Tickets go on sale Wednesday for the Oct. 17 event, which will feature signature foods from Atwood’s Tavern, Bambara, East Side Bar and Grille, Formaggio Kitchen, Hungry Mother, Oleana, Pug’s Bar and Grill and Tupelo, according to Carl Fantasia, president of the association.

More restaurants may join in.

“The Rib Fest will be a culinary showdown pitting pit master against pit master for the title of the best ribs in town,” Fantasia said in a press release. “If barbecue isn’t your thing, don’t worry — there is still plenty of food and fun to be had.  Each team will be selling a dish of their own, showcasing their restaurant’s menu. This special event is a perfect opportunity to get a taste of the local fare in East Cambridge.”

The Rib Fest and street food fair, for which The East End House is to include entertainment for children, is set to take place on Cambridge Street between Fulkerson and Sixth streets. Tickets are $15 “to sample ribs from a growing list of teams” and to vote, Fantasia said. They can be bought by going to the association’s website and at Atwood’s Tavern, East Side Bar and Grille and Pug’s Bar and Grill.

An MBTA police officer inspects the bags of a commuter July 28 at the Porter Square T station in Cambridge. No arrests or investigations have resulted from more than 1,420 checkpoints set up since 2006. (Photo: Marc Levy)

No arrests or investigations have resulted from security checkpoints MBTA police have run at T stations since Oct. 10, 2006, according to officials at the department.

While Deputy Chief Joseph O’Connor wouldn’t say how frequently the checkpoints were set up, “it’s safe to say they’re done a minimum of once a day … on a daily basis,” meaning there have been more than 1,420 checkpoints without an arrest or investigation.

Despite that, Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority Police Chief Paul MacMillan believes the checkpoints are valuable as part of a “layered approach” that also includes camera surveillance and plainclothes officers riding the system.

“Intelligence suggests terrorists do preplanning before they do an attack. And now, if on the day of their plan there’s an inspection, we have disrupted the plan and they have to regroup and do more planning,” MacMillan said.

There has never been a specific threat to Boston’s transit system or to a specific station, his deputy said, but mass transit is considered vulnerable to terrorism. There are stark examples of bomb attacks in Madrid in 2004, killing nearly 200, London in 2005, killing 52, and as recently as March, when a Moscow subway bombing killed 35. The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo killed 12 and sickened almost 6,000 people with Sarin nerve gas in a 1995 incident that was apparently done to bring on the apocalypse.

“We do know the threat to our system is ongoing,” O’Connor said. “We do know mass transit continues to be a target terrorist groups continue to attempt to exploit.”

In written testimony given in 2005 to a state Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security, Harvard security and terrorism expert Daniel B. Prieto cited the Congressional Research Service in stating that:

Fully one-third of terrorist attacks worldwide target transportation systems, and public transit is the most frequent transportation target. Analysis of more than 22,000 terrorist incidents from 1968 through 2004 indicate that attacks on land-based transportation targets, including mass transit, have the highest casualty rates of any type of terrorist attack.

Terrorists like mass transit because they are “open,” Prieto said.

The MBTA’s security checkpoints are set up to make the system less so.

Designed to be random

There are 278 Transit Police in the Boston system, 210 of who are in O’Connor’s Patrol Operations Division and handle the checkpoints, with a handful of officers needed at each one.

The checkpoints are set up at any entry point in the transit system, without pattern so “we could be [at the same station] tomorrow and could not be back for two weeks,” O’Connor said. “We could be there briefly or for a number of hours. We could be there a whole day. The idea is to be unpredictable.”

Transit officers stop commuters using a computer-generated formula that changes frequently and is similarly intended to follow an “unpredictable pattern, so if someone is watching, doing surveillance, they couldn’t stand at the station and walk through and be sure they weren’t the one to be picked,” he said.

A gloved officer uses a chemical swab on a commuters’ bag, and a machine is used to see if the swab picked up traces of a chemical. If there are traces, the commuter will be asked questions to determine what the machine could be detecting, O’Connor said. Only if the questions don’t prompt a reasonable response will people be asked to open their bags for a visual inspection, the officers said, which is why not even arrests for weapons or drugs have resulted from the inspections.

