Peak foliage season hits Camberville and beyond. The trees flipped from a classic summer green to those rusty burnt red, yellow and maroon colors that fill up fall (disclaimer: I am technically color blind, so you'll have to go outside and see for yourself).
Color inaccuracies or not, the weather won't give up on summer, pushing hoodie season further into October as sunny and sixties move us past the gray of last week.
Celebrate with The Burren's monthly two-step lesson + dance social, Binge Thinking conversations, astronomy lectures at the taproom or even a dance party at lunch if you're working out of East Cambridge.
Enjoy the great weather this week.
-Kevin
Harvard beat ranked Colgate 20-17 on the last play of its home opener, a Hail Mary caught at the 6 and lateraled to freshman Nate Bailey for the touchdown · Yahoo Sports
Cambridge planners are floating changes to the city’s 20% income-restricted unit requirement, including tax abatements, to make larger projects financially workable and get more housing built · Cambridge Day
A judicial inquest found two Cambridge officers justified in the August fatal shooting of a 64-year-old Watertown man who pointed a gun at police, and the DA released the body camera footage Friday · @scooperon7 on X
Somerville activated its emergency displacement fund for the 43 residents of the Teele Square building hit by Wednesday’s five-alarm fire, while the laundromat, smoke shop and seafood restaurant downstairs remain closed · Boston.com
A man faces charges including assault to rape and kidnapping after police say he entered the women’s locker room at the Porter Square Planet Fitness Thursday and assaulted two women · NBC Boston
Somerville’s Traffic and Parking Committee takes up e-bike rules for the Community Path tomorrow at 6PM, including possible speed limits for e-bikes and other motorized vehicles · Cambridge Somerville Independent
Honky Tonk Tuesday: The Talking Hearts @ The Burren, Somerville - Pull up the cowboy boots because The Talking Hearts play the Burren Backroom on the first Tuesday of every month, six pieces of Boston honky tonk with a dance lesson before the live set
Hip Hop Yoga @ Upstairs at Bow Market, Somerville - Monday night yoga at Bow Market: one hour, all levels, hip hop and R&B soundtrack, disco ball, bring your own mat | $18 • 6:30-7:30PM
Pitch-A-Friend @ Aeronaut Brewing, Somerville - The format is simple: friends build a slide deck and pitch their single pals to a room of strangers at the taproom tomorrow. Pitch list is full but it's still free to attend | FREE • 8PM
Astronomy on Tap Boston: Exoplanets @ Lamplighter CX, Cambridge - Researchers take the bar Tuesday night to talk exoplanets: what we've found, how we find them, and what it means - plus trivia and drinks | FREE • 6-8PM
The Tuesday Table Mahjong @ Canalside Food and Drink, Cambridge - Learn, practice or play American Mahjong at a weekly table that welcomes total beginners and seasoned players | $12-$65 • 6-8PM
Honky Tonk Tuesday: The Talking Hearts @ The Burren, Somerville - Learn the steps, then put them to use. The Talking Hearts bring six pieces of honky tonk to the Backroom for the first Tuesday residency | $20-$25 • 6:30PM
Bonsai 101 Workshop @ Craft Loft, Cambridge - Pot your own juniper and walk out with it, from wiring and mesh to specialty soil, shale and a humidity tray. A Master Gardener covers every step and how to keep it alive | $93 • 6:30-7:30PM
The Bullying Myth Binge Lecture @ Upstairs at Bow, Somerville - Binge Thinking's bar lecture series returns Tuesday night with BU's Dr. Sarah Miller, who spent two years inside a high school and argues social media is less villain than pressure cooker | $33 • 7-9PM
Salsa/Bachata Tuesdays @ Havana Club, Cambridge - One of the better weeknight options for picking up salsa and bachata without a partner. Lessons from 8:15, open dancing until 11:30 plus options almost every weeknight | $10-15 • 8-11:30PM
Boston Social Conversations @ Aeronaut Brewing, Somerville - Millennial Crisis structures the whole night so everyone gets a chance to speak, listen and connect. Small groups sorted by app, curated prompts each round, four rotations total | FREE • 6:30-8:30PM
Freeride Film Tour @ Aeronaut Brewing, Somerville - This year's best new ski and snowboard films hit the big screen, with world-class athletes, backcountry lines and stories from the mountains - plus gear giveaways and a poster signing with Dane Tudor | $17 • 7-10PM
