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Local restaurant operator will try to raise employee salaries to $20 an hour

By adamg - 10/29/15 - 2:16 pm

Ayr Muir, founder of Clover Food Lab, says it's been bothering him that some of his full-time workers don't make enough to live on in Boston. So he writes today he's going to experiment with gradual price increases over the next couple of years to get all of his workers up to at least $20 an hour.

I think we can't build a long-term sustainable food system without changing our labor practices. I think we can do this, but I need your help. We ask a lot of our customers, we want to know what we can do better, we want to know what you think of new menu items. We even ask you for recipes and ideas for the next sandwich. We ask you to tell everybody you know about Clover. Now I want to ask you to help us pay more. ...

Cambridge council candidate withdraws on revelation of his teen posts to a white-supremacist Web site

By adamg - 10/27/15 - 8:34 am

Wicked Local Cambridge reports on John Sanzone's decision, related to posts he made on a white-supremacist Web site during "a difficult period of time" when he was closeted and his father was under arrest.

Co-star of Fever Pitch gets parade through Harvard Square

By adamg - 10/24/15 - 11:40 pm
Jimmy Fallon in Harvard Square

617 Images watched Jimmy Fallon in a chariot procession through Harvard Square before being honored by the Harvard Lampoon as "Emperor of Comedy."

Photographynatalia has more photos.

Cambridge Police: Boston man comes to town to meet woman, ends up robbed and stabbed

By adamg - 10/24/15 - 12:40 pm

Cambridge Police report a Boston man was stabbed during a robbery near the North Cambridge Catholic Cemetery on Rindge Avenue around 8:45 p.m. on Friday. Read more.

Disco violin

By adamg - 10/21/15 - 9:58 am

Peggy McClellan captured an interesting performance at the Harvard Square T stop yesterday.

Cambridge man gets probation for forging anti-wine-bar petition

By adamg - 10/20/15 - 3:32 pm

Cambridge Day provides the denouement to the only-in-Cambridge case of a man convicted of forging signatures to the city licensing board against a proposed wine bar, allegedly at the behest of the owner of a rival restaurant - who has steadfastly denied involvement.

City lawyer says Cambridge can't arrest circus workers parading elephants down the street

By adamg - 10/19/15 - 7:58 am

The Cambridge City Council today may consider a request from some residents to make it illegal to march wild animals down the street - which would block the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from making its traditional elephant walk from MIT to the Garden, at least for the two years until the circus stops using elephants in its performances. Read more.

Pressley issues cross-river endorsement

By adamg - 10/18/15 - 8:57 pm

Cambridge Day reports at-large Councilor Ayanna Pressley has endorsed Manikka Bowman, a candidate for school committee in Cambridge, where voters get to choose who oversees the school system.

Oars meet

By adamg - 10/17/15 - 10:59 pm
Head of the Charles Regatta in the Charles River

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Troublewithtribbles was among the thousands who lined the Charles today for the annual Head of the Charles Regatta.

Copyright Troublewithtribbles. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

The calm before the races

By adamg - 10/17/15 - 7:53 am
Quiet Charles River before the Head of the Charles Regatta

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Tamas K-L got to the Head of the Charles finish line this morning before the regatta started.

Man wanted for desecrating Cambridge church altar

By adamg - 10/13/15 - 7:51 pm

Wanted for lewd act in Cambridge church

Lewd guy

Cambridge Police have released surveillance video and photos of a man they say entered St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church around 3:15 a.m. on Sept. 29, "initially put on priest clothing, later de-clothed and then committed a lewd act on the altar of the church." Read more.

Honk marks the spot

By adamg - 10/11/15 - 11:45 pm
Honk

Greg Cook took in the tenth annual Honk festival, both yesterday.

Mark watched today's parade: Read more.

From West Roxbury to Saugus, a stunning sunset

By adamg - 10/5/15 - 9:01 pm
Sunset over Centre Street in West Roxbury

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People were getting their phones out along Centre Street in West Roxbury this evening to take photos of the sunset.

And people everywhere else were looking up as well: Read more.

More Red Line woes, riders' angst just grows

By adamg - 9/30/15 - 10:24 am

The T is reporting the feared "severe" delays on the Red Line inbound due to a dead train at Central - a train that may be dead because shortly before 10 a.m., a passenger tried rushing through closing doors, which got stuck on his bag, and he couldn't get it out, so he pulled the emergency brake.

Red, Orange trains expire, leaving riders to perspire

By adamg - 9/30/15 - 7:25 am

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.

Harvard reduces amount of Au Bon Pain plaza it plans to wall off

By adamg - 9/27/15 - 11:42 pm

Cambridge Day reports on Harvard's revised plans for the space.

How to beat the traffic on the river roads: Drive in the river instead

By adamg - 9/26/15 - 6:11 pm
Pickup truck driving down the Charles River

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.

Cambridge man charged with Central Square murder

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.

Of course Cambridge has a Bernie Guy

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.

State gives tax break to start up to locate in troubled Cambridge neighborhood

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.

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