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Woburn man charged with failed holdup of improv actor in Cambridge

Cambridge Police report charging Mark Lidsky, 20, of Woburn, with armed assault with intent to rob for the Friday-morning incident.

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Maybe the traffic on Mass. Ave. was wicked bad

T-riding firefighters

16WadeSt reports these Cambridge firefighters took the T from Kendall to Central this evening.

Copyright 16WadeSt. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Metro distributors and their wacky costumes

Merrill Lamont tweets:

Saw a deviled egg handing out Metros at MBTA Central Square

MBTArdgames adds:

We should make a Bingo card for all the humiliating costumes Metro distributers have to wear this month. I just saw a penguin!

Novel reason for a Red Line delay

Limeduck tweets:

woman drops bberry on tracks at central mbta sta. staff halts train to retrieve. at rush hour, I say crush it.

Rekha begs to differ:

That the MBTA retrieves fallen objects on tracks was one of the first things to endear Boston to me.

Sidewalk work killing business at one Cambridge bar

Barwarrior chronicles the fate of the Field in Central Square while the city widens the sidewalk out front.

Never have an electric nose-hair trimmer sent to you at work

Because you're never going to live down the embarrassment when it somehow gets activated in the post office. As Wicked Local Cambridge reports:

A package sent to an MIT employee containing a electric nose hair trimmer triggered a bomb scare that scattered workers from the Central Square post office into the streets Wednesday morning.

Thumbs up for Cambridge 1; thumbs down for Miracle of Science

FWC explains why the pizza at Cambridge 1 in Harvard Square is so good and figures out that the true Miracle of Science is whether you get served your food.

Fire at Central causes Red Line fail

Around 6:30, psionic tweeted:

The red line mbta train I was just on suddenly filled with thick smoke and they disembarked everyone at Central.

Photo around 6:15 as Cambridge FD responds.