Word: suburbanitis
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Metro, an authentic brasserie, bar and bistro, offers a bit of old world Parisian charm in the heart of suburban Cambridge. With its oversized wall panel windows and mosaic tiled floors, Metro offers a wide variety of dining options. The fresh-baked pastries, cooked on-site every morning, and variety a of breakfast drinks will entice the early-bird looking for a quiet, not-Starbucks atmosphere to pour over the day’s reading. And the patio tables, tiny enough for two, provide a great open-air lunch option: salad, sandwich and smooch while the weather is still...
...matching funds to be directed towards affordable housing, open space and historic preservation in exchange for a property tax surcharge. The CPA was enabled by the state legislature last year and will be instituted on a town-by-town basis following municipal votes. The CPA was designed to fight suburban sprawl and the loss of open space. Cambridge desperately needs this funding to help fight the affordable housing crisis that makes it so difficult for middle-class families to live in this area...
What sets Rockwell Church apart from the masses of other bands who play (self-described) “wussy suburban rock” are their perceptive lyrics, and—with as much respect as is due to ’Nsync—not perceptive in a “[w]e got the gift of melody, we’re gonna bring it ‘til the end” way. Many of their lyrics read like poems. “Lonely,” the song Rockwell Church chose to kick off the night, for instance...
...outside a suburban Shanghai villa, the President was standing with his Chinese counterpart--the leader of a nation Bush had recently identified as a "strategic competitor" of the U.S.--as the two men sang from the same songbook. President Jiang Zemin condemned "terrorism in all its forms," while Bush, beaming, said Jiang and his government "stand side by side with the American people as we fight this evil force." Two days later, Bush met Russian President Vladimir Putin, into whose soul he had peered approvingly four months ago. Bush and Putin discussed the size of cuts the U.S. is ready...
...wedding on a Greek island so she can find out which one is her father, was an escapist trifle. And the production hardly disguises the frivolousness of what is onstage: the choreography, when it can be deciphered, is unremarkable; the costumes (a mix of disco-glitz and suburban soccer mom, with an odd preponderance of swimwear) are ho-hum; and the cast, headed by Louise Pitre as the free-spirited mom, is short on big names and big voices...