If I had a dime for every time this happened

By Marc Levy

Published: June 21, 2005

A hairline crack has appeared in a pillar of my Porter Square/Davis Square existence. The bean and rice quesadilla at Anna’s Taqueria has risen in final cost, to $3.20 from $3.10.
This could cost me another $36.50 per year.

Square it’s at

By Marc Levy

Published: June 20, 2005

I fell in love with Cambridge again Saturday afternoon. This was the scene:
In the pit by the main entrance to the Harvard Square T stop, several Muslim teens are rapping serially, very serious, some quite good. (The best, for whatever reason and whatever it means, are those in modern garb, not traditional Islamic gear.) The [...]

Lesley project on track

By Marc Levy

Published: June 16, 2005

Lesley University is on the verge of signing an 85-year lease with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority for the air rights to the Porter Square commuter rail tracks, meaning it would deck over them and build above.
The move would expand Lesley’s presence in the area — the T stop’s name would become “Porter/Lesley” — and [...]

A sitting ovation for ice cream

By Marc Levy

Published: June 15, 2005

Emack & Bolio’s ice cream is coming, sending Porter Square another swift step toward destinationhood despite gigantic, and gigantically slow, construction. The opening: as soon as two weeks.
“It’s ambitious,” said Bob Rook, president of the ice cream chain, putting an opening even before July — when he hopes the city will deliver a “pedestrian park” [...]