The Bullying Myth Binge Lecture @ Upstairs at Bow, Somerville - Binge Thinking's Tuesday lecture makes the case that phones aren't the villain: BU's Dr. Sarah Miller spent two years inside a high school and found the programs built to stop bullying keep missing the kids who need them
Lunch Break Dance Party @ The Foundry, Cambridge - Do you work in East Cambridge and want to spice up your lunch break? Drop into a midday dance party in the performance space and get back before 1 | $10 • 12-1PM
Craft Night x Rock Climbing @ Bouldering Project, Somerville - Monthly craft night for the climbing community Thursday: bring your own knitting, sketching or jewelry project, or take the gym's climbing-themed craft with supplies included | FREE • 6-7:30PM
Watercolor Workshop: Fenway Park @ The Shared Palette, Somerville - Attention Sox fans, drop into Bow for a Paint Fenway Park in watercolor and Micron pen night at the courtyard, guided by illustrator Kaitlyn Ripaldi with all materials supplied | $45 • 7PM
Drink & Doodle @ Aeronaut Brewing, Somerville - Boston Drink & Doodle creeps into spooky season with a casual night of drawing skeletons, ghosts or whatever else you can think of | FREE • 7-9PM
The Magic Lab @ The Foundry, Cambridge - Boston's only curated open-mic magic show, where five local magicians test out material that's never been in front of an audience. Some of it lands, some of it doesn't, that's the point | $20 • 7:30PM
BREWgrass Festival @ Portico Brewing, Somerville - Remnant and Portico team up for a day of back-and-forth strings, twangs, and all sorts of live music sets across the afternoon at both breweries
Head of the Charles Regatta @ Charles River, Cambridge - The world's largest three-day rowing competition takes over the Charles, with 11,500 competitors racing past some of the best free viewing spots in the city. Bring a blanket or just your favorite hoodie and stake out a bridge
Cambridge
131 INCIDENTS 20 ARRESTS Per day · Sep 21-27, the most recent logs CPD has posted
| Mon 9/21 | 24 | |
| Tue 9/22 | 27 | |
| Wed 9/23 | 20 | |
| Thu 9/24 | 19 | |
| Fri 9/25 | 15 | |
| Sat 9/26 | 12 | |
| Sun 9/27 | 14 |
September 21 through 27 ran 131 incidents and 20 arrests, down from 148, with calls tapering off almost daily after a 27-call peak on September 22.
NOTABLE: An independent judicial inquest found the Cambridge officers in the August 21 Temple Street shooting acted reasonably and were justified. The findings came out October 2, when the Middlesex DA also released the officers' body camera footage. The DA's office says the man, 64, pointed a gun at officers before they fired. Cambridge Police warn the footage is graphic.
The rougher log entries came early: a 3AM armed robbery at a Mass. Ave. business on September 22, and that same day a Somerville Ave. shoplifter who kicked, spat and threw things at staff and officers. Early on September 26 someone was kicked in the head at Mass. Ave. and Porter Rd. and hospitalized. Three cars were stolen in two days, from Lambert St., Wellington Ln. and Brattle St., and fraud ran from a fake $754 invoice to a $5,000 unauthorized withdrawal. Stranger entries: someone dumped a bucket of urine from a Mass. Ave. window onto a person below, a package of employee paychecks vanished from a business, and one man was picked up on eight warrants from four courts.
Somerville
6 ARRESTS Per day · Sep 21-27, the most recent log posted
| Mon 9/21 | 1 | |
| Tue 9/22 | 0 | |
| Wed 9/23 | 2 | |
| Thu 9/24 | 1 | |
| Fri 9/25 | 1 | |
| Sat 9/26 | 1 | |
| Sun 9/27 | 0 |
Somerville logged six arrests over the same week, its most since we started tracking, with September 23 the only day that saw two.
NOTABLE: Officers answered a 2:30AM call on September 26 about arguing and things being thrown in an apartment. The resident refused them entry, and once officers went in to check on the people inside, she threw objects at three of them, hitting all three, then wrapped her legs around a pole as they carried her out. Charges: three counts of assault and battery on a police officer, plus resisting arrest.
The rest: a September 21 arrest for shoplifting, larceny and assault; two on September 23, for a third shoplifting offense and for two counts of possessing child sexual abuse material; larceny over $1,200 and drug possession on top of a Boston warrant September 24; and shoplifting September 25.
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, 7News and the Somerville Police weekly arrest log.
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