Cloudy days might fill up the forecast, yet mingling and machines run the week.
Fresh off MIT’s Future Fest, the robots pack the taproom at Remnant this Thursday with s’mores, tournaments, games and everything else that requires new hardware - plus it all goes to a good cause as a dollar from each pint sold goes to robotics and engineering education for kids.
But connections aren’t just built in the circuits, as Skip The Small Talk’s new speed dating series pulls up to the brewery with the option to meet multiple singles at once (plus a gift from The Stoop below); or if you prefer taking things slower, Mingle Mayhem sets you up at Bow Market for another one of their classic singles bashes upstairs from the courtyard.
The last few months of outdoor happenings keep running through the weekend too with Mushroom Fest, Monster Mash and the Charles Regatta race all competing for your time.
Signing off from Phinista, where I’ll once again be walking home without an umbrella.
The city is fielding reports of spotted lanternfly sightings around Cambridge and asks anyone who sees the inch-long bug with red-and-gray wings to report it to the state · Cambridge DPW
For the first time, every Cambridge public school scored at or above the state average on MCAS English and civics, and the district beat the state in every grade · Cambridge Somerville Independent
AstraZeneca opened an 18-story research center at 290 Binney Street in Kendall Square, part of a $1 billion-plus investment that will have nearly 2,000 scientists working in Cambridge · AstraZeneca, MassLive
Cambridge’s city manager rejected an MWRA plan to permanently fence off 2.3 acres of Magazine Beach’s playing fields over a 10-million-gallon underground tank meant to cut sewage overflows, with public comments due October 30 · Cambridge Day
Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and acting Police Commissioner Pauline Wells are holding drop-in sessions about last week’s two shootings, starting tomorrow 6-7:30PM at Fresh Pond Apartments, with a second session in The Port · Cambridge Somerville Independent
Twelve teams from Somernova companies faced off in the first Somernova Field Day, competing in everything from flip cup to parkour for a $1,000 grand prize · The Somerville Times
Robot Carnival @ Remnant Brewing, Somerville - Festivals, block parties and carnivals take a robotic turn this weekend. Well, quite literally as a LEGO robotics carnival lands at Remnant with games and competitions at the taproom. Every pint poured sends a dollar toward robotics and engineering education for Somerville kids
Free Admission on Indigenous Peoples' Day @ Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Cambridge - The Peabody Museum and the Harvard Museum of Natural History drop admission for the day, with Harvard students leading free tours of the Peabody's Indigenous collections | FREE • 9AM-5PM
Bedazzled & Brewed @ The Foundry, Cambridge - A three-hour craft session where your ticket covers a drink from Cynnamon Café and your pick of two projects: bedazzling a book or item you bring, or making a charm bookmark | $21 • 11:30AM-2:30PM
Millennial Speed Dating @ Aeronaut Brewing, Somerville - Speed dating for millennials who would rather meet someone across a brewery table than through a screen. Your first drink comes with the ticket and the prompts do the heavy lifting. Type 'STOOP20' at for a gift from The Stoop | $55 • 7-9PM
Paint Your Pet @ Muse Paintbar, Somerville - It's paint your pet night at the art bar. Paint a portrait of your pet from a photo you upload after booking, with the shapes projected onto the canvas so you just worry about painting and deciding where to in your living room to hang it up | $29 • 7-10PM
BYO Craft Night @ Cafe Zing, Cambridge - Cafe Zing's monthly craft night is here so bring whatever you're working on, drawing, knitting, collage, even metalwork. October adds a Halloween decoration craft and supplies for decorating your own gourd | FREE • 5-6PM
Tilt Through Women's Pinball Tournament @ Roxy's Arcade, Cambridge - A women's+ pinball tournament run by Boston Belles, played as a three strike knockout across four and three player groups. All skill levels | FREE • 7PM
Pottery Workshop: Oyster Platter Making @ The Shared Palette, Somerville - Local artist Amanda Bentley is leading a hand-building pottery workshop making ceramic oyster platters. You shuck and eat fresh oysters first, then press those shells into the clay | $85-$120 • 6PM
Big Singles Bash @ Upstairs at Bow, Somerville - Mingle Mayhem's big singles bash returns after ten straight sold-out events. Themed cocktails and optional games that make conversation seamless, plus a calling card system that only swaps numbers when you both say yes | $30 • 7-9PM
Wednesday Run & Chug @ Elm Street Taproom, Somerville - The Run & Chug run club returns to Davis this week. Show up, run at your own pace, meet new people and grab brews post run at Elm Street | FREE • 7-9PM
Line Dancing Wednesdays with LDQ @ Upstairs at McCarthy's, Cambridge - Boots on. The Line Dancing Queens take over the upstairs room for a weekly night of classic line dances and country hits, beginners included | $5 • 8:30-11:30PM
Big Singles Bash @ Upstairs at Bow, Somerville - One of Somerville’s biggest dating event is back at Bow as Mingle Mayhem’s last ten events sold out, and this one comes with themed cocktails and games designed to get strangers talking. Start cuffing season this Wednesday and meet someone new
