionate about,” he says. “Creaturos were one of those new bands that caught me.” Throughout the changes that Cultures of Soul and Soulelujah have undergone, both have maintained a following rooted in inclusion and dance that would make their Sugar Shack forefathers proud. “People just want something different. They’re sick of the same Top 40 stuff, they’re maybe sick of the same live shows and they want to expand. I hope it keeps picking up,” Swallom says. “I think a lot of nights in the Boston area cater to a college crowd, which is a fine approach, but it is certainly limiting,” Quinn adds. “When people know they can really cut loose without worry, that’s exactly what they do. Do you love soul music? Then we want to dance with you.”

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ambridge is a city of immigrants. Out of a total population of 106,844, an estimated 30,075 residents—28.15 percent—are foreign born, according to 20102014 data from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey. That makes the city one of the top communities in Massachusetts for immigrant populations—perhaps unsurprising, given that City Council unanimously reaffirmed Cambridge’s status as a “sanctuary city” for undocumented immigrants in 2006. (Of the 28.15 percent of foreignborn residents, the number of voting-age non- or pre-citizen residents is estimated at more than 60 percent.) The number of applications for immigration is on the rise, according to the Boston Bar Association. But are we doing enough for our immigrant populations— documented and otherwise? This was the question raised by an advocacy group working with City Councilor Nadeem Mazen that has been organizing to create an immigrant affairs office in Cambridge. Mazen oversees a number of advocacy commissions that convene each week or so to discuss everything from public health to cyclist safety to voter engagement to campaign finance. “Basically, there’s a bunch of groups that have been meeting, and when they have an idea they shop it with other city groups,” Mazen explains. One of those groups, which is exploring a $15 minimum wage, was just turned into a mayor’s commission. Led by the efforts of Sylvie de Marrais and Emmanuel “Manny”

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Lusardi, the immigrant affairs advocacy commission had been looking into the issues surrounding immigrant suffrage and non-citizen rights here in the city. Through this work, they discovered the Commission on Immigrant Rights and Citizenship (CIRC), a decade-old city commission that was written into law in April 2006 but had since remained dormant. Thanks to renewed interest from the advocacy group, as well as the leadership of councilors Mazen and Tim Toomey and Vice Mayor Marc McGovern, the ordinance was re-enacted on May 9. The CIRC, an 11-member commission of volunteers, will begin meeting this fall. “It’s not just a compromise,” says Mazen of the newly formed group. “It’s a better solution than what we had.” It’s not entirely clear why the commission rested for 10 years with no city action, but Nancy Schlacter, executive director of the CIRC, says that the group initially formed as a preemptive strike against proposed federal legislation that would have criminalized civil violations of immigration laws. In 2006, she recalls, a number of states had deputized police to inquire about immigration status, and there were concerns that then-Governor Mitt Romney would enact similar measures in Massachusetts. That tension is largely over, which, for a time, rendered the ordinance obsolete. “While the ordinance has been in place for a while, the energy behind it dissipated,” Schlacter explains. But while the energy—and fear—that initially drove the ordinance may have died down, there’s an understanding that the city could be

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doing more for its non-native communities. “There’s a revived interest in: what are we, and what aren’t we, doing for immigrants,” Schlachter says. The CIRC will revisit these issues, not because there’s pressure from the country or the state, but to figure out what Cambridge is doing well for its immigrant communities and to determine what it can do better. For Schlachter, the CIRC is largely about opening up a line of communication, “really, hearing from folks who are members of the immigrant community or work with immigrant-serving organizations about what their feelings are about the missing pieces in Cambridge.” She imagines that one of those initial priorities will be improving translation services, which she says are robust in certain contexts and less so in others. Schlacter is also the executive director of the city’s of Human Rights Commission. While her staff is multilingual, they do sometimes rely on a translation line. But Schlacter is adamant that she’d rather hear from people who have been working in this field for years what they think the priorities should be. The city will likely perform a gaps analysis before it begins prioritizing the needs of non-native communities. While immigrant services are already available through a host of local groups—the Community Engagement Center, the Community Learning Center, the Multi-Service Center for the Homeless—the CIRC hopes to connect those existing resources more efficiently. “If someone is coming to the city not as a native English speaker … it can be that much more challenging trying to figure out how you get what you need and where,” Schlacter explains. “It really is to coordinate more effectively those services that already exist.” “Pre-citizen families have questions about housing, engagement, after school programs, financial equity,” adds Mazen, “But there’s no group that thinks proactively about this, or thinks about this in quite this way.” The CIRC will align the services the city already provides and handle questions they’re already getting, creating a “central voice” for inquiries and the means to rapidly and effectively respond to concerns. For Mazen, the rebirth of the CIRC is a victory for the “productive, group-oriented” engagement fostered by external advocacy groups. “These groups are a look at how everyday people can—and should— compete with full-time, paid, lobbying,” Mazen says. “I think, often, people lobbying or being lobbied think that there are a lot of win-lose outcomes,” he adds. Instead, these advocacy commissions “show that you can get to a compromise very rapidly.”

