Sleepless in Cambridge

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Published: May 23, 2011 at 07:00 AM

New York is the city that never sleeps. Cambridge is the city that sleeps because it’s forced to.

One cheap customer is just the tip of the iceberg

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Published: April 11, 2011 at 07:00 AM

I’m part of the problem in the workplace coffee shop — taking up space, sucking up electricity and, at one time, not even tipping.

Elevator, snow are minuses; kiosk may yet be subtracted

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Published: March 21, 2011 at 05:01 PM

Just as a new round of snowstorms arrived to complicate driving in the area — on the first day of spring — elevator improvements have arrived at the Porter Square T stop on the red line to complicate mass transit.

Inflated expectations from the quesadilla index

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Published: February 21, 2011 at 07:00 AM

My friends look at my taste in movies and say I can’t tell good from awful, but they’re wrong: I know when a movie’s awful and enjoy it anyway. The truth is that I have a hard time distinguishing good from great, and part of the reason for that is that I never get tired of the good.

Classes coexist in recession-era Cambridge

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Published: November 15, 2010 at 07:00 AM

Starting today, Cambridge Day is taking part in a project called Voices of MainStreet — a weekly, nationwide Q&A in which editors at the money and lifestyle site MainStreet.com ask questions and bloggers answer them. Here’s the first entry, in which I answer how the Great Recession has affected me and Cambridge as a whole. A summary of my answer: Hard to tell.

TV satirist draws line: He’ll give up East Cambridge to get Davis Square

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Published: March 7, 2010 at 09:51 PM

Cambridge will annex Somerville’s Davis Square and Somerville gets East Cambridge in return, according to a plan laid out Sunday on “The Cambridge Rag,” a Cambridge Community Television show hosted by Roger Nicholson.

Diesel brings back its mugs (if customers will)

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Published: December 22, 2009 at 11:57 PM

Your eyes, stomach and bladder are not deceiving you: Diesel’s large drinks have indeed gotten bigger.

Somerville News readies Cambridge Web site, paper

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Published: November 17, 2009 at 12:37 AM

Cambridge is about to get another newspaper. The Somerville News is expanding into Cambridge as Cambridge News Weekly, according to a request for inclusion on press releases that was e-mailed today to Cambridge city officials.

Four chances to see high schoolers’ “Once Upon a Mattress”

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Published: November 16, 2009 at 08:12 PM

When I was in high school, it was unlikely the drama students could attract enough watchers into the auditorium for two or three shows of a production. Yet Cambridge Rindge & Latin School has no less than five shows of the musical “Once Upon a Mattress” this weekend.

Good morning! Diesel to open, close earlier

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Published: October 28, 2009 at 05:46 PM

Diesel, the best thing about Cambridge that isn’t actually in Cambridge, is changing its hours Nov. 8, adding morning time and closing earlier.

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