West of 495

Send lawyers, guns and money, well, guns, anyway

adamg — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:50:28 -0400

Secretly Ironic recounts a disappointing trip all the way out to Worcester for a "Jack and Jill night" at the Boston Gun Range, which, despite what its make your eyes bleed Web site and answering machine would have you believe, actually closed several months ago:

... So, then what? Obviously, the four of us drove around past the nudie bars and automotive spring repair shops on the outskirts of town until we hit Worcester Center. We briefly got lost in the Abandoned Warehouse district, and then stumbled upon the Gentrified Abandoned Warehouse district, featuring loft condos (natch), a discount meat store (”We Towed You So” emblazoned cheerfully across the parking lot), and a tapas bar called Bocado. ...

Why they're called the Worcester Tornadoes

adamg — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:59:32 -0400

Blue Mass. Group reminds us that today's the anniversary of the deadly Worcester Tornado of 1953.

The name's actually a bit of a misnomer, since the tornado continued down Rte. 9 to almost the Framingham line - one of its last spasms was to flatten the Fayville post office in Southborough.

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Masscrosswords — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:02:11 -0400

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Unbearable news out of Worcester

adamg — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:53:19 -0400

Police Kill Bear Roaming Worcester Neighborhood.

The City with Too Many Damn Slogans

adamg — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:52:49 -0400

That would be Worcester, which apparently has an identity crisis like you wouldn't believe.

But ya gotta love a city where people still pitch woo.

Girl Meets Mass.

pierce — Sun, 18 May 2008 17:59:03 -0400

Generous tax breaks have made our fair city into the Toronto of the US and made Hollywood faces a not uncommon site around certain restaurants.

So does our Sunset Blvd. stretch all the way to Worcester? If so Perez Hilton may have found our Viper Room, where TV's Topanga, Danielle Fishel, got all Britney last night......

While MBTA police are busy looking cool in black uniforms at subway stops ...

adamg — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:28:29 -0400

Commuter-rail riders are coming home to find their cars smashed in:

... On the train last week, I was standing behind a couple of Grafton commuters who were talking about the break-ins. One woman was saying that she had filed a police report with the town of Grafton and that the police responded to her that there have been over 30 (!) break-ins in the last 4-6 weeks. ...

Why you should care about some dispute between Sterling and Clinton over water

adamg — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:00:20 -0400

Well, beyond the fact that Sarah Schweitzer wrote about it for the Globe, or that it involves a giant multinational wanting to suck out some precious groundily fluids to make bottled water in Framingham (at the same industrial-park plant where it bottles Poland Spring, because Framingham is what it means to be from Maine).

No, you should care because, as Lance informs us, the water would come from a reservoir known as Wekepeke, and that's pronounced "Weekee-Peekee" and that's just too glorious a name not to say over and over again.

Don't want to know what he used to stir his coffee

adamg — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:39:48 -0400

A 25-year-old state employee was arrested Sunday night after police said he drove his car to a Dunkin' Donuts drive-through window while naked.

'Sup, Worcester?

adamg — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:15:03 -0400

Worcester Magazine is blogging the blogs, with updates every few days on what Worcester bloggers are bloggging about (blog, blog, blog!).