Michael F. Fitzgerald
@mffitzgerald.bsky.social
Editor-in-chief @cambridgeday.com Former #HarvardPublicHealth magazine @bostonglobe.com @niemanstoryboard.org @UChicagoalumni.bsky.social @niemanfdn.bsky.social Posts express my views only.
it's Thursday. So maybe Mamaleh's for backgammon....
Cambridge Day@cambridgeday.com · 2w agoBackgammon and other traditional board games gather locals in a digital age Recurring neighborhood meetups across Somerville and Cambridge feature mahjong, cribbage and other games.... https://www.cambridgeday.com/2026/07/19/backgammon-mahjong-traditional-games/
In which i learn that about half of lobsters are left-clawed. Also that they are quite good at getting out of traps.
Cambridge Day@cambridgeday.com · 2w agoLobsters are smart, except the ones you eat Once incredibly along our shores, now a vulnerable delicacy, lobsters are deeply intertwined with the history of the region...
Chances to hear two documentary filmmakers talk about their work, coming up.
Cambridge Day@cambridgeday.com · 2w agoCambridge, Somerville documentary makers make their marquee Continelli reveals the people behind Somerville's expanding art scene, Moss, now in his 70s, takes viewers on a journey through time alongside him and his hippie friends in the Grand Canyon...
I have been meaning to read "East of Eden" foreverish. Maybe this will be the nudge that makes it happen.
Cambridge Day@cambridgeday.com · 3w ago‘Day Care Stories,’ ‘East of Eden’ and more From a poetic American classic to non-fiction about the neuroscience of music, Porter Square Books recommends something for everybody...
Ann Patchet's "Whistler" is the most requested book in the Cambridge Public Library system.
Cambridge Day@cambridgeday.com · 3w agoThe CPL’s top 10 June reads Check out the most popular books in Adult Fiction and Nonfiction this month at Cambridge Public Libraries....
Capacity crowd came to @cambridgeday.com's debate between state Rep. Marjorie Decker and Evan MacKay. Our social video reporter, Alexa Schmitt, put together this reel: www.instagram.com/reel/Da1JruX...
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Our debate between state Rep. Marjorie Decker and Evan MacKay had more than 150 people at Street Theory Collective tonight in Central Square.
This was an amazing performance. 10 movements, songs in 8 languages, beautiful singing and bold orchestration well-played. unusual, too, for the way it used percussion. It is a shame it was only performed once.
Michael F. Fitzgerald@mffitzgerald.bsky.social · 4w agoAt #JordanHall for the Boston Festival Orchestra and Chorus Pro Musica's performance of "The Drop That Contained the Sea."
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Nieman Storyboard@niemanstoryboard.org · 4w ago"We try to focus on craft here at Storyboard, but the medium always shapes that craft, and these platforms create their own unique storytelling opportunities and constraints." niemanstoryboard.org/2026/07/10/s...
Bautista’s family mourns “senseless” loss of devoted father, family protector Slain Cambridge man’s fiancee says five-year-old son “shouldn’t feel the way he feels right now.”...
Bautista’s family mourns “senseless” loss of devoted father, family protector
Slain Cambridge man’s fiancee says five-year-old son “shouldn’t feel the way he feels right now.”
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Social justice heats up second debate between Decker and MacKay Rivals trade accusations while trying to establish themselves as more focused on those most in need....
Social justice heats up second debate between Decker and MacKay
Rivals trade accusations while trying to establish themselves as more focused on those most in need.
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At #JordanHall for the Boston Festival Orchestra and Chorus Pro Musica's performance of "The Drop That Contained the Sea."
In the moment reporting by Chloe Taft and Tavishi Chattopadhyay.
Cambridge Day@cambridgeday.com · 4w agoCommunity members criticize city officials in meeting following Bautista’s death Attendees questioned the public safety efforts in predominantly Black and brown neighborhoods, and the city council's decision to remove ShotSpotter....
I've learned that my temperature sensor for my car incorporates the heat index. It's really only 95.
