January 3, 2025 | Vol. 54, Issue 1
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Year: 2021

Chinese restaurants in Cambridge
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The first Chinese restaurants in Cambridge

by Richard Auffrey

The first Chinese restaurants in Boston’s Chinatown appeared during the 1880s, but when did the first Chinese restaurant appear across the river, in Cambridge? It appears their first Chinese restaurant was not established until June 1902, with the opening of the Harvard Chinese Restaurant. It was located at 527 Massachusetts Avenue, on the second floor of the building, and employed only three people: a Chinese cook and two Chinese waiters. The Cambridge Chronicle, June 28, 1902, noted that it possessed two dining […]

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Concerns of air pollution increase

by Jacqueline Church

The tease of fresh, sweet air during the early pandemic still lingers in recent memory. With no cars on the road, residents could literally taste the clean air we had not known we were missing. Now, the unexplained rerouting of Logan International Airport traffic trailing exhaust, obliterates the last vestiges of hope that we might have taken advantage of the pandemic’s pause to create a better “new normal”, and enjoy a more robust set of initiatives to improve air quality […]

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Dare to dream: the 2020 census

by Benjamin Zhao

An Asian, according to the Census Bureau, is described quite broadly as, “A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent.” The 2020 census has shown an increasing number of Asian Americans. Since the 2000s, the Asian population has been the fastest growing race in America. According to Pew Research Center, in 2000, the Asian population in America was at 10.5 million, but by 2019, that number had jumped […]

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The rise of STEM

by Yan Yan

The Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics fields (otherwise known as STEM) is projected to grow at a rate 1.2x faster than non-STEM related ones through 2024. With the median STEM salary being 2x higher, and opportunities across the U.S. multiplying, it is no wonder the STEM field is so desirable. For many, engagement in STEM is starting at a younger and younger age, as parents and children alike experience the benefits of becoming comfortable around STEM subjects, such as problem […]

Model of Josiah Quincy Upper School
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New Josiah Quincy Upper School plans for fall

by Shira Laucharoen

The development of the new Josiah Quincy Upper School building is on schedule. The construction of the facility on Washington Street will mark a milestone for the school’s community, as students and teachers have been in temporary spaces, which did not accommodate the school’s growing needs, for a long time. While some community members have expressed concerns about the usage of the site and how building will impact the environment, they have also stated that it is important for students […]

Children in a classroom childcare
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Ongoing Struggles in Massachusetts Childcare

by Moninisha Yadav

When the COVID-19 pandemic took the U.S. by storm in March 2020, we saw nationwide shutdowns of nearly every type of establishment. This included schools and child care centers, leaving child care providers out of work, and parents to adapt by either working from home, leaving a job, or trying to get their child involved in Zoom classes. Now, as Fall approaches a year later, schools are preparing to go back, and parents are returning to in-person work, bringing back […]

Women celebrate August Moon Festival
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QARI hosts in-person August Moon Festival in Quincy

by Sampan Staff

On August 15, 2021, the town of Quincy celebrated the August Moon Festival in person. The event, hosted by Quincy Asian Resources, Inc. (QARI), saw a multitude of attractions and vendors, from rock climbing and bouncy castles, to cultural performances that included groups of both East and South Asian descent. Despite the Summer heat, droves of families and individuals came out to enjoy the festival. The street was lined with vendors from both sponsoring organizations and local groups and shops. […]

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Press release – municipal non-profit partners address extreme heat in communities hit hard by COVID-19

by guest

BOSTON – Communities hardest hit by COVID-19 will be getting some extra help facing the dual challenges of pandemic recovery and rising summer temperatures this year, thanks to a unique partnership among local government and area non-profits.  The Boston-based Barr Foundation is working with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) and Mystic River Watershed Association (MyRWA) this summer to distribute emergency heat mitigation funding to communities heavily impacted by COVID-19.  In this second year of the “COVID-Safe Cooling” program, five […]

Crepe at Cafe Phinista
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Café Phinista review

by Anna Ing

Owners Yeanie Bach and Phi Pham started out with a dream: to share the beauty of Vietnamese coffee with Boston by doing a few area pop ups, before finding their dream home in Fenway last summer to open Café Phinista. A month earlier they also opened a bánh mì shop, Bánh mì oi, in West Roxbury. At Café Phinista, they only use coffee beans in their Vietnamese Coffee from a farm in Vietnam (they are the world’s second largest grower […]

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Movie Review: Confetti

by Admin

Confetti, a film directed by Chinese Academy Award winner Ann Hu, is at first glance about a young girl named Meimei Chen (Harmonie He). Her story begins in a small town in China, where she lives with her father, Chen (Li Yanan), and her mother, Lan Chen (Zhu Zhu). Almost immediately, we learn that Meimei is functionally illiterate, as we witness her struggle to write her name and read sentences on a school chalkboard. Later in Meimei’s school, an English […]

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