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raving naan pizza? A baked lamb gyro? Sushi? Feijoada? Living in Cambridge means always having a world of culinary adventure at your fingertips—literally, if you’re a fan of Grubhub. We sat down with the people making great, globespanning fare at some of the area’s best international eateries to talk about how taking risks has helped them shape the city’s culinary landscape and to learn what makes this such a perfect place to get cooking.

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HARINDER SINGH INDIA PAVILION, PUNJABI DHABA & FROZEN YOGI more on the intellectual side,” he explains. “The diversity in race, culture [and] class make this city so ric—and always interesting.”

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Seizi Imura never planned on becoming a sushi chef. Imura grew up in Brookline and Cambridge, where his parents, MOHAN AND HARINDER SINGH who came to the city from Japan, opened Cafe Sushi in 1984. After INDIA PAVILION, PUNJABI DHABA & FROZEN YOGI attending college in Los Angeles, he moved back to the area and began learning how to make sushi at his family’s restaurant. “I did not intend Mohan Singh took a chance on Central Square. The Indian-born chefto further my sushi career but just move back west and find something owner came to Cambridge in the 1970s with a background in finance and a else to do,” Imura says. binder full of restaurant references from New York, where he had worked So he moved west again, landing in San Francisco, where he his way up from dishwasher to head chef. He looked at the proximity of studied art and worked part-time at Sushi Ran, a restaurant in Sausalito, Central to universities like MIT and Harvard and saw that “it was the right California. That part-time gig turned into a full-time career when Imura kind of place for international cuisine.” Even before the area’s tremendous finished art school. When his parents retired in 2007, he decided to growth, Singh recognized that “Cambridge is a more cosmopolitan city, return to Cambridge and take over the family business. After eight years more diverse.” He opened India Pavilion in 1979, introducing the city to the behind the sushi bar at Sushi Ran, Imura says he was eager to learn more cooking of his home country. Thirty-seven years later, Singh has expanded about the business side of running a restaurant. the Pavilion and has two more family-run restaurants “Honestly, I did not intend to remain a chef and and a catering business to his name. What unites the believed that I was going to be more front-of-theestablishments is Singh’s signature work ethic, humble house ... performing the duties of a general manager,” hospitality—and standout Indian cuisine. he says. “Things didn’t quite move in that direction, Beyond India Pavilion, Singh and his son and and so I jumped behind the bar and became chef.” business partner Harinder Singh share their flavors Cafe Sushi carries all the usual cooked dishes and “I LOVE THAT THE with the city through catering, at the Inman Square standard rolls that you’d expect from a sushi place, ‘CELEBRITIES’ THAT COME Punjabi Dhaba and at River Street’s Frozen Yogi—the but it’s won rave reviews for its market-price tasting most recent addition, which serves up frozen yogurt menu and unique vegetarian options. “It is rewarding to INTO THE RESTAURANT ARE and naan pizzas. “He came to the U.S. with $107 in his discover a new preparation for a fish … putting together WRITERS, PHILOSOPHERS, pocket,” Harinder says of his father. “The next day flavors and ingredients that are not conventional but he went out and got a job, so he never actually spent GENETICISTS AND MORE ON work and create a delicious bite,” Imura says. that $107. We have it framed in our living room.” After two sojourns on the West Coast, Imura’s THE INTELLECTUAL SIDE. THE Singh’s work ethic is the backbone of the settled back into Cambridge. And he couldn’t be businesses. He’s committed to both customer happier that his restaurant is in a place where he gets DIVERSITY IN RACE, CULTURE service and culinary excellence—the spices are to serve some of the most well-known scholars and [AND] CLASS MAKE THIS made and ground in-house for signature dishes like scientists in the country. CITY SO RICH AND ALWAYS the tandoori chicken and the malai kofta. And while “I love that the ‘celebrities’ that come into the the dishes may be well-known now, Harinder can restaurant are writers, philosophers, geneticists and INTERESTING.” — SEIZI IMURA

