Penny Cherubino details all the reasons she loves Craigie on Main in Cambridge for brunch, including:

... I've yet to meet a Craigie sausage that I haven't loved so I ordered, "Craigie Dimanche Sausages, Buttermilk Biscuit and Gravy with farm fresh egg." It was full of flavor with a great biscuit. Next time I'll ask for even more gravy. ...

Without any advance warning, the Harvard University Press Display Room bookstore in Holyoke Center closed on June 18. It had been in business for 61 years. I found out it was gone only when I walked by it this week.

Paola Mesadieu reports on the food festival in Cambridge, which, amazingly, did not get rained out the other day.

Tomorrow (Thursday) at noon at the John Harvard statue in the Yard.

Harvard to lay off 275; all are office workers.

Wicked Local Brookline updates us on a restaurant seeking a license for a location where there's already another restaurant - which says it has no intention of moving.

Wicked Local Cambridge tells us the story behind the recent closing of Shilla on JFK Street in Harvard Square. Added bonus: The guy with the great voice who owns Neena's Lighting is involved.

Edwin Alvarado, 22, was arrested last night on charges of assault and battery and intimidation of a witness, the Middlesex County District Attorney's office reports:

It is alleged that Alvarado, who was known to the witness, learned that John Doe had provided information to authorities. Alvarado then called the witness and asked him to meet outside a home on Rindge Avenue. When John Doe met him at approximately 4 p.m. yesterday, Alvarado slapped him twice in the face and threatened that he should not continue to provide information regarding the investigation.

The witness had reportedly provided information to police about the death of Jason Ellcock, gunned down early Tuesday morning by the Fresh Pond Apartments.

Innocent, etc.

Back in the day, Massachusetts churches were allowed to veto nearby bars. In this video, a BU law professor explains how Grendel's Den challenged the law - and won in a Supreme Court decision. The church was eventually torn down and turned into a Peet's.

According to the Middlesesex County District Attorney's office, Richard Stewart of Saugus and Joseph Falzone of Nashua, NH are scheduled for trial on Aug. 11

The two are, of course, charged with selling almost 100,000 pounds of decorative trim for scrap last year - using a state-owned dump truck to haul the metal from the Stoneham yard where it had been stored while the state repaired the bridge - to a scrap-metal yard in Everett.

More from the Middlesex County DA's office.

Richard Auffrey likes what he tastes at Tupelo:

Who would have thought that fried grits could be so tasty?