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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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Somerville Charter School Review Draws Hundreds

In recent days, charter school proponents like Marc Kenen, executive director of the Massachusetts Charter Public School Association (MCPSA), have been saying opposition to the proposed Somerville Progressive Charter School (SPCS) is being engineered by the Somerville Public Schools (SPS) and the mayor’s office. However, the packed Somerville High School auditorium (81 Highland Ave) at last…

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East Somerville Two for Tuesdays

Following up on the wildly successful Eat Outside the Square Foodie Crawl, East Broadway has introduced Two for Tuesdays. Participating restaurants offer a two for the price of one special every Tuesday until March 15, 2012. The specials vary by week, so ask for the details when you stop in. They are available from 4:00…

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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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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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Tell Them Count Orlok Sent You

     In 1922 a beady-eyed vampire named Count Orlok shuffled in broken film projections to the horror of German audiences watching the debut of Nosferatu.
     Nearly 100 years later, with a revolving cast of blood-suckers come and gone, Orlok still finds space on a screen somewhere for his bald head and pointy ears every Halloween.
     Next Friday, October 28 at 8 p.m., at the Center for the Arts at the Armory, multi-instrumentalist Brendan Cooney and four other musicians will inject new life into the classic creeper when they perform their score over the silent film.

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A Scan of Somerville

Sometimes the Scout staff gets so caught up in creating the next print edition…a few days, nay, weeks go by without a single blog post. So I figured I it was high time to weigh in with something. Luckily, today’s Herald provided ample grist: 1. A story by Richard Weir about MBTA officials approving $56.5…

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How much do you know about Somerville? A quiz

by Michael Schulman A long-time Somerville resident poses 26 questions from A to Z for Ville-ans old and new—with bonus questions at the end. 1. Signs all over town herald Somerville as an “All America City,” an award Somerville received for the second time in 2009 (the first was in 1972.) What does that mean?…

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Somerville’s DC FAM to perform Thursday night (7/28) at Club Samba

Somerville natives Leanis Almanzar, Wilner Alexis, Kenny Neff and Larry Travaglione will perform Thursday, July 28, at 8 p.m. at Club Samba (608 Somerville Ave). Known together as DC FAM and respectively as Third Degree, Real Wil, K Street and Renzo, the group is headlining an event featuring DJ Stix from Hot 97 Boston and…

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