9+ hour, 28+ min ago   (294+ words) What’s a 650-pound skirted robot named Dyanna doing standing near a café-bakery and a brewery? Hard to say, but the adventure of finding a courtyard with such oddities in Somerville was worth the Google map mess-up I endured to get…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (445+ words) The coffee at Jenny’s Café at the Harvard Art Museum – which I persist in calling the Fogg, its name from 1895 to 2014 – is much better. Drinking coffee at a museum is a bit like getting it in a bookstore or, as…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago   (315+ words) The car thermometer read 95 when I pulled up to Call Me Honey on Friday. I was wilted and draggy but on mission. I’d heard that Curio, long closed, was now Call Me Honey (sometimes called “Honey’s”) and still offering Liège…...

3+ week, 10+ hour ago   (267+ words) What’s in your closet? In that bottom drawer or box in the basement? If it’s brightly colored, even garish and of little practical use, it’s a candidate for Nostalgia, the recently opened vintage gear and coffee house in Union Square....