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By adamg - 12/28/23 - 2:36 pm
The conspiracy

The conspiracy. See it larger.

Shiva Ayyadurai, who has more MIT degrees than you, has filed a new federal lawsuit in which he alleges a federal cybersecurity agency, Facebook, Google and Elon Musk's X are all conspiring to limit his social-media reach - with a reaction time measured in minutes and using techniques perfected by British censors and the Massachusetts Secretary of State's office. Read more.

By adamg - 12/27/23 - 9:42 pm
Jimmy Flynn

Jen Deaderick says farewell to Jimmy Flynn, a presence in Central Square and the Boston hardcore scene who died Christmas night, just 40. She recalls the bad and the good times, including how he introduced her to the scene when she was at a low point of her own: Read more.

By adamg - 12/21/23 - 10:23 pm

Update: Thanks to a reader who is far more eagle-eyed, we've updated the story because there are three candidates from Massachusetts listed on that ballot.

Take a look at an official New Hampshire Democratic primary ballot and after you realize that Joe Biden isn't listed (because he believes New Hampshire has had more than its 15 minutes worth of first-primary-in-the-nation fame), you'll notice three candidates from Massachusetts: Perennial head-boot wearer and pony promiser Vermin Supreme of Rockport and Don Picard of Cambridge. Read more.

By adamg - 12/19/23 - 4:53 pm

A Cambridge man pleaded guilty today to three counts of rape of a child with force for an attack in a girl's bedroom that went unsolved for more than two decades, the Middlesex County District Attorney's office and Cambridge Police announced today. Read more.

By adamg - 12/18/23 - 7:37 pm

Cambridge Police are seeking criminal charges against 28 men they say patronized brothels run by three people who were arrested on federal charges in November, the US Attorney's office says.

The men's names will be released only if judges in Cambridge District Court find probable cause for arrest warrants and if the Middlesex Country District Attorney's office agrees to prosecute them, the US Attorney's office says.

By adamg - 12/18/23 - 3:19 pm
Rainbow over Cambridge

Did you notice it briefly got lighter for a bit a little after 1? Alisa Bokulich looked out from her office at BU and captured the rainbow that sprang up over Cambridge before it got dark and stormy again.

David Fisher spotted it, too, from his aerie in the Seaport: Read more.

By adamg - 12/18/23 - 9:19 am
Sandbagged storefront in Harvard Square

Carol Beggy found that at least one Harvard Square property owner was ready for flooding.

By adamg - 12/12/23 - 9:51 pm

Cambridge Day reports the Cambridge-based improv-comedy theater and school will wind down its operations through the end of the month, then just disappear. The non-profit says it was particularly hard hit by the pandemic, then was unable to ever fully recover.

By adamg - 12/9/23 - 2:45 pm

Work to "regauge" most of the Green Line Extension that was supposed to be done by Monday instead will take another week to finish, the MBTA announced yesterday. Read more.

By adamg - 12/4/23 - 9:36 am

The MBTA reports it's started running trolleys to and from Union Square again, but that service on the stubbier end of the Green Line Extension remains slow because of a signal issue near Lechmere.

By adamg - 11/29/23 - 9:45 pm

Henry Kissinger, who earned BA, MA and PhD degrees at Harvard then stayed on as professor of government and international affairs before leaving for a job in the Nixon administration, where he helped overthrow a democratically elected government in one country and oversaw B-52 carpet bombing in another, died today.

By adamg - 11/23/23 - 12:44 pm

A woman and a man were shot outside 10 Magazine St. in Central Square in Cambridge around 12:30 a.m., Cambridge Police and the Middlesex County District Attorney's office report. Read more.

By adamg - 11/22/23 - 1:17 pm

The Herald reports a 19-year-old woman from Cambridge and two other people were arrested on the roof of the Merrimack, NH offices of a Haifa-based defense contractor on charges that include riot, sabotage and criminal mischief in a protest over Gaza. Read more.

By Sasha Patkin - 11/22/23 - 9:35 am
Adrian Todd Zuniga hosting Boston's 17th Literary Death Match

Adrian Todd Zuniga hosting Boston's 17th Literary Death Match.

When I think of a literary reading, I think of cardigan sweaters, stuffy rooms, and restrained academic earnestness. When I think of a death match, I think of an all-out, no holds barred, brutal and unholy spectacle.

So if I hear of something called a "Literary Death Match," there's a 100 percent chance I'll attend. Read more.

By adamg - 11/20/23 - 1:13 pm
Window sign announcing the closing of Little Bak

Ari Ofsevit snapped the front of Little Bake, 1925B Massachusetts Ave. in Porter Square, which closed for good yesterday.

By adamg - 11/20/23 - 9:34 am

The Crimson reports on the status of plans to rebuild the venerable Garage mall into a six-story, mostly office building: The owner is waiting to find somebody who wants to lease a good chunk of the office space first, which is proving more difficult in these post-pandemic days.

By adamg - 11/16/23 - 9:22 am
Protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza on the Cambridge side of the bridge

Protesters block bridge in Cambridge. Photo via Cambridge PD.

Protesters with signs calling for an end to the Israeli invasion following the Hamas massacre of Israelis blocked both sides of the BU Bridge this morning.

Cambridge Police alerted motorists to "please find an alternate route to avoid delays."

By adamg - 11/15/23 - 12:21 pm

Sure, Harvard station filled with smoke shortly after 8 a.m., but after getting the offending train out of the station, the MBTA responded to several people alarmed by the possibility they were on or near a flaming train: Read more.

By adamg - 11/9/23 - 4:40 pm

Cambridge Day reports that Gregg Moree, who has run unsuccessfully for a seat on the city council in nine straight elections, died after driving into a parked car near his house Tuesday night - following another election in which he did not win a seat.

By adamg - 11/9/23 - 4:05 pm

Cambridge firefighters are at 35 Gore St. for what is now a three-alarm fire that started shortly before 3:30 a.m. Video. Another video.

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