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By adamg - 9/30/08 - 10:40 am
Cambridge Police report that a man with a gun held up Rosie's Bakery, 1796 Mass. Ave., as an employee was opening the store around 7 a.m. yesterday.
The suspect was described as 5'8", dressed in a light blue sweat suit with hooded sweatshirt, wearing a mask and gloves, of unknown race.
Police also report arresting a Newton man for breaking into an apartment near Centre Street around 1 a.m. yesterday:
Upon being sighted, the male climbed over his couch and back outside his side window and fled on foot. The resident exited the building and discovered the male in an alley abutting the building.
By adamg - 9/13/08 - 10:09 pm
Some Assembly Required reports he was stopped for a light on Mass. Ave. this evening when a guy crossed in front holding two old-style boomboxes, both playing an old Nirvana song:
... [T]hey were probably tuned to the same radio station. Or given the hardware, who knows? Maybe he'd copied the music onto cassettes and pushed play on both decks at the same time. Rock on, my friend, rock on.
By adamg - 8/14/08 - 3:38 pm
NewEnglanda reports on what might be a dying dialect: English as spoken in North Cambridge and West Somerville, north of Porter Square within three to four blocks on either side of Mass Ave.
By adamg - 7/18/08 - 6:20 pm
Mad crush at Davis Square after Red Line traffic halted by disabled train at Porter Square this afternoon.
By adamg - 6/30/08 - 3:47 pm
That would be the entrance to the Porter Square T stop. Brendan Cavalier marvels - and wonders:
Saturday morning I was walking through the Porter Square T-Station and had to work my way through a crowd of Asian tourists. I had never seen a tour group in out-of-the-way Porter before, so I stopped to try and figure out what was going on. The entire group was standing at the top of the escalators and the tour guide was talking and gesturing towards the escalators (in a language I didn't understand).
I assumed she was taking her group on the subway and was explaining how to get through the turnstiles, pay, etc. But then she finished talking and the group turned and left. While all this was very strange, it got weirder when one woman turned and took a picture of the escalators.
What is so siginificant about the street-entrance to Porter Sqaure station that an entire tour group would stop there and take photos?!
By adamg - 6/26/08 - 12:01 pm
From the T:
Route 83 is being diverted due to gas leak in Porter Square. buses will be unable to service stops at Porter Sq or Sommerville Ave & Elm Sts.
Anybody know anything more about this?
By adamg - 5/2/08 - 2:12 pm
Josh Ourisman has had enough of "emergency" no-parking signs for street painting:
... Last night we walked into Porter Square for dinner and passed no fewer than two different 'emergencies': 'Emergency! We're painting lines on the street! Please file calmly, but quickly to the nearest exit!', 'Emergency! We've torn up the sidewalk! Please ... walk around it!'. ...
By adamg - 2/19/08 - 7:12 pm
Jon Milkman limns the BostonNow hawker at Porter Square who clearly takes pride in his work, even to the point of coming up with a catchphrase:
... [T]o me as i bolted through the porter T entrance late to work and aimed myself at the escalator: "alright, on the run, here we go!!!" (holding out a paper to me like he was passing off a baton in a relay race)
he's kind of awesome.
By adamg - 1/23/08 - 9:47 am
Cambridge Police report that when an employee at Emack and Bolio's in Porter Square turned to get a cup of water for a guy on Monday afternoon, the guy reached into the cash box and took out $120. Police describe the suspect: "White, 5'10, medium build, light facial growth, black stocking cap, waist-length black leather coat, dirty light blue jeans and black shoes."
Earlier:
Newton ice-cream vending machine robbed.
By adamg - 1/19/08 - 1:27 pm
The Bachelor in Porter Square reports on binging T announcements gone mad at the Porter Square station; it went way beyond the new "the next train to Braintree approaching/arriving" couplets.
By adamg - 1/17/08 - 3:05 pm
Cambridge Police report on a rumble in Porter Square around 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday:
Witness reports seeing one group of youths exit an MBTA bus, another exit the Porter Square T Station, and a third walking up Upland Road meet at the corner of Mass Ave & Upland. An argument started and a fight ensued. The people involved were males ages 15-17. They appeared to be groups from the Walden Square/Lincoln Way area and the Cambridgeport/Area 4 area. One of the groups of youths identified themselves as a gang member.
By adamg - 1/12/08 - 3:13 pm
Amy wonders who she is and why the station's electronic signboards wanted her to contact the MBTA.
By adamg - 12/17/07 - 8:01 am
Jason McIntosh is loving the unassuming Chinese place in Porter Square:
... I just now had their eggplant chicken dish and the eggplant portion was represented by large, even slices that were still vibrant purple on one side, where many other places would have opted for colorless blobs of mush. This is the sort of thing that gets me very excited. And the chicken part was made of succulent and tender strips, not gloopy chunkulets. ...
By adamg - 11/13/07 - 9:23 pm
Ana went out to run some errands today and came back with some video of a hawk eating a pigeon atop a transformer on a Porter Square utility pole. Yum.
Ed. pigeon note: I ate pigeon once, in a Catalan restaurant in Washington, Yep, the menu said "pigeon" rather than "squab." It tasted like chicken (hah), only a lot greasier and tinier.
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