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opened the original L’Espalier in 1978.) At her own establishment, she plates up the blended flavors of her dining background. “I have two origins. I cannot deny the French. I cannot deny the Tunisian,” she explains. The food history, and political history, of the two countries has been intertwined—with French colonialism, “no doubt we have exchanged recipes between us.” The result at Baraka Café is a Mediterranean menu that Meddeb categorizes as light and flavorful, one at odds with what she sees as a current shift in Cambridge towards “a much more fast food, on-the-go,” culinary landscape. Dishes like the chicken tagine and a special, labor-oflove seafood paella showcase what Meddeb calls the “ancient philosophy” of the menu. “It’s not a nouveau cuisine.” Though the Mediterranean diet has been trending, Meddeb reminds diners that her recipes reach back two to three thousand years and that the “true Mediterranean cuisine is the one that has a mixture of African and Mediterranean flavors.” “The soul is deep in that region,” FATIMA LANGA MUQUECA RESTAURANT she says of Tunisia and its neighboring countries. Of Cambridge, she adds, “It was open to mystery flavors.” While she’s right that the dynamic remember a time when he had to explain a tandoor—a traditional clay of Cambridge has changed in her time as a resident and restaurateur, charcoal oven—to the Cambridge Fire Department. Harinder refers Meddeb has made Baraka Café a beloved institution, keeping her to his dad as “the father of Indian cuisine in the area,” a man who guests entranced with her warm hospitality and the tastes of Tunisia. transformed a tiny pizza shop into the spacious India Pavilion dining room (dismantling the pizza oven brick-by-brick in the process). In the decades that he’s been serving the diners of Cambridge, FATIMA LANGA MUQUECA RESTAURANT Mohan has witnessed dramatic change, including the growth of the university population and an influx of Kendall Square professionals. Fatima Langa spent her childhood in Vitoria, Brazil, watching her In the midst of the transformation, his restaurants provide diners a mother cook while slowly learning family recipes. Now, she owns and comfort. As Harinder says, “It’s like going to a second home, where you operates Muqueca, a standout Brazilian restaurant nestled just down can get a good meal at a fair price with a friendly face in front of you.” Cambridge Street from Inman Square. “My mother was my inspiration to And for the restaurateurs, Cambridge “is an amazing place to have a get into cooking and become a restaurant owner,” Langa says. Her former business, because you’ll be able to deal with so many different types of husband discovered that the restaurant space was for sale on a trip from customers. You’re never going to get bored.” New York to Cambridge. They decided it would be the perfect place for Most importantly, as Singh quips, “Without eating anything, nobody Langa to open the Brazilian eatery she’d always dreamed of starting. can live!” Muqueca serves everything you could want from a Brazilian restaurant, from grilled meats to collard greens to feijoada, a bean and meat stew that’s the national dish of Brazil. But Langa named the ALIA MEDDEB BARAKA CAFÉ restaurant after her favorite dish—moqueca, a seafood and vegetable stew prepared in clay pots that Langa imports from her hometown. At Central Square’s Baraka Café, chef-owner Alia Meddeb has been For Langa, the best thing about owning a restaurant in Cambridge cooking the flavors of her North African home for 17 years. Meddeb, is the support she gets from her customers and the recognition she gets who grew up in France with a Tunisian father and French mother, came from the community—things she says mean a lot to her as an immigrant. to Cambridge in 1975 by way of Manhattan. Her brother had studied at “In this cosmopolitan and friendly community, I can share the Harvard and, says Meddeb, “Cambridge was always dear to me. It was authentic food and traditional cookery from my hometown,” she says, ‘of the people, by the people, for the people.’ It was very supportive “not only for Americans, but also for people from all over world.” and welcoming of foreigners.” She remembers the city of the ‘70s as one that was focused on artists and “the ones who were struggling.” In a testament to the GEORGE AND THEMIS BORETOS GREEK CORNER community, she says of her first few years, “It was very easy for me to assimilate. I didn’t feel like a foreigner.” In the U.S., Meddeb quickly took Thanks to its decor—walls adorned with a mural of Grecian seas to the restaurant industry, including an early stint at Harvard Square’s and buildings—Greek Corner feels authentic before you’ve even taken Algiers Café. (Restaurants run in the family—Meddeb’s brother, Moncef, your first bite. And the food and ingredients inside—prepared by 28

