Archive for the ‘Arts’ Category

Thurston Moore Reminisces, Slides into the Future

     Last night marked a sort of return to The Somerville Theatre (55 Davis Sq) for Sonic Youth guitarist and vocalist Thurston Moore. The feedback-and-drone rock band last played the theatre early in their career in the 80s. On that night Moore threw a temper tantrum, left the stage thirty minutes early and locked…

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WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS: Jan. 27-29

 A PEEK AT SOME NOTABLE EVENTS AROUND TOWN * FRIDAY (Jan. 27) SOFT MUSCLE Start the weekend off by turning your nerves and joints into lava with a full body massage. The Massage Clinic at Lincoln Institute hosts fundraiser benefiting Somerville Youth Development and Boxing Club. Money raised will go toward programming and equipment needs….

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Hot Molasses: After the Flood

93 years ago on Jan. 15 a tank filled with molasses exploded in the warm air sending waves up to 15 feet high over the North Shore, killing 21. In commemoration, The Precinct Bar (70 Union Sq.) will host the fourth annual Boston Molasses Disaster Benefit Concert on Jan. 21 at 9 p.m.

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New Year’s Scouting Report: First Flag Flown

  I used to live on Prospect Hill. As recently as two years ago or so, I would hurry past that castle parapet everyday on the way to Union Square, always just barely catching the bus to work. Of course, it wasn’t until I moved elsewhere in Somerville that I finally learned of Prospect Hill’s…

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Somerville Scouting Report: Davis Sq. Statues

    Many folks find the statues in Davis… creepy, well-sculpted work but somewhat unsettling, largely because of their masks. So effective are these statues at doling out both the heebies & the jeebies that one wise observer wondered whether or not that had been the artist’s intent all along. As it turns out, this was not the case….

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A Tingling of My Spine’s Eye

        The circus came to Radio last Friday night by way of Walter Sickert and The Army of Broken Toys. There was androgyny, kabuki masks, red balloons, girls disrobing at intervals, breasts with mustaches, breasts without mustaches, Native American headdresses worn by Sickert and an inflatable Bozo the Clown, and some of the most chunky, grizzled rock ‘n’ roll in town. My eyes were like wall sockets stuffed with too many plugs.

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The Somerville Scout…ing Report: Bike-Path

Recent unseasonably warm weather has allowed us to observe & analyze the wilds of the Somerville Bikepath before its wheeled denizens go into true hibernation for the winter. Here are our findings… in cartoon form. Share this:

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Dastardly’s Liebowitz Makes the Road His New Best Friend

        When singer/songwriter Gabe Liebowitz, from the band Dastardly, stops by Radio on Sunday, his hustling career will be in full swing.
        “I decided I was finally going to try to make this band my full-time job,” he explained by cell-phone from unusually warm Chicago. The band cut into Liebowitz’s four-year career as a double-decker bus tour guide for the city and playing music on the side, without any manager or agent, has kept him busy. “It’s been really crazy juggling everything,” he said.

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Scribbles and Schemes

The following is reposted from Amanda Williams’ Scribbles and Schemes blog: When my friend, Holli Banks, publisher of my local bimonthly magazine, The Somerville Scout, approached me about helping with their first annual holiday gift guide, I was thrilled.  At last, my penchant for shopping locally could be put to good use!  Scouring my neighborhood squares…

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The Twelve Days of Somerville

On my first day in Somerville my landlord gave to me

the lease to my new property.

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