Waltham
Tweety cat won't sell out
By adamg - 5/14/12 - 6:37 amJason Scott's cat, Sockington, has the sort of Twitter following marketers would kill for. Well, not literally. That we know of. In any case, Scott reports some company offered to pay him for tweets on the feed. He explains why he turned the offer down.
In an alternate timeline, goggles are very important
By adamg - 5/13/12 - 8:44 pm
David Parsons took plenty of photos at the annual Waltham steampunk festival, where goggles were de rigeur.
Copyright David Parsons. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Lawsuit charges stock assault by battery company
By adamg - 4/3/12 - 7:49 amA guy who bought stock in A123 Systems sometime over the past year wants his money back, and then some.
In a lawsuit filed yesterday in US District Court in Boston, Scott Heiss charges the Waltham-based company, which makes large lithium batteries for auto manufacturers, knew about problems at a Michigan manufacturing plant well before it went public with them and that mean he bought stock at artificially high prices - the price tumbled after the news came out.
Heiss is seeking to be made lead plaintiff in a class-action suit that seeks lots of money for the alleged damages to the portfolios of investors like him.
Scott Brown, ahead 2-1 in cash-on-hand and $13M in the bank, hilariously plays “underdog” card
By Anonymous - 2/20/12 - 7:27 pm
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Best place for brunch around Waltham, Watertown, Allston/Brighton
By adamg - 1/15/12 - 2:14 pmJackie Ellis asks.
Sunrise, sunset
By adamg - 1/7/12 - 1:50 pm
Edmond Hatfield got up before the crack of dawn today for an annual winter occurrence from Long Wharf - the sun coming up over the open water, rather than Logan Airport.
Yesterday, Neil took in last night's spectacular sunset from the Pru, while Saul Blumenthal watched it in Waltham:
Some people might be a bit late for Thanksgiving dinner
By adamg - 11/24/11 - 12:51 pmAround 11:40 a.m., Jim Lokay posted a photo of the backed up traffic on the turnpike westbound between Framingham and 495.
Around the same time, Dave reported a major jam on 128 north by Rte. 20 in Waltham caused by a multi-vehicle crash that closed three lanes. Sarah Nelson reported a similar situation involving another multi-car crash on 495 south between exits 26 and 27.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle, stage adaptation of classic Boston crime novel, opens Dec. 8 at Oberon
By Eddie Coyle - 10/15/11 - 7:25 amCambridge, Mass. — Tickets are on sale now for George V. Higgins’ The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Stickball Productions’ world premiere stage adaptation of the quintessential Boston crime novel. The production runs Dec. 8–Jan. 15 at Oberon in Harvard Square, for tickets, visit www.thefriendsofeddiecoyle.com
It is the winter of ‘69 in Boston and Eddie Coyle is a bottom of the barrel hood attempting to stay alive and out of jail among his “friends” – cops, bartenders, radical hippies, bank robbers, hit men and informants. Weeks away from a prison sentence for trucking stolen booze, Eddie’s making a few bucks supplying the guns for a rash of brazen bank heists, while looking to tip someone in for a kind word to the judge.
George V. Higgins’ classic novel has been called the “best crime novel ever written” by Elmore Leonard, and literary scholars have compared his unforgiving and realistic depiction of Boston’s underworld with the works of Dickens, Dostoevsky, and Balzac. Through dialogue quintessentially Bostonian, and the most poignant homage to Bobby Orr and the ’69-’70 Boston Bruins in literature, The Friends of Eddie Coyle has set the bar for Boston crime stories for nearly 40 years.
Brandeis puts on a fat suit
By adamg - 9/9/11 - 9:25 pmBrandeis University this week sued everybody from multinational food concerns to a tiny bakery in Milwaukee over margarine - which the school alleges violates patents it owns for producing what it says is heart-healthy food substances.
Local company jumps deeper into mulch
By adamg - 9/6/11 - 9:52 amHarvest Power of Waltham, which makes mulch, among other things, announced today it is buying Coastal Supply Co. of Delaware, which makes mulch, among other things.
And no doubt, they were singing this tune today: Mulch maker, mulch maker, make me some mulch ...