The process is estimated by O’Connor to take “under a minute. Generally, under 40 seconds.”

If someone doesn’t consent to a swab or search, they can leave the station but not continue into the system there to take a train or other mode of transportation.

Alarm fades, skepticism remains

MacMillan acknowledged that there is public skepticism about the value of the checkpoint technique, although it is endorsed by the Department of Homeland Security and Transportation Security Administration, and answered a specific way in which terrorists could get around it: “You could go to another station, true, but [a checkpoint] adds a deterrent because you don’t know where we’ll be.”

Terrorists “may get disrupted in their planning stages, and maybe something else comes to light” as they take longer to plan an attack, MacMillan said.

Cambridge Day made a Freedom of Information request July 28 asking about arrests, investigations and complaints arising from inspections. Spokesman Joe Pesaturo replied Thursday with the information, including that “seven informal complaints have been filed and responded to by e-mail.”

There was alarm about the system in the early days that resulted in ads from the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts reminding T riders of their rights. During the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, when the searches were first done, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and the National Lawyers Guild sued but failed to stop them. Two years later, governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney revived the searches.

While the sense of alarm has faded, the civil liberties group remains opposed to the searches, calling them counterproductive.

“We think of those searches as ‘pretend security’ or ‘security theater.’ While encouraging ordinary people to casually submit to being searched, they are unlikely to identify or stop determined attackers,” said Christopher Ott, communications director of the ACLU of Massachusetts.

The September issue of Boston magazine includes a top 20 ranking of public schools, including Cambridge Rindge & Latin.

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School has again been named one of the top 20 public high schools in Massachusetts by Boston magazine, further endorsement of efforts by district and school administrators. The rankings appear in the September issue.

Rankings were based on data gathered from consulting school officials and websites, as well as the Massachusetts Department of Education, according to a press release sent Tuesday by Nicole L. Kieser, vice president of news operations for Regan Communications.

Determining factors of the school rankings includes MCAS scores, SAT scores, per pupil spending, student to teacher ratio, graduation rate, percent of students who continue into college and extracurriculars such as sports teams and clubs, Kieser said. George Recck, director of the Math Resource Center at Babson College, calculated mean scores for each data category and ranked schools based on their distance from the average.

In June, during a discussion of how the realities of school accomplishment trailed negative perceptions, Principal Chris Saheed cited a previous ranking in the magazine as evidence of a turnaround from even further in the past.

“Myths die very hard in the community, and perceptions people have held about the high school persist,” Saheed said during a year-end presentation to the committee. “Not everyone reads Boston magazine and sees us in the list of the best high schools in the state.”

Boston magazine claims a circulation of more than a half-million monthly readers.

A rendering of the completed Maud Morgan Arts center.

The Maud Morgan Arts center, dedicated to providing high quality and affordable visual art classes and activities for all, is complete and, after a successful summer session, open for fall registration.

“Maud Morgan Arts is a dynamic center where established and emerging artists create, teach, exhibit, and collaborate,” said Terry DeLancey, executive director of the Agassiz Baldwin Community. “It provides an opportunity for all who value the visual arts —young and old, beginner and professional— to choose from a wide range of innovative and imaginative visual art programs.”

The culmination of a 20-year vision for a citywide community arts center, Maud Morgan Arts is behind the Agassiz Baldwin Community’s 20 Sacramento St. headquarters, near Harvard Square. The center replaces an 1850s-era carriage house with a 3,200 square foot building — a replica of the historic structure and a more contemporary addition.

The architect, Prellwitz Chilinski Associates of Cambridge, designed the building’s contrasting sections to fit comfortably within the residential-scale neighborhood. The front area recreates the carriage house’s dimensions, even using its original cupola.

The center houses four fully equipped art studios enlivened by nine site-specific art installations from established Cambridge artists. Colorful and inviting, it offers classroom, studio, and exhibition space for school-age children, practicing artists and residents from every neighborhood in Cambridge.

