by David | Jun 18, 2013 | transportation, urbanism
Via the estimable newsmachers at UniversalHub, a report that the MBTA is eliminating some stops on 15 of the busiest bus lines in the city this summer. The idea is that snipping out some redundant stops and refurbishing others will reduce end-to-end trip time and cut...
by David | Jun 4, 2013 | culture, eating, urbanism
I’ve called out food trucks before for obfuscating the name and content of common dishes, but when Mei Mei Street Kitchen put Sanguinaccio Dolce on the board, they helpfully, if bluntly, glossed it with “Taza chocolate, John Crow farm pigs blood.”...
by David | May 15, 2013 | eating, urbanism
According to the Hobbits, second breakfast is the second most important meal of the day so when I found myself in Dewey Square one morning this week, it seemed only natural to get a food truck breakfast even though I had already eaten. I was tempted by Area...
by David | May 6, 2013 | urbanism
I’ve never thought outdoor advertising was terribly effective so I’m happy to file these billboards under real-life glitch art.
by David | May 2, 2013 | design, urbanism
In addition to National Poetry Month, April was also National Landscape Architecture Month. Who knew? Not I, that’s who, at least not until the very last day of the month when I noticed that two parking spaces on Portland street had been converted into a...
by David | May 1, 2013 | eating, urbanism, working
Dangerously close to the office, Cuppacoffee featuring Dub Pies is coming in [?] days to a torn down parking lot on Merrimac Street. Are we allowed to just fill in a number? It’s got to be soon, I can see the LevelUp terminal is already in place....
