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Bostonist has received unconfirmed reports of explosions and building evacuations near Lesley University in Cambridge. Oxford Street is closed for a few blocks near Hammond. Has anyone witnessed anything in this area? Update: it looks to be due to a manhole fire caused by a failed cable.

This week we'd like to congratulate the -ist network's Mother Hen, Gothamist's Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine's Wired Rave Award. If that doesn't sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that's right, the -ist network and Harry Potter now have something in common. Go us. Austinist has a chat with the ever-fashionable Golden Girl Rue McClanahan, and managed to catch some local fashionistas making...

There are many activities for which summer is ideally suited: Listening to the rock music, sitting outside drinking beer and watching celebrities, escaping from the heat to a cool, dark, overly-air-conditioned movie theatre, and, of course, kvetching about local politics. But lately, Bostonist has been getting reacquainted with that simplest and best of summer pastimes: exploring and enjoying the little, sometimes hidden pleasures of our own neighborhood.