The center includes studios for printmaking, ceramics, painting and drawing, and three-dimensional work. Programming includes fully equipped studios for artists’ projects/meetings/workshops, artist-in-residence programs and exhibition and meeting space. Site-specific public artwork designed by nine well-known Cambridge artists has been installed inside and out.

Maud Morgan Arts also noted it is seeking charter members who will receive unique benefits while supporting visual arts in the community. Beyond the benefits of a regular family membership, the newly announced $100 Charter Membership includes a limited edition Maud Morgan art poster (while quantities last).

Maud Morgan Arts’ inaugural summer session — in which middle school students participated in a five-week intensive studio program focused on instruction in clay, print making and illustration — has just ended.

Registration is now open for fall classes, which start Sept. 16 and run for 10 sessions ending in late November. Nearly 50 innovative and imaginative visual art classes for all ages and levels are open, each taught by veteran artists. For information, call Micah Eglington Woods at (617) 349-6287, ext. 19.

Visit maudmorganarts.org to learn more.

Musician and comedian Rob Potylo talks with his imaginary friend Locrius in episode 25 of “Quiet Desperation” — the last episode of the reality sitcom to be made for the Web before it moves to MyTV.

The local Web-based reality sitcom “Quiet Desperation” is going off the air, kind of, only to take to the actual air. Musician and comedian Rob Potylo, the founder and star of the series, and director Warren Lynch said Friday they are ending the Web series with the latest episode and restarting it in December on MyTV, where it can reach a potential 2.4 million people.

The series follows Potylo and a staggering number of other cast members — most playing exaggerated versions of themselves — as they pursue artistic, financial and romantic success in the Boston area. (Potylo has long fought for Boston to claim its spot as a creative hub alongside New York and Los Angeles, rather than having artists leave for those cities to “make it.” And Lynch is proud, and disappointed, to note the show is the area’s only totally homegrown comedy or drama.)

The series is scheduled to air at 11 p.m. Fridays starting Christmas Day, Lynch said. Episodes are to premiere every other week, then repeat in the week between.

Shows repeat more frequently with greater popularity, said Lynch, citing the frequency with which “Boston Boxing” replays.

“I’m sure we’ll get better ratings than ‘Boston Boxing,’” he said.

While there is a quietd.com, the show was crafted to appear on YouTube, meaning episodes have generally been five to 10 minutes long. The MyTV episodes will appear in half-hour slots, starting with material from the 25 finished Web shows recut into 12 to 18 shows in the broadcast format. New shows are already plotted, he said, and there should be even better continuity, although people shouldn’t expect significant changes in tone to the loose, funny, semi-improvised show.

“It’s like ‘Robot Chicken.’ They care about continuity, but people are watching to laugh,” Lynch said.

MyTV can be found on Channel 18 on Cambridge satellite and cable stations.

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President Barack Obama rests briefly during an Oct. 14, 2009, visit to Bolivia, already beset by an unusual amount of political resistance domestically. (Photo: U.S. Embassy in Bolivia)

It’s a painful time to be a Democrat and progressive. As one, the other or both, you get to see the country pointlessly diverted toward the inflammatory issues of the Tea Party and Republicans and away from meaningful legislation, with Democrats in Congress seemingly helpless to prevent it and even tacking to the right themselves, taking positions to which they should be opposed. And the president’s popularity and approval ratings continue to slide, likely contributing to the loss of Democratic officeholders in November’s midterm elections.

The reasons why are being hopelessly obfuscated, and you can’t really cure the pain without looking at the cause.

Among those missing it utterly are Reuters and The Washington Post, returning this week to comparisons with President Ronald Reagan’s disapproval ratings, which have been made since Obama’s slide began. Here’s the Post’s Dan Balz, from Sunday:

For much of this year, Obama and his team have taken some solace from the fact that Reagan’s approval ratings were even lower at comparable points in his presidency. That is no longer the case. In the past week, Obama has hit a new low in his approval rating, according to Gallup’s daily tracking. It now stands at 42 percent, virtually identical to Reagan’s in August 1982. (Both Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter dipped below 40 percent during their second year in office.)

To flesh out the poll results Balz and Reuters make analyses of the economy, following the lead of pollsters such as Gallup and pollster.com in citing the recession as a cause with such single-minded elaborateness that one would think Obama were Hoover.

