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1 week ago | 
cambridgeday.com | Tom Meek |Madeleine Aitken
“Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” begins in the dense, tightly shelved Shakespeare & Co., Paris’ storied English-language bookstore, where its protagonist Agathe (Camille Rutherford, the journalist who appears early in “Anatomy of a Fall”) works while trying to succeed as a writer.
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2 weeks ago | 
cambridgeday.com | Tom Meek |Oscar Goff
As horror franchises go, the “Final Destination” series, which began in 2000, is unique. Rather than following a single masked killer or hapless protagonist, the films are defined by a common story device: time and again, a young person has a premonition of a horrible accident and escapes with a handful of others, each of whom proceeds to die in increasingly grisly and unlikely accidents, as if an unseen grim reaper must balance his ledger.
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1 month ago | 
cambridgeday.com | Tom Meek |Oscar Goff
“The President’s Wife” opens with a literal Greek chorus – or, at least, a French choir – filling us in on the biographical details of real-life former French first lady Bernadette Chirac, before warning us that the film we are about to see is a work of fiction. It sets the tone for what proves to be a lightly tongue-in-cheek biopic.
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1 month ago | 
cambridgeday.com | Tom Meek |Oscar Goff
Jeremy Workman’s documentary recounts the antics of eight Rhode Island artists who in 2003 covertly built and lived in a hidden 750-square-foot apartment within the Providence Place Mall. To build the secret enclosure within a dead space in the massive mall, the team had to smuggle in cinder blocks and furniture. The apartment remained undetected for more than four years.
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2 months ago | 
cambridgeday.com | Tom Meek |Madeleine Aitken
The latest from prolific filmmaker Stephen Soderbergh (“Ocean’s Eleven,” “Traffic”) is a sharp, thoughtful spy thriller in the neighborhood of “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” (2011), if updated for these high-tech times and tossed on a treadmill. There’s plenty of cloak and dagger, but the story’s center is the relationships between husbands, wives and lovers, be they deviously duplicitous, of high fealty or otherwise.
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2 months ago | 
cambridgeday.com | Tom Meek
Posto, at the forefront of fine Italian and pizza, was at home for 13 years on Elm Street at the neck funneling into Davis Square. It’s still in Somerville but relocated to Assembly Row, in the space that was Frank (the food by former L’Espalier restaurateur Frank McClelland was good, but it lasted only a few months).
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2 months ago | 
cambridgeday.com | Tom Meek
It’s been a while since we last made a Gustazo run, and there’s been some change. Not too much, mind you, and mostly for the good. For starters, Havana-raised chef and owner Patricia Estorino has notched a few more James Beard nods, and the menu has evolved to be tighter and more dynamic.
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2 months ago | 
cambridgeday.com | Tom Meek
If you need a baseball fix before the Red Sox’s opening day, this drolly nostalgic work by first-time feature filmmaker Carson Lund may be just the thing. In it, a bunch of old-time ballers play one last game at a park in the autumnally speckled hills of Central Massachusetts (Douglas, to be exact) before the lot is torn up and a school built.
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2 months ago | 
cambridgeday.com | Tom Meek
“The more things change, the more they stay the same” is an adage Liane Brandon could apply with regret to her photo exhibit “Still Marching 1970-2017,” opening Thursday at the Cambridge Main Library as part of a citywide events underscoring Women’s History Month. Brandon, a filmmaker, photographer and retired professor of education and communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, shot the Women’s March on Boston Common in 1970.
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
cambridgeday.com | Tom Meek
Early in the Covid pandemic lockdown, Lonnell Wells launched the Cambridge Bike Give Back program to confront his anger over the police killing of George Floyd. It was his and his friends’ way of transforming rage into a community good. The program takes used or broken bikes and restores them to be gifted to those in need in the community. During the inaugural year of 2020, Give Back handed out just under 50 bikes, operating mostly out of Wells’ home in Chelsea.
