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Porter Exchange, located in Porter Square, is filled with Japanese food stalls and restaurants. Take your pick from noodles and rice bowls to pastries. Cafe Mami is just one of the small stalls where you can get great food for cheap.

-- Charkem Hyatt, 19, of Dorchester was arrested today on numerous gun charges after a 2 a.m. shootout on Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury. The shooting led to Packy Connors pub having its license temporarily revoked. [Globe]

We've gotten some email tips and seen some tweets about a big fire on Mass Ave this morning. Universal Hub reports details on street closures and traffic. Anyone have additional info? Update: The fire occurred in a hair salon in Porter. La Capelli Salon at 1776 Mass. Ave burned and Susanna, a store above, experienced smoke and water damage. No one was injured, though many drivers in stopped traffic threatened injury to others.

-- A 17-year-old boy was shot to death in broad daylight outside a home at 70 Tonawanda St. in Dorchester. A neighbor said that the shooter fled in a silver SUV, but no arrests have been made and no motives have been advanced in the killing. [BPDNews, Herald]

Lesley University is running Kotobukiya’s Japanese market out of Porter Square to make room for a bookstore, the Cambridge Chronicle reports. Kotobukiya’s is the only full-service Japanese grocer in Cambridge, and it has been in business since 1989. Lesley University owns the Porter Square Exchange and reportedly refused to extend Kotobukiya's lease.

Last night, Bostonist came across a framed print of a painting of an imaginary Ewok-infested moon, leaning against a trash can on Allen Street in Cambridge. We believe that this vignette says something about Porter Square: It is a place where people own this sort of thing, and discard this sort of thing. It is a place of transition.

McIntyre & Moore Booksellers, whose wunderkammer of used books was recently exiled from Davis Square (and long ago displaced from Harvard Square), reopened today in Porter Square, at 1971 Mass. Ave., Cambridge. (They're in good company here: Bob Slate—purveyor of fountain pens and rampant Moleskinery—and Stellabella Toys are right upstairs.)

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Highland Kitchen is a little off the beaten path—it’s situated somewhere in the no man’s land between Davis Square, Porter Square, and Union Square. But with a laid-back vibe, delicious Bayou-influenced food, and a fantastic cocktail menu, it’s well worth the trek. And if you don’t want to hoof it, never fear: There’s parking in the back, if you’re lucky enough to snag a spot. Bostonist went on a recent Saturday night to check out the new restaurant, owned by former Green Street Grill chef Mark Romano.

The Somerville News reported some heartbreaking book news--McIntyre and Moore Bookstore of Davis Square, the perfect place to find literary buried treasure, is closing.

--Now that Spatch has been rooming with a CW celebrity, perhaps he thought that another CW reality show, the mother-daughter beauty pageant extravaganza Crowned, might be as good. He was wrong. [Derspatchel]

--A Scroogey robber attacked a USPS driver in Roxbury last night. O'Ryan Johnson reports that the robber cuffed the driver to the steering wheel of his truck, and then the robber went shopping. Here's a description of the perp:

Thursday, November 8 Elaine Scarry, Jerald Walker, and Robert Atwan, The Best American Essays, 7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith Three contributors to this year's The Best American Essays will discuss what went into the book this year--and maybe we'll hear a little about what got left out. Monday, November 12 Jennifer Ackerman, Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream, 7:00 pm, Porter Square Books Science writer Ackerman takes a fantastic voyage through the body to see how it...

Meal and Chat With Rudolph Chelminski Sunday, November 4, 5:00 pm Chez Henri 1 Shepard St, Cambridge Make reservations at 617.354.8980 More info Goodies With the Phantom Gourmet Tuesday, November 6, 7:00 pm Z Square 14 JFK, Cambridge More info Who knew that a bookstore would know how to feed the people so well? But Porter Square Books will be serving up two culinary treats. First off, brace yourself for some Beaujolais. Author Rudolph Chelminski...

"Authorial Intent" wraps up book events for the week in the Boston area. Wednesday, October 24 Chris Matthews, 6:00 pm, Coolidge Corner (via Brookline Booksmith), $5 Recently, Jon Stewart sank his fangs into Matthews for pimping the concept that "Life's a Campaign," which is, admittedly, a little scary. Bostonist prefers the old saw that life is a bowl of cherries. Watch what Matthews has dubbed the "interview from hell," and you'll already be armed with...

We're a day late on Authorial Intent, our wrap-up of the week's readings. That's largely because we were talking to two of the authors who will be in town tomorrow night, which seems to be the night that the stars aligned and all writers thought it would be a good idea to visit Boston. So, without further adieu … Thursday, October 11--Today, Super Thursday! Robert Reich, 6:00 pm, Swedenborg Chapel (via Harvard Book Store), 50...

Douglas Brinkley will read at Porter Square Books tomorrow, July 2, at 7:00 pm.

Machetes, hatchets, hedge clippers. People from Massachusetts are nothing if not creative when it comes to assault charges.

Sherman Alexie will read Thursday, June 7, at 6:00 PM at the Brattle Theatre. Tickets are $2 and available at Porter Square Books. Now - this event is sold out - but do what you gotta do. Novelist, poet, blogger, and serious NBA fan Sherman Alexie's latest book went straight to paperback. That's not a big deal, but it became a big deal to Alexie when Jenny Shank, a reviewer, wondered if the book went...

James Greer will read from Artificial Light at the Brookline Booksmith tonight at 7:00 pm. Susan Cheever will read from American Bloomsbury, etc. at 6:30 pm at the Harvard Book Store. Cheever will also be at Porter Square Books tomorrow night at 7:00 pm.

We can just imagine the scene. Globe reporter tries to get hip with Street Art. Stalks Myspace, meets up with, and interviews Pixnit about her experience, technique, and dreams. Fluff piece is written up and sits on the editors' desk for about a month until a nice, slow news day hits. Say January 3? The article runs. Readers write in (and leave comments), angry with the soft handed and accepting tone of the original article. A few of those complaints are run with a picture in the January 5th edition. The Globe looks for a way to react. They put their local crime beat reporters to the task of getting an article in print about how graffiti is bad. Half written already, the article just waited for the Boston Police to deliver the goods – January 7 the blotter already was marked by the arrest of a pair in Mission Hill for dropping the Tel tag on buildings overnight.

We’re sure all of you were sad to see Boston’s Cow Parade come to an end last week as all the bovines were removed from our city sidewalks. Luckily, those intellectual folks over in Cambridge have begun a community-based art project today that “explores the intersections of art and literacy.” Cambridge Code/x invites any one to decipher coded messages that will appear on the 2 miles of sidewalk between Harvard Square and Porter Square on...

There is exactly one kind of shopping that (this) Bostonist loves: grocery shopping. Every aisle seems to burst with possibilities for new and exciting dishes (or for making old, forgotten favorites), and the processed food makers of this great nation never cease to amaze us with their crazy new innovations. In the past, we have told you about our favorite places for groceries, and one of our not-so-favorite places. But for all our anti-Whole-Foods ranting, Whole Foods is too upscale and weird even to count as a proper grocery store, so it can't win the title of least-favoritest. Shaw's, on the other hand, gets no such allowance. As we were reminded Monday evening, we do not like Shaw's.

When we heard the MBTA was going to bring Charlie and all his accompanying fancy kiosks and turnstiles to our morning destination stop of South Station, we thought..."eh." In defense, this less-than-enthusiastic response to the T's announcement of actual(?) service improvement was based solely on past experiences with 1) Porter Square stop's escalators and 2) South Station's "bomb containing" garbage cans, the lids of which are always sitting neatly on the nearby ground. "Ah,...

Bostonist has been infatuated with China lately. It all started when baby Shanghaiist came into the family and started using a English vocabulary in a way that made us jealous. In July they took us on a trip to audio wonderland featuring the top 25 albums so far in ought-five. Today (even though they posted it today when today was still in our yesterday) Shanghaiist lays the beat down for the top 25 albums at the end of the year. Bostonist is pretty impressed and jealous once again. That bunch of ex-pats and natives has assembled a list we’ll file under “da shiznit 05” playlist. Well, that is if we had the funds to grab all those tunes, we’re sure they’re picking up CD’s with cover art and everything for under $2 a pop, Newbury Comics will sell you a Neil Diamond cassette for that price.

Located on Mass Ave. in Cambridge between Harvard Square and Porter Square, Cambridge Common is a pub-grub beer-bar that caters perfectly to its college-aged crowd. This isn't an upscale place, but Charlie Christopher, owner of Christopher's, Toad, and West Side Lounge, has been keeping his Red Line crowd happy for years with high-quality, low-priced food. Busy almost any night of the week Cambridge Common's patrons range from music geeks waiting to enter the Lizard's Lounge downstairs, to law students just looking for a pint before finals.

The rain has stopped beating down on the window outside work, but that doesn’t mean you’re safe. Weather reports still have Bostonist on our toes. Not just the weather reports mind you, also those enormous puddles that have been cropping up all over the city today. With a last chance look at the MBTA website before figuring out the best way to embark on the commute it’s probably going to be the commuter boat service they’ve added today in Porter Square. Sarcasm aside, check your route home. Reports of street closures and temporary rerouting have been coming in since the first trip to the water cooler this morning well into the afternoon.

Bostonist wonders when it’s all going to end. The electrocution of dogs, bicycles hitting innocent sidewalk walkers, and now a death, that happened almost two weeks ago. The Porter Square station on the MBTA Red Line was the incident of a strangulation on February 21, 2005. Kaya prep-cook Francisco Portillo was strangled to death after his sweatshirt was caught in the escalator. Bostonist always makes sure that our shoes are tied before we use the escalator. This latest incident makes us wonder if the stairs are a better health option in for more than just exercise. The incident was an unfortunate accident. Portillo had apparently either been sitting or "lying down" according to transit police. It has not been stated as fact, but there is a good chance Francisco was drunk on korean whisky. Sitting on an escalator seems like a feat of timing alone, lying down would be yet another challenge. The hood of his hoodie was caught at the top of the escalator and he was strangled before he could be helped. The MBTA has released the information that the escalator at the Porter Square stop did not have the emergency stop guards that are required in new escalators, the same kind of sensor that doesn’t let a garage door go all the way down when your little sister is still in the way. The MBTA has a whole page on their website about escalator safety, Bostonist recommends the stairs.