An exhibit for a January 2009 exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., juxtaposes Obama with President Ronald Reagan, a juxtaposition being made again in an attempt to provide context for a slide in Obama’s approval ratings. (Photo: Robin Sampson)

None of the analysis notes the equally single-minded intensity with which Republicans, Tea Party members and others on the fringe have injected into public discourse the suspicions Obama is a socialist Muslim terrorist who faked his birth certificate so he could be president — one out to “indoctrinate” children, form death panels and take away everyone’s guns. To read these analyses is not only to be introduced to a world in which Republicans aren’t doing literally anything to keep the economy in turmoil; it is to live in a world where the Tea Party doesn’t exist.

In the real world where 51.2 percent of the public disapprove of Obama’s work as president, does it make sense to not make even a glancing mention to a political environment in which, according to an Aug. 19 poll released by Pew, 18 percent of Americans believe the president is a Muslim, a figure doubled since March 2009? (A poll by Time magazine showed 24 percent of respondents believed Obama was a Muslim; 46 percent said Muslims were more likely than members of other religions to encourage violence against nonbelievers.)

The failure of pollsters to craft questions reflecting this reality, and the failure of some in the media to note these factors — instead giving and analyzing a single, brutally simplistic and monolithic “approval” rating — is irresponsible.

There is a difference between progressives who support the president but want more from him and people who are opposed absolutely to the president for reasons of party, race or other irrational measures. Kevin B. Gilnack, communications director for the Young Democrats of Massachusetts, knows it.

“Presidential job approval poll numbers are particularly deceiving when reported in the aggregate. These numbers are skewed by the extreme right wing, who will never be satisfied with a Democratic president, and report approval ratings between 7 percent and 20 percent,” Gilnack said Thursday. “What doesn’t make the papers is that among liberals and even conservative Democrats, the president’s job approval ranges from 61 percent to 86 percent, and among moderates — who make up much of the electorate — the president’s approval is still at 50 percent.”

Hysteria

Of course, there is often an element opposed to the existence of presidents rather than their policies. With George W. Bush, it was the belief the 2000 election had been “stolen” in Florida and elsewhere that led many to reject his first term in office as illegitimate. Anyone who thinks anti-Bush passion can be equated with that of the anti-Obama crowd, though, should remember the firestorm that arose over Obama’s televised Sept. 8 speech to schoolchildren. Many conservative parents nationwide kept them home.

Conservatives were “convinced the president is going to use the opportunity to press a partisan political agenda on impressionable young minds,” in the words of CNN before the speech. Or, in a description of Obama’s plan by Neal McCluskey, associate director of the libertarian Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom, as quoted by Fox News:

“It essentially tries to force kids to say the president and the presidency is inspiring, and that’s very problematic,” McCluskey said. “It’s very concerning that you would do that.”

That was the studied point of view of an associate director at a strangely well-regarded Washington, D.C., think tank.

The reality check is this: Despite the fact it was Bush who led the country into a war in Iraq on trumped-up justifications, literally killing thousands of U.S. young, it is unimaginable that there would be a panicked pulling of liberals’ children from schools so they wouldn’t hear him speak. Even while calling his presidency illegal and him impeachable on grounds he lied to start a war, the most extreme liberals and Democrats never displayed a hysteria over Bush that was so palpable and urgent that it was believed an hour’s worth of exposure to his televised image was enough to turn “impressionable young minds” to Manchurian mush.

But it is those extreme liberals and Democrats, and maybe others who are not extreme, but merely disappointed in the squandering of an electoral mandate, that are driving Obama’s poll figures down.

And our pollsters and top news sources can’t be bothered to point out the difference between that group and the fear mongering far right.

“Thanks to a very vocal Tea Party, whose voice has been amplified by right-wing radio and Fox News, pundits and pollsters often overlook the fact that President Obama is a moderate. Our president governs the whole country and gives both sides a seat at the table to get things done,” Gilnack said. “This reality certainly leaves some progressives, who would favor universal health care, the immediate withdrawal from Iraq, the immediate closing of Guantanamo and a much more aggressive liberal agenda, dissatisfied — especially given our majorities in both chambers.”

