Ethan Gilsdorf and Ted Weesner, Jr. Friday, December 14, 7:00 pm Willoughby and Baltic Art Space 195 G Elm Street, Somerville (T: Davis Square) Free Ethan Gilsdorf's official site Listings for readings may be slim while everyone is busy for the holidays, but it's quality that matters. Two recipients of fellowships from the Somerville Arts Council will be sharing their latest projects for free tomorrow night. Journalist/poet Ethan Gilsdorf and novelist Ted Weesner, Jr., are......

Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory in Smell-O-Vision Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge Thursday, December 13, 7:30 More information If you missed the outdoor screening of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in Smell-O-Vision at Union Square this summer, you have the opportunity to miss it again. The indoor debut of the event is sold out. Last July, a group of artists led by Megan Dickerson and funded by the Somerville Arts Council, presented......

Illuminations Holiday Tour Saturday, December 15 Tour times: 4:30, 5:00, 5:45, 6:15, 7:00, 7:30, 8:15, 8:45, 9:15 Tickets on sale at McIntyre and Moore Booksellers, 255 Elm Street, Davis Square More info Fighting off a raging case of Seasonal Affective Disorder? Somerville has a cure. The city's residents know how to decorate, and when it's the holidays they want to share their spirit with everyone. The Somerville Arts Council will be offering 45-minute-long trolley tours......

Young Turks Two Art Exhibit Nave Gallery 155 Powder House Blvd, Somerville Through November 4 Hours: Friday 5:00-8:00 p.m., Saturday & Sunday 1:00-5:00 p.m. (Also featuring Alasdair Roberts, Charalambides, and Heather Leigh Murray Friday from 8:00-10:00 p.m.) Look in your wallet. How many credit cards do you have in there? How many pieces of plastic that identify you, confirm your existence, enable your participation in our corporate economy? How many of these actually reveal......

Monster Mash Halloween Benefit PA's Lounge, Union Square (356 Somerville Ave) October 29, 2007, 8:00 pm, 21+ $10 suggested donation Somerville's got good claim to the "Monster Mash" label. Bobby Pickett, responsible for penning the perennial Halloween hit (which is one of only three records to hit the Billboard Top 100 three separate times), was a Somerville native. Pickett passed away in April of this year, so this will be the world's first Halloween without......

Hawaiian Nights will run from 7:30 to 11 pm tomorrow, Friday, September 14, with a rain date of September 15 at Union Square Plaza. For more information, visit the Somerville Arts Council ArtsUnion website. We're suckers for all things Tiki, and ArtsUnion's Hawaiian Nights promises to provide the next best thing to being on Waikiki with "Hawaiian Nights." ArtsUnion will provide the appropriate atmosphere, including dance and music. For those of you who mistake a......

This summer it all started with the mystery bench that showed up at Jamaica Pond. The mystery was revealed by artist Matthew Hincman who had installed the bench. It was removed, reinstalled, and removed again following the JP Open Studios. It made mention again earlier this month when the Phoenix named it to their year in art list. Mentioned in the tenth "last but not least" catch-all category as the Best Unofficial Art Pretending To......

The Madonna Project 2007 calendars (along with other wares) are still on sale. Somerville residents can grab their very own calendar for a discount and free delivery by the creator for a limited time. It's two bucks more plus shipping for people living outside of Somerville to get their own calendar featuring religious icons in Somerville lawns. Bostonist caught a glimpse of a billboard while heading back into Boston from the South Shore this weekend......

After a sparse, lackadaisical August, the fall semester has arrived with a frenzied syllabus of film screenings: a slew of new documentaries, our favorite Terry Gilliam movies, a notoriously disorganized film festival, and a guest lecture from Bruce Campbell, chainsaw-wielder emeritus. Thursday 9/7 Four Eyed Monsters Two pale, artsy Brooklynites met through online personals, maxed out seven credit cards to make a movie about it, moved back in with their parents in Massachusetts, and made......

This week we're trying hard to think about something other than how hard it is out here to be a pimp. Well, ok, maybe Bostonist is looking at the Oscars and just scratching our heads. We didn't know Jon Stewart could be that bland. We're still waiting to hear what Three 6 Mafia were wearing that made the camera all jakey last night. Now that we're done with the Academy we're looking back to Grammy.......

Once again, the Somerville Arts Council is justifying the thousands of holiday light sets purchased on clearance last year by all the "Griswalds" of the world by hosting their annual Illuminations Holiday Tour. The tour goes round trip from Somerville city hall, lasts 45 minutes, and "celebrates the folk-artistry of the many city residents who transform their houses and yards with lights, illuminated ornaments, and shrines of devotion and fantasy during the darkest time......

When Bostonist thinks about Somerville (as we so often do), the first two-word phrase that comes to mind is "hip hop." OK, not really. We know of plenty of MCs from Boston and environs, but none from the Cambridge of Medford. Nevertheless, Union Square will play host this Saturday to the Hip Hop History Jam, sponsored by the Library of Vinyl Experience and the Somerville Arts Council as part of its ArtsUnion project. From......