Somerville Apples vs. Cambridge Oranges

In anticipation of Somerville Open Studios and Harvard Square Mayfair, Bostonist had asked, "Who will win in a battle that pits aesthetes against…more aesthetes?" We observed both over the weekend, braving the narrow, creaking staircases of Somerville and the crowds and MassPIRGers of Cambridge, and we have tallied the results, based upon the most frilovous criteria we could muster.

Cambridge: Mayfair

Trompe l'oeil chalk drawing of the Incredible Hulk bursting through Church Street pavement: +1

Ad Frank & the Fast Easy Women rocking panties off audience: +2

Clem Snide's Eef Barzelay gently strumming remainder of panties off audience: +1

Mimosas at the Adidas store: +1

Wall to wall people unable to walk in a straight line and/or with purpose: -1

Ate too many free potato chips: -1

Puppies (walked, petted, fed potato chips): +1

Total: 4

Somerville: Open Studios

Guy who draws pictures of tools (because they don't move, they don't wilt, and he already owns lots of them): +1

David Pappaceno's gigantic painting of a beatific Christopher Walken holding a pink turtle: +2

H.M. Townsend's glass books: +1

Drank too much Charles Shaw merlot: -1

"Encaustic" means "coated in wax" (we learned something): +1

Puppies (walked, painted, sculpted): +1

Total: 5

Winner: Somerville, by one arbitrary point.

Photographs show drawing from Chalk On The Walk (top, and we'd love to know the artist's name) and a glass book by H.M. Townsend (bottom).

Lora contributed to this post.