Even Avi Green, chairman of the Cambridge Democratic City Committee, played up the economy as a factor in Obama’s disapproval rating (noting the economy is “also really formed by things Bush did and even things Clinton and previous presidents have done that got us where we are today”) and played down the role of those rabidly and unreasonably opposed to the very idea of Obama.

“The disapproval number is a complicated number,” Green said. “But, that said, we still have a long time between now and November.”

Representatives of the Massachusetts Democratic Party and Blue Mass Group didn’t reply to requests for comment.

The attack came at about 1 a.m. on Pearl Street in Cambridge, and police responded to a report of a break-in and stabbing.

The father sustained multiple stab wounds, while the son sustained one superficial wound to the chest, said the department’s communications specialist, Dan Riviello.

Both were taken to a hospital for treatment, and both victims are still hospitalized, Riviello said Thursday afternoon.

Cambridge Police detectives are working with Massachusetts State Police assigned to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office to investigate.

Anyone with information helpful to the investigation is asked to call (617) 349-3370.

This post was written from a press release.

“You try to be helpful and that’s all you can do,” Karen said. “It’s interesting how people reacted. People react in different ways.”

She thinks the owners of the black and white cat have moved away.

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A crowd at Lechmere waits to cross the street in heavy rain. Cambridge has been beset by rain throughout the year, including over the past four days. (Photo: Marc Levy)

Four days of rain ending midday Wednesday didn’t give Cambridge flood problems like those experienced as recently as July 10, said John Nardone, assistant commissioner for operations at the city’s Department of Public Works.

The trick? The rain never came down so strongly that it fully overwhelmed drainage systems, although there were times catch basins backed up a bit, Nardone said Wednesday.

There were 4.5 inches of rain since Sunday recorded at Logan Internatioal Airport, according to the National Weather Service. Hardest hit was the Blue Hills, with 7.5 inches recorded, and Salem followed at 6 inches.

“We have not seen any damage. This was light rain over a long period, so there were no real problems,” Nardone said.

The rain was particularly fierce Wednesday morning but finally petered out at around noon.

While Alan Dunham, of the National Weather Service in Taunton, acknowledged “it helped that it was spread out over four days,” he didn’t think the rains were uniformly as mild as Nardone suggested.

“I don’t know if I’d categorize it as light,” Dunham said.

Cambridge has been beset by rain and flooding at scattered dates throughout the year, with persistent problems in the Fresh Pond area. The July rains — 3.5 inches in an hour — brought thigh-high waters in Central Square, causing damage there and in Kendall Square, where businesses were forced into emergency shutdowns. But that intense rainfall was called an anomaly, and this week’s weather didn’t match up.

“We continue to watch over the system and will respond as best we can,” Nardone said.

Thursday is expected to be partly sunny, with highs around 80, then mostly clear at night, with lows in the upper 50s.

“Inner World” by Somerville artist Pauline B. Lim and “Urban Sprawl 2” by Boston artist Josh Falk are two works available through a Central Square startup called turningart.com.

“Julia,” by Bradford artist Chris Lovely, “Kitchen Aid Mixer” by New York artist Alicia Purdy and “She Will Cut You” by Malden artist Paige Wallis display the variety of the carefully curated website.

Turningart.com, a startup based in Central Square, could be the next Netflix.

But having opened to the public only in the past couple of weeks, it has already served its purpose for founder Jason Gracilieri.

“It started with me trying to solve a problem I had, which was a bunch of empty walls,” said Gracilieri, a serial entrepreneur who confronted that common problem when he moved recently. He found the answer in a familiar business model — letting people pay a flat fee to borrow works of art on a rotating basis. In this case, the works of art are actual works of art, prints that arrive in a tube and slide easily into a provided frame.

Over time, as monthly fees as low as $9.99 add up in a turningart.com member’s “piggy bank,” borrowers can turn into collectors and buy the original of the print that appealed to them most. If people jump right into buying canvases, that’s all right too.