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brothers George and Themis Boretos—reflect an intimate knowledge of Mediterranean cuisine. George and Themis hail from Sparta, Greece, but the pair moved to Montreal for school. There, they opened their first restaurant together. And when Themis got married, they moved to the United States, where they decided to continue cooking. The restaurant business seemed like a natural fit for the duo. “We like to cook, and I had some ideas, and I [can] do business with my brother,” George explains simply. The two have been running Greek Corner since 1989. One of George’s favorite memories from their 27 years in business is when the Food Network highlighted their restaurant a few years ago. The brothers had the chance to speak and cook with Guy Fieri, sharing their signature dishes—baked lamb, moussaka, kebabs and gyros—with the celebrity chef. The family aspect of the restaurant doesn’t stop at the business side. According to George, the rest of their family eats at the restaurant every day. Perhaps that’s due to the brothers’ commitment to the flavors of their home country. Themis and George use Greek spices and even bring their own olive oil—for which the country is world-famous—over from Greece. “You have to use the right and good stuff to make things,” George says. “That makes a big difference.”

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SERVIO GARCIA BISQ BISq owner and general manager Servio Garcia is originally from Mexico, and he came to the Boston area in 1999. “I fell in love with the restaurant industry, and that’s why we’re having this conversation,” he smiles. The dishes at BISq—that’s short for Bergamot Inman Square, a nod to the eatery’s older, Somerville sibling, Bergamot—aren’t really influenced by the food Garcia ate in his home country, though from time to time BISq does offer specials inspired by Mexican cuisine. The restaurant serves progressive American fare, which means the influences hail from around the world. But while BISq’s menu may not be Mexican, they way guests enjoy it nonetheless reminds Garcia of “HE CAME TO THE U.S. home. “For me … food is meant to be shared with somebody,” he WITH $107 IN HIS POCKET,” says. “That’s something I enjoy. HARINDER SAYS OF HIS It’s something you want to share FATHER, MOHAN. “THE NEXT with your friends and family.” BISq serves up small plates that DAY HE WENT OUT AND you can split among the people GOT A JOB, SO HE NEVER who are with you. (Just don’t call ACTUALLY SPENT THAT $107. them “tapas.” The plates may be small, but the dishes come from WE HAVE IT FRAMED IN OUR all over the world, not only Spain.) You’ll want to be sure to share a LIVING ROOM.” bottle of vino, too—BISq’s robust, globe-spanning list of wines from small producers recently earned the eatery a nod as one of 2016’s “100 Best Wine Restaurants in America,” according to Wine Enthusiast. Serving progressive American fare gives Garcia and his chefs the ability to change their menu “pretty much every day,” he explains. It also offers the opportunity to work with local fishermen and farmers. Working with local producers—and even servers and bartenders— is important to Garcia. While his restaurant brings global flavors to Inman Square, it’s this neighborhood that’s called them home. “Eighty or 90 percent of the people Callwho or visitwork any ofboth our 10places convenient, [Bergamot and BISq] live within a mile, mile-and-a-half radius of the full-service banking centers. restaurants,” Garcia says. “My business partner and I, we both live in Somerville. We can walk to our restaurants.” “It’s a small, local community,” he adds.

