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Events this Week

Farmer's Markets: Here, there, and everywhere...

http://www.cambridgepublichealth.org/lifestyle/cambridge-farmers-markets.php

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WEDNESDAY @ 6:30 PM: Madonna Karaoke at the MFA ... What?

http://boston.going.com/event-620121;NEW_DATE_Free_Outdoor_Karaoke_Event_Seeing_Songs


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THURSDAY @ 7:00 PM: Music and/or art.

Music - Live bachata & merengue music (Mozart Park, Jamaica Plain)
http://www.artsboston.org/event/detail/45373

Art - Gallery 263 (Pearl Street, Cambridge) Show Opening: "Repaint"


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FRIDAY in the PM: Art Openings!

Boston Sculpture Gallery ( Harrison Ave, Back Bay) @ 6:00 PM: http://bostonsculptors.com/
(will include installation AND performance art, as well as a survey of the group's artists)

Fourth Wall Project (132 Brookline Ave, Boston) @ 7:00 PM: http://fourthwallproject.com/
(will be less quiet than BSG & very vibrant)

Bike Friday.

June 19th is another Bike Friday event; the town & other vendors collect at Government Center to provide a breakfast bonanza for the bike-commuter convoys arriving from all over the city. I am looking forward to a second morning of gracious enjoyment. My first experience with Bike Friday was during the combined Bay State/ Cambridge Bike Week. The Harvard Square breakfast hosted by Harvard's Commuter Choice Program pepped up my midweek by awarding me night lights simply for showing up (thank you!). Similar "rewards" were offered at Friday's breakfast to the epic music of Led Zeppelin eerily vibrating between the cloudy concrete walls of our City Hall. While I think the freebies are both unnecessary and surprising considering the economy ... the food is an excellent way of luring folks in. Well done, and once again, thanks.

(from the Bike Fridays site ....)
Convoys leave at 6:45AM from various locations in and around Boston including Newton, Brookline, Belmont, Cambridge, Lexington, Arlington, Somerville, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury, Roslindale, Allston, Brighton and many more. You arrive, non-stop, at City Hall Plaza by 8:15.

Below ... goodies & info from the May festivities.

Aftermath.

Finally, I took a picture of the still un-fixed sign from the April 30th truck-to-bridge collision. The rumbling sound from the strike caused curious students and teachers to rush to the doors of the near-by Morse Public School. Not really knowing, or caring at first, I told an inquisitive aural spectator, "it must be thunder", only to realize minutes later that the sound was not just a truck under-calculating the school's loading bay.

How did this truck get there? Had the driver never been through Boston? Do the companies forwarn their drivers about roads they may not drive on? Is there a map out there with specific markings denoting roads that do not allow big trucks? It has to suck to drive through Boston with a big rig for the first time, although, considering the worth of the vehicle, driver, and cargo, one would hope that whoever the responsible parties are prepare adaquately for similar transits.

It could have been an honest mistake. Reading the signs, seeing a rotary up ahead, and thinking you might not make it beneath the bridge ahead while trying to figure out the next road to take is a lot to handle at one time. This occurance definitely is another good reminder to me for always checking the map.

See a brief article about the crash at www.boston.com/news

(the sign has now been fixed - they finished it sometime around the 13th or 14th ...)