Retro Rewind Movie Screening: Twilight @ Urban Park Roof Garden, Cambridge - Urban Park’s Retro Rewind heads back to 2008 with a Twilight screening on the roof garden. Come in costume or just come for the free popcorn
Moon Over Bow Tarot Readings + Market @ Upstairs at Bow, Somerville - Bow Market's witchiest night is back, with seven vendors selling magical goods and seven tarot and aura readers set up for the night | FREE • 4-9PM
Retro Rewind Movie Screening: Twilight @ Urban Park Roof Garden, Cambridge - Urban Park's Retro Rewind heads back to 2008 with a Twilight screening on the roof garden. Come in costume or just come for the free popcorn | FREE • 6-8PM
Robot Carnival @ Remnant Brewing, Somerville - LEGO robotics, games and competitions take over the taproom, with robots making s'mores and prizes on the line. A dollar from every pint goes to robotics and engineering education for Somerville youth | FREE • 6-9PM
New Member Mixer (Rock Climbing) @ Bouldering Project, Somerville - Have you been curious about giving rock climbing a try? Good because this is the perfect night to give it a go as Bouldering Project hosts a mixer for new gym members who want to try and meet new people | FREE • 6:15-7:30PM
Oktoberfest Wine Class: Sauerkraut & American Wines @ Bonde Fine Wine Shop, Cambridge - Sausage and sauerkraut go with beer, but this tasting class makes the case for wine. Styles get tested against the richness of pork, the acidity of kraut and a lot of mustard | $85 • 7PM
Mushroom Fest @ Bow Market, Somerville - Spend the day at Bow going full fungi with mushroom-inspired food, wild mushroom education, growing tips, photography, specialty shopping and even mushroom beer, plus a shroom-themed outfit contest
SomerStreets Monster Mash @ Somerville Ave, Somerville - Somerville's annual Halloween street party is back on Somerville Ave: costume parades, two stages of live music, pumpkin carving, and even a haunted house
Cambridge Half Marathon + 5K @ CambridgeSide, Cambridge - Race weekend starts with a Halloween morning 5K out and back along the Charles, then the half marathon heads down Memorial Drive the next day. Run both and you go home with a quarter-zip and a long-sleeve
Cambridge
143 INCIDENTS 19 ARRESTS Per day · Sep 28-Oct 4, the most recent logs CPD has posted
| Mon 9/28 | 28 | |
| Tue 9/29 | 19 | |
| Wed 9/30 | 17 | |
| Thu 10/1 | 27 | |
| Fri 10/2 | 20 | |
| Sat 10/3 | 23 | |
| Sun 10/4 | 9 |
September 28 through October 4 ran 143 incidents and 19 arrests, up from 131, with September 28 and October 1 the busiest days and just nine calls on October 4.
NOTABLE: Cambridge had two shootings in two days after this log window closed. Around 3:20PM on October 6, multiple 911 calls reported gunshots near Russell Field on Rindge Ave. in North Cambridge, next to the Alewife T station, and one person was taken to the hospital. Just before midnight on October 7, a second person was shot near Columbia Terrace in The Port and also hospitalized. Police say neither poses a broader threat, no arrests have been announced, and the victims' conditions have not been released. ShotSpotter played no role at Russell Field, which sits outside its coverage area.
The largest loss in the log was $139,333, taken from a CambridgePark Dr. victim by someone posing as a client of their company on September 28, and scammers posing as a police officer and a lawyer turned up in the log that same week. October 4 brought two serious arrests: one on Lambert St. turned up a loaded, untraceable large-capacity handgun, and earlier that day a man was arrested after a person reported he threatened them with a sharp object while trying to take their car on Mass. Ave. Alewife Brook Pkwy stores logged $2,689 in merchandise taken in an organized retail theft case on October 3, and one person was arrested for shoplifting twice in two days. Stranger entries: five coats taken in a Temple St. break-in, Halloween decorations lifted from a Temple St. lobby two days later, and two catalytic converters stolen in two days.
Somerville
5 ARRESTS Per day · Sep 28-Oct 4, the most recent log posted
| Mon 9/28 | 0 | |
| Tue 9/29 | 0 | |
| Wed 9/30 | 2 | |
| Thu 10/1 | 1 | |
| Fri 10/2 | 1 | |
| Sat 10/3 | 0 | |
| Sun 10/4 | 1 |
Somerville logged five arrests over the same week, down from six, with none at all until September 30.
NOTABLE: Security guards at Mass General Brigham's Assembly Row building spotted a man on October 2 they recognized from an earlier car break-in, a taser in his hand, and followed him while phoning his location to police. Officers caught up with him under the Route 93 ramp carrying a purse that matched the earlier theft. He never pointed the taser at anyone. Charges: car break-in, drug possession and carrying a taser without a license, plus three Boston and Roxbury warrants for stolen cars and credit card fraud.
The rest: two on September 30, one on warrants out of Boston and Quincy covering drug possession, receiving stolen property, unlicensed peddling and a car break-in, the other a larceny and trespass arrest on top of a Somerville warrant for the same two charges; a trespassing-on-railroad-tracks arrest on October 1 tied to a Boston warrant; and an OUI on October 4.
State law keeps juveniles, domestic violence and sexual assault out of both cities' public logs, so neither set of numbers is a full count.
Sources: Cambridge Police daily logs, Cambridge Police on Russell Field and Columbia Terrace, Cambridge Day and the Somerville Police weekly arrest log.
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