Buses go too fast, library policy-making too slow, councillors find

By Marc Levy

Published: March 9, 2010

Buses speed along Massachusetts Avenue near Central Square. There have been complaints drivers have ignored red lights — and videos posted by wbztv.com showing them doing it. (Photo: Marc Levy)

Buses speed along Massachusetts Avenue near Central Square. There have been complaints drivers have ignored red lights — and videos posted by wbztv.com showing them doing it. (Photo: Marc Levy)  | read this item

Buses running red lights and a raft of problems surrounding the Cambridge Main Library — unused meeting and cafe spaces, shortened hours, parking snarls and a failure to incorporate students from the neighboring high school — have caught city councillors’ attention.

‘Lincoln, Vampire Hunter’ author reads, signs at Brattle

By Marc Levy

Published: March 6, 2010

'Lincoln, Vampire Hunter' author reads, signs at Brattle  | read this item

Seth Grahame-Smith will be at The Brattle Theatre at 6 p.m. Monday to read from and sign copies of “Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.”

Census job fair coming Monday seeks to hire 1,000

By Marc Levy

Published: March 3, 2010

The U.S. Census is hiring workers for its 2010 count. A job fair is scheduled for Monday in Somerville. (Photo: Adria Richards)

The U.S. Census is hiring workers for its 2010 count. A job fair is scheduled for Monday in Somerville. (Photo: Adria Richards)  | read this item

The U.S. Census is holding a job fair Monday in hopes of hiring 1,000 people to serve mainly as enumerators, also known as census-takers — the people who go door to door to find people who failed to answer the census packets that will be mailed to them this month.

Neighborhood team envisions Lechmere with hotel, plaza, public market

By Marc Levy

Published: March 1, 2010

Plans for remaking Lechmere Square when the T stop moves includes transforming a garage area seen at top into a year-round, 30-stall public market like the one seen above. (Photo: On Land LLC)

Plans for remaking Lechmere Square when the T stop moves includes transforming a garage area seen at top into a year-round, 30-stall public market like the one seen above. (Photo: On Land LLC)  | read this item

First came a torrent of public support, then a unanimous City Council vote supporting a plan to remake the area around the Lechmere T stop with a 12-story hotel, plaza and year-round, 30-stall public market.

Pizzeria Uno closes in Porter Square

By Marc Levy

Published: March 1, 2010

A sign in the Somerville Avenue window of the Uno Chicago Grill in Porter Square, Cambridge, announces the restaurant’s closing and reminds diners another store in the chain remains in Harvard Square. (Photo: Marc Levy)

A sign in the Somerville Avenue window of the Uno Chicago Grill in Porter Square, Cambridge, announces the restaurant’s closing and reminds diners another store in the chain remains in Harvard Square. (Photo: Marc Levy)  | read this item

The Uno Chicago Grill in Porter Square closed for good Monday, part of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy Uno Restaurant Holdings Corp. filed for in January. The West Roxbury company is still said to have about 160 restaurants, including one in Harvard Square.

Harvard Square welcomes year of the tiger, 55th year for Hong Kong restaurant

By admin

Published: February 23, 2010

The Hong Kong restaurant, entering its 55th year in Harvard Square, is also hosting much of the square’s Chinese New Year celebration Sunday. (Photo: Adam Fagen)

The Hong Kong restaurant, entering its 55th year in Harvard Square, is also hosting much of the square’s Chinese New Year celebration Sunday. (Photo: Adam Fagen)  | read this item

Harvard Square plans its Chinese New Year Celebration for Sunday, including a parade through the square and cultural open house at the mainstay Hong Kong restaurant. Just look for the red and gold silk lanterns hanging from wrought iron lampposts — or the parade.

Governor visits Cambridge incubator to launch state initiatives, start-up contest

By Marc Levy

Published: February 23, 2010

A crowd gathers Tuesday at the Cambridge Innovation Center to hear Gov. Deval Patrick speak on several overlapping initiatives reinforcing Massachusetts as a good place for entrepreneurs and business in general. A groundbreaking for a center expansion was on the list. (Photo: Eugena Ossi/Governor’s Office)

A crowd gathers Tuesday at the Cambridge Innovation Center to hear Gov. Deval Patrick speak on several overlapping initiatives reinforcing Massachusetts as a good place for entrepreneurs and business in general. A groundbreaking for a center expansion was on the list. (Photo: Eugena Ossi/Governor’s Office)   | read this item

The Cambridge Innovation Center business incubator would have made a splash anyway in announcing a near-doubling in size by summer — with 240 tenants, it’s already reputed to be the largest grouping of start-up companies on the East Coast — but Tuesday its leaders were able to do it with Gov. Deval Patrick on hand.

‘Dinner Rush’ screens for those in the know

By Marc Levy

Published: February 21, 2010

A semi-regular food film series with an underground feel continues at 6 p.m. Monday with “Dinner Rush,” a behind-the-scenes look at a fancy New York restaurant.

Square’s palette shifts toward the palate

By admin

Published: February 21, 2010

As an art store, video store and florist closes, more cuisine finds its way into Central Square.

TD Bank hearing for Central Square is a sign of the times

By Marc Levy

Published: February 19, 2010

Next week sees another step in TD Bank opening a branch in Central Square, in the Massachusetts Avenue space that used to house The Gap. Despite unhappiness over the coming of another bank, the move takes 7,000 square feet of empty real estate off the market just as another several thousand open up.

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