Loved sharing this story and especially the marvelous #photos by Derrick Jackson. He shows how the #CharlesRiver has revived to the point where herons and cormorants can thrive. www.cambridgeday.com/2026/07/03/h...
Herring and herons: signs of the Charles River’s vast improvement
From Boston’s Museum of Science to the Watertown Dam, the Charles River this spring was rife with river herring swirling in the water like scores of baby sharks. Near the dam, dozens of the aptly name...
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The Kari Howard Fund for Narrative Journalism is accepting applications through July 12. www.iwmf.org/programs/kar...
Kari Howard Fund - IWMF
Eligible journalists can apply until July 12th, 2026. See application for more details. Read the press release for the 2025 winners here. Kari Howard was a storytelling editor who championed the kind...
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"The freshest news and occurrences of this glorious day, humbly delivered." Brilliant work by Francis Storrs and the @bostonglobe.com.
Spectacular photographs of the @cityofsomerville.bsky.social pre-4th fireworks by Bruno Munoz-Oropeza. www.cambridgeday.com/2026/07/01/a...
Ahead of Independence Day, taking stock in Somerville
Before the fireworks, a public reading of Frederick Douglass's "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?"
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Please consider supporting @msf.ca’s earthquake relief efforts in Venezuela 🙏🏽 www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/venezuela-ea...
Venezuela earthquakes response | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
After two devastating 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes struck Venezuela on June 24, thousands of people have been killed and thousands more have been injured. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Fr...
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A gem of a conversation about essays, accountability and the importance of talking out ideas to learn what we think.
Cambridge Day@cambridgeday.com · last mo.Rediscovering America’s Orwell Why are people in the United States not happy? "Because we are so violent." That was the view of Dwight Macdonald, a great essayist whose work is collected in a new book....
So far, so fun for Cambridge’s version of Bourbon Street Special open container zones and extended hours for alcohol service have drawn crowds for World Cup watch parties, but not complaints. Central Square’s happens Friday afternoon....
So far, so fun for Cambridge’s version of Bourbon Street
Special open container zones and extended hours for alcohol service have drawn crowds for World Cup watch parties, but not complaints. Central Square’s happens Friday afternoon.
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What fútbol means to an immigrant Cantabrigian I look back at the amused Americans watching us, so passionate for the World Cup. We follow our national teams with a devotion that can seem irrational from the outside....
What fútbol means to an immigrant Cantabrigian
I look back at the amused Americans watching us, so passionate for the World Cup. We follow our national teams with a devotion that can seem irrational from the outside. We argue, celebrate, suffer and grieve. Every victory feels like our own; every defeat leaves a wound. Believe me, many of us have tried to care less. Yet these passions persist because they are woven into who we are.
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“If you take the deal, you’re going to be exploited. If you don’t take it, you’re going to die,” said attorney Frank Ssekamwa about the U.S. demand to access the health data of millions of Ugandans. “It’s the essence of digital colonialism.”
“Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns
The United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the info...
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What to do with your minivan when the kids grow up.
How Cambridge laid the groundwork for becoming a #biotech hub.
Cambridge Day@cambridgeday.com · 2mo agoFifty years since recombination debate ushered in biotech in Cambridge Research on recombination, which blends DNA from different sources to create new DNA sequences, was one small step for man and one giant leap for Cantabridgian-kind....
I learned a lot about roly polys from this. Like, why they bleed blue.
Cambridge Day@cambridgeday.com · 2mo agoThe many names of the wood louse Otherwise known as the pill bug, roly poly, or doodlebug, wood louses are decomposers, recycling dead matter from nature's floor....
Cambridge robotics team makes the podium in Greece Middle schoolers get a medal in the FIRST Lego League World Championships....
Cambridge robotics team makes the podium in Greece
Middle schoolers get a medal in the FIRST Lego League World Championships.
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A creative #theater approach built from a real event that used civic engagement to create long-term change.
Cambridge Day@cambridgeday.com · 2mo agoImmersive play at City Hall revives 1976 recombination debate Sullivan Chamber will serve as the set for "No Recombination Without Representation” as part of the 50th anniversary of a landmark civic debate....
