New Cambridge Observer

Category: Reviews

  • Loved Lowell Open Studios and Arts Festival

    I was wonderfully suprised and impressed by Lowell’s open studios–held this weekend in the old milltown about 45 minutes north of Cambridge. I was happy that an exhibit in a downtown gallery focusing on cat subjects did not make me itch. Very much.

  • Harvard Square farm stand worth a visit

    Everything at Busa’s farm stand looks delicious. Although I’d already done my shopping for the week, I found the stand worth visiting for both the conversation and the view.

  • Harvey Cox brings life, livestock, laughter to Harvard

    More than 1000 people turned out to see the long awaited (more than 200 years), long-dreaded( by the Harvard News Office) grazing of a cow on Harvard Yard. The event was carried out as a celebration of the retirement Harvey Cox, 9th Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at HarvardHollis Professor of Religion and of the…

  • Davis Orton Gallery Opens: Cambridge on the Hudson?

    Karen Davis and Mark Orton–Cantabridigians until this summer–invite all to a reception and opening celebration for their new gallery on Saturday, September 12, 5:30 to 7:309 pm at 114 Warren St. in Hudson, NY.

  • New Cambridge Playground Opens

    At long last, the new Alexander Kemp Playground on the Cambridge Common is open! It’s the most unusual playground I’ve ever seen–with dragon boat, water games, a group swing, gardens, natural woods, covered areas, its own hill, and sand everywhere. ”

  • Kimball's Ice Cream at Bates Farm, Carlisle: Review

    Best of all, for me, the Kimball’s experience is wonderfully dietetic. With its Bates Farm ice cream stand almost 20 miles from my home, I can’t get there often. And because what they offer is so good, I no longer bother with ice cream anyplace else.