The idea first occurred to Gracilieri almost three years ago, around the time he moved to Somerville from San Diego. (He’s a Reading, Mass., native.) But other ideas took precedence, and it took another move to remind him of the problem and its solution.

“I was really kind of done with things like Ikea prints, and I didn’t have the money or wasn’t ready to make a decision on which piece of art to buy,” he said. “And my walls were empty because I was stuck.”

The walls actually stayed empty while Gracilieri and his wife, art gallery director Julie Gracilieri, launched the site, starting with artist friends and drawing in works from across the country as word spread. There’s now about 35 artists represented in the online gallery, most in the Northeast.

“We’re still recruiting, because we want to be very selective. We hand-select our artists; this is not a free-for-all,” Jason Gracilieri said. “But now we’re also getting requests from artists.”

Test subscriptions, including the founder’s own, began only about four months ago, also with friends who agreed to serve as aesthetic and aspirational guinea pigs.

Easy to experiment

Cambridgeport resident Jason Whaley is one of those friends, already an owner of some art who still credited the site not only for its distinct “curated” sensibility — prints by the next Thomas Kincade are not available on turningart.com — but as “an easy, inexpensive way to get to know local artists without having to lay out a bunch of money on original artwork and without having to go to a gallery and feel like an idiot.”

Whaley isn’t one. He’s a fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management and a strategy consultant for businesses. But he prefers browsing a website to the intimidation he feels browsing in galleries.

“I’ve been to a few galleries where they talk about one current artist with reference to another current artist, neither of whom I’ve ever heard of. They’re trying to say ‘A is like B, except they are influenced by C.’ I have just no idea what they’re talking about, and I kind of give them a blank stare and they say, ‘Oh, you don’t know doing, I see I’ll have to dumb this down,’” Whaley said.

Turningart.com makes the whole process easy, he said, including swapping out works in the frame sent when users sign up. Although he initially put off dealing with the process for about two weeks, “when I finally sat down and did it, it took me less than a minute.”

The first piece of art he hung was controversial — in his home. He’s a fan of funky, angular, urban landscapes, and his wife prefers more abstract and colorful compositions, Whaley said, and the first piece of art that arrived leaned to his tastes. Two months later, though, the work was gone and replaced by another. (Subscribers can also choose one- or three-month rotations.)

“I’ve been able to experiment,” Whaley said.

Starving artists

The idea also draws applause from artists such as Pauline B. Lim, who works out of Somerville’s Brickbottom building and was introduced to turningart.com by a fellow artist. “It’s an excellent concept,” Lim said. “Because he’s basing it on something like Netflix, which is very popular, it seems like if it’s managed well, it should be popular too. It’s low-stakes, which is really good. It’s aimed I think at emerging collectors, people who may not have ever invested in art before. It’s great for just filling up your walls with images if you need stuff for your walls. And you’re not risking much. And that the money you do put in goes into a kitty you get to use for a real purchase of art, that’s pretty awesome.”

It may also be an idea that comes at a good time — meaning it comes along at an awful time economically, when many artists are suffering.

Gracilieri

“These past couple of years have probably been the worst ever in my entire career as an artist in terms of sales,” said Lim, a 1988 graduate of Harvard with an extensive list of showings and residencies from Newbury Street and New York City to Morocco and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. “All the galleries I used to show with are all down the tubes or bouncing checks or having a really terrible time also.”

Her hope is that if the site takes off, the model changes to include more compensation for artists. They now get a percentage of the proceeds if an original work is sold, and Lim would prefer also getting residuals — even a penny each — for the prints that go out.

“Imagine if this thing is really giant,” she said of the site. “What if there are a million people out there with my print on their walls? Even if I got 1 million pennies, that would be pretty awesome.”

Gracilieri isn’t there yet. He’s been through three startups, including a social networking site for high schoolers, and so far he and a staff of five are focused on the basics at turningart.com: adding work to the site and getting customer testimonials, and some publicity, for it.

If he were to dream a little, he said, it would be nice to someday turn his little offices into an actual gallery showing what’s online.

“It could be cool to have a nice big place for customers to come in,” he said. “I can envision a massive wall of rotating art space.”

Of course, he’d still have to decide what to put up.