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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 [...]