Kendall Square
Although Neil Young Trunk Show, a hard-rocking performance movie directed by Jonathan Demme, only recently had its local premier at Coolidge Corner Theatre, it will be on DVD and Blu-ray before you know it. If you want to catch this film in a theater before then, one of the few places in the country to do so is Kendall Square Cinema in Cambridge. There, starting March 19, it will run for one week. Read local review of Neil Young Trunk Show.
Grub Street Boston interviews the owners of a Kendall Square eatery planning to serve Cantabridgian-American cuisine.
The Tech reports on the new - but already popular - Kendall Square haunt's financial issues.
16WadeSt reports these Cambridge firefighters took the T from Kendall to Central this evening.
Copyright 16WadeSt. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
As Pat Goss puts it:
Looks like the green line switch invaded the red line and won!
Meanwhile, MBTA Transit Police Service Area 2 assures us:
No fire at Kendall MBTA. Red Line Dispatcher reports train was creating sparks that caused small smoke condition. Should be clear shortly.
Drew Stanton tweets around 6:30 p.m.:
25 minutes to go from Central Sq to Kendall Sq (1 stop) on the Red Line. The stops are a mile apart.
We went to the Caribbean parade and festival in Kendall Square today. As usual, the feathered costumes were amazing. Read more
Wicked Local Cambridge has the details on the Friday-night incident involving an alleged punk with a knife and a man who didn't want to give up his laptop.
Antsy tweets it just took 20 minutes to get from Kendall to Charles/MGH on the Red Line.
UPDATE: Not wanting to feel left out, the Green Line is having problems too, this time due to power issues at Government Center.
Shane Curcuru gets coffee at the Kendall Square Au Bon Pain, promptly remembers why he stopped going there, including:
... ABP cups have a far higher failure rate than other local shops - more often than not while driving or walking to work, I get a steady stream of drips down the seam side of the cup, from right under the edge of the lid. Either the seams are too uneven, or the plastic lids are too inflexible. It's disappointing, and today I forgot to wrap a napkin around the edge of the cup, and so got dripped today. ...
Jon Chesto explains how it's the work of Ray Rogers, the guy who tried to derail Deval Patrick over "killer Coke." This time, he's working for an IBEW local.
Mark Jaquith reports that the Beal Companies have withdrawn their application to build a 10-story research building just 50 feet from some homes.
Earlier:
'Imagine having a building the size of Holyoke Center in your back yard'.
Jonathan captures the Longfellow in a moody moment.
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HubSpot, a Kendall Square company that helps companies market themselves on social networks, heard yesterday that Deval Patrick would be in their building today, so they posted on Twitter about how cool it would be if His Excellency would stop by for a visit and lo and behold, he did.
Deval Patrick has a Twitter account.
Xconomy covers Patrick's visit to the Cambridge Innovation Center.
Dan Dunn tweets it took him 50 minutes to get from Kendall to Alewife early this evening:
How I loathe the MBTA. And the "alert" system.
Sohanley was stuck in a train between Harvard and Porter for 25 minutes around the same time.
At about 8:30 pm on Friday, reports the Associated Press.
Cambridge Police report on an incident involving assault with a dangerous weapon:
On 10/24/08 at 11:28 AM, staff from the Community Charter School of Cambridge contacted the Cambridge Police after several students reported that they were involved in an altercation with an unknown group from Boston, MA as they exited the Kendall Sq. train station.
This evening the Red Line was completely FUBAR'd, supposedly because of a crack in the tracks near MIT/Kendall. This was resulting in a combination of weird subway patterns (the outbound train I was on ended up on the inbound platform at Charles MGH), busses, and of course, delays. At Downtown Crossing, the Ashmont/Braintree platform was packed with people waiting for a train.
Around 8PM, they had just started busing from Charles MGH with impressive efficiency- rather than line up a block's worth of buses to the same place, buses were running to individual stations along the red line. I saw buses to Harvard, Kendal, and Central, and drivers were waiving people on fast and furious. Plenty of exasperated riders were happy to show some hustle.
As usual, the Boston Globe could give a damn about reporting problems with the MBTA, so who knows whether they fixed the problem or not. If you believe it, the MBTA status board shows an all-clear.
Used to go to Baja Betty's on Harvard Street in Brookline for the occasional weekend lunch with the toddler son. My favorite burrito joint in the Boston area. Spicy mushroom quesadilla for the adults, rice and beans for the boy. The boy got a sister and got older, the family got busier, so we don't find ourselves in Brookline Village of a weekend afternoon so often.
Imagine my delight to learn that MexiCali Burrito Co., 500 Technology Square (Main Street), just around the corner from my Kendall Square office, is an off-shoot of Baja Betty's, down to the spicy mushroom quesadilla and burrito filling.
Must make up for lost time.
Stacie reports getting a warning from a cop this morning:
... I did a typical bike thing--I ran through an intersection instead of stopping because it's easier--and I got caught. Had I been fined, I'd have paid it and (believe it or not) I wouldn't have complained about it. When you're wrong, you're wrong. ... Now, how about handing out some tickets to people in cars who (1) park in the bike lane and/or (2) run red lights?
Sunday's Cambridge Carnival parade crawled down the streets of Kendall Square, with plenty of stops for dancing and singing.
SJ was admiring the gray-haired man's stretching as he meditated in the Kendall Red Line stop. And then it hit him: Not only was the guy on the tracks, he was holding onto the third rail:
... The meditator was meandering down the tracks into the tunnel, bags in hand, not rushed but with intent. Now there were dozens of people, all watching him, many idly. I stayed on the phone, offering voice updates and a description for a third time. After a minute, something made him return to the end of the other platform and climb up. ...
Shane Curcuru reports:
... [T]he Mem. underpasses to the Longfellow are glub, glub, glub. ...
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