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By adamg - 9/26/23 - 11:26 pm

The Globe reports on new wicked slooooow zones on the Green Line Extension, in particular in spots where the rails have gotten slightly closer to each other, an issue that left at least one expert with 40 years of experience scratching his head because rails in use generally widen in distance, not narrow.

By adamg - 9/22/23 - 2:46 pm

Organizers of the annual What the Fluff? celebration of Somerville's contribution to the culinary world have moved it from tomorrow, when we're expected to be inundated again, to Sunday - 3 to 7 p.m. in Union Square.

By adamg - 9/20/23 - 3:51 pm

A Suffolk Superior Court judge today granted the state Department of Revenue authority to seize Opa Greek Yeeros, 378 Highland Ave. in Somerville for non-payment of nearly $1.6 million in back taxes, interest and penalties. Read more.

By adamg - 9/6/23 - 2:28 pm

Dan Kennedy gets the scoop: The Globe is planning to bolster its coverage of Boston suburbs in general, with two editors and four reporters - and with one of those editors and reporters assigned specifically to what the honchos call "Cambridge and Somerville - Camberville if you will." Or Cambridge Day turf.

By Sasha Patkin - 8/31/23 - 4:10 pm
Wyn and the White Light perform at Sofar Boston HQ

Wyn and the White Light perform at Sofar Boston HQ. Photos by Sasha Patkin.

The last time I went to a concert it was too loud, tall people stood in front of me the whole time, and canned beers cost $15. While there's a time and place for every experience, and there can be something wonderful about being crammed in one place with thousands of fans and watching your favorite act through a giant LED stage display, sometimes you want a cozier, more intimate setting.

I've been meaning to check out a Sofar Sounds concert for years, but was never quite sure what to expect, which is entirely by design. Based on the premise of hosting secret concerts in unique venues, Sofar promises a serendipitous and intimate concert-going experience. Read more.

By adamg - 8/12/23 - 2:17 pm

Cambridge Day hops onto the story of American toads, which can eat 10,000 insects apiece in the summer and which, after shedding their skin, eat it.

By adamg - 8/3/23 - 5:14 pm
GLX Constructors logo

Four construction firms that teamed up to build the Green Line Extension say the company that designed key components of the new trolley line screwed up to the tune of more than $35 million in cost overruns, and they are demanding payment, in a suit filed today in Suffolk Superior Court. Read more.

By adamg - 8/3/23 - 12:12 am
Bacon in the Capitol

Bacon, in Space Force hat, inside the Capitol, via government sentencing memorandum.

A federal judge in Washington, DC last week sentenced Noah Bacon, 30, to one year and one day in federal prison following his conviction for traipsing around the Capitol as part of Donald Trump's failed autogolpe. Read more.

By adamg - 7/15/23 - 9:45 pm

But he is Not Identified.

By adamg - 7/13/23 - 10:18 am

The wiring fire on a train at Charles/MGH this morning wasn't the only, um, excitement on the Red Line this morning. Owen reported:

I’m in red line car car 01717. As the train came into Davis station the ceiling at the very rear of the platform started crumbling with debris falling across the platform and a large cloud of dust. It send me and a handful of others running in case of larger debris.

By adamg - 7/13/23 - 10:05 am

It turns out that people in Cambridge and Somerville drink Bud Light just like everybody else, only, unlike in certain redder parts of the country, they are refusing to boycott the beer-like liquid, Cambridge Day reports. In fact, the news site quotes a worker at one local liquor mart who, on hearing a customer muse enthusiastically about the boycott, told him to move along.

By adamg - 7/10/23 - 8:01 am

State Rep. Mike Connolly of Cambridge announced this morning he's resigning from the Boston branch of the Democratic Socialists of America, where some members were moving to kick him out for the temerity of working with, and sometimes even endorsing, some non-socialist Democratic elected officials. Read more.

By adamg - 7/5/23 - 5:41 pm

MassDOT announced today it's holding off shutting down the Union Square branch of the Green Line Extension until at least September after realizing that starting a six-week shutdown right after it shut the Sumner Tunnel without consulting with local officials about possible workarounds was kind of stupid. Read more.

By adamg - 7/5/23 - 5:28 pm

WBUR report some Cambridge members of the Democratic Socialists of America are moving to expel state Rep. Michael Connolly, who represents Cambridge and Somerville from the organization, for refusing to join two-minutes hates of Maura Healey and Michelle Wu.

By adamg - 6/29/23 - 10:12 pm

Update: Union Square shutdown delayed until at least September.

The MBTA announced today that the Green Line Extension will be shut between Lechmere and Union Square for six weeks starting July 18, not because there's anything wrong with the tracks this time, but so MassDOT can make repairs to the Squires Bridge, over which McGrath Highway crosses the tracks near Union Square. Read more.

By adamg - 6/22/23 - 2:38 pm

The MBTA reports a "power problem" has knocked out the newest part of the Green Line, between Medford/Tufts and Lechmere, and says riders should consider taking the 80 bus instead.

By adamg - 6/22/23 - 12:56 pm
Flyer for a 'lost hat' at Zuzu's Petals and one for a 'lost book' at Lehrhaus

Dueling lost-item ads on local telephone poles.

Zuzu's Petals, or somebody who really likes the wine bar on Hampshire Street in Inman Square, has been busy putting up fliers around the area in search of "lost" items - hats, vases and a single clog last worn there. Then, roving UHub photographer Andrea Gray reports, Lehrhaus, the new kosher tavern on Washington Street in Somerville, put up a flier for Israeli writer S.Y. Agnon's "A Book that Was Lost." Read more.

By adamg - 6/13/23 - 8:14 am

NBC Boston report State Police found a man's body on I-93 southbound just past the Mystic Avenue exit about 4:30 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 6/11/23 - 10:37 pm
New Somerville community path

Sifu Tweety videoed a ride on the new community path along the Green Line Extension in Somerville today and set it to "Roadrunner." Read more.

By adamg - 6/9/23 - 2:57 pm

The MBTA reports that the Green Line Extension Community Path for pedestrians and bicyclists that runs along the newest part of the Green Line in Somerville will officially open to the public tomorrow. Read more.

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