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Nice shot: Cat crossing
By Marc Levy
Published: August 26, 2010
A simple poster on a telephone pole warning neighbors of danger to their cat. That’s nice, right? Not to the cat owners.
Startup makes art collectors of apartment renters
By Marc Levy
Published: August 25, 2010
Turningart.com, a startup based in Central Square, could be the next Netflix, but its works of art aren’t cinema — they’re actual works of art.
Charter school says it’s bracing for 30% rise in enrollment
By Marc Levy
Published: August 23, 2010
A surge in enrollment has Community Charter School of Cambridge searching for extra classroom space. Faculty and staff at the tuition-free college prep school say it is a good problem to have
Palmer, Humanwine cross Atlantic into the Bizarre
By Marc Levy
Published: August 19, 2010
It’s unlikely anyone could miss the piece about Amanda Palmer in this week’s Phoenix — she’s the cover story, and she’s pictured clutching her naked breasts — but it’s just as unlikely many have seen Palmer in last month’s Bizarre magazine.
Closing of annex takes 6,000 more books from city shelves
By Marc Levy
Published: August 17, 2010
Window shopping is all you can do at The McIntyre & Moore Booksellers Annex. The space is close, taking another 6,000 used volumes off the streets in a city already losing 100,000 titles from the closing of Rodney’s in Central Square.
Nice shot: Hunting grounds … and finding none
By Marc Levy
Published: August 5, 2010
This apartment owner at Concord Avenue and Beacon Street in Somerville — just outside Cambridge’s Inman Square —doesn’t fool around. Well, maybe a little. Although this dire sign seen July 30 warns this is “Private property” where “Hunting, fishing, trapping, trespassing for any purpose is strictly forbidden” and that “violators will be prosecuted,” a look [...]
Artists in the Salon: Queer Carrie, a memoir of loss and the typo crusade
By Marc Levy
Published: August 3, 2010
The online magazine Salon is talking about The Queer Carrie Project by a 23-year-old Cambridge artist Elisa Kreisinger, the memoir “Let’s Take the Long Way Home” by Cambridge resident Gail Caldwell and a book by the Somerville-inspired Typo Eradication Advancement League.
Green line extension design begins Monday
By Marc Levy
Published: August 3, 2010
The first meeting of the Design Working Group for the green line extension project is Monday, project manager Katherine Fichter announced.
Green line design will fix platform flaw
By Marc Levy
Published: July 22, 2010
Design of the seven T stations to be built as part of the green line extension project doesn’t formally begin until fall, but there is one part of the plans that is certain: The stations will have central platforms on a single level, ensuring riders don’t have to leave and pay again if they realize they were headed in the wrong direction.
Completion of green line extension put off until 2015
By Marc Levy
Published: July 11, 2010
The green line extension project has been delayed until 2015, with a state official putting the blame on the amount of time spent negotiating with the community about where a train service yard would go.