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he sounds of River Street filter through The Coast Cafe’s woodframed screen door—car tires swishing through rain puddles, voices of passersby engaged in pleasant conversation—as owner Anthony Brooks and his daughter, Adaria, sit back in simple black chairs. The morning air is humid and heavy beneath a sky of looming grey clouds, but the pair is at ease in this place that has been their family’s livelihood for more than 12 years. “Soul food is all about the love,” Anthony says. “No matter what dish we cook, it’s not soul food. It’s food from the soul.” “There’s no cutting corners,” he adds. “[The food is made] the way your grandmother used to do it. People notice that. It’s very gratifying” Anthony and his sister initially opened The Coast Cafe in 1999. Anthony explains that they just wanted to see soul food in Central Square. The restaurant was well received, but it shuttered shortly after so that Anthony could care for his father, who was diagnosed with cancer in the early 2000s. He reopened the restaurant in 2004 after his father’s passing. “I figured we had something,” he says. “People liked the food, we had a great following, so I decided to go again.” Twelve years later, family—including in-laws and extended family— are as central to the atmosphere and operations of The Coast Cafe as they were on the day it was founded. Adaria recalls coming to work at the restaurant with her cousins in her youth. Anthony’s mother bakes the cakes; his aunt rolls silverware and his wife works the storefront. “It’s a family affair here. I definitely grew up here,” laughs Adaria, spreading a warm smile beneath a constellation of dark brown freckles— freckles, she says, that allude to her family’s ancestry. “We’re part Scotian,” she notes, grazing her cheekbones with her fingertips. Anthony explains that most of his family was born in Canada. Historically, many freed or escaped slaves from Southern states migrated to Canada, which is one of the reasons he believes most of his family members were born in Nova Scotia. But his mother was born in Mississippi, which is where the restaurant gets its Southern flavors and how the rest of the family learned to cook. While The Coast Cafe is an homage to the soul food Anthony ate growing up—with a bit of Caribbean and Spanish influence, as his wife was born in Puerto Rico and he has in-laws from the West Indies—the restaurant is undoubtedly rooted in the tight-knit community of Central Square. Even the name, which some assume is a reference to the Southern coastline, actually refers to the coastal neighborhood where he grew up: Cambridgeport. One customer, Anthony recalls with a smile, noted that the restaurant had expanded the definition of soul food. Plantains, empanadas and jerk chicken are all steadfast menu items alongside fried chicken, blackeyed peas and collard greens—all cooked with time, flavor and family around. “My mother always said, ‘You … take our recipes and twist it to

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EVEN THE NAME “THE COAST CAFE,” WHICH SOME ASSUME IS A REFERENCE TO THE SOUTHERN COASTLINE, ACTUALLY REFERS TO THE COASTAL NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE ANTHONY GREW UP: CAMBRIDGEPORT. how you like it, so it’s yours now,’” he explains. The fusion and soul found on The Coast Cafe’s menu is, in many ways, a mirror of the neighborhood. Take a stroll up and down Mass. Ave., and it won’t take long to notice the rich diversity of cultures in the square. The city government reports that Cambridge has “long served as a port of entry for immigrants from around the world,” and 28 percent of current residents were born in a different country. This is a 200-plus year legacy for the Central Square community and surrounding neighborhoods like Cambridgeport. It’s a legacy so rich and unique that the Cambridge Historic Commission launched the Central Square Oral History Project in the summer of 1998. By 2001, the commission had published historian Sarah Boyer’s book Crossroads: Stories of 32

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Central Square, which contained over 100 oral histories recorded as a result of the project. Many of Boyer’s interviewees had lived in Central Square their entire lives, and many were born before the Great Depression. While each subject offers a unique perspective, together the oral histories show that immigration, diversity and resilience are at the heart of the neighborhood’s history. “I … was reminded of perseverance and resilience in the face of hard times, and of pride in the community we call home,” while completing the book, Boyers writes in her introduction. Helen Peters, for example, was born in 1915 and immigrated to Central Square from Nova Scotia with her family in 1923. “There wasn’t anything you needed that you couldn’t buy within a two-or-three-block area in Central Square … We had Chinese and Italian restaraunts and Jewish delicatessens,” she told Boyer. Peters’ first job was at the Imperial Chinese Restaurant when she was 15. Her employer was from

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Northern China. “His English was not good, and my Chinese was nil,” she remarked. It’s difficult to imagine many other cities in the United States in the 1930s where one would find a Canadian waitress serving Chinese food in a restaurant owned by a first-generation Chinese immigrant—especially considering that the national quota on Chinese immigrants, The Chinese Exclusion Act, was not repealed until 1943. The astounding thing about many of Boyer’s oral histories is not only how quickly some immigrants took ownership of local business in the square, but also how resilient residents were when the Great Depression struck. Sylvia Piltch, born in 1925, was the daughter of Romanian and Polish immigrants in Cambridge. Piltch recalls a group of men mugging her for $6.34 after a day of selling papers when she was less than 10 years old. “It was the survival of the fittest in the Depression. That’s what we were, a bunch of survivors,” she said. Piltch’s perspective on the incident—that these men mugged a child because of unprecedented economic desperation—reflects a special hardiness born into this neighborhood. Piltch, and many like her, spoke of hardship with a sense of stubborn resilience. Hardship, of course, was not only wrought by the economy, but also nativism and racism. Takako Sato-Salvi is another one of Boyer’s resilient interviewees. Sato-Salvi recalls her mother—a black woman, the descendant of freed slaves who had moved to Cambridge—losing her citizenship during World War II because Sato-Salvi’s father was a Japanese immigrant. Her mother was stripped of her right to vote, Sato-Salvi says, until her husband had passed away. “I had a double whammy: black and Japanese,” Sato-Salvi says of her own fight against racism. Despite constant discouragement from educators, Sato-Salvi was the first black student to be accepted into the Cambridge City Hospital of Nursing. She credits the feat to her mother’s support and consistent encouragement to fight bigotry. The interviewees in Crossroads share a special identity. That Boyer interviewed and recorded so many willing participants, and that a published oral history of the square exists, indicates a fervent pride within those born and raised in Central Square. They are from Central, through times good and bad. Anthony Brooks is no exception. He’s a Cantabrigian through-andthrough. He and his children were all born in Cambridgeport. His wife’s family was in Cambridgeport by the time she was three years old. “We were born and raised here. My [parents] had been here forever,” And while his father, Major Brooks, was born in Connecticut, he was deeply rooted in the Cambridgeport community and spent 27 years working in the Recreation Department. “He was a huge community activist, very heavily involved,” Adaria says. Anthony cares for the neighborhood in the same spirit as his father—not only through his dedication to the restaurant, but also on the board of directors at the Cambridge Community Center, where both he and his children spent so much of their childhood afternoons and summer vacations. Back in his cozy storefront, in his low, calm voice, Anthony puts in short what so many of the residents interviewed for Crossroads say over many pages: “There’s nothing like Cambridge.”

