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2 weeks 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month ago | 
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.
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1 month ago | 
cambridgeday.com | Tom Meek
Osgood Perkins, a dead ringer for dad Anthony Perkins (“Psycho”), continues the family tradition from the other side of the lens with this spin on horror master Stephen King’s 1980 short story. The not-so-slow burn is set in Casco, Maine, where we open with Capt. Petey Shelborn (Adam Scott) walking into a pawn shop covered in blood to fix his windup mechanical monkey.
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2 months ago | 
cambridgeday.com | Tom Meek
Can’t win the fight in the street or score justice in the election booth, what else is one to do? Give up and go home? How about sit down and pen a play against the object of your ire? That may be a bit hyperbolic, but it’s what Federico Muchnik has done. His Moby Dick is a 21 Walden Square Road affordable housing redevelopment project, which he sees as obtrusive and disruptive to the community.
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2 months ago | 
cambridgeday.com | Tom Meek
You don’t need a life-changing event to go out for a special meal. Babies, marriage vows and birthdays are all good causes for celebration, but sometimes an overdue meetup with friends or the simple quest for a unique feast is more than reason enough. Regardless of the occasion, finding a special place can be a challenge. Omakase and tasting tables are a good place to start looking, and we’ve extolled the virtues of omakase at Umami in the past.
