Update: Bicyclist died.

Cambridge police, firefighters and EMTs responded to Hampshire and Portland streets around 8:25 a.m. for a bicyclists on the ground following a crash with a truck. The bicyclist was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries, after police, who arrived first on the scene, administered CPR.

Brandon watched the action as a utility pole at Pearl Street and Putnam Avenue burst into flames and exploded several times.

Eversource reports about 1,750 businesses and homes are without power (and AC); estimates restoration by 5:15 p.m.

Greg Cook, who came up with the idea of a mermaid promenade along Memorial Drive and the Charles like the one in Coney Island, took photos of the walk that kicked off the Cambridge Arts River Festival yesterday.

A Florida woman on a bicycle turning from Mt. Auburn Street onto DeWolfe Street in Harvard Square around 4:30 p.m. died when hit by a box truck whose driver was going in the same direction but then decided to make a turn, Cambridge Police and the Middlesex County District Attorney's office say. Read more.

Banker & Tradesman reports the MBTA is looking to turn the giant frown that is the crumbling garage at Alewife station into a smile by letting a developer replace it with something that would be the ultimate in transit-oriented development. The T acknowledges it would have to work closely with a developer to ensure construction wouldn't disrupt transit service, so more like the work at South Station than the work at Haymarket.

Cambridge says a pipeline company that wants to cut down trees on a small city-owned parcel near the city reservoir on the Lincoln/Waltham line is disregarding the law, the rights of the town of Lincoln and the purity of Cambridge drinking water in its demand to use the parcel as a way to get heavy equipment to a neighboring lot for installation. Read more

DCR will be holding a public meeting Wednesday evening to help it map out a long-term plan for better managing the annual fall Head of the Charles Regatta between the Watertown line and the Charles River basin. Read more.

A roving UHub photographer stumbled across this scene in Tombstone, um, on Sacramento Street in Cambridge yesterday: Read more.

Roving UHub photographer Hope Cole spotted this turkey, no doubt hoping she can catch up with the Duck Boat at its next stop, near Science Park yesterday.