When the Dowbrigade was an undergraduate he Considering the third-world, alternative-economic The label on the case said "Master But now the Russell Crowe movie, which opened Nov. 14 and is still Detectives said yesterday that they were tipped off by investigators Incidently, the video store in the photo (by the Dowbrigade) is from the Central Square, Cambridge has always represented the sleazy underbelly of the city, a dark doppleganger to brilliant Harvard Square just down Massachusetts Avenue, and awash in unwashed street people, cut-rate liquor stores, cheap bars, adult video stores, check-cashing outlets and … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/hollowside.jpg\")
Central
\n Square, Cambridge has always represented the sleazy underbelly of the
\n city, a dark doppleganger to brilliant Harvard Square just down Massachusetts
\n Avenue, and awash in unwashed street people, cut-rate liquor stores,
\n cheap bars, adult video stores, check-cashing outlets and state agencies
\n and offices serving people too down-and-out or unsightly to be seen
\n in the swankier zip codes of Cambridge.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n
\n used to frequent Charlies Tap in Central, one of the cheapest of
\n the neighborhood
\n watering holes, where 35 cents would still get you a small,
\n less than completely hygenic glass of generic draft beer. Even down
\n and out, with a pocketful of change one could still put on a buzz
\n at the Tap. At
\n night,
\n Central
\n Square is transformed into a hard-edged clubbing crossroads, where
\n cheap rents have attracted a variety of exotic restaurants and new
\n wave, techno-house, glitter-goth, gay and ambiguous nightspots which
\n feed off of each other and create a low-rent, liberated atmosphere
\n hard to find elsewhere.<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n
\n circus going down in the area it should come as no surprize that the
\n RIAA goons have dropped a dime in the Square to the Cambridge Police,
\n who swooped down in a raid on two outlets selling questionable CDS
\n and DVDS. <\/font><\/em><\/p>\n
\n and Commander," but something wasn’t kosher. The plastic was
\n grocery store quality, like the stuff used to wrap barbecued chicken.
\n The cover had the vibrancy of a homemade brochure. Words were blurry.
\n The price was negotiable.<\/p>\n
\n in theaters, is off the shelves here, the result of a Cambridge police
\n bust on Monday at two Central Square stores peddling thousands of
\n counterfeit CDs and DVDs.<\/p>\n
\n from the Recording Industry Association of America, whose agents
\n have fanned out across the country in an effort to quell the booming
\n sales of bogus CDs.<\/p>\n
\n NOT one of the ones raided by the cops. The building reflected in
\n the window is the Central Square Post Office.<\/em><\/p>\n
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