The exigencies of another day at work caused a Red Line train to take an eternal rest near Alewife and an Orange Line train to take a ride with the Grim Reaper at Downtown Crossing between 7 and 7:30 a.m.
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By adamg - 9/26/15 - 6:11 pm
Bettlebrox spotted this novel craft in the Charles today:
It wasn't very fast, I passed it while cycling along the river and I last I saw of it was when it went under Harvard Bridge (Mass Ave Bridge)
Posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - 9/25/15 - 4:38 pm
Antwan Gonsalves, 33, was arraigned today for the fatal stabbing of Tywann Jones of Roxbury in Central Square, Cambridge Police report. Read more.
By adamg - 9/25/15 - 10:48 am
Ari Ofsevit ran into the Bernie Guy - with his sign done in a local font, natch - yesterday. He reports that if you take a picture of him, he smiles and yells "Bernie!" Read more.
By adamg - 9/24/15 - 10:39 am
Well, that would be something, wouldn't it? Instead, the state gave IBM a $2.5 million tax break to rent office space in Kendall Square. Kendall. Frickin'. Square.
By adamg - 9/23/15 - 8:01 am
A Cambridge woman who bought an Audi A3 TDI in 2010 has sued Volkswagen Group of America for breach of contract, breach of warranty and "unjust enrichment" for selling diesel cars that belched more pollutants than allowed. Read more.
By adamg - 9/22/15 - 10:53 pm
Among the many scientists and inventors honored along the Infinite Corridor at MIT is Kodak founder and MIT benefactor George Eastman. Is rubbing his nose supposed to bring good luck?
By adamg - 9/17/15 - 3:13 pm
This video shows people playing a part of a song on a piano placed in Central Square on July 18 as part of the Hands Movement.
Participants were taught how to play a part of an original song, and then filmed as they performed it. In the end, a video captured the many different hands and participants coming together to make one complete song.
By Anonymous - 9/14/15 - 8:38 am
Craig Kelley, Cambridge City Council, facebook:
How does one answer a completely loaded, manipulative, junky City Council questionnaire like the one these people, calling themselves Democrats for Education Reform, just sent to me? People for Public School Privatization would, I suspect, be a more accurate name given their pro-Charter stance. It's not the first slanted questionnaire we've received, but, arguably, it's the worst.
By adamg - 9/13/15 - 4:50 pm
Scene in Back Bay. Photo by Paula Tennyson.
Cambridge Police report somebody was shot as the Caribbean parade wound down in Kendall Square this afternoon.
The victim, a 25-year-old woman from Roxbury, was shot in the leg but is expected to survive, police say. Read more.
By adamg - 9/12/15 - 4:20 pm
Cambridge Police report Tywann Jones, 35, was stabbed around 1:40 a.m. outside the Central Square 7-Elevent at Mass. Ave. and Pleasant Street.
Jones was rushed to Mass. General, where he was pronounced dead around 4:40 a.m., police say.
By adamg - 9/10/15 - 6:02 pm
Central Square shows us some of the soggy people gathering for tonight's Le Diner en Blanc, an annual event in which invited people dress in white and eat dinner on white table cloths outdoors somewhere.
By adamg - 9/9/15 - 6:50 pm
Cambridge Police report a woman groped in Harvard Square around 8:30 p.m. yesterday is the latest victim of what may be a serial groper in the area. Read more.
By Anonymous - 9/8/15 - 11:31 pm
.@fightfor15mass Way to go! Your hearings are looking like ours in June! When we fight we win! #FightFor15 pic.twitter.com/kR6AVVae7i
— Fight for $15 LA (@Fightfor15LA) September 8, 2015
By adamg - 9/8/15 - 11:06 pm
Mark Leonard spotted this guy on Rte. 1 today: Stephen Libman of Alliance Glass and Sign in Dorchester.
Perhaps he was on his way to or from the Fleming Printing Company in Porter Square (which Claire Blechman photographed today):
By adamg - 9/4/15 - 7:24 pm
Psychlo Hexane sat behind this on Mass. Ave. near Porter Square this evening.
By adamg - 9/4/15 - 9:15 am
Andy Metzger took a look at the state of the long promised Charles River skatepark yesterday.
By adamg - 9/4/15 - 8:20 am
The hole at 7 a.m. Photo by Erik Maki. See it larger.
Cambridge Police report on the water-main break at JFK and Mt. Auburn streets this morning:
Inbound traffic to Harvard Square from Memorial Drive will be closed. Traffic coming east from Mt. Auburn Street will be diverted to Eliot to JFK Street outbound to Memorial Drive. Motorists are encouraged to avoid the area during the AM commute and likely through the weekend.
Without water, some businesses have shut.
By adamg - 9/3/15 - 9:22 am
A man who'd spent 20 years living as a farmer in a Jamaican hamlet is back in Massachusetts today to face charges he tried to kill his ex-girlfriend in Cambridge in 1994 by stabbing her and slashing her neck after breaking into her apartment, State Police report. Read more.
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