In our last few blog posts on this issue, we’ve been hesitant to pop the champagne bottles and fully celebrate the increased inventory we’ve been seeing this spring. All we really had to compare it to was last year’s dreadful winter, and we just didn’t want to get our hopes up. But this month, there’s… Read More
Maybe I listen to too much WBUR (although, as someone who writes about and works in Cambridge, I suppose I ought to consider that impossible), but I think Radio Boston host David Boeri dug up a great soundbite from a Dorchester shopper on today’s Morning Edition. Customer: I’ve been planning this kitchen for four-to-five years,… Read More
These are dangerous times to be a purveyor of good news. Not just because people now take tremendous glee in predictions of doom (see the French Toast Alert System), but because delivering good news on record has a way of coming back to bite you in the butt. For example: “…we see no serious broader… Read More
In case, in this time of dire economic crsis—though I can’t say I’ve noticed any particular problems around here—you’ve lost site of how good you have it, take a gander at this little story from CNN. A sharp-eyed business student visiting Tijuana caught sight of a shanty town out the window of a bus, and… Read More
As anyone who’s been stranded on the Kendall/MIT platform knows, Cambridge was initially known as “Newetowne”, and founded with the intent of being the capital of this wild, puritanical experiment known as Massachusetts. But did you know Newetowne was founded in 1630, around a common currently occupied by Peet’s Coffee and Grendel’s Den? Or that… Read More
At 7.13 square miles, the city of Cambridge isn’t especially large, even among the dime-sized municipalities that cluster north of the Charles. But among the more unique features the Enlightened Republic is that in that space it seems to stretch from downtown to the suburbs. Consider the area out by Fresh Pond and Alfewife. Formerly… Read More
Most peoples’ conception of Cambridge begins at Kendall and ends at Alewife. Sure, some hipsters will gab on about Inman Square, but for the most part, people see it as an overducated, arsty-fartsy counterpoint for its neighbor to the south. But outside of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge has an industrial past. 120,000 called the city… Read More
Bastille Day: a great American holiday and a great excuse to celebrate something. Anything. We’ll head over to Cambridge for the Holyoke Street Bastille Day celebration Sunday. The festivities start at 3:00, so we have plenty of time for open house viewing beforehand. I don’t really know much about Cambridge neighborhoods, so I picked the… Read More