Waltham

Best place for brunch around Waltham, Watertown, Allston/Brighton

adamg — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:14:11 +0000

Sunrise, sunset

adamg — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:50:13 +0000

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

adamg — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:51:11 +0000

Around 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

Eddie Coyle — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:25:39 +0000

Cambridge, 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

adamg — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 01:25:10 +0000

Brandeis 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

adamg — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:52:47 +0000

Harvest 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 ...

Even before brunt of storm hits, power goes out

adamg — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:22:00 +0000

Nobody braving Carson Beach Sunday morning. Photo by Lauren Sommer.

Around 8:45 a.m., Jack Stack tweeted:

VERY loud pop and then all the power went out in Savin Hill Boston

North Waltham is also out.

Stephen Walsh reports a pole came down across Hammond Pond Parkway, blocking three lanes.

Redistricting Olympics

creightt — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:42:03 +0000

Common Cause Massachusetts is hosting a Redistricting Olympics this summer. We will be taking citizen drawn Congressional, State House, and State Senate maps all summer, evaluating them, declaring a winner, giving out prizes and submitting the winning maps to the MA Legislative Redistricting Committee for consideration.

The purpose of the redistricting Olympics is threefold: to educate the public about the steps in the redistricting process, to initiate public participation in the political arena, and to pressure the legislature to draw the districts so that the citizens are appropriately represented.

Help show the legislature that redistricting is about our interests, not theirs. By participating in our redistricting Olympics and learning how to draw your own fair districts, you can acquire the tools you need to expose attempts by public officials to politicize the state’s new legislative maps.

For more information check out and/or email us at .

Participate in our democracy!

Brandeis agrees not to sell off 20th-century art holdings

adamg — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:10:11 +0000

Greg Cook reports the latest from the ongoing Rose Art Museum saga.

Brandeis plans major renovations to museum it once wanted to shut

adamg — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:50:25 +0000

Greg Cook reports on some impending work at the Rose Art Museum.

Kowabunga! Mzinga hires techie CEO

adamg — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:15:59 +0000

The Waltham-based social-software company (whuzzat? Online forums on steroids) hopes to bust out with the hiring of former Computer Associates and Novell CTO Alan Nugent, Xconomy reports.

Local Groupon clone claims AOL, Patch stole its business idea, name

adamg — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:25:50 +0000

Waltham-based Wow What Savings wants at least $5 million from AOL and its Patch subsidiary for setting up a similarly cloned group-buying site at wow.com.

Never bring a machete to a broom fight

adamg — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:18:58 +0000

Waltham Police report they are looking for two guys who tried to hold up a convenience store with a machete Saturday evening but who were forced to flee when the clerk whipped out "a small broom." Yes, broom beats machete.

She has to pay $185 to get her stolen scooter back

adamg — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 23:58:33 +0000

Miss Bella reports she was amazed the other day when Waltham Police called to say her scooter, stolen in August, had been recovered. But she adds she was shocked when the tow company wanted $185 to get the damaged vehicle back to her - which includes $20 for a night of storage because they couldn't get it to her that day and $90 for towing it away from the home of the guy charged with stealing it:

I'm 100% shocked that it's a-okay and legal to charge the victim of a crime such an exorbitant fee to recover their property. That can't be right. Can it?

Your ballot in tomorrow's primary

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:28:17 +0000

To preview your primary ballot for tomorrow, click on the link from the Secretary of State's website:

http://www.wheredoivotema.com/bal/myelectioninfo.php

then enter your address and select a political party. It will show you what choices you'll have on tomorrow's primary ballot.