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hile small kids run around the Cambridge Community participants. In fact, Lewis recently opened for the Nappy Roots, Center’s main floor—laughing, and stomping, sneakers and a few months ago he performed at the Middle East alongside squeaking, chased by adults who strike a balance underground staples Cormega and Roc Marciano. (Korte manages both between fun and authoritative—a very different noise is blaring out of Taylor and Lewis’s rap careers.) a small room deep in the building’s basement. Down here, syncopated And it’s not just about rapping. The program welcomes kids who drums, digitized strings and confident vocals boom from a Mac monitor love hip hop but don’t know what they want to do yet. Currently, THHT in a baby blue studio. The room’s walls are covered with graffiti and teaches DJing, production and promotion. Soon, Korte hopes to add spray-painted silhouettes of figures in action—rappers and breakdancers visual art and dancing to the roster. abstracted, watching over the teenaged emcees, producers, promoters “THHT exposes your talent,” says Fluerimond, one of the and DJs who have crowded inside these cramped quarters over the program’s standout non-emcees. Teens start out on vinyl turntables, last three summers to hone their skills and learn about hip hop. true to THHT’s old-school, authentic values. This makes the initial This is the home of The Hip Hop Transformation (THHT), which learning curve a bit steeper, but the payoff is worth it in the long term. Darrin Korte, director of the Community Center, and local producer Fluerimond says this enhanced his skills once he made the jump to and engineer Janos “The Arcitype” Fulop founded in 2013 under digital, and it encouraged him to continue improving. “I’d DJ from 12 to the Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program. Today, they work 6. I still practice every other day.” He’s since started his own company, with the Cambridge Police Department’s Safety Net program, which DriqueSides, which offers DJing, promotions and videography. emphasizes collaboration and outeach between police, schools “These are things he didn’t do before, and now that he can DJ it’s and youth programs to reduce and prevent juvenile opened all these doors,” adds Korte. Fleurimond will delinquency. As the program enters its fourth summer, also spin at the Middle East Upstairs soon. it is itself transforming, adding more students to its There are also stories of at-risk youth—including “ONCE WE GET THE roster and preparing to move to a new home. Lewis—who have found a second chance in the KIDS IN HERE WE Korte couldn’t be more excited about the way the program. Korte says those are the kids he tries to keep program has grown over the last few years. While the TEACH THEM A LOT OF most involved in THHT, where someone can keep an small, makeshift studio next to his office has its charms, eye on them. Participation in the program also counts VALUABLE LESSONS, the group’s expansion from 15 to 20 students—and plans as a job for these young rappers—20 hours a week, $10 THOSE 21ST-CENTURY per hour—and the teens meet local artists, including to add a dancing track to the program—means that more space is needed. It’s a tight fit with just Korte and Boston legends like Edo G. SKILLS THAT WE two other THHT members in the room. Joining him in “I was stuck in the studio all summer instead of the VALUE: LEADERSHIP, the basement are Marquis “Tashawn” Taylor, a former streets, and it’s made all the difference,” Lewis says. student and current codirector of THHT, and Andrique He’s performed for the mayor and opened for acts like ACCOUNTABILITY, Fleurimond, who is entering his second year. Cormega and Roc Marciano. “Why would I go back?” CREATIVITY, “We firmly believe that if you engage a kid you can The Bridge Sound Stage and Studio is a brief teach them any skill, and we think hip hop is a great drive away, just outside of Porter Square. While The COLLABORATION.” way to engage the kids initially,” says Korte. “And once Bridge is THHT’s new home, it’s a familiar venue for the we get the kids in here, we teach program. The students will finish them a lot of valuable lessons, their summer with a performance those 21st-century skills that we on The Bridge’s main stage, a value: leadership, accountability, space that can pack an audience creativity, collaboration.” of 70. The Bridge is owned by Kids don’t just start writing The Arcitype, who also heads AR rhymes and making beats. They Classic Records. begin with a history lesson on the Arcitype says the program now roots of hip hop. THHT teaches needs to prepare kids for a career authentic hip hop steeped in after THHT. “It’s almost doing a the culture that sprang up in the disservice to these kids” by not 1970s from Bronx block parties showing them how to book studio in the 1970s—gatherings that time, find an engineer, get beats empowered marginalized people, or promote their shows, says Arc, one celebration at a time. It can sitting in the middle of The Bridge’s try the kids’ patience, but it works. control room. “We arrange it and Taylor, who started rapping his make it happen, but we’re not always freshman year of high school, says he gonna be there.” They also hope to noticed a huge artistic improvement get more teen girls involved. during his time at THHT. “I didn’t even know what I was rapping about. I just This summer is bittersweet, as Korte will hand control of THHT knew that I had the lyrical ability to put a whole bunch of words together over to a coworker as he focuses on the Center. But he’s clearly proud that rhymed and make it sound good on GarageBand.” Now, he realizes of all the program’s work so far. that “there’s a reason why I’m given all these opportunities. It’s not because The kids are more blunt: “We’re the best program in the Mayor’s I have the ability [to rap], it’s that I’m supposed to do something with it. Program,” says Fleurimond. There’s supposed to be a message to it.” Taylor agrees. “We do so much for the community,” he adds. The THHT has released three mixtapes, each of which is dense with group performs at an array of local events, from neighborhood block sociocultural messages like the negative impact of local violence, parties to awareness rallies to fancy brunches. Korte calls these public police brutality and domestic violence. 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