At the end of the Day, hope for another persists

By Marc Levy

Published: November 28, 2005

This will be the last issue of Cambridge Day, at least for a while.
It was an awfully short run — the newspaper started just Oct. 31 — but Cambridge Day was, more or less, an experiment that its small staff hoped would be successful and ran as though it would be. There’s no point to [...]

Postcards from Prison has accomplices

By Lauren Weidner

Published: November 28, 2005

Peter Schutz, of Postcards from Prison, interviews audience member Jay Hale, wearing a baseball cap, in November 2005 about his most recent relationship breakup. Maureen Doran, Erin Curran and Ray Bell watch attentively. Once the interview is complete, the troupe reenacts the story of Hale’s breakup. (Photo: Schuyler Pisha)  | read this item

There are at least two things to be learned from last week’s performance by Postcards from Prison. The first is that names can be misleading: Postcards from Prison has very little to do with correspondence and inmates.
The second is that “inflatable robots … probably won’t conquer the earth.”
An audience member suggested this as an ad [...]

Neighbors wonder at cause of fatal fire

By Rick Guinness

Published: November 28, 2005

Harvard University-owned 47 Banks St. is torn down Nov. 25, 2005, after a fire inside killed an elderly resident. Neighbors worry that nearby Harvard construction was a cause for the fire and threatens them. (Photos: Marc Levy)

Harvard University-owned 47 Banks St. is torn down Nov. 25, 2005, after a fire inside killed an elderly resident. Neighbors worry that nearby Harvard construction was a cause for the fire and threatens them. (Photos: Marc Levy)  | read this item

An elderly city woman died Friday in an early morning blaze that officials from the city fire department and Harvard University — which is building a $36 million dorm nearby — say is under investigation.
Ordinarily that would be uncontroversial.
But neighbors of the late Gladys Evans, 79, of 47 Banks St., say they think recent problems [...]

Biodiesel bus seeks partners, passengers

By Marc Levy

Published: November 28, 2005

Patrick Keaney, second from left, looks at his biodiesel-powered bus from inside the Zeitgeist Gallery on Nov. 25, 2005. (Photo: Schuyler Pisha)

Patrick Keaney, second from left, looks at his biodiesel-powered bus from inside the Zeitgeist Gallery on Nov. 25, 2005. (Photo: Schuyler Pisha)  | read this item

It seats about 30, has a stage welded to the top and runs on vegetable oil.
And it could be yours.
Well, part yours. The 1992 green and yellow biodiesel bus, usually found in Jamaica Plain, is already being eyed by the Zeitgeist Gallery and band leader Gill Aharon as sort of a mobile hippie timeshare. The [...]

City love

By Katherine Triantafillou

Published: November 28, 2005

City love  | read this item

I am one of those people who loves living in the city. I also love the country. As far as I know, there is no word to describe such schizoid existence. We have all sorts of “bi” words: bicoastal, bisexual, bilateral, bimonthly, bipartisan, but nothing to describe the need for both the hustle and bustle [...]

Tinkering with the trains

By Marc Levy

Published: November 28, 2005

Chris Zappala  | read this item

The MBTA broadcasts information to T platforms about the proximity of approaching trains.
It tells people at Porter Square, for instance, that a southbound train has left Alewife, or that a northbound train has left Kendall.
What’s difficult to appreciate about this is that the MBTA doesn’t otherwise deal with “north” or “south.” Train platforms are labeled [...]

Shopping season’s start is a mixed bag for small biz

By Marc Levy

Published: November 28, 2005

Shoppers peruse the wares at Leavitt & Peirce, the Harvard Square tobacconist, Nov. 25, 2005. Known as Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving serves as the start of the shopping season leading to Christmas. Some Harvard Square shopkeepers feel Black Friday means little to them. (Photo: Marc Levy)  | read this item

 
There was only one certainty about Black Friday this year, and that was that CambridgeSide Galleria shops got more business than the shops arrayed along Cambridge sidewalks, including those of Harvard Square.
Black Friday, named for a store leaving red ink behind for profit-marking black ink, is the Friday after Thanksgiving, widely considered to be busiest [...]

Officials agree with residents on flood fears

By Rick Guinness

Published: November 28, 2005

The city’s plan for the Alewife area is so flawed that it is expected to die and require a total rewrite, according to the leaders of the City Council’s ordinance committee.
The plan has at least one major flaw, said committee co-chairman Ken Reeves: It doesn’t adequately address the threat of flooding.
Reeves’ remarks followed a Tuesday [...]

Lining up

By admin

Published: November 28, 2005

Lining up  | read this item

Tariq Butt plays in a recent second round of a the nine-ball tournament held Mondays at 7 p.m. at Flat Top Johnny’s in 1 Kendall Square’s Building 200. Sign-ups are at 6 p.m. Cost: $10. To get to the pool hall from the Kendall Square T stop, go up Broadway and veer onto Hampshire Street. [...]

Proportional indifference

By Katherine Triantafillou

Published: November 23, 2005

Chris Zappala  | read this item

Well, the elections have come and gone and as usual the focus of the conversation is who has won and who has lost and why. Politics in Massachusetts has always been considered a blood sport, and even in the left bank of Boston council races have never been laid back. But I have often wondered [...]

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