by David | Jan 10, 2009 | eating, urbanism
It’s like I’d spent my life enjoying potato skins and suddenly got offered a whole stuffed baked potato. If you know what I mean. As you may know, I like fried turnip cake. I liked it in Hong Kong. I liked it in San Francisco. I liked it in London. I...
by David | Dec 16, 2008 | culture, science!, urbanism
Maybe Central Square isn’t going to the dogs after all. This weekend I caught a performance of a stage adaptation of one of my favorite books ever, Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams. The show is closed now, and you can read better reviews of it in...
by David | Dec 15, 2008 | economics, media, urbanism
Apparently I’m one of the last to notice that CD Spins in Davis Square is closed. It looks like it’s been that way about two weeks, and even though I’m in the neighborhood almost every day, I just today noticed this scary sign in the window. It...
by David | Dec 8, 2008 | urbanism
On Friday, the Cambridge police department moved out of its 75 year old Central Square headquarters, heading for a new facility in East Cambridge. In an unrelated incident on the same day, about two blocks away, somebody not very gently removed the lock on the door...
by David | Dec 7, 2008 | eating, urbanism
After catching up with Gibraltarian M at 1369 in Central, I took an errand ramble around the neighborhood and popped into Mariposa Bakery on impulse. On the counter, unlabeled, was a basket of scones that turned out to be cheddar-scallion, one of my favorites. The...
