If you ask Google for biking directions to Chelsea it suggests Broadway to Sullivan Square, then Rt. 99 / Alford Street over the Mystic River, then Beacham st. Does anyone have experience biking this route? Where does it fall on the continuum from pleasant to death-defying? Are there other ways to get there?

Thanks!

I was walking through the Tuft's Campus today when I passed a woman selling cookies.  I thought, "that's odd to have a bake sale on such a cold gray day..."   I quickly saw more people selling baked goods, and heard drum beats, and saw a bunch of people on the roof of the library, and smelled a sweet tangy smoke.  I was very confused by all this, ( Read more... )

Royal Gorge, the cross country ski resort in California where I have been skiing since I was 5 years old, was recently bought by some investors who plan to build a giant development of several thousand luxury homes, destroying not only the resort, which would be a shadow of its former self, but pretty much everything around it as well. It's still ( Read more... )

That today (Wednesday) is the last day to register, if you want in the Alderman at Large race. City Hall is on 93 Highland Ave. The entrance for the election department is on School Street, just off of Highland.

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The Nature Friends dues stickers are no longer in Esperanto. What is the world coming to?

And so there were many monkey crawling out of the pancake bread before the stream of running dogs descended through the wilderness of coriander washing away the reminants of the once great empire of sludge that protruded from the head of snakes. This led to great confusoin from the many beast of prey that lurked in the forest, for there were many ( Read more... )