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The Zakim gets all the attention, but the old commuter-rail bridge next to it has its own charms, including a spiral staircase to the top. Molly Hester admired its form from North Point Park in Cambridge yesterday.
Ari Ofsevit couldn't believe his eyes at the River Street Whole Foods in Cambridge today.
Wicked Local Cambridge reports on city planning to make the kiosk - the former entrance to the Red Line - more inviting.
And is the number who are so full of themselves they actually call themselves "renowned" even smaller than that? The question arises because of this Craigslist ad:
617 Images had a good view of the fireworks tonight.
Phil R. also watched the fireworks from across the river: Read more.
King (l) and Ellis. Photos by Lawrence PD.
Cambridge and Lawrence Police report the arrest of two adults and two teens for an armed-robbery spree early yesterday that started in Brookline and Boston, moved to Cambridge and then ended in Lawrence, where police managed to catch them. Read more.
iFnLvBos wonders about the meaning of this scrawl at the Harvard Square T stop.
John Ruch points us to the infamous P versus NP problem:
Informally, it asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified by a computer can also be quickly solved by a computer. It was essentially first mentioned in a 1956 letter written by Kurt Gödel to John von Neumann.
UPDATE: May be linked to attacks in Brookline, Boston.
Cambridge Police report they are looking for suspects for gunpoint holdups on at Putnam Avenue and Franklin Street and Arrow Street early this morning.
Police say two roommates were held up around 2:30 a.m. at Putnam and Franklin: Read more.
The other day, LadyLazerJ spotted these two hawks perched outside her office on Hampshire Street in Kendall Square - where they stayed for about two hours.
They were seriously pissing off the blue jays.
Copyright LadyLazerJ. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Barbara S. hopped over to the Cambridge Dance Party outside City Hall in Central Square.
Clover, which offers food both on wheels and in fixed locations, is going for kosher certification:
I had a colleague at McKinsey who kept fairly strict Kosher, and I was shocked what a nightmare it was for her to try to find food she could eat. I have no idea how many people in Boston keep Kosher, but I want Clover to be accessible to everybody and I started thinking about getting Kosher certification a long time ago.
A train that headed across the rainbow bridge is causing the dreaded "severe" delays in both directions on the Red Line this morning.
UPDATE: The T reported at 7:44 a.m. that regular service had resumed.
N. Anthony Coles, who recently returned to head up a biotech startup (based on work at MIT, natch), writes about the area's emergence as the world's leading innovation center in the field:
It has become an almost utopian community, where intellect knows no bounds, and science always trumps difficult disease treatment problems, cracking code after code to derive new state-of-the-art therapies with space-age technologies.
Curt Nickisch watched the sunset at Fenway tonight.
Of course, it wasn't just over Fenway that the sunset was amazing.
Rachel Anne Miller took in the sunset over Kendall Square: Read more.
The Boston Business Journal reports on Councilor Leland Cheung's idea to let a developer put a 1,000-foot tower on the land now occupied by the comparatively puny Volpe transportation building.
JB Parrett didn't have to worry about oncoming trains as he stood where the actual train tracks used to be in North Point Park on the Cambridge side of the Charles.
Cambridge Police report two men were robbed at gunpoint in the span of a few minutes in Area 4, likely by the same two guys.
Around midnight, a man walking down Norfolk Street towards Central Square was approached by a man who asked him for change for a $5 bill, police say: Read more.
Eheff was in the upper busway at Harvard Square this afternoon when somebody from New Jersey not only drove into the busway, but drove into it from the wrong direction.
Earlier:
Excuse me, is this Hahvahd Yahd? We want to pahk our cah.
Cambridge Mayor David Maher welcomes guests to the 25th Anniversary Pride Brunch
Former Cambridge Mayor Alice Wolf remembers the day 25 years ago when she opened the doors of City Hall for the city's first Pride Brunch.
"This day 25 years ago was, as an elected official, perhaps one of the most emotional days for me," Wolf said this morning at what is now an annual event. Read more.
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