Davis Square

Missing: Stuffed pink leopard

adamg — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:21:56 +0000

A local parent is frantically searching for his daughter's Lisa Leopard, stolen out of the family mini-van last night at the Rite-Aid near Davis Square:

She has had her since she was 3 years old. This is the go-to comfort toy. No, this is her best friend. This is the thing she brought to EVERY SINGLE "show and tell" day at school for a year.

This is her Hobbes. In fact, when I introduced her to Calvin and Hobbes last year, it was as if she had written the comics in a previous life.

So as you can imagine, I have spent the last several hours in the rain inspecting every square inch within a five block radius of the crime scene. I have been trying to get into the heads of whatever stoner kids found an unlocked door, grabbed the first thing they saw, and looked inside, and realized that there was nothing worth stealing. I have gone into every trash can and made friends with the T station workers. I even chatted up a few of the downtrodden folks at the bottle redemption center.

It only looks like a truck whose driver got horribly lost in Davis Square

adamg — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:21:04 +0000

In fact, this photo is part of a set by the MBTA showing re-painting at the station while the Red Line is shut down for track work.

Trotting turkey

adamg — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:59:21 +0000

Nathanael Hevelone discovers the one day of the year when it's acceptable to run through Davis Square dressed like a turkey.

Posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

The cask of a VFW post

adamg — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:41:26 +0000

Photo by Maria Varmazis.

Efforts by the Dilboy VFW Post in Davis Square to stay open until it can build a new post hit a cinderblock wall Saturday, when workers hired by the adjacent Winter Hill Bank built a wall to permanently seal off the post's basement game room on orders of inspectors brought in by the state. Post members promptly indicated what they thought of the wall.

Club members say the inspectors came from the Boston Fire Department, but BFD spokesman Steve MacDonald said that whoever the inspectors were, they weren't from Boston: "We did not and do not go into other cities or towns to inspect properties. No Boston inspector was in Somerville at the VFW post."

Post officials said that on Veterans Day, in addition to being told the game room had to be shut permanently, they were given until Monday afternoon to submit plans for bringing their ancient building up to fire code or the state would shut it down. That could mean they would lose their liquor license and possibly jeopardize the proposed move into a new post building on another corner of their property.

The post had proposed dealing with code violations through construction of the new building - which a developer would build in exchange for permission to build 31 new condos on another part of the post's land - but the project has been stalled in an increasingly acrimonious battle between neighbors and the post.

She shot her phone in the air, it fell to earth, she knew not where

adamg — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:04:47 +0000

Well, maybe someplace in Davis Square. If you do happen to find a phone attached to a giant mylar balloon, do be a dear and let Katie Gradowski know:

I realize I could have seen this coming. An experiment in aerial photography gone wrong. ... You'll recognize it by the giant mylar balloon attached, or the sticker on the back that says "Katie."

Burren burned by freak fire

adamg — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:34:59 +0000

Firefighters break open wall. Video by Ballghflash.

Traffic is a mess in Davis Square as firefighters mop up after a fire along an outside wall of the Burren on Elm Street this afternoon.

Boston area not immune to planking

adamg — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:09:05 +0000

Whole series of planking photos, including my favorite - planking the giant steel T outside Alewife. Sometimes, though, it can be hard to tell if somebody is planking or dead drunk.

A Near Futuristic Dystopian CD Release brunch lands at the Burren on Sunday, May 22

Alaiyo — Fri, 20 May 2011 03:40:34 +0000

The Unreliable Narrator Theater Group and The Pluto Tapes are hosting a CD release party for the cast album of 2010: Our Hideous Future: The Musical! on Sunday, May 22 at The Burren, located at 247 Elm St, Somerville, MA at 3 PM.

Featuring local artists Kamela Dolinova, Emily Taradash, Julia Lunetta, Timothy Hoover, John Deschene, Kay Coughlin, Katie Drexel, Ginger Lazarus, and Will Todisco, the cast album features all of the songs from the hit cyberpunk musical comedy 2010: Our Hideous Future: The Musical!, ranging from whimsical (“Doing The Best That I Can”), to the grooving (“Bangor Boogie”) to the memorable and uplifting (“The Future’s Not What It Used To Be”). Joining them are local artists electronic violinist Mei Ohara (fresh from performing at the Unreliable Narrator Showcase), the cyberpunk band Br1ght Pr1mate, and the Pluto Tapes.

The cast of 2010: Our Hideous Future: The Musical! will also perform songs from the album.

Down and out at Diesel

adamg — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:55:22 +0000

These days, Marc Levy can afford to buy a sandwich or two at Diesel. But he recalls his unemployment days when he'd spent hours there slowly munching on a bag of its day-old bagels - or furtively consuming the granola he'd stored in his backpack:

Worst of all was that in addition to taking up space and sucking up electricity, I wasn't tipping. Every Thai iced tea was simultaneously delicious and shame inducing; every time I got 10 stamps on my card and a dollar off was a twist of the knife; and reusing a glass and saving another dime was the final insult.

Escalator at Davis T stop eats woman's Ugg

adamg — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:05:44 +0000

Wicked Local Somerville reports on the incident today involving an Ugg; says the woman managed to escape with only minor injuries. With exclusive photo of the masticated boot.

At least it didn't happen during rush hour

adamg — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 02:11:35 +0000

Dead train at Davis means busing between Harvard and Alewife on the Red Line tonight.

Just under an hour to get from Kendall to Alewife

adamg — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 01:03:14 +0000

Seems a Red Line train crawled into Davis to die tonight, causing all sorts of cascading problems that made Dan Dunn a very unhappy T rider.

Honk, and the whole world honks with you

adamg — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 23:07:14 +0000

Amanda Cosmos recorded What Cheer? during Honkfest in Davis Square today. Honkfest continues on Sunday, with a parade from Davis Square to Harvard Square, starting at noon and ending by smushing into Oktoberfest.

Laptop with pancreatic-cancer research data lost at Somerville taco shop

adamg — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:16:49 +0000

Galen Loving, a researcher at Mass. General, reports he accidentally left a laptop at Anna's Taqueria in Davis Square around 7 p.m. on Thursday - and that it's now missing:

The computer has important data on it regarding work we've been doing to study pancreatic cancer. The research data contained within the computer is far more important than the computer itself. If anyone has seen or heard anything about this computer or can assist in any way in the recovery of this data, please ... send me an email at gsloving @ nmr.mgh.harvard.edu. Thank you.

Huh! Store priced out of Davis Square but will keep its Newbury Street outlet open

adamg — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:36:38 +0000

Wicked Local Somerville reports the impending demise of Poor Little Rich Girl in the square.