Stephanie Clarkson reports Starlab, the practice space and recording studio in Union Square, was broken into over the weekend:
Both of Stephen Konrads's guitars were stolen (a fireglo Rickenbacker 360 and a brown Fender Telecaster '69 Thinline with a pearl pickguard) along with both of Wayne's basses (a sunburst Fender Jazz Bass with pick-up covers and a natural finish Rickenbacker 4003). Also Chris Duggan's black Gibson Les Paul and a Mac Pro with a cinema display were stolen.
Susan Olsen, better known as the youngest one in curls, will headline the annual Fluff festival in Somerville's Union Square this September. Volunteers are needed to help out. Do you have what it takes?
Today was Union Square's annual Fluff Festival, this year celebrating Fluffy whoopie pies (but don't worry: Roving bands of entrepreneurs sold Fluffernutters).
No Fluff Festival would be complete without either the Flufferettes or a Pharaoh of Fluff:
The Somerville News reports on one artist's project to place 20 to 25 outdoor chairs in Union Square. And before you even think about it, she's talking to local businesses about locking them up at night.
Thursday, Oct. 2: John Ford Coley and Terry Sylvester, lead singer of the Hollies, in concert at Kowloon. Yes, the giant Chinese restaurant in Saugus. $25. 781-233-0077 for tickets and the time the concert starts.
Union Square in Somerville hosted its annual What the Fluff festival today in honor of Archibald Query's invention of peanut butter's BFF.
Kathy Weller, one of the sellers at yesterday's Boston Handmade Somerville Marketplace in Union Square, chronicles how she got ready for the market.
Rob V posts a photo of a sign mounted on a light pole pointing you to the Dunkin' Donuts all of ten feet away in Union Square.
Sushiesque posts photos from yesterday's Fluff festival in Somerville.
Image used under Creative Commons.
The annual What the Fluff is now scheduled for tomorrow, 4-7 p.m. in Somerville's Union Square.
Why were three helicopters buzzing Davis and Union squares around 6 this morning?
DrinkBoston hoists a brew in honor of the Independent:
... The Independent in Somerville's Union Square is kind of like that middle sister who, after an awkward adolescence in which she was often overshadowed by her older and younger siblings, grew up to be the attractive, smart girl who's really easy to hang out with. ...
Jeff Egnaczyk took some photos (like the one above) at today's Fluff Festival in Somerville.
Stephanie Rogers has a write-up and photos. Ezra Ball was there, too. Sassy Sundry has more. Can't get enough? Tony Yang has even more
Jesse Kanson-Benanav watches in amazement as a mother helps her young son urinate on an electrical box in front of the Citizens Bank today:
... What in the hell kinda role-modeling is this for your child? You're in the middle of the densest city in New England - there are a hundred businesses in a four block radius. I'm sure ONE of them will let him use the pisser.
Aaron Schutzengel posts photos from the What the Fluff festival, including vital shots of kids getting dunked in a kiddie pool of Fluff during a tug of war.
Karrie posts Fluff photos as well, including one of Fluff Boy.
Just in case you've somehow forgotten, tomorrow is the first What the Fluff? day in Somerville's Union Square. From 3 to 7 p.m., celebrate the gooey glop that made Union Square famous - and state Sen. Jarrett Barrios infamous.
Ezra Ball posts photos of the Union Square comic minigolf course.
Jesse Kanson-Benanav, though, wonders if there's too much fun going on in Davis and Union squares, because they're basically bourgeois activities that ultimately help to drive out the city's remaining working-class residents:
Union Square hosts the Somerville Open mini-golf tournament, Saturday, Aug. 19, 3-6 p.m.
Come play a mini-golf course designed by local cartoonists and artists!!!
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