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...parking lot of Good Time Emporium, the late-night crowd began to filter through the double-doors; the melange of characters included packs of greasy-haired junior school punks, permed teenage girls donning skin-tight Wrangler jeans and an occasional preschooler in an XXS patent leather jacket. The cab driver refused to use the word "emporium," insisting that my friends and I were mistakenly visiting his old billiards hang-out, "Good Time Callie's." The towering marquees, however, confirmed that we were entering the famed den of Somerville carousal and inflated Michelob paraphernalia. Before gaining admittance, I was asked...
Also on March 1, a cab driver from Somerville told police that he drove two women to a Cambridge destination. When they arrived, the women told the driver that they would bring him his fare. They never returned. However, one of the suspects left her purse-containing her wallet and identification-in the back of the cab. Police are searching for the suspects. March...
...Trips to Mt. Auburn Hospital (they happen every year, kiddos) can pan out in style. One: Arrive in a cab, not a police cruiser, a shopping cart or a Harvard shuttle bus. Two: Make sure that your companions know your full name, lest the medics feel the need to phone Dean Nathans for a spell-check. Three: Have said companions, friends or lovers leave you two shoes and some cash. After all, you plan to spend the night...
...price of a cab to Logan, paying customers get concentrated zaps of ultraviolet rays for 15 to 20 minutes. Why tough out hours in the sun when a brief rest on a tanning bed is all it takes? Thanks to modern technology, a crispy brown is only moments away...
Before embarking on his acclaimed cycle of plays on black life in the 20th century (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson), Wilson penned this early work about the denizens of a gypsy-cab company in Pittsburgh, Pa., in the late 1970s. Now, given a "definitive" rewrite by the author, it has been revived in a superlative production at the Center Stage, in Baltimore, Md. With little obvious effort, Wilson rivets our attention on the daily struggles of a half-dozen ordinary but entirely individual characters while gradually homing in on the explosive conflict between two: the cab company...