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May 05, 2008

Street art attack: the crafty side of street art
By Will Spitz
Street art is fascinating enough on it’s own but, given it’s ephemeral nature, the act of photographing it is essential. And sometimes a photograph of street art, when it’s from an interesting angle or incorporates experiments with color, light, and/or contrast, is a piece of art in itself. Annie Ridlon, of Moontree Studios in Jamaica Plain, writes on her Flickr page:

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artsy fartsy, Awesomeness, i love my bike

March 31, 2008

The Stupidest Bike Lane
By Will Spitz
Last week, Slate's video editor Andy Bowers posted a video of his self-nominated "Stupidest Bike Lane in America," a lane in Western Los Angeles that runs a mere 275 feet before disappearing suddenly and completely amidst busy LA traffic - sort of a "Fuck off" to bikers from LA road officials. The video:

It's undoubtedly a dangerous gaffe by non-bike minded road planners but, as many Boston bikers were eager to point out on the Critical Mass e-mail list over the weekend, any local biker has probably seen worse.

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film, i love my bike, In poor taste

September 24, 2007

Bike thieves beware!
By Caitlin E. Curran

Last Wednesday night began average enough for Lee Peters. He stopped in at Economy Hardware on Mass Ave in Boston, near Christian Science Plaza, around 6 p.m. When he walked outside, he explains via an e-mail from the Boston Critical Mass chain, he saw “two people standing around my bike in the middle of stealing it.

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Awesomeness, i love my bike, local heroes

September 20, 2007

Menino's bike plans
By Caitlin E. Curran

Today’s Globe features a front page, above the fold story about Mayor Menino’s plans to make Boston more bike friendly (titled “Pedal Pushing,” ugh. Did someone’s grandmother think up that headline?). It’s serendipitous timing since, as I was biking to work today I: a) was nearly hit by some dude in a black two-door of some sort, who sped past me to get to the um, red light.

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Politics, i love my bike, menino

Boston Phoenix
We Like Bikes
Published 6/17/2011 by EUGENIA WILLIAMSON
There has never been a better time or place to be a cyclist

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Street art attack: the crafty side of street art
Published 5/5/2008 by Will Spitz
Street art is fascinating enough on it’s own but, given it’s ephemeral nature, the act of photographing it is essential. And sometimes a photograph of...

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