We all need a good fluff from time-to-time. There's a group fluff planned on Saturday, September 24th when the sixth annual Fluff Festival comes to Union Square in Somerville. Volunteers to fluff around are still needed. The festival, designed to honor the creation of Fluff by Union Square's Archibald Query in 1917, runs from 3-7 p.m. Organizers expect 10,000 fans of Fluff to attend. The Fluff Festival takes on a 70's theme in 2011 with a headlining visit from Susan "Cindy Brady" Olsen, award-winning songwriter Allee Willis, known for hits like "September" by Earth, Wind & Fire and “September” and The Pointer Sisters’ “Neutron Dance,” and astronaut Rick Linnehan of Lowell who brought a fluffernutter on the Space Shuttle. Visit the Fluff Festival Facebook page for details.
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The good news about Saturday's Ice Cream Showdown was that it wasn't a total clusterfuck like the last one. The bad news was that the best ice cream was probably a custard, and everyone else stood in line for a little scoop of something way, way too boutique for a parking-lot frozen treat battle.
Rock & Roll Yard Sale
A free Rock & Roll Yard Sale features memorabilia including vinyl records, concert posters, and other music-related stuff, vintage clothing, crafts, and art. The sale includes close to 50 vendors. Live music from The 'Mericans, Sleepyhead, Thea Hopkins, and more. Union Square Plaza, Somerville, 3-7 p.m., free. Rain date 8/8. More info.
We mentioned that vintage favorite Poor Little Rich Girl has shuttered its vast Davis Square space. Now, Grand the Store has announced (on Facebook) that it will welcome the spiffy secondhand store into its Union Square space. We hope you didn't die of vintage deprivation over the past few weeks, and we're sure you're glad to know you can get your home and personal fashions in the same place pretty soon. [Facebook]
Social networking sites can serve a purpose besides hooking up with former classmates or empowering a populace as they protest against a despotic government.
Via modern word-of-mouth, about 500 people gathered in an Union Square parking lot on a hot Saturday afternoon to sample (and sample and sample) delicious ice cream from some of the best local purveyors of cold treats.
Residents of Union Square in Somerville are rightly freaking out over reported correlations between contaminated soil and high cancer rates. It turns out that recent soil testing has shown that Union Square's soil contains "arsenic, lead and other metal contamination." Officials "are not sure if it comes from the Miller’s River that once ran through or from the Kiley Barrel factory site, where paints were once blasted off recycled barrels." Whatever the cause, eating vegetables planted anywhere near Union Square is not a good idea. All hope is not lost for burgeoning Union Square gardeners, however. Container gardening and raised bed gardening both allow you to garden without planting in contaminated soil. For a fee, Somerville's Green City Growers will even set you up with a raised bed plot, or you can stop by the Boston Green Fest in August for a tutorial. [Somerville Journal]
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Neither postponement nor insects nor continued precipitation could keep Somerville, the Birthplace of Marshmallow Fluff, from celebrating its most famous and peanutbutter-compatible of culinary inventions at the Third Annual What The Fluff? Festival.
The Fluff Festival, a celebration of that delicious Marshmallow Fluff spread, was postponed yesterday. However, the event will happen this afternoon, complete with a surely-exquisite performance by a burlesque troupe, The Flufferettes. Be not worried by the rain! The Somerville Arts Festival has set up tents!
The 3rd Annual What the Fluff? Festival was delayed until Sunday, but will go on tomorrow, rain or shine, from 4pm-7pm. Inspired by state legislature that proposed to ban Fluffernutters from school lunches in 2006, the Fluff festival began as a call to arms for personal freedom and choice of lunch sandwich. The fluffed up bill did not pass, and Somerville, home to the invention of Fluff, continues to rejoice. The question remains, will former state senator Jarrett Barrios show, or will he remain a fluffer-notter?
-- A high-caliber shooting near Donnelly field left a pair of Cambridge houses riddled by bullets. A pedestrian, who remains at large, fired a .45 caliber pistol at a moving car, according to police. [Cambridge Chronicle]
Today's scary thunderstorms also produced quite a flood in Somerville's Union Square. No word on whether any cars actually floated away on Lake Street, which certainly lived up to its name today. The flood apparently went down after the rain ceased. Video from AC.
9:00 p.m., $8 for 21+ / $11 for 18+
Highland Kitchen is a little off the beaten path—it’s situated somewhere in the no man’s land between Davis Square, Porter Square, and Union Square. But with a laid-back vibe, delicious Bayou-influenced food, and a fantastic cocktail menu, it’s well worth the trek. And if you don’t want to hoof it, never fear: There’s parking in the back, if you’re lucky enough to snag a spot. Bostonist went on a recent Saturday night to check out the new restaurant, owned by former Green Street Grill chef Mark Romano.
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...
To say that the baristas behind Barismo.com are coffee fanatics is a little bit of an understatement. For example, Ben Chen, an engineer by day, actually bought his own coffee-bean roaster in Taiwan, and then started making modifications to it (drilling extra holes so flames could lick the beans directly; hooking it up to a computer to better monitor roasting conditions). So when Bostonist went to a Barismo coffee tasting (or “cupping”) last week...
The people behind Diesel Café—which Bostonist has been a fan of since it opened in 1999—are charting (and caffeinating) new waters in Somerville’s Union Square. Bloc 11, which is located in a former bank, has a hip, industrial vibe similar to Diesel’s, but it plays to a slightly more mature crowd—it’s like Diesel, but eight years older. The sandwiches, which run from $6.95 to $7.50, are considerably more tony than Diesel’s, featuring ingredients like caramelized onions, prosciutto, and olive tapenade.
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...
Horrorville Haunted House 300 Somerville Ave, Union Square 6-10 p.m. on October 26, 27, and 28 (This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) $8 kids / $10 adults Whether you're a little kid trying to hang with the big kids, a big kid acting tough to hide your tears, or an adult who just loves to get freaked out, haunted houses are an essential part of the Halloween experience. Haunted house enthusiast Matthew Martino was disappointed that...
STEP Fundraiser hosted by Taza Chocolate Thursday, October 25, 2007 Bloc 11 Cafe, 11 Bow Street, Union Square, Somerville 6:30 to 9 p.m., $25 suggested donation Somerville Transportation Equity Partnership can list a lot of fine reasons to extend the green line into the town that sits north of Cambridge like a jaunty sailor cap: pollution, population density, lawsuits, "revitalization". Bostonist has selfish reasons of our own, and they live in Union Square: crack-laced cream...
What the Fluff? A Celebration of Union Square Invention Saturday, Sept. 29, 4:00 to 7:00 pm (rain date Sept. 30) Union Square, Somerville More info This year marks the second annual festival for Marshmallow Fluff, along with the 90th anniversary of the treat invented by the culinary genius Archibald Query in Somerville's Union Square. Query whipped up the treat in his own kitchen and ended up selling it to the Durkee-Mower company, which carefully guards...
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...
Ah, the New York/Boston debate. While many point their fingers at Boston for stoking the flames on a regular basis (chants of "Yankees Suck" heard everywhere might have something to do with it), we can now point a little of the blame back to NYC. Gawker, having decided that they'd chastised Britney Spears' parenting techniques enough, shocked readers across the globe today by turning its typically New Yawk-centric eye beyond the boroughs. But, in characteristic...
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory will screen at 8:30 pm tonight at Union Square in Somerville. The "Carnival of the Nose" starts at 7:00. So, you don't have Police tickets? Console yourself with the smell of an Oompa Loompa! You've no doubt seen the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, starring Gene Wilder (not the one with Johnny Depp doing his best Michael Jackson impression). But now Somerville is giving you the opportunity...
Whether you crave oil on canvas or innovative tissue box covers, all seven hills of Somerville are ready to meet your needs this weekend, when more than three hundred artists and craftspeople will throw open their doors to the public for the 9th annual Somerville Open Studios. The venues are as eclectic as the media, techniques, and ideas on display, ranging from humble apartments in tripledeckers to St. Ann's Parish Hall (#6 on the Open...
This week JazzBoston pulls together Jazz Week. More than 150 events, including concerts and lectures are held across the city. Jazz Week shines a light on the diverse and vibrant local jazz scene. It all wraps up with concerts on Sunday. A full line-up as available from the event website. Wednesday, 4/25 Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice Churning out strange, occasionally nostalgic, and frequently psychedelic Americana, James Toth distinguishes himself in the increasingly...
The big news in this mornings papers and airwaves was that a report from the Transportation Finance Commission has released a report that pretty much every state transit authority (including the MBTA, DCR, Turnpike Authority, and Highway Department) is in deficit spending and working to just keep up what they've got going. The deficit spending will result in a projected $19 billion deficit over the next 20 years according to the report. That's just for...
There's something about these little bars. They've got a lot of fight in them and they just won't give in. The Littlest Bar kept on keeping on for months after the initially announced closing date. Tir na nÓg is following suit. First it was February, now it's March. Another month's reprive has been granted and the nÓg will serve up many more pints. There will be another St. Patrick's day to